Harnessing the sun’s warmth to heat water is an approach fading in popularity in many places where solar power is already used, but it still makes sense for especially sunny places like Spain. Because ...

The craze for fashionable restaurants to serve food on anything but ordinary crockery infuriates diners and critics alike. But the trend for using slate to showcase dishes is now causing a shortage of ...

Dear Jerry: I have a contemporary-style house in the town of Greece. It was built in 1986. My question for you is regarding my kitchen and foyer flooring. I have slate tiles approx. ½- ¾-inch thick by ...