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Beating the Heat

Living on Earth
August 14, 2013
  • By Julia King
The World

Commentator Julia King laments that with the use of air conditioning in the home, her neighbors in Goshen, Indiana no longer sit out on the front porch or engage in other traditional summer cool-off escapes.

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