Indoor pollution causes its share of problems — among them, exacerbating asthma.
Home and Garden
At Mandalay Bay there is a fine-dining restaurant which, like a lot of Strip hot spots, pushes the envelope when it comes to interior design. With its all-white interior and sleek, space-age lines, it looks like a set from a James Bond film. You can almost picture 007 strolling down a stairway that curves through the center of the main dining room.
Linda Waits wants to help save the environment but, she admits, sometimes even the simplest fixes are easy to forget.
“Food that’s beautiful to look at seems to taste better than food that isn’t.”
Our home is our castle and these days we want our castle to be cool. Not the kind of cool that impresses the neighbors, but cool like about 76 degrees.
“Necessity is not an established fact, but an inter-pretation.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, “The Will to Power” (1888)
: When we moved into this house, it seemed to have plenty of closet space. Now, with my daughters in their teens, there isn’t enough space. How can we install some inexpensive shelving to better utilize the closets? — Carla C.
: I have a Vera Jameson sedum that has grown and spread. However, the plant leaves in the center are dying. I have planted this in the front yard where it receives full sun all day. I water it every day for four minutes in the morning with a shrubbler. I have placed rubber mulch around the base of the plant and two days ago I added some liquid plant fertilizer that I diluted in water.
: At either end of my staircase I have a light switch that turns the staircase light on and off. The problem is that the switches don’t work correctly anymore. What can I do to fix this?
Last week, I was sitting on the outdoor deck of a second-floor restaurant in the 100-degree-Fahrenheit heat of early evening. A group of 20 green building professionals were in town to discuss regional coordination among chapters of the U.S. Green Building Council. The setting was appropriate; we were at the Springs Preserve Café, enjoying healthy food, a great view and a light breeze that kept everyone surprisingly comfortable.