It’s particularly difficult for those who rely on a wood stove to escape the feeling that perhaps most of that hard-won heat may be whistling up the chimney rather than keeping them warm.

Last week's column shared the information I gathered while field-testing a few pieces of my cold-weather camping gear. All-in-all, the products I put to the test would suffice. However, there was ...

That’s hardly in the green nature of wood heating, though, and fans can be noisy. So something like this heat-powered stove-top fan can come in handy. Such fans, which use Peltier devices to ...