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Many individuals and households have at least one outdated appliance — a refrigerator, a water heater or a window-mounted air conditioner that they hold onto because of the expense involved with replacing them. Yet the money they save is often more than canceled out by higher utility bills. 
Upgrading outdated appliances can help low-income households stay in their homes by reducing their utility bills — and by extension, lowering their overall housing costs. The money saved can be used toward other necessities such as food or transportation to work or school.
However, it can take years for a new appliance to pay for itself through energy savings. Without incentives, it often simply doesn’t make financial sense for a low-income household to upgrade outdated appliances solely to save on energy bills. This is especially true for renters or homeowners who are unsure about how long they will remain in a given location, or who are unsure about whether they can take new appliances with them when they move. 
The challenge is in bridging the gap to bring the necessary up-front investment in energy-efficient appliances within reach. That’s where organizations like Elevate and Meadows Eastside Community Resource Organization, also known as MECRO, come in. They coordinate resources such as incentives offered by utilities, grants and low-interest loans, and make them available for low-income households to eliminate this dilemma.
Through its headquarters in Chicago’s West Loop, along with offices in downstate Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin, Oregon and California, Elevate works to help homeowners and owners of multifamily units across the country obtain financing to improve the energy efficiency in their homes and buildings. MECRO is located on the busy 79th Street commercial corridor of Chicago’s Southeast Side and focuses its services on residents in the community. (The name Meadows in the MECRO acronym is in honor of Rufus and Everlena Meadows, the parents of Sharon “Sy” Lewis, founder and executive director of MECRO.) 
Through a collaboration with the City of Chicago, ComEd and Elevate, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory utilized its trademarked ResStock tool and place-based data to develop residential energy efficiency strategies for the city’s residential building stock, primarily comprised of bungalows and other single-family homes built before 1942. Through the Chicago Advanced Building Construction project, a series of simulations was executed, which generated up to $49 billion in potential utility bill savings. An especially significant finding was that sizable savings could be achieved through installing heat pumps and other off-the-shelf technologies. 
An old refrigerator uses up to three times as much electricity as a newer, energy-efficient model. Energy-certified clothes dryers use 20% less electricity than a standard dryer. Certified clothes washers require between 40% and 50% less energy and 55% less water to operate than conventional washers. 
Utilities such as ComEd and Ameren in Illinois provide a number of incentives for ratepayers — such as rebates for trade-ins of old appliances — to facilitate the switch for customers to energy-efficient appliances. 
Elevate has a number of funders that provide grants to heavily incentivize or provide upgrades at no cost for homeowners. In addition, in areas where utility incentives aren’t in place, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund can provide financing, according to Jackie Montesdeoca, director of building electrification for Elevate. 
“There are models where we can have a lender include energy efficiency as part of the overall rehab. We do that in the Chicago area, but that’s a model that can be replicated [in other locations]. … The underwriters or the loan officers know that high-efficiency equipment or adding a little more insulation than code requires is going to make that building more resilient [with] lower operating costs, as opposed to a building that didn’t go through those measures in their rehab,” Montesdeoca said. 
According to U.S. Census Bureau data cited in a 2020 report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, utility costs for poor households averaged 8.1% of their income, versus just 2.3% of income spent by more affluent households on utility bills. 
While the lion’s share of these expenditures was for heating and cooling, household appliances accounted for a significant percentage of utility costs as well. 
A comprehensive energy efficiency upgrade that includes replacing outdated appliances can translate to savings of 30% or more, according to Montesdeoca. 
Yet many eligible households remain unaware of these programs, or have the mistaken belief that they do not qualify, according to Lewis.
“One of the things that I really try to push is that all of these programs are available, [but there is a] lack of information. You would think somebody who lives in Beverly” — a middle-class, racially diverse community on Chicago’s far Southwest Side — “wouldn’t be income-eligible and they wouldn’t be suffering from housing insecurity. They are. It does not matter. There are very affluent neighborhoods where people are suffering. You know, it’s a lot when you’re making a hundred thousand dollars, [but] there are eight people in your house,” Lewis said. 
Reducing utility bills by replacing outdated household appliances is a vital tool in enhancing housing affordability through the knock-on effect in freeing up funds that were formerly needed for those bills — funds that can be used for other necessities that enhance overall housing affordability. Even small improvements, such as installing aerators on faucets or converting incandescent lighting to LEDs, can contribute to cumulative money savings, Lewis said. 
“So, with these little aerators people think, oh, that’s just something cute. No, it’s not. It is saving you water. It’s saving you gallons and gallons and gallons of water. Is it impactful? Yes, absolutely. Will it be able to keep more people in their homes? Absolutely. Because this is now an expense that they do not have to pay on their property, that they can invest on their bills, that they can invest in their property,” Lewis said. 
Nonetheless, many would-be beneficiaries find it difficult to justify the expense to replace a functional refrigerator or water heater. A lack of awareness about available incentives also contributes to resistance. It’s often necessary to educate people about how the return on investment combined with available incentives and other resources actually helps them save money in the long run, Montesdeoca said.
“Owners need a clear expectation of estimated savings related to their upfront investment. We work to make the process easy for them and break down costs along with identifying the funding gap. For a lot of small multifamily owners … these owners don’t have a lot of cash flow to play around with. So if we aren’t bringing incentives, grant dollars, or some kind of financing as a resource it is hard to otherwise make that project work. The best scenario is that we can connect the owner to the problem and the financial tools that can help get to solutions,” Montesdeoca said.
Many energy efficiency incentives are geared toward single-family homes, but multi-family building owners and renters also struggle with high utility bills. Energy-efficient upgrades for multifamily units are essential in retaining affordable housing, according to Karen Lusson, staff attorney for the National Consumer Law Center, with offices in Boston and Washington D.C.
“The multifamily building market has always been a larger challenge. With the single family, it’s about reaching the homeowner and convincing the homeowner that this makes sense. Ideally, weatherization [and related] services should be provided at zero cost to the homeowner. In terms of the multifamily building owner, there can be variances in terms of the copays. There can be sliding scale copays for the building owner. But if we’re trying to increase the availability of affordable housing, we want to make sure those incentives are large enough, and those copays aren’t so big that they lose interest, or turn down these opportunities to invest in energy efficiency,” Lusson said.
Both ComEd and Ameren provide incentives for energy-efficient appliances for multifamily units as well as for single-family homes — working in Chicago and surrounding communities in collaboration with organizations like Elevate and MECRO.
Marcia Ellis is the owner of a six-unit property in Chicago’s New City community area located on the city’s Southwest Side. The legacy building, which was constructed in 1924, has been in the family since 1984. Ellis received a free energy assessment through Elevate, a loan through Community Investment Corporation and $44,697 in incentives from ComEd and Peoples Gas Energy Efficiency Programs to cover the cost of lighting retrofits, roof and pipe insulation, bathroom and kitchen aerators, LED lighting, a new high-efficiency boiler and other improvements. The return on investment? An estimated $2,380 in estimated annual savings, not to mention happy tenants. 
MECRO worked with a senior in the community to improve the energy efficiency of her 100-year-old three-flat. Along with weatherstripping, insulation and replacement doors, the dwelling was fitted out with all-new appliances in each unit, according to Lewis. 
“She gets three new air conditioners. … And she’s got a freezer in the basement that you could put a body in. It’s not energy efficient. She got a brand-new freezer. She got a stove and a refrigerator for three units, and a deep freezer. And she had her grandson’s college refrigerator. It’s not energy efficient. So, she got one of those. She got a new furnace and a new water heater. So, every appliance in her house is energy efficient. 
“I visit her from time to time. You can tell the difference. You can literally tell the difference,” Lewis said.
And while making the conversion from gas or other carbon-based heating fuels to electric increases overall electric bills, making the switch can make up the difference by eliminating a gas bill altogether, according to Emma Baumgart, senior associate for communications at Elevate. 
“With electrification [there] is the added benefit of having no gas bill. And especially in Chicago, People’s Gas has high fixed costs on your bill, where even if you’re not using any gas, you still are paying that monthly charge. And so that’s an added benefit of going fully electric. You still have fixed costs on your electric bill, but it’s just one instead of two. So obviously your electric bill goes up when you are converting to all electric, but by completely removing that fixed cost is another way that electrification can help with affordability,” Baumgart said. 
For Lewis, a lifetime resident of Chicago’s Southeast Side, her work with MECRO in enabling residents to remain in their homes represents one way of investing in the well-being and stability of the community she calls home.
“Those things that impact the quality of life, impact how low-income housing exists in our community and how people are able to stay in their places and live comfortably,” Lewis said.
Audrey is an independent writer and researcher based in the greater Chicago area with advanced degrees in sociology and law from Northwestern University. She specializes in sustainability in the built environment, culture and arts, policy, and related topics. Her work has been featured in Wallpaper magazine, the Chicago Reader, Chicago Architect magazine, Next City, Transitions Abroad, Belt Magazine and other consumer and trade publications. Her coverage focuses on environmental justice and equity.
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Gear Of The Year: The best new guitars, pedals and amps of 2021 - Guitar.com

The best guitars, amps, pedals and more from another fantastic year for the guitar industry.
The ongoing pandemic has impacted the guitar industry in myriad ways, and here at the tail end of 2021 we’re still feeling the effects of that. On the positive side, the enforced downtime of 2020 led to a huge explosion of people picking up guitar for the first time, or coming back to the instrument leading to a demand for guitars, amps and effects that shows no sign of stopping – leading one industry analyst to declare that for guitar brands, “current prospects are brighter than during the post-Beatles era”.
If that’s the exciting stuff, then the flipside is that many brands are still trying to get back up to speed following the enforced closure of factories and workshops all over the world in 2020, something that has been compounded by the global supply chain crisis of 2021. Across the industry, order books are full, and even the biggest brands are struggling to keep up – in March, even Fender admitted that it was struggling to keep up with the demand for its beginner and intermediate guitars.
Which is all to say that it’s been another strange year for guitar, but a hugely exciting one with it. Despite the challenges and obstacles presented to them, the guitar industry has responded with fantastic innovation and creativity over the last 12 months. Whether that’s conversation-starting acoustic guitars, revolutionary new developments in the worlds of effects and modelling, or further refinements to some of the most iconic guitars ever made, 2021 has defied the odds to deliver some game-changing gear for us to get our teeth into – here’s our pick of the very best of it.

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Friends of Bixby Park arts and crafts fair will raise money for Ukraine - Signal Tribune

A colorful and artful celebration held at Bixby Park in Long Beach will not only honor Ukrainian refugees, but also provide direct aid to the men, women and children directly affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 
The biannual arts and craft fair is hosted by the Friends of Bixby Park, a community-led organization that regularly hosts events for people in the city to gather, celebrate and connect at one of the oldest parks in Long Beach. This year’s fair marks the first in-person arts and crafts fair hosted by the organization since the COVID-19 pandemic began. 
On Sunday, May 22, artists from throughout the city will be selling original pieces as local businesses raffle off gift certificates, all with the common goal of providing aid to Ukrainian refugees. Those attending will be entertained by hand-selected local artists. 
While the primary goal of the Friends of Bixby Park is to support all things Long Beach, president Ketty Citterio, 53, felt compelled to think bigger after attending a vigil held for Ukrainian refugees in Belmont Shore in late March.
Citterio seized the opportunity to make a difference, connecting with each organization present at the vigil. She then chose three groups that she vetted herself to help with the crisis in Ukraine. 
The groups that will benefit from the fair include Citadel Cherkasy, non-profit Grandkids and From People to People, all of which have pledged to send all money to Ukraine. 
“[The groups] are lobbying and collecting money that they send directly to people there [in Ukraine],” Citterio said. “There are people there who are actually doing it so it’s not going to the UN or some other organization.” 
Baskets of goodies and gift certificates will be donated by some of the best Long Beach has to offer. Restaurants that donated include Portfolio, Breakfast Bar, The Attic, Wild Chive and Gallagher’s, to name a few. 
The arts and crafts fair will also feature pieces from artists throughout the city, from seniors living in the Long Beach Arts Colony, students at Long Beach City College and people holding their own art classes looking for business. 
Citterio explained that in the spirit of helping other communities, she has either waived or “dramatically lowered” the vendor fees and booth fees so more people can participate in Sunday’s event. 
The fair will be held at Bixby Park at 130 Cherry Ave. in Long Beach on Sunday, May 22 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Make the Most of Your Capo: 4 Essential Concepts | Acoustic Guitar - Acoustic Guitar

From the September/October 2022 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Jane Miller
When used as a tool—and not merely a crutch—a capo can offer inspiration and creativity for players of all skill levels. A capo is, of course, a useful gadget for accompanying a singer to get the actual key of a song in a better vocal range without changing from your favorite chords. There’s more to try out, though, and it’s not just about avoiding barre chords. It’s really about expanding your choices and making your guitar sound great. 
Capit, the Latin root word for “head,” gives us the perspective of thinking of a capo as the temporary new head of the strings. A capo placed just behind a fret makes that fret the new nut, if you will, or the lowest point of contact for the strings. There is an interesting tonal quality that comes from playing open chords while using a capo; the open strings aren’t exactly open anymore, but they are still different from the sound of the fretted notes you play beyond the capo. The shimmery quality that results from playing with a capo on high frets is an attractive addition to solo guitar arrangements—and much more.
Here’s a guide to making the most of your capo:
Some guitars just lend themselves to intricate passages, challenging chord forms, and angular melodies. Others don’t. My humble beginnings were on a very inexpensive student guitar that featured mile-high action (and a painted-on pickguard!). Learning about capos saved the day just in time before I gave up on ever playing F. Even for advanced players, a capo on an acoustic guitar can transform a beautiful instrument into a short-scale version of that same beautiful instrument, with slightly lower action. Unreachable stretches are now within reach. Get around on that two-chords-per-bar jazz tune complete with extensions and tensions with ease. Your arrangement of a chord-melody solo can be more playable, and therefore cleaner, with a capo on even just the first or second fret. 
You can choose to bring a song up a whole step by putting the capo on the second fret, or you can keep it in its original key by tuning your guitar down a whole step and placing the capo in that same position. I’ve recorded both ways, and my day in the studio was made easier and more creative. 
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Try out a song you know in the key of A major. Something typical would be A–D–E or variations of those chords. It’s a perfectly good progression and easy enough to play well down around the first few frets. Now try it in a much higher position: put a capo at the seventh fret. To keep the song in the key of A, play the chords as if the song is in D, using D–G–A instead of A–D–E. Listen to that sound! The choices you make with regard to open strings, bass notes, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and various other expressions and embellishments are different from what you usually do in the key of A with no capo. Accessing high notes to double a melody while still having the benefit of open strings for bass notes or middle notes of chords brings new life to an ordinary progression. 
Singers have a particular range, and that range might not always be in your favorite guitar key. While guitarists can change keys readily enough through the use of moveable chords, such as barre chords, having to do so might blow the chances of being able to use that gorgeous arrangement containing those certain voicings with those well-placed open strings. If a singer needs a higher key, there’s an easy solution: capo up until the singer says yes. But if a singer needs a lower key, a capo can help with that, too. If you like playing a song in G, for example, but it puts the melody too high for the singer, try a capo at the fourth fret. The singer can now try the melody down an octave in relation to the chords. 
In this example, the song is now in the key of B, as long as you keep playing it as if it’s in G. As always with a capo, it might take some adjusting to taste to find the sweet spot for the vocalist. If you’re wondering, a capo on the eighth fret will put the song in this scenario in the key of Eb. Keep playing it as if it’s in G. 
When you are in a group with two or three guitarists, it can sound more interesting if you’re not playing the same things in the same ways. Without a capo, this can be achieved by using different voicings between players. Adding a capo or two can bring out an exquisite blend of sound, similar to the ways in which, say, an acoustic guitar and mandolin work together. 
To play a song in the key of D major, for instance, one player can stay capo-free in the lower register. A second guitarist can capo at the fifth fret and play as if in A, and a third player could work in G with a capo VII, C with capo II, or E with capo X. 
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A jazz guitar trio playing the standard “All the Things You Are,” which starts in the key of Ab major, with a progression of Fm7–Bbm7–Eb7–Abmaj7, could have a lot of fun dividing up the chordal work. One guitarist could use a capo at the sixth fret and play it as if in D (Bm7–Em7–A7–Dmaj7). A second guitarist might capo at the first fret and play shapes in G (Em7–Am7–D7–Gmaj7). If the third guitarist works in standard tuning, sans capo, that will spread out the voicings nicely throughout the trio; the sum of the parts will be great.
Exploring the possibilities at a rehearsal or on your own in your studio is sure to ignite some creative sparks in your music. 
Jane Miller, a guitar professor at Berklee College of Music, is the author of Introduction to Jazz Guitar and Triads for the Improvising Guitarist (both Berklee Press/Hal Leonard).
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2022 issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine.


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Lawns: Are they worth it anymore? - The Washington Post

An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the largest crop in the continental U.S. is turf grass. It is the largest irrigated crop. The story has been corrected.
Lawns, still, somehow.
The planet has accelerated its revolt against us and still we tend our lawns, one part of Earth we can control. Society falters, resources dwindle and, still, lawns.
Lawns: burned out, blond and dead, in the air fryer of August. Lawns: emerald green — no, alien green — and kept that way by maniacal vigilance and an elaborate system of pipes and potions, organic and otherwise, in defiance of ecology. And for what? To have, in this chaos, dominion over something? (Lawn and order?) To drape a veil of verdancy over a world gone to seed? To feel equal or superior to Ron, across the street, whose lawn always looks like the 18th at Pebble Beach?
We’ve been sweeping our anxieties under these green comfort blankets for quite some time. A “smooth, closely shaven surface of grass is by far the most essential element of beauty on the grounds of a suburban home,” wrote Frank J. Scott in 1870, around the time of the first lawn mower patent, in a book titled “The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds of Small Extent” (Chapter XIII: The Lawn).
“For ‘setting off’ both the house and the landscape, planting a good lawn is of vital importance,” declared a caption in the New York Times in 1937.
Around that time, during the Great Depression, the Mattei family in Cincinnati did not have a lawn. They had a yard, and the yard was functional. It was for the chickens and tomato plants. It was not for grass. One of the Matteis, Vic, used the GI Bill to get to graduate school and become a research scientist. He made a family of his own in the Philadelphia suburb of Cinnaminson, N.J., in a subdivision that paved over Quaker farmland to accommodate Americans who were tinkering with the Aegis radar system for the nearby RCA Corp. Everyone in the subdivision had a lawn, of course. What was the American Dream, in the 20th century, if it wasn’t aproned by a quarter acre of Kentucky bluegrass or tall fescue, which is good for recreation and admiration and not much else?
Vic had some token vegetable plants on the property, but the yard was not for survival. The yard was for lawn, and the lawn was for mowing.
“He was mowing the lawn every Saturday,” says Vic’s daughter, Edamarie Mattei. “And that was success: Having the lawn. Mowing the lawn.”
That was the 1970s.
It is now a half-century later. Specifically Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Mattei, a landscape designer, is standing on a lawn in a leafy crook of Bethesda, Md. She is talking to the owner of the lawn about getting rid of it.
“It contributes nothing,” says M.J. Veverka about her lawn, which she’s watered and weeded and mowed for 31 years — and for what? The lawn is static, nonfunctional, tedious. Last year Veverka filled in her backyard pool, removed the surrounding lawn and enlisted Mattei’s company to turn the space into an oasis of native plants, a “homegrown national park,” in the words of a grass-roots movement for regenerating biodiversity. Veverka so loves the backyard — which is now an evolving work of horticultural art and a functioning component of the surrounding ecosystem — that she wants to do the same thing with her front yard.
Step one: Get thee gone, lawn.
Mattei used to spend more time educating clients about the benefits of turf removal and native plantings; in the past two years, for whatever reason, new clients have started coming to her with those very ideas. Maybe quarantine amplified the sameness of lawns. Maybe, in this climate-conscious era, we are thinking outside the strict geometry of the lawn, which Mattei describes as “ecologically dead” — a “monoculture” in a world that needs biodiversity.
Over a century, from around the 1870s to the 1970s, Americans slowly fell in love with lawns. Lawns were a sign of taste, calm, power, privilege, order, discipline, especially in the aftermath of World War II.
“On the American front lawn men use power machinery and chemicals, the tools of war, to engage in a battle for supremacy with Mother Nature,” writes Virginia Scott Jenkins in her book “The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession.”
Over the past 50 years, we’ve slowly fallen out of love with lawns. They began to signal waste, disregard, disharmony, homogeneity, gentrification, zombie Boomerism.
“Wasn’t there something a bit decadent about millions of Americans applying millions of pounds of fertilizer and pouring millions of gallons of water on the ground to grow something you couldn’t eat unless you were a Jersey cow?” columnist Ellen Goodman wrote in the Boston Globe all the way back in 1977. “Wasn’t there something bizarre about their spending millions of gallons to cut it off?”
“I think we’re growing up as a country,” Mattei says. “For a lot of American history, it seemed like we had boundless access to land, and we kept extracting from it and building on it. I see a real change from looking at land as a demonstration of power or success to looking at land as a precious resource.”
She adds: “When we are lawn people, we are one thing. When we are not lawn people, we are another thing.”
We are still, largely, lawn people. The biggest irrigated crop, by area, in the United States? Not corn, or soybean, but lawn. Unproductive, ornamental lawn: around 40 million acres of it, or 2 percent of the land area of the Lower 48, according to multiple estimates cited by Garik Gutman, program manager for NASA’s Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Program.
Forty million acres: The entire state of Georgia couldn’t contain America’s total lawnage. And we pour 9 billion gallons of water on landscaping every day, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Meanwhile the Southwest United States is enduring a megadrought; the past two decades constitute its driest period since the year 800. California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a drought state of emergency in October. In a world thirsty for water, lawns are a sneaky siphon.
These days we have “No Mow May,” where neighbors test each other’s tolerance for nonconformity. We have Twitter users sharing before-and-after photos of their “war on lawns,” which turn flat slabs of sickly green into colorful kingdoms of billowing flora. We have a channel on Reddit called NoLawns and TikTok hashtags such as #antilawn, which might direct you to a performance of a profane anti-lawn song by a 27-year-old Nashville musician named Mel Bryant.
“At the time, all of my neighbors were obsessed with their lawns,” says Bryant, who wrote the song on Earth Day 2020. “Everyone was mowing constantly, every day. At any point in time you’d hear lawn mowers going. And it drove me fricking insane. I still have this one neighbor who, I swear, on the Fourth of July he was mowing at 7:30 p.m. What are you doing, dude? This can wait.”
Bryant’s song racked up tens of thousands of views, spreading through TikTok’s #cottagecore hashtag, where younger people advertise their cozy, quaint, sustainable, back-to-nature ethos.
“Everyone’s got the perfect lawn,” Bryant says of her street, in the Rosebank area of Nashville. “They seed their lawns. They have sprinklers and s---. I think it’s attached to a more old-school, boomer generation of the idea of what an American life is. And our lawn …” Well, Bryant has let it grow wild. “I do think it’s pretty generational. I’ve definitely noticed in the past few years that so many people around my age are getting into gardening, and taking their lawns and turning them into gardens.”
Walt Whitman wrote of grass in 1855: “I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful greenstuff woven.”
Said Hank Hill, fictional Texas propane salesman, in 1997: “Look, some people hoist a flag to show they love our country. Well, my lawn is my flag.”
But lawn has become a liability — or in some cases an asset, on the condition of its removal. California’s main water utility is paying customers between $2 and $5 for each square foot of living turf that they remove. Last year Nevada outlawed certain types of lawn; rather, the state legislature prohibited the use of water from the dribbling Colorado River to feed certain types of “nonfunctional turf,” which in southern Nevada slurps up to 12 billion gallons of water every year (more than 10 percent of the state’s usage of the river). The law created a committee to sort “functional” turf from “nonfunctional”; discussions were had about how to categorize “pet relief” areas and “wedding lawns at golf courses.”
Before the law passed, Sun City Anthem, an active-adult community in Henderson, Nev., had already removed almost 40,000 square feet of grass, which nearly halved its water bill. Larry Fossan, facility manager and landscape supervisor, replaced the lawn with xeriscaping: native plants like lantana, cactuses, Mexican feathergrass. Last year on the property Fossan saw something he’d never seen before in Nevada: monarch butterflies, about 25 of them, migrating through.
“There’s flowers, color, butterflies, hummingbirds,” Fossan says of lawnless living. “Different parts of the day you see different things. We have boulders so people can sit and be part of the landscape. When we had grass, people just walked into the building, but now they’ll stop and ‘ooh’ and ‘ah.’ Landscaping is meant to be interactive. It’s meant to be part of your life.”
Lawns, of course, are part of your life. You throw a football on them, you picnic on them, you lean and loaf on them. Some years ago Dave Marciniak penned a polite defense of lawns on his landscape company’s blog: “Why the anti-lawn movement bugs me a little.” Turf serves a purpose, he wrote. It’s soft and durable for recreation. It provides visual relief for the eye, and contrast for landscaping.
Marciniak welcomes changing landscaping tastes, but notes that they are changing slowly.
“As much as Americans like to call themselves rugged individuals, there’s a lot of looking around to see what other people are doing,” says Marciniak, who lives in Culpeper, Va. “I explain to people advocating anti-lawn: Look, it’s not going to happen overnight. If you want to get people away from lawns, we have to show them it can be beautiful, it can be desirable.” And perhaps, most importantly: “It can make the neighbors jealous.”
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33 Healthy Crockpot Meals: Try Out Tasty Recipes In 2022 - The Island Now

If you’re trying to eat healthily and like experimenting with different recipes, slow cookers are the correct choice for you. Slow cooker recipes are easy, require very little attention, and provide the best results. Moreover, these healthy recipes allow you to eat nutritious meals even when you don’t have the time.
If you would like to spice things up a notch, you can have several other recipes such as weed butter, you can learn how to make weed butter. For dessert we hope you would like something chocolaty, we also have the recipe on how to make weed brownies if you would like to check that out.
So, if you want to add some ease and variety to your regular diet, try one of these healthy recipes with slow cookers. This article contains recipes for nearly every diet. If you need some extra protein, there are plenty of lean meat recipes for a quick dinner or lunch. Similarly, we listed several vegan slow cooker meals that include the same amount of nutrients as any other recipe. 
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One of the primary benefits of using a slow cooker is the ease of use. For most slow cooker recipes, you can pour all ingredients into the device and forget about it. You can start the process every morning, and the cooker will have your food ready when you get home. Further, these one-pot meals require no hassle and cause less mess than other dishes.
Slow cooker recipes require little to no prep time. For most of these healthy crockpot recipes, you can prepare the ingredients the previous night. After that, you can add them to the cooker all at once in the morning.
Slow cooker recipes are also more nutritious. Since the cooking process is so slow, it does not burn the nutrients as high heat does. This slow heating also prevents the food from drying out after it is cooked so the flavors can blend fully.
Another benefit of slow cooking is that busy families do not need to settle for cold food. If your family members have different schedules and you cannot serve food right after cooking, a slow cooker is perfect for you. It keeps the food warm and tender with its moist, low heat for hours. So, all family members can have their meals at different hours and still enjoy the same flavor and quality.
A crock pot is ideal for cooking meats. While it does not give you thin crispy meat, it can cook big chunks of meat and tenderize them well. The final result of a slow cooker meat recipe would be a soft and juicy, seemingly melting piece of protein in your mouth.
You can use less expensive meats for healthy crockpot recipes. The slow cooker will tenderize them and give them a high-quality texture and flavor. Moreover, this will prompt you to eat healthier and avoid takeout food. You can enjoy rich, professional flavors at home.
This gluten-free and healthy slow cooker chicken is easy to prepare and makes the perfect dinner feast. First off, place the chicken thighs in your cooker, and next, prepare a lemon and garlic broth to pour over it. Once you add the broth to the chicken, let it cook for six hours on low heat. 
You can further modify its tenderness by changing its cooking time. Lastly, serve the tasty slow cooker chicken thighs on a bed of seasoned cauliflower rice. The rice would be the ideal source of protein for a low-carb or keto diet. You can also use egg rice or any salad for the base.
This one-pot meal is the best recipe for a busy day. The recipe requires just three simple, easy-to-find ingredients: chicken breasts, red potatoes, and green beans. You can also use frozen green beans. Moreover, you can add an Italian twist to the dish with a basic lemon and garlic dressing with oregano and onion powder.
If you are not fond of green beans, you can also use other nutritious vegetables for a side dish. For example, broccoli, baby carrots, corn, etc. This healthy dinner is the perfect blend of all macronutrients. Moreover, gluten-free red potatoes have a high amount of dietary fiber, which makes the meal easy to digest.
This is another healthy slow cooker chicken recipe that uses minimal ingredients. You can simply cook the chicken in a tasty chicken gravy mix and serve it hot with rice. First, place the chicken in the cooker and season it with salt and pepper. Also, remember to flip it over and make sure you season both sides properly. Next, add chicken broth to it and let it cook. Finally, shred the chicken using two forks when it is ready and serve it on rice. 
If you do not like rice, you can also serve it on toast as a chicken gravy sandwich. However, rice with cauliflower or squash would be ideal for a gluten-free diet.
These slow cooker chicken fajitas can be a healthy dinner and a tasty snack. With juicy chicken tenders inside soft tortillas, this recipe is a blend of several unique flavors. Moreover, you do not need to marinate the chicken in advance. Simply cook some chicken breasts with onions, bell peppers, and other vegetables to make the stuffing. The chicken and vegetables will soak in the flavorful fajita seasoning till you come home. Then, you can add the stuffing in flour tortillas shells and garnish with your favorite toppings.
This recipe requires very little meal prep. Dicing the vegetables may take 5-7 minutes in the morning, and mixing the ingredients takes a couple of minutes more. Lastly, meal prep before serving involves five minutes of shredding the chicken and placing it in the shells.
Chicken noodle soup is a classic and one of the easiest healthy slow cooker recipes. It is a popular dish that many define as their “comfort food.” With soft noodles, tender chicken, and healthy vegetables in a warm mix, this soup is perfect for the flu season.
This soup requires little to no prep time, and you can just add the chicken and vegetables to the cooker and let it cook for 6-8 hours. After the chicken is ready, remove it and add noodles and bok choy to the soup. Cook the noodles on high heat for five minutes while you shred the chicken into smaller pieces. Finally, add the chicken back to the mix along with some lemon juice and other seasonings before serving.
This dish is juicy and luscious with no marinating or brining, but it requires the use of an oven. Slow cookers do not turn meat crispy because of their moist, low heating system. So, you can use an oven or roaster for the final part of this recipe. However, the dish will be delectable even without crisping the turkey. A crucial step of meal prepping for this dish is coating the turkey with herb butter for a juicy outcome.
You can serve the dish with various side dishes because the turkey complements many flavors. For example, crispy potatoes or parmesan broccoli will perfectly match the moist turkey.
This healthy crockpot recipe is highly nutritious. First, ground turkey offers high protein and zero carbs. Next, you gain several minerals and vitamins from the three types of beans in the dish. Lastly, you use plenty of vegetables rich in dietary fibers and healthy calories.
This spicy, mouth-watering chili requires only 20 minutes of prep. Moreover, it is dairy-free, gluten-free, and nut-free. You can just sauté the ground turkey and add it to the cooker with other vegetables and tomato sauce. After this part, you do not need to do anything for the dish to cook. The low heating will moisten the contents for you and allow the turkey to soak up the flavors well.
People often limit crockpot recipes to casseroles, curries, and broths. However, you can make this healthy crockpot turkey tetrazzini in your slow cooker using turkey leftovers. 
This recipe uses simple and whole ingredients for more nutrition. Moreover, it uses heavy cream and cream cheese for a saucy and creamy outcome. However, if you are dairy-free, you can use your preferred dairy-free alternatives for these ingredients.
Another great thing about this dish is that it uses most of your leftovers and saves food wastage. The recipe is also pretty flexible and allows the use of either frozen or canned vegetables.
The Thai peanut turkey is a healthy crockpot recipe with under 200 calories per serving and high protein content. It is also dairy-free and uses nut butter. Moreover, this recipe is quicker than most other crockpot meals.
You can cook this dish in only three steps. Add peanut butter, turkey pieces, garlic, ginger, and soy sauce to the cooker. Next, let the mixture cook for a couple of hours and stir it with lime and rind. Lastly, serve it over zucchini noodles.
This is a quick dinner for busy weeknights. You can make the ground turkey taco soup on either a stove or a slow cooker. While the dish resembles the flavors of turkey chili, it is much more nutritious than the latter.
This dish contains the delicious flavors of a taco in a warm, filling soup. Moreover, you can customize it as much as you’d like. If you prefer different flavors, you can change any of the meats, vegetables, or seasonings to your taste. Lastly, you can prepare the turkey taco soup in under one hour.
This beef recipe is a warm, hearty meal, perfect for the winters. The dish is similar to a beef stew, but it has stronger flavors. While the broth requires a longer prep time than most dishes, it is worth the work.
The meal also includes bacon along with ground beef for a boost in flavor. Further, the bourguignon contains a surprise ingredient: red cooking wine. The wine blends lusciously with the meat and adds to its taste and texture. Lastly, this meal is dairy-free and gluten-free.
Roast dishes are a popular dinner choice. This dairy-free healthy crockpot roast beef will quickly make its way to one of your routine family weekend dinners. While most recipes use brisket cut beef, this recipe advises using a topside cut. This cut works best for slow cookers and gives you an even and thorough roast.
The dish also uses meat juices produced while cooking the meat for the gravy. These juices add an authentic taste to the gravy. Further, you can modify its consistency using boiling water and cooking it till it reaches the right thickness. 
You can never go wrong with a classic beef stew. You can prepare this meal in three easy steps. 
First, dice vegetables and coat the meat. Then add it all to the cooker and season well. Finally, stir well and let it simmer in meat juices and water for 8-12 hours on low heat.
The delicious beef with paprika potatoes is an uncommon slow cooker meal. It features sliced beef with a side of crispy potatoes and baby carrots. However, the key to the flavor lies in the mushroom sauce gravy that covers the meat.
While the beef and carrots cook, you can season your potato slices with paprika and roast them to your liking. You can also use sweet potatoes instead of regular potatoes for a unique flavor. Combine the dishes and drizzle mushroom sauce over them before serving.
Beef daube is a popular winter meal that comes from France. You can serve healthy slow cooker beef daube with a side of green beans and mashed potatoes. The beef daube also goes well with sweet potato stew and other soups.
To make the meal, you must saute beef and vegetables in a pan for a few minutes till they brown and soften. Add the mix to the cooker and put in the seasonings. The daube sports a unique blend of flavors from wine, thyme, orange rind, and bay leaves. However, these seasonings are removed from the final dish once the meat absorbs the flavor.
The dish uses a blend of gluten-free ingredients and extracts tasteful elements from each item. So, the final meal boasts a sweet and savory taste. Some dumplings or mash would balance the pork casserole to create a full meal.
Stir-fry the meat before transferring it to the cooker. Additionally, use the same pan for cooking the vegetables in the meat juice for enhanced flavors. The recipe also requires various herbs, mustard, vinegar, and other seasonings for zest. For the final touch, you must add honey and corn flour paste to the meat till it turns saucy.
While meat sandwiches have cholesterol, you can add this dairy-free healthy slow cooker meal to your nutritious diet plan. The recipe does have some high-calorie content, but it also contains mainly healthy fats and carbs. Moreover, this dish is a much healthier alternative to a Texas toasted roll takeout.
This pork roast is cooked in delicious barbeque sauces and chicken broth with other seasonings. After it is ready, you can pull it apart or shred it with a fork and spoon it with well-toasted buns. The butter buns complement the pork shoulders perfectly to create the best at-home dairy-free Texas pulled pork.
This pork loin roast is a delicious meal cooked in delightful honey, garlic, and butter sauces. It is a simple meal that you can prepare on a working day and yet impressive enough to serve when you have guests over. While the sauce works best with pork loins, it can also bring out some unique features of pork shoulders.
Since pork loins are lean cut meats, the buttery honey sauce compliments it well. You can also use other strong flavors like caramelized brown sugar.
The healthy slow cooker Thai pork curry is an exotic dish with minimal meal prepping. For only ten minutes of prep time, you can come home to this delectable burst of flavors.
You just need to add the pork to the slow cooker, along with some garlic, mushrooms, and a mouth-watering Thai red curry paste. The meal requires no further attention. So, let it cook for a few hours and enjoy the outcome.
The dairy-free stroganoff may require some extra prep time, but it is another great addition to your weekend dinner plans. First off, coat the pork slices well with paprika, flour, and other seasonings. Then, stir-fry some onions on a pan before cooking the pork slices in batches. Add the mix with some other veggies and stock before coating it in Worcestershire sauce. Lastly, garnish with toppings of your choice and serve with rice or pasta.
While lasagna was mainly a meat-filled dish, vegetarians can also enjoy it. You can create a vegetarian lasagna using your favorite food items in your slow cooker. Smaller slow cookers are ideal for this dish since you can simply carry it around with you for work lunches.
The veggie crockpot lasagna resembles a regular lasagna, except it has delicious, assorted vegetables instead of the usual meat. Moreover, you can get creative while making the dish by selecting from a wild variety of vegetables to add to the sauce.
The quinoa black bean stuffed peppers are the perfect vegan snacks. This dairy-free recipe is rich in nutrients. Moreover, you can also add some more flavor to it using your favorite toppings—for example, some plant-based cheeses or corn and herbs.
With this recipe, you are turning highly nutritious sweet potatoes into a very healthy stew. Moreover, spices like cumin give the dish an Eastern Mediterranean flare.
You can serve it with other sweet potato sides like sweet potato fries or roasted sweet potatoes. The sweet potato stew also goes well with other salads and roasted chickpeas.
This vegetarian chili resembles the turkey chili recipe, just without the meats. Moreover, you may not be able to tell this vegan chili apart from any other chilis. With three kinds of beans and spices for a Mexican twist, it is super healthy and gluten-free. 
The crockpot lentil soup is your ideal low-carb meal. This soup contains high protein levels and plenty of vitamins. Moreover, lentils are also rich in several minerals like magnesium, potassium, etc. These superfoods hold high culinary prowess and variety.
Lentil curries are a popular Indian variety. Hence, this lentil soup was inspired by several of these recipes. 
This vegan, no-gluten chickpea tangine is extremely easy to make and healthy to eat. The recipe is a unique mix of chickpeas, couscous, tomatoes, and apricots. Moreover, each of these elements offers benefits from a different nutrient group.
This exotic dish tastes best when served with rice. You can also use steamed brown rice to increase its nutritional value.
This recipe is one of the simplest slow cooker meals. You can simply prep it and forget about it till it’s ready to serve. These baked potatoes are a hands-off recipe, perfect for when you are busy preparing other dishes.
The baked potatoes are better when served as a side dish. Although it is not a complete dinner, you can enjoy the dish as a snack throughout the day.
Tikka masala is a popular South Asian delicacy. This vegan tikka masala adds a twist to the traditional Indian meal for slow cooker prep. Additionally, you can enjoy this dish best with a side of rice or naan.
The meal requires no meat or dairy to add flavor. Generally, tikka masala has small pieces of chicken covered in a delicious sauce. However, you can replace the meat with chunks of tofu.
Usually, Asian lettuce wraps are considered an appetizer. However, you can also eat this for a complete dinnertime meal.
The recipe is simple. Brown the chicken tenders after preparing a tasty Asian sauce and place them in a slow cooker. Next, add some vegetables to the mix and stir well before letting it cook for a few hours. Then, wrap this filling in some crunchy lettuce leaves, and it’s ready to serve.
These cheesy enchiladas are a set-it-and-forget-it recipe. Simply stack the cooker with cooked beans, cheese, tortillas, and vegetables and let it cook. You can also add some ground beef with the beans.
This recipe requires under 20 minutes of prep time. The vegetables add exotic colors and flavors to the soup, while the red lentils bring in the nutrition. The potatoes, red curry paste, and coconut milk make up its creamy texture. Moreover, coconut milk is lactose-free and adds the needed carbs to the meal.
This recipe has three different aspects. First off, you must prepare the carnitas. The golden-brown pork, tenderized with the slow cooker, makes the perfect carnitas. Next, you make the chilaquiles. It contains all the spices and flavors from chipotle chilies, juicy tomatoes, and other ingredients. After you top it with shredded carnitas and some melted cheddar, add the whipped jalapeno cream.
This recipe is inspired by several Asian/Thai curries that use real ginger and soy sauce for flavor instead of curry mixes. Moreover, the full-fat coconut milk makes the dish more flavorful. However, you can use regular milk if you are trying to limit your calories. The milk, miso, and spices make a rich-textured base. Further, chickpeas, quinoa, and broccoli bring various health benefits.
Yes, they are much cheaper to use than ovens and roasters.
Pressure cookers are better for cooking lean meats, whereas slow cookers are best for tough meats.
Slow cooking is not ideal for every recipe. Hence, you may not be able to try several recipes on a crockpot.
Slow cookers are highly underutilized tools in most kitchens. However, they offer many benefits. From trapping flavors and nutrients to saving you time, slow cookers can help you make many healthy meals.
You no longer need to worry about planning the perfect meals to fit your diet and counting calories. Use our list of healthy crockpot meals and select a recipe that fits your diet. You can prepare all types of meals, from vegan meals to high-protein meats for workouts, using slow cookers.
 
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Henderson Harbor Arts Association commissions plan for major performing arts facility - newyorkupstate.com

Proposed concert facility site in Henderson NY
Recognizing the immense benefits that a cultural tourism destination can bring to the Eastern Lake Ontario region, the Henderson Harbor Performing Arts Association has launched an initiative that will create a strategic plan leading to the creation of a new performance facility and surrounding access infrastructure on property overlooking Henderson Harbor at the corner of Military and Harbor Road. The 18.5 acre site sits on and behind the former Mark Hopkins Inn.
To guide their vision for the site, a summer-long market study has commenced, designed by RMS Research & Marketing Strategies, that will profile the demographics of the area and the extended region including its current residents, businesses, and activities, and collect input from key area stakeholders. The centerpiece of the facility is a substantial outdoor stage capable of hosting a symphony orchestra, as well as concert and festival programs in all the performing arts. It will also be capable of serving as a platform for various fairs and shows devoted to autos, food truck rodeos, arts and crafts, antiques, and others, as well as private and corporate events.
The HHPAA has commissioned CNY Jazz to complete and publish the study, a regional performing arts organization founded and directed by Larry Luttinger, a resident of Syracuse and seasonal resident of Henderson for over 30 years. Luttinger has a 40-year background in arts infrastructure and content studies in upstate New York.
“I’m extremely happy to be asked to help with the Henderson arts group’s plans and goals, having spent so many summers there,” Luttinger said. “It’s exciting to walk through the site; it has everything. It has incredible potential to transform the economy and profile of the area, making it more prosperous and resilient. The local arts council is extremely capable of managing the facility they envision. The technical aspects of its events can benefit local schools as a vocational training platform. Local and regional artists of all kinds will benefit as well as businesses and residents. The list of potential beneficiaries is long.”
The document will be comprehensive and include recommendations for walkability, lodging capacity, parking, signage, energy efficiency, and pedestrian safety, as well as economic impact.
According to John Culkin, former Town of Henderson Supervisor and current board member of Henderson Harbor Performing Arts: “We’ve spent a lot of time talking about the need to right-size this facility, to put it in the Goldilocks zone to solve congestion and safety issues before they happen. There’s a best-practice way to do this, and we’re determined to create the best blueprint possible for success with this study. To our knowledge, this would be the only substantial concert facility of its kind on the U.S. Lake Ontario coast, or the St. Lawrence coast for that matter, and can shape the entire personality of the region as a cultural tourism magnet. This will give the greater Henderson area a big new way to attract seasonal visitors in addition fishing and boating. We can hardly wait to get going on this.”
Those interested in completing the online study may visit https://RMSresults.com/HendersonHarbor or call the Henderson Harbor Performing Arts Association at 315-938-7333.
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