Say Goodbye To Lowering Gas Prices

The past few months we have seen the price of oil futures fall at a rapid rate, yet gas prices have been slow to follow (but when oil futures go up, gas prices rise rapidly). This is one of the most frustrating aspects of oil markets. University of California Energy Institute director Severin Borenstein calls this the "rockets and feathers effect," describing how prices rocket upward but gently decline like feathers.

The recent decline in gas prices could be completely reversed as Hurricane Gustav sets its sites on the Gulf of Mexico. In overnight trading, crude futures shrugged off the strengthening dollar (which was helping to reduce oil prices) and began to rise. If Gustav continues along a path toward the Gulf, it could mean an uptick in gas station prices ahead of Labor Day weekend.

Accuweather.com, said that if Gustav passes through the Yucatan Channel into the Gulf, the storm could intensify into a Category 4 or 5 hurricane. A Category 5 hurricane is defined as having sustained winds over 155 miles per hour; hurricanes Rita and Katrina were Category 5 hurricanes, and shuttered most of the Gulf region's crude oil and natural gas production in the late summer and early fall of 2005.

At best, Gustav will cause platforms to be evacuated, at worst, say hello to $4+ gallon gas (again).

Gas prices: No relief in sight – Fortune
Oil prices rise as Hurricane Gustav nears Gulf – The Huffington Post
Photo credit: Luiz Baltar

Time To Plant Your Fall Garden

In Alpharetta we enjoy relatively mild winters and can keep growing many vegetables straight through the winter. All you need to do is choose the right crops, time the planting right, and use a few smart techniques.

Growing Fall Tomatoes 
You can grow an abundant crop of fall tomatoes, but where can you buy young tomato plants in the middle of the summer? The easiest way to solve that problem is to cut small suckers from spring-planted tomatoes and let them grow to full-size plants.

You may have pinched out suckers at the first of the season, but some have grown back in the axil of the stems. The suckers should be 4 to 6 inches long and have a growing point with several leaves. In the next few days, go out and cut the suckers from the plant, remove the lower leaves up to the bud and place the suckers in a jar of water for an hour or two. Then plant them in pots for later transplanting or plant them directly into the garden. Keep them watered heavily for a few days until they've taken root.

Your tomato plants will not survive a frost. If we get an early frost it is best to pick any unripe fruits before the frost and let them ripen inside.

Other Plants to Grow 
All of the brassicas (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, brussels sprouts, collards, turnips, bok choy) are great candidates for overwintering. So are root crops (carrots, radishes, parsnips, beets, onions, potatoes and leeks). Many greens (lettuce, spinach, mustard, mache and Swiss chard) like it cold, too.

When to Plant 
Plants that are close to 90 percent grown will endure cold temperatures well. To know when to sow seed or transplant crops you want to grow over the winter, you need to do a little figuring. Start with the variety's days to maturity (which is usually on the seed packet), then add 10 days to allow for the shorter growing days of fall. Now count back that number of days from your average first frost date (from my experience, we usually get our first frost the first week of November)—the date that results from counting back is when to direct-seed or transplant.

Now cover your bets against the unpredictable fall weather by staggering your plantings over a two-week period and grow several different varieties. Also, make sure to have some row covers handy just in case we get an early frost.

Organic Gardening - Winter Vegetable Gardening
Photo credit: George Bosela

What Does It Mean To Be Sustainable?

Every day we hear about topics like sustainable growth and sustainable building, but what does it really mean to be “sustainable?” The economist Herman Daly has suggested three simple rules to help define sustainability:

• For a renewable resource–soil, water, forest, fish–the sustainable rate of use can be no greater than the rate of regeneration of its source. (Thus, for example, fish are harvested unsustainably when they are caught at a rate greater than the rate of growth of the remaining fish population.)
• For a nonrenewable resource–fossil fuel, high-grade mineral ores, fossil groundwater–the sustainable rate of use can be no greater than the rate at which a renewable resource, used sustainably, can be substituted for it. (For example, an oil deposit would be used sustainably if part of the profits from it were systematically invested in wind farms, photovoltaic arrays, and tree planting, so that when the oil is gone, an equivalent stream of renewable energy is still available.) 
• For a pollutant, the sustainable rate of emission can be no greater than the rate at which the pollutant can be recycled, absorbed, or rendered harmless in the environment. (For example, sewage can be put into a stream or lake or underground aquifer sustainably no faster than bacteria and other organisms can absorb its nutrients without themselves overwhelming and destabilizing the aquatic ecosystem.)
  

From looking at Daly's definition of sustainability, we see that few things in our modern world are actually built, processed, or manufactured sustainably, including what is generally referred to as "sustainable building", and that we have a long ways to go towards actually making our modern word sustainable. Building a sustainable world is not easy, but it is doable!

The Huffington Post - What is Sustainability?
Photo credit: Simon Gray

Turning Alpharetta’s Roads Into Solar Collectors

Anyone that lives in Georgia can tell you that asphalt gets really hot here in the summer (and gets pretty warm in the spring and fall as well). The many roads and parking lots in Alpharetta trap heat from the sun during the day and slowly release it at night contributing to the “heat island” effect.

Researchers in Massachusetts are working on a way to turn that excess heat into usable energy via water pipes. Their paper, released this week at the International Symposium on Asphalt Pavements and Environment in Zurich, speculates that asphalt roads could be better than solar panels in gathering energy.

"The significance of this concept lies in the fact that the massive installed base of parking lots and roadways creates a low-cost solar collector an order of magnitude more productive than traditional solar cells. The significantly high surface area can offset the expected lower efficiency (compared to traditional solar cells) by several orders of magnitude, and hence result in significantly lower cost per unit of power produced," according to the paper.

The researchers used computer modeling and small-scale prototypes to test alternatives to pipes for transferring asphalt heat to water. It found that the depth of the heat exchanger was critical and that a material with higher heat conductivity, such as quartzite, can be added to asphalt to improve heat transfer.

The hot water from the roads could be used in neighboring buildings, something that has already been done in the Netherlands. A more sophisticated approach would be to convert the heat into electricity using thermoelectric modules.

"Our preliminary results provide a promising proof of concept for what could be a very important future source of renewable, pollution-free energy for our nation. And it has been there all along, right under our feet," Rajib Mallick, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, said in a statement.

Tapping the hot asphalt jungle for energy – CNET
Just Follow the Solar Brick Road - The Discovery Channel
Photo credit: Glenn Pebley

Living On A Disposable World

So I am sitting in class last night (Operations Management) and my professor is talking about the U.S. trade deficit. I know…to most of you it would be really boring, but we crazy MBAs love this stuff.

Apparently, in 1995, the US produced 22.3% of the world’s manufactured goods. Since 1995 our trade deficit as a percent of GDP has dropped 3.5% (a sizable drop), that must mean we are not producing as much due to global competition right (i.e. more things being made in China). 

Wrong, today the US produces 22.4% of the world’s manufactured goods (a 0.1% INCREASE). The problem is that our increase in goods consumed is accounting for the increase in our trade deficit.

We are consuming way too much…and most of this "stuff" ends up in a landfill...and it is getting worse...

sometimes
when I wanna shut out this world
wanna rip up this page
wanna pour out this heart
wanna get up on this stage
and my lips become percussion
and my fists become the rage
and I pound on this table
'til it gives me something to say
then I think about things that I've seen
right in front of me
that I don't wanna believe
gimme one of these mikes
let me let 'em know
the way that it is is not how its gonna be
not if we don't let em get ahead of us
the present tensions no threat
its just a fence across the path
that were already ready to walk
rock solid footsteps
let'em put up obstacles
and prove that it isn't possible
f*** that
we don't give in anyway
true liberty and freedoms at stake
peace will never become passe
live my life until my last day
Flobots – Mayday!!

Little Boxes On The Hillside

I am not sure when it became the norm in Alpharetta to place the largest possible house on the smallest possible lot (or devoting most of the land to the front yard with barely any left for a back yard). Land values in Alpharetta are increasing but they are still “relatively” affordable.

Is this happening because people demand the largest possible house and could care less about a yard? Or is it because developers are trying to maximize their profits? They can’t place a large markup on land.

From a sustainability standpoint, higher population density is a good thing but a lot of these new housing developments are popping up on formerly agricultural land…driving any means of local food production farther away from city centers. If you are lucky enough to have a yard large enough to plant a vegetable garden it could help offset some of those food miles. A better idea would be to start a community garden (if your neighborhood has enough common land that could be converted or if any adjacent land is available to rent or purchase). Community gardens are generally found in urban areas and provide access to fresh produce as well as access to satisfying labor, neighborhood improvement, sense of community and connection to the environment.

From my observations of suburbia over the last 25 years most people like to keep to themselves and a larger sense of community is sorely needed. I have lived in my current community for 2 ½ years and have met very few people. It is not like I haven’t tried…I walk my dogs every day around our “lake” (glorified retention pond) in the middle of the community. I am already brainstorming ideas to improve the neighborhood and a community garden ranks right up at the top (right there with a dog park).

Wikipedia - Community garden
American Community Garden Association
Photo credit: scol22

Preparing For Life After Oil

Alpharetta still ranks relatively low in terms of population density (1,631.6/sq mi), compared to our neighbor cities to the south Roswell (2,086.5/sq mi) and Dunwoody (2,711.4/sq mi). Due to this low population density, MARTA has refused to extend the rail system from North Springs to Alpharetta. We also have limited public bus support and a road infrastructure designed only for automobile use (no considerations made for bikes and pedestrians).

The problem with this situation is that oil will not last forever (and its cost will be unaffordable for most people way before we actually run out). We will either need a reliable public transportation system or a different means to propel our cars. Biofuel is not the answer…electric cars powered by solar, wind or geothermal sources is.

This is one of my favorite charts: A comparison of the distance a car can drive based on either of the following forms of energy, each produced on 100m x 100m of land (2.5 acres). Why does biofuel not really cut it? Electric cars are about four times more energy efficient than fuel based cars, no matter whether they are based on biofuel or other fuel. This is because any fuel engine mostly creates heat and thus wastes the majority of the available energy units. Combine this with plants not being very efficient solar energy harvesters relative to semiconductor based solar electricity, and the result is this huge difference.

Treehugger
Photo credit: Dominik Gwarek

Don’t Blame Meat for Global Warming...Blame Factory Farms

Humans have been omnivores for over 3 million years…why all of a sudden is eating meat such a bad thing?

For most of those 4 million years, the animals that we ate grazed on grass. In factory farms (the preferred method of meat production in the US) animals are kept in cramped conditions and forced to eat grains (which the animals are not designed to eat). The grains fed to the animals are predominately genetically-modified soybeans and corn, grown using heaps of chemicals and fossil fuels. Once the animals are nice and fat they are slaughtered and shipped off to distant locales to be consumed.

Some people feel that becoming a vegetarian is a good way to reduce their impact on the environment, but I would have to respectfully disagree. I am fully supportive of people choosing to forgo meat for ethical/religious reasons but from a purely environmental standpoint not eating meat may not reduce your impact on the environment. With our "efficient" factory farming industry, your extra portions of meat will just be shipped off to a developing nation for consumption.

One way to reduce your impact on the environment where meat is concerned is to eat only local/regional, grass-fed, pastured, hormone- and antibiotic-free, and humane meat (and to tell all of your friends about it). Create some competition for the factory farms, if you give up meat entirely the factory farms don’t see you as a possible customer anymore and won’t fight for your business.

When properly managed, raising animals on pasture instead of factory farms is a net benefit to the environment. To begin with, a diet of grazed grass requires much less fossil fuel than a feedlot diet of dried corn and soy. On pasture, grazing animals do their own fertilizing and harvesting. The ground is covered with greens all year round, so it does an excellent job of harvesting solar energy and holding on to top soil and moisture. Grazed pasture removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere more effectively than any land use, including forestland and ungrazed prairie, helping to slow global warming.

To find out more about the importance of meat and other real foods:
Nina Planck’s Website
Real Food (Book by Nina Planck)
Eat Wild

To find local, grass-fed and pastured meats in your area:
Riverview Farms
Eat Wild – Georgia

I have a feeling that I might get a few comments on this article and they are welcomed, we cannot better ourselves if we do not openly communicate about the issues facing us.

Green UPS Data Center in Alpharetta

According to Joe Parrino, who heads the UPS Windward Data Center in Alpharetta Georgia, the rapid build-out of server farms and data centers is straining the grid in many parts of the country, especially in the Northeast. The IT industry is the sixth largest consumer of electricity, ahead of transportation, oil, and other decidedly heavy industries.

Since the industry’s inception its primary goal, reflected in the charter mission of the Uptime Institute founded in 1993, has been and remains reliability – uptime. But the quest for rock-solid data centers left little room for resource efficiency, or even a reliable metric to adequately gauge that efficiency.

Feeding the beast
A McKinsey report released earlier this year shows in stark terms how the current trend in the growth and energy consumption for data centers is rapidly becoming unsustainable. Energy costs are rising at an astonishing 16% per year. Greenhouse gas emissions from data centers already surpass that of Argentina.

Clearly there is more than reliability to be considered with the accelerating growth; the rush to build-out bandwidth without regard to the economic and environmental consequences of profligate and runaway energy consumption can’t be sustainable for very long.

Joe Parrino and his team at the Windward Data Center set out to find solutions and find ways to “tame the beast”.

Achieving Eficiency
Parrino achieves much of his efficiency in his cooling system. Windward was installed with two 1,000–ton centrifugal chillers and two 800–ton absorption chillers. There is also a 650,000 gallon thermal storage tank originally designed to provide 20 hours of backup cooling, but Parrino’s team employs a plate heat exchanger to cool the water in the storage tank using ambient nighttime outdoor temperatures.

The process is more complex than I need to go into here, involving wetbulb temperature and the like, but the upshot is that Parrino is able to shut down his 500 kilowatt chillers for up to seven months of the year, effectively providing the center with “free” cooling. In 2007, the chillers were shut down on October 11th and not turned back on again until May 18th of this year. The annual energy savings is about 1,440,000 kilowatts, eliminating 1000 tons of carbon emissions, and reducing energy costs by up to $100,000. All this in Georgia, where it gets hot. If more northerly data centers adopted Parrino’s innovative approach, the savings could be even greater.

Another source of efficiency gain Parrino found “by accident” was with the air handlers for the server power distribution units (PDU). Parrino’s team discovered several air flow inefficiencies with the air flow through the PDU’s. With modification Parrino is able to turn off 23 of the 65 air handler fans in the computer room, saving another 261 kilowatts of energy every hour and another $190,000 per year.

Parrino pointed out that these steps to efficiency are not only “green” but make business sense. Not only is there significantly lowered energy costs, but equipment life is extended and capital costs are reduced as well.

Triple Pundit

Biking to Work

With the recent surge in gas prices I have seen more cyclists on the road than ever before. Commuting to work will save you a lot of money on gas and will also get you in shape. Riding a bike to work doesn’t have to be difficult…check out the tips below.

1. Find a safe and pleasant route. Don't just assume that the route you drive to work is the best route for biking. Often the best bike route includes back streets and side roads which may make your trip slightly longer but much safer and more enjoyable.
2. Your local bike shop will probably have bicycle route maps. Get one and map out your route to work. If there are no bike route maps, get on your bike on a non-work day and scout out the area.
3. Incorporate streets with bicycle lanes wherever possible. 
4. If necessary, combine bicycling with public transit. More and more transit systems are finding ways to accommodate bicycle travelers. Marta buses have space for two bikes on the front of each bus (these racks are hardly ever used).
5. Do a test-run of your bike route on a day with light traffic. Try some alternate routes, if possible. Make a note of how long each route takes you. Avoid streets with excessive potholes or junk in the road. 
6. Determine where you can lock your bike while you are at work.  
7. Acquire a bike. Do not buy a cheap bike at a discount store. This is an investment, and you shouldn't buy a cheap bicycle for the same reasons you wouldn't buy a cheap car. Find a local bicycle shop (I bought mine from Roswell Bicycles). There, knowledgeable people can help you decide what to buy.
8. Cyclists have to stop at red lights too. 
9. Learn how to make simple bicycle repairs before you hit the road. A flat tire, loose brake cable, seatpost, or handlebar, a wheel that comes unbalanced, or other minor adjustments may pop up while you're commuting. Be ready for them and bring a cellphone just in case you can't fix it.
10. Take safety precautions while riding. 
11. Plan for hauling your things. You will need something in which to carry your work items. There are many types of bicycle luggage carriers. Backpacks or messenger bags might work, but the lack of airflow against your body will make you sweat a lot.
12. Consider wearing riding clothes and safety gear during your commute.  
13. Stick with it. Your legs (and rear end) might be sore for a few days or weeks. Don't give up! You'll get used to the workout soon, and you'll start noticing new muscles in your legs. Keep moving forward and enjoy the scenery.
    

Bicycle Commuter’s Guide
How to Commute By Bicycle

Your Backyard Farmer

Grow organic vegetables in your backyard without breaking a sweat (if you live in Oregon). Your Backyard Farmer is a two-woman company that began installing organic gardens throughout Portland, Milwaukie, and Lake Oswego areas of Oregon back in 2006. All you need is a plot of land that is big enough – 20 by 20 square feet will feed a family of 4 – along with six hours of direct sunlight a day and an outdoor water source.

In exchange, the farming team will provide clients with an organic vegetable farm right outside their door, customized to their family's size and dining choices. Customers get to choose the produce they want grown from a seasonal list of summer and fall crops.

Your Backyard Farmer both installs and visits the garden once a week to weed, harvest and do any additional plantings necessary. Each time they leave, a basket of freshly harvested vegetables is left behind that's cleaned and ready to be cooked or eaten. Weekly costs for a garden big enough to feed a family of four are roughly $40.

For those who want to learn to do it themselves, Your Backyard Farmer also offers a consulting program that runs from March through November, including about 2 hours a month of on-site consultation on topics including soils, pest, disease, garden planning, crop rotation, succession planting, trellising, weeds, transplants verses seeding, cover cropping and more.

This specific company only operates in Oregon…but there is nothing stopping you from starting a similar business in Alpharetta. Demand is high for healthy, organic produce and not everyone wants to drive out to a farm each week to pickup a CSA share.

Springwise
Your Backyard Farmer

Turn Your Company Green

Start a "Green Team" in your company (if there isn't one already). Once the team is formed, start with a few small projects. Adding a few recycling bins for office paper, magazines, plastic bottles and aluminum cans is a good place to start; the bins serve as visual reminders to think about the environment and the materials collected are easily recycled in most communities.

Other Short-Term Projects

• Encourage people to use less paper
• Use office paper with some recycled content (ideally 100% post-consumer)
  
• Turn off lights when you leave a room
• Recycle toner cartridges
• Recycle old electronics
• Encourage people to use reusable mugs for coffee
• Provide incentives to people who walk, bike, or carpool to work
  

Long-Term Projects

• Install motion-sensing light switches in bathrooms, break areas, etc.
• Install photosensitive dimmers on fluorescent lights to reduce their output when adequate sunlight is present
• Install solar panels or purchase renewable energy
• If your company has extra land, start a "community" garden for employees
• Compost food scraps

This is just a short list of what I am working to implement at the company I work for. There are plenty of other opportunities that I have omitted.

Saving Rain for a Dry, Summer Day

As summer passes by, the frequent showers of spring become a fading memory. Summers in Alpharetta are usually hot and dry with an occasional thunderstorm drenching us with enormous amounts of rain in a short period of time (most of which ends up down the storm drain…wasted).

The drought is only going to get worse and we need to capture that wasted water and use it during the dry spells. The simplest approach to catch rainwater is to place a rain barrel under a downspout to collect the rainwater from your roof. Each rain barrel will hold approximately 55 gallons of water (one barrel is usually enough for a small garden).

For large gardens or to use the rainwater through a sprinkler system, a cistern will be your best bet. A cistern is a large vessel, often made from plastic, located above or below ground that holds between 100 and 1400 gallons or water. A cistern requires a modest initial investment that takes a few years to pay back…but if watering restrictions continue to get worse...think about the price of replacing your entire landscape.

The Rainwater Connection
Wikipedia - Rainwater Harvesting
The Grean Season Group

Organic Lawn Care

The “normal,” chemical-intensive form of lawn care is polluting our waterways and air, sucking our aquifers and lakes dry, and poisoning us. It is time to switch to a more natural way of keeping your grass green. Organic lawn care does not have to be more demanding than the “normal” way. A healthy, organically-treated lawn will suffer fewer (if any) disease and pest infestations; require less water; and is safe for your kids to play on.

Here are 10 steps to go organic with your lawn:

1. Go organic right away – there is no need for a transition period when switching to organic
2. Test your soil (and amend if necessary)
3. Top dress your lawn with compost and rock powder 
4. Overseed in spring or fall
5. Mow higher with an electric mulching mower (or a reel mower – and leave the cuttings on the lawn) – taller grass will shade out weeds and the cuttings will decompose and add organic matter to the soil
6. Add white clover to your lawn – your lawn should contain 5% clover, clover is a nitrogen fixer (takes nitrogen from the air and places it into the soil)
7. Apply corn gluten in spring, just before the dogwoods and forsythias bloom
8. Apply organic fertilizer in early summer and autumn
9. Water your lawn as infrequently as possible (but as deeply as possible – avoiding runoff) 
10. Cleanup your lawn before winter – rake up leaves and other debris 

SafeLawns.org 
Photo credit: Simona Balint

Walkable, Mixed-Use in North Fulton’s Future

At the March board meeting of the North Fulton Community Improvement District, board members heard that people see North Fulton as a walkable community with more parks and open space in the future.

A long-range plan that envisions this new type of community being built along the GA 400 corridor from Alpharetta to Forsyth County was unveiled yesterday. Blueprint North Fulton is intended to guide future development so that a car trip won’t be required to go from home to work or a grocery store. The idea is to promote the development of a community that’s more walkable and less congested with traffic.

I will continue to cover this project as it develops…so stay tuned.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Sustainable Sweets

If you feel like indulging a little and want to find a bakery that is a little more sustainable, check out John Paul’s Bakery.

John Paul’s Bakery makes a wide selection of baked goods right here in Alpharetta, using only certified organic ingredients. John Paul is a classically trained chef who found his love in baking and sweet goods. John Paul’s Bakery is the culmination of 9 years of experience coupled with a desire to help the planet.



Find them every Saturday at the Alpharetta Farmer’s Market. You can even order online and pick up at the market.



Photo credit: Viviane Stonoga

Bonus: Inspiring Change – We Are Winning

We are building up a new world
Do not sit idly by
Do not remain neutral
…
There is a war going on for your mind
If you are thinking, you are winning
Resistance is victory
Defeat is impossible
Your weapons are already in hand
Reach within you and find the means by which to gain your freedom
Fight with tools
Your fate and that of everyone you know depends on it

We Are Winning - Flobots

Flobots Website

Sustainable Pooches

Making Dog Toys Sustainably

West Paw Design is an amazing company that designs, manufactures, sells, and ships their outstanding dog and cat toys and bedding all from under one roof – in Bozeman, Montana, USA



They strive to minimize waste in the manufacturing process (currently as low as 2.4%) by using efficient processes and re-using and recycling materials. Scrap materials are used to create new toys; Reclaimed and reused old boxes are utilized to store finished goods rather than plastic manufacturing totes (many reused boxes at our facility were even previously used to ship bananas before coming here - now that's a lot of reusing). They also incorporate recycled material in the shipping boxes.



Many raw materials used to produce the products also come from recycled or organic sources…recycled PET soda bottles, organic cotton and reclaimed cotton to name a few. The packaging is also made of PLA corn-based, petroleum-free plastic.



Buying Sustainable Dog Toys Locally

What better place to buy sustainable dog toys than at your local pet shop? This way you get to support the production of sustainable, ethically produced dog toys and support your local economy.



The Pet Basket in Alpharetta, GA carries West Paw Design toys (and many other brands) as well as a large selection of holistic and raw pet foods. I personally recommend Canidae dog food (also check out the Planet Dog toys). The employees at The Pet Basket will be more than happy to answer any questions that you may have.



The Pet Basket

Mardi Gras Plaza

5155 Highway 9

Alpharetta, GA 30004

770-456-5860

2 miles north of McFarland

Adoption days on Saturdays

Beat the Heat

The townhouse I live in has a one car garage with an uninsulated garage door. The door faces south, which causes the garage to heat-up significantly in the summer but can get rather cold in the winter (well…as cold as it gets in Alpharetta).

This heating and cooling of the garage costs me money due to energy inefficiency. In the summer the heat rises into the room above, requiring more air conditioning and in the winter it makes my water heater (which is in the garage) work harder.

I did some research and found that the simplest, cheapest way to insulate the garage door would be to use a radiant barrier made by Reflectix. This stuff is basically just foil-lined bubble wrap.

All I had to do was measure the opening in the garage door and cut the insulation to size with scissors.

It has been a few weeks since finishing this project and I have already noticed a sizable difference of the temperature in the garage…compared to the temperature outside.

Photos

Roll of Reflectix

Finished Garage Door