Few seasons excite me as much as autumn. The evil tag-team duo of sweltering heat and thick humidity depart for the southern hemisphere, and in their place come pleasantly cool, drier air and pumpkin spice everything. I'll leave the latter but take the former. Now's the time to pack up …

Nothing is forever. Count the water resistance of your hardshell rain jacket among the things that wear out and disappear over time. That's right, outdoor rain jackets can become water-logged long before the stitches give out or the zippers begin to jam. You don't need to replace it, though. You …

Preparing for an emergency is the last thing you want to be doing during an emergency. There's never enough food, flashlights, batteries, or fuel to go around once you hear of an impending hurricane, blizzard, or wildfire, because everyone else in town is going to out fighitng over the same …

We think of our homes as refuges from the outdoors. Sequestered away from the wildfire smoke and the pollution outside, we tailor our indoor environments right down to the degree as if we were all weather forecasters with magic wands. But homes leak an incredible amount of air. All that …

You've got a dilemma. You love to cook, and you love to eat, but your kitchen has no room to prepare meals. Seriously, it's like gerbil furniture. You could just declare all hope lost and rationalize eating out night and day. But you and I both know it's a lot …

If Electric bikes are still in their infancy, then the laws that govern them are downright fetal. Most US states have lagged far behind the public's understanding of an ebike versus a moped or electric motorcycle. Efforts to codify these differences started with simple yet initially unanswerable questions: Are ebikes …