Low cost improvements can include replacing incandescent lights with CFL or LED alternatives, master switches to make it easier to switch off appliances at night, energy monitoring to make it easier to identify waste, draft proofing, and using plants or shade-cloth to keep the summer sun off your home.

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But he shined it where the sun was fairly bright already--and in some ways let Merrill back into the cool shade.

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Yet unlike the vastly more common gardens designed for sun-loving plants daisies and irises and dahlias with their showy flowers shade gardens are a subtler thing.

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He advised people with red hair and fair skin to take particular care to avoid sunburn and to protect their skin by avoiding the sun in the middle of the day, seeking shade and covering up with a T-shirt and sunglasses and using sunscreen of at least factor 15.

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