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While the Baby Boomers may have more money, the Millennials have more time, and that’s something that money can’t buy (or so they tell me).

November 2019 New Products!

Last month the city council of Berkeley, California voted unanimously to ban natural gas piping in new residential construction in their community in an effort to decrease the town’s carbon footprint.

In early October Hearth & Home faxed and emailed a survey to 2,500 specialty retailers of hearth, patio, and barbecue products, asking them to compare September 2019 sales to September 2018. The accompanying charts and selected comments are from the 194 usable returns.

Norway is perhaps best known for its coastal fjords, but the northern landscape has much to offer in its interior as well. Architecture firm Snøhetta took the opportunity to design a robust but low-impact building for visitors to immerse themselves in the Dovre Mountain plateau.

Over the past three or four years, we’ve heard from retailers – particularly, but not exclusively, patio retailers – that traffic is down, but sales are up due to customers purchasing high-end products.

Last year, a major topic of conversation and concern was the 2,000-plus wildfires burning in British Columbia, and polluting the air in places such as Vancouver to the extent that it was said to be “worse than that in Beijing.”