Amid rising gas and electricity costs, many people are looking for creative ways to stay warm without hefty bills or ...

The Burgess BioPower plant in Berlin has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission to build a thermal energy recovery system that will be used to heat a hydroponic ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - The power to heat a greenhouse can come from compost and ultimately can help sustain people everywhere, summer and winter. That's the basic belief that has led the people who ...

Anyone who gardens, especially those in northern climates, likely dreams of extending their growing season with a greenhouse. The greenhouse has been used in various iterations since Ancient Rome.

We love wood at TreeHugger; our posts on wood and pellet stoves continue to be among the most popular we have ever published. Environmental writer Mark Gunther loves it too, calling it A renewable ...

GERMANTOWN (WITI) -- It's March, and with the winter we've seen, many of us just cannot wait until spring -- but we're still seeing snow and bitterly cold temperatures. So, while many of us may be ...

Winters in the mid-west are generally harsh. The daily average temperature during winter months (Nov. to Feb) in Indiana is 33.6 o F. This temperature is significantly lower than the optimal growth ...

Troy Boiler Works employees have built four high-efficiency, wood pellet-fired boilers in the past year, with six more scheduled in coming months. Lou Okonski, Troy Boiler Works president and manager ...

The article on wood pellet exports from rural Louisiana parishes is appreciated, but it omits the key fact of why those Europeans so favor wood pellets over oil, natural gas or coal for heating their ...

This story was originally produced by the New Hampshire Bulletin, an independent local newsroom that allows NHPR and other outlets to republish its reporting. In the 30 years Greg Berger has been ...

Regular heat pumps are a much less dramatic alternative to geothermal heat pumps — you don’t need a huge yard and you don’t have to dig a huge swath in it. Whether you should get one depends largely ...