Doomsday Monocle-Earth heads towards a cataclysmic future. Terrorism and plagues, nuclear weapons, rogue nations, nature gone crazy, radical technology, and more. These articles from around the world will help you prepare for this future

May 13, 2008 Tuesday

Experience the wild side of Orange County
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
This innovative, earth-sheltered building is tucked into the ground, hidden from view at street level. Its energy-saving construction and operation is a ...

Grocery sticker shock
Baltimore Sun - United States
But Karen Leedahl, a pastor who lives in Latrobe, Pa., said she always bought store brands and shopped for sale goods. Two weeks ago, she started walking

Turkish quake fault line getting more active, expert warns
NTV MSNBC - Turkey
The massive earthquake fault line running beneath Turkey’s inland Sea of Marmara is showing heightened levels of activity, according to a leading seismic ...

Disaster may loosen junta's grip in Burma (Myanmar)
Sedona.biz - Sedona,AZ,USA
But following Pakistan's deadly earthquake in 2005, an influx of foreign aid workers dramatically improved perceptions of the West and strengthened ties ...

Myanmar's death toll could increase 15-fold, warns Oxfam
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
Citing evidence from previous experiences in disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Pakistan earthquake in 2005, Oxfam said that without an

Conservationists make most of real estate crisis
USA Today - USA
Land prices are dropping and there is more land for sale when developers halt plans to build. "You can call it a green lining in the cloud of real estate ...

Kathy Van Mullekom | Diggin' In
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
Start with a bale of wheat straw. Bales sitting in the weather give you a head start, because they need to rot before you plant. Put them in sun.

Ingenuity and hard work saves Hythe farmer thousands on energy bill
Peace Country Sun - Grande Prairie,Alberta,Canada
Stickney grows creeping red fescue, which he bales up and burns in the straw burner. The Hythe farmer calculated that each bale holds approximately $100 in ...

Delving Into The Unknown
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA
Professor and naturalist Pete Rossi led the students on an underground tour, pointing out past plant life now imprinted in the cave walls.

Amid soaring food prices, urban farms are sprouting across the city
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
It has been a working farm since the mid-1800s. The current owners grow enough for themselves and for sale on 1 acre. ...

Listening In on a Bat Cave
NPR - USA
Biologists from New York's Ulster County go underground as they try to work out what is killing the region's bats. by Brian Mann Hibernating Indiana bats,

May 6, 2008 Tuesday

The tops in green homes
Globe and Mail - Canada
The geothermal system draws on heat from the rock deep under the house for heating and cooling. It regulates the house's temperature year-round. ...

Energy that doesn't cost the earth
Derry Today - Derry,Northern Ireland,UK
The idea for Nutherm came when he installed a geothermal heating system in his own house on Inch Island, and from there became distributor for Ireland for ...

'Energy raiser' helps environment
Laconia Citizen - Laconia,NH,USA
Volunteer and member Peter Adams says it is far cheaper than geothermal heating. The difference comes by way of electricity costs. Where a geothermal system ...

‘’Scientists to recreate sun in hunt for energy
Times Online - UK
Then, researchers detonated an atomic bomb in an underground bunker to generate the x-rays needed to start a fusion reaction. Professor Mike Dunne, director ...

China builds secret underground nuclear submarine base: report
Press Trust of India - New Delhi,India
The Daily Telegraph reported that military analysts believed China's substantial build up of its forces was gaining pace but has remained hidden from the ...

Controversial property pegged for funeral home now up for sale
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
"Farm Credit will sell to a funeral home." The pitch for changing development guidelines to allow limited commercial development on the property was that it ...

The Green Maven - Sustainability
Auburn - Auburn,CA,USA
As our numbers increased, we had to stay put, increasing our yields naturally at first with manure and now with chemical fertilizers. ...

Poultry in motion: Chickens adopting urban lifestyle
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
She worries about contaminants in food and about factory-farm production and the resulting runoff from manure. She uses her chicken manure as a resource, ...

Inside Josef Fritzl's cellar dungeon
BBC News - UK
The secret location was so well hidden that when the police searched the property they failed to find it until Mr Fritzl showed them where it was. ...

News Burrows-Unusual, fun and strange News from around the world.

Mysterious blob falls from sky at Souhegan High
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
By DAVID BROOKS Staff Writer It wasn't exactly a close encounter of the third kind, but a mysterious visitor from the sky came to Souhegan High School this ...

CO2 shape shifts and moves about on mysterious Iapetus
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
By Eric Schwartz Recent data from the Cassini mission to Saturn have shed new light on the surface of the saturnian moon Iapetus, particularly the presence ...

Mysterious Stingray Deaths Shake Calgary Zoo
CHQR - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
The Calgary Zoo has shutdown its brand new stingray exhibit after the sudden and mysterious death of almost all of the stingrays. ...

USD prof hopes summer vacation is spent underground
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
By Nick Hytrek, Journal staff columnist VERMILLION, SD -- So what are your summer vacation plans? A trip to the beach? The lake? ...

Astronomers begin search for 'vanishing' stars
Hindu - Chennai,India
A team, led by Christopher Kochanek of the Ohio State University in Columbus, is watching for the vanishing stars in 30 nearby galaxies using a 8.4-metre ...

Canyon Country family linked to iceman
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
After the discovery, the tribe - along with government groups - convened a discovery committee and led the culture, artifact and DNA studies.

Computed Radiography System Helps Uncover Secrets From The Past
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Additionally, an image of a Peruvian "false head" (falsa cabeza) revealed the surprising presence of shells inside the artifact. ...

Digitized manuscripts: a call to the mysterious world of old books
Today's Zaman - Istanbul,Turkey
Some time later the books were found buried in the garden of an infamous smuggler of historical artifact in İIstanbul. The books were brought to the National

'Broken Heart' Image the Last for NASA's Long-Lived Polar Mission
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
Polar orbits from Earth’s North Pole to its South Pole to study how solar wind particles and their energy enter Earth’s magnetosphere, the area surrounding ...

Reno quake activity lessens but threat still exists
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
The number of earthquakes in a nine-week-long swarm of temblors that has shaken Reno has leveled off in recent days, but the threat of a major earthquake ...

The Yellowstone Special put our town on the map
West Yellowstone News - West Yellowstone,MT,USA
The effects of damage caused by the Hebgen Lake Earthquake of 1959, and the diminishing popularity of train travel in favor of cars, led to the demise of ...

Rome's Secret Gems Revealed
ABC News - USA
By CLARK BENTSON Rome just celebrated its 2761st birthday and keeps on spilling out its ancient clues and secrets. The city was founded near the Palatine ...

Dinosaur dung, other ancient finds go up for auction in NYC
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
The priciest item up for sale is the Fukang Meteorite, weighing almost a ton. It was discovered in Fukang, China, in 2000, and Bonhams says it's expected to ...

Ancient meteorite goes unsold in NY as dung sells
International Herald Tribune - France
NEW YORK: Some dinosaur dung was snapped up at auction in New York even as a 4.5 billion year old meteorite which was supposed to top the sale went unsold. ...

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People Build it....and sometimes Sell it

…You can huff & puffbut you can't blow Joe's house down
Frontenac News - Sharbot Lake,ON,Canada
By Julie Druker Joe Vidal is definitely the king of this straw bale castle. In fact he designed and built it in six months himself, with a crew of course. ...

Straw houses gaining acceptance
Boston Globe - United States
Straw-bale houses are becoming increasing popular and accepted in many areas of the West and Southwest, and this method of construction can offer an

Govt demolishes his tree house
Electric New Paper - Singapore,Singapore
A TREE HOUSE. Every kid's fantasy. But for 65-year-old Hashim Yahya, it was his home to spend his twilight years. For four years, Mr Hashim's home - 50 ...

Earth-sheltered Homes
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
An earth-bermed house can reap about 95 percent of the energy advantages of a fully underground home, and adding an earth roof, or living roof, ...

dirtbag living
By Miller
the technique calls for polypropylene feed sacks filled with dirt, placed on the wall, and tamped into place as a stabilized rammed earth block. wow, how simple can it get? i was absolutely intrigued. i swallowed the hook and bought the ...

Grand Designs: The house that Kevin built
24dash - Hereford,UK
So with day two over, and with the build on schedule hopefully, Kevin’s next challenge will be a double height rammed earth wall – easy. ...

’Monks adopt an earthy approach to insulation at Berkshires Douai ...
Building Design - UK
The consistency of the subsoil is being examined to assess its suitability for a rammed earth wall for the proposed rare books/archive library to be built ...

Strawbale house wins award, goes through to finals
Green Building Press - Llandysul,Wales,UK
... mortgages for the construction of new eco homes and homes built from traditional and sustainable materials such as straw, timber, cob and rammed earth.

Grand Designs Home of the Year entries think out of the modernist box
Times Online - UK
If you think that’s ecofriendly, it’s nothing compared with Penwhilwr, Rachel Shiamh’s two-storey, lime-rendered straw-bale house in an acre of woodland in ...

Straw panel design to build house
BBC News - UK
Prefabricated straw bale panels will be used to build a house during a live television event. The bales, which are rendered with lime, were designed by a ...

Property for sale: A right royal ruin, needs some work
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
"This chamber was the farm rubbish dump and we removed 11 lorry loads of rubble, scrap and animal bones." The first thing a new owner might do, ...

Unique "green" designs create ordinary community in Greensburg
KTKA.com - Topeka,KS,USA
The Geodesic dome-styled building will be the new home to a family of four. Its green features will cost them only a dollar a day to heat and cool. ...

Wild side of Gold Coast
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
This innovative, earth sheltered building is tucked into the ground, hidden from view at street level. Its energy-saving construction and operation is a ...

MOTHER'S $10-PER-SQUARE-FOOT (OR LESS!)
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
Effective waterproofing is crucial to the longevity of any earth-sheltered building, and leakage problems have traditionally been the major complaint voiced ...

Kevin McCloud to build his own eco-home in six days
Architects' Journal - London,England,USA
As well as using rammed earth, straw bales, hemp and lime plaster, the architect has also specified materials from 'other people's waste', such as woodchip, ...

Salt Lick owner moving forward with development
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
The winery will have rammed-earth walls using some of the caliche. The parking lots will be made from the creek gravel or decomposed granite, similar to the ...

Ian Rau's money pit covered over
Geelong Advertiser - Geelong,Victoria,Australia
... a failed attempt to convert a 3m diving pool into an underground games and bar room. The hidden money pit is yet another example of the lavish lifestyle ...

'Living Homes' is fascinating look at energy-efficient houses
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
The book profiles 22 energy-efficient homes in Colorado, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas and Utah that were built using adobe, rammed earth, ...

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Bale Gardens A bold new strategy for hassle-free vegetable gardens
North Coast Journal - Arcata,CA,USA
Seattle Tilth had an exhibit at a garden show a few years ago in which they demonstrated how to plant a straw bale garden. The idea was to take what is ...

First 100% off-grid green building in San Francisco
Green Building Elements - San Francisco,CA,USA
... as well as the Green living roof that will reduce building needs for heating and cooling, provide retention of storm water on site for reuse, ...

Who Let the Dogs Out (Into the Eco-Movement)?
Discover Magazine - New York,NY,USA
When Stephanie Rubin, a landscape designer by trade, turned the five-square-foot prototype of her organic, self-sustaining, living roof concept into a home ...

’IHG launches the worlds first 'green' hotel
The FINANCIAL - Tbilisi,Georgia
The first inkling a guest will get of the Innovation Hotel's green attributes is the green roof - planted with low-maintenance plants - which improves the ...

Hotel, Rooftop Parks Pitched For Coliseum Site
New Haven Independent - CT, USA
“An expansive green roof tops the garage, providing an attractive public space from the residences, the hotel, the theater and the gym,” says the proposal. ...

Bernheim to celebrate its green design
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
The building is based on a 12-foot grid that features a living roof, passive and active solar design, geothermal exchange, a roof water-capture system and ...

Rain or shine, the answer to climate change can be found on your roof
Times Online - UK
... washing floors and watering plants with rainwater. Buried in the ground beneath them are water storage tanks the size of tennis courts

Rainwater News Rainfall News-Everything from droughts to salvaging rain water.

Commission on Sustainable Development panels discuss effects of ...
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
It would focus not just on catching rainwater, but also on creating dedicated early warning mechanisms, diversifying livelihoods and identifying ways to ...

’RAINPODs Beautiful Water Harvesting System
Inhabitat - USA
An unfortunate evolution, granted that rainwater storage has been practiced for more than 2000 years. One would have hoped for a more elegant design by now! ...

David Gottfried, LEEDS pioneer, gives Rainwater HOG tank his green ...
Infolink Architecture & Building - Australia
Modularity plus thermal mass plus rainwater storage makes Rainwater HOG a high scoring multi-tasker in Green Star and LEEDS rating systems. ...

Green protection for rain gutters
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA
We want to be the premier provide of rainwater control products in the world and we'll stay in it as long as we're useful and productive.

’Foster + Partners New Green Complex for Singapore
Inhabitat - USA
A rainwater harvesting system, geothermal heating system, chilled beams and ceilings, and an ice storage system for cooling are further enhancements planned ...

BUILD IT GREEN
Santa Monica Mirror - Santa Monica,CA,USA
An energy saving “living roof” system is in place at David Hertz Architects at 1920 Olympic Boulevard. Joe Avina of Falcon Waterfree Technologies displayed ...

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