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		<title>Separation Anxiety</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 14:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Home Performance with Energy Star launched in Maine in 2006, we defined the energy improvement process as test-in, upgrade, test-out. The parenthetical testing was part and parcel of the process, similar to a physician talking with a patient and running diagnostics to glean what’s going on &#8211; before prescribing remedies or lifting a scalpel. [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Conducting Home Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 13:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Gertie Finds a New Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Great Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>SnuggHome Surges Ahead</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Heather Rae Installment 1: Fuel Switching Mounds of firewood dot the backroads of Maine, like warts on a toad. This old house will make use of the large maple that fell on my husband&#8217;s land; it&#8217;s mostly cut into mis-shapen hunks that will fit into the old leaky Home Atlantic wood stove that commands [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Staying Warm, One Radio Show at a Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strategies for Staying Warm This Winter,A Call-in Program on Maine Public Broadcasting Network Radio &#8220;On Friday, August 29th, MPBN News &#38; Public Affairs Director Keith Shortall spoke with two energy experts, Dan Thayer and Heather Rae, about home heating issues and tips. They took calls from listeners with questions and concerns about home heating issues. [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>My aura is…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Compromised Kitchen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Heather Raefor cleantechblog.com The dry wall was hung last week and the mudding of the new kitchen has begun. A cloud of compromise hangs over each step in attempting to make this renovation &#8220;green;&#8221; the kitchen is no exception. The stud cavities of the gutted space received a spraying of two-part foam, not the [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Clothing, optional</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Heather RaeThe Richmond Saunas in rural Richmond Corners, Maine &#8212; about 40 minutes up Route 295 from Portland &#8212; are heated by wood. In the corner of each sauna, private and communal, stands a wood burning stove and a cauldron of water which is used to douse the cairn of rocks sitting atop the [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Taking Control</title>
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