Outdoor clotheslines are old-fashioned and newfangled at the same time. And with the growing "green" movement, the clothes-drying tool is gaining attention after all but disappearing for decades.

In a small parking lot just behind Walgreens on 10th Street in Port Huron, a clothesline hangs, surrounded by a layer of snow. On the line, old-fashioned wooden pins hold dangling plastic bags filled ...

Solar energy comes to Earthlings in many ways. Ancient Persians used passive solar architecture. East Africans about the same time funneled cool ocean wind through tunnels to cool themselves. Now at ...

Ordinary things are sacred, Barbara Taylor Bradford writes in her book “An Altar in the World.” Friday afternoon, as I wandered through the desert at Ghost Ranch where I now live, I knew what she ...