by Jeff Feldman
 
The Eastern Panhandle was flush with green events last month in honor of the 40th Earth Day. Films, lectures, and festivals brought crowds to parks, town centers, and community gathering spots throughout the area, all in recognition and celebration of the relationship we have with our planet. If you somehow missed out, or [...]

By Davic Lillard
West Virginia was once a leading producer of maple syrup. Today, even though 80 percent of the Mountain State is covered with hardwoods—about 110,000 square miles of them—West Virginia barely registers in syrup production. Neal Super’s Mountain State Maple is starting a homegrown sugarin’ renaissance here in the relative flatlands of Jefferson County. [...]

By Roger Munro
“If every house in the United States were to improve using Energy Star home sealing you could shut down 90 power plants.” — Steve Thomas of “This Old House.”
Odds have it that you are reading this edition of The Observer in a conventionally built home and you think your energy bills are too [...]