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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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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But today, we are alone and as the late afternoon sun turns the dull brown mountains a richer, deeper shade of ochre it is time to head down and start the long drive back to Erbil and the complexities of modern Iraq.

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In the winter, when the sun is in the south, it shines on the entrance and heats things up in the summer, the sun moves to the north and the cave entrance is in the shade, keeping things inside cool.

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Focus on Joey sitting under the shade of an umbrella, and Kimmy romping in the bright sun will be nearly washed out.

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Top of the list is a solar shade, a gigantic umbrella in space that would shield the Earth from the sun's rays.

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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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