Sandy Bauers

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Sandy Bauers has worked as an editor and a reporter at The Inquirer for more than two decades. She has covered features and news, and in 2006 was named the environment reporter. She lives on three acres in northern Chester County with her husband, two cats, a large vegetable garden and a flock of pet chickens.

GreenSpace - her column and blog - looks at how you to reduce your carbon footprint in everyday life. The column (below, with related links) appears every other Monday.

The GreenSpace blog is updated daily.

Red Hair Pigment Might Raise Melanoma Risk: Study

Information About Bats

Information About Bats 04/28/2013: By Sandy Bauers, Inquirer GreenSpace Columnist

The Pennsylvania Game Commission has materials on bats, bat houses, and the summer count. Go to www.pgc.state.us, click on "wildlife," then click on "wildlife" again, then "Appalachian bats."
Graduating from disposal to recycled clothes 04/14/2013: By Sandy Bauers, Inquirer GreenSpace Columnist

This spring, thousands of college students across the nation will aim to be below average.
This bulb might turn you on 03/31/2013: New LED has the look and light of the old favorite, and there's bright news on the price front.

By Sandy Bauers, Inquirer GreenSpace Columnist

There's good news in the lighting aisle. LED bulbs, which have been a tough sell because they were too expensive, too blue, and just too weird, are beginning to look, and act, more like that old favorite, the incandescent bulb.
Pa. takes up fight over labeling genetically engineered foods 03/17/2013: By Sandy Bauers, Inquirer GreenSpace Columnist

If the California experience is any indication, the fight in Pennsylvania promises to be heated and expensive.
A perfume for babies? Allergens and all? 03/03/2013: By Sandy Bauers, Inquirer GreenSpace Columnist

High-end Italian fashion house Dolce&Gabbana announced a new perfume recently - a scent not for babes, but for babies. Yes, infants.
Homeowner: Off the grid is a better way to live 02/03/2013: All his electricity comes from solar panels at the N.J. house he built. And it's not "an old shack."

By Sandy Bauers, Inquirer GreenSpace Columnist

He did it to be sustainable. To be self-reliant. Then there was the philosophical side, the pure satisfaction of it all.
Getting kids into the great outdoors 01/21/2013: By Sandy Bauers, Inquirer GreenSpace Columnist

Ken Finch delights in asking people to recall happy childhood moments spent outdoors. Invariably, they involve nature: climbing a favorite tree, wading in a stream, catching fireflies in a jar.
His study of energy expenses paid off 01/06/2013: By Sandy Bauers, Inquirer GreenSpace Columnist

David Director is a man who loves spreadsheets. He spent years at his keyboard, poring over documents, looking for answers to one of life's burning questions.
Tips for reducing and reusing holiday refuse 12/23/2012: Treecycling your Tannenbaum and other tips for reducing and reusing holiday refuse.

By Sandy Bauers, Inquirer GreenSpace Columnist

I bet your Christmas tree looks gorgeous. And I'm equally certain that if it's a live tree, in a week or two it will be dropping needles and you'll be eager to get rid of it.
A waving queen and other solar-powered wonders 12/10/2012: By Sandy Bauers, Inquirer GreenSpace Columnist

The queen of England has gone solar. The panels may not be on Buckingham or Balmoral. But there's one on the tiny black purse of a six-inch queen figurine, and the power it generates makes Her Majesty's white-gloved hand wave.