April 29, 2008 Tuesday

World food shortage reaches Israel
Israel Today - Jerusalem,Israel
Israel this month began feeling the effects of a global shortage of staple foods such as rice and flour that has already led to rioting in some developing ...

Mystery Of Ancient Supercontinent's Demise Revealed
Science Daily (press release) - USA
ScienceDaily (Apr. 23, 2008) — In a paper published in ‘Geophysical Journal International’, Dr Graeme Eagles from the Earth Sciences Department at Royal ...

Eco-friendly tips for homeowners
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
By Kristin S. Agostoni Staff Writer Straw bale house with natural swimming pool by EarthFlow Design Works. (Photo by L. Santoyo) Homeowners looking for ways ...

Sask. town's eco-centre built with straw walls, promotes ...
The Canadian Press - CRAIK, Sask.
A masonry workshop is planned for the end of May, the annual solar fair is planned for the middle of June and a straw bale workshop is set for early August.

Laos opens secret wartime cave city to the world AFP - But the mountains hide more secrets to be opened and discovered by outsiders as more funding and tourist dollars arrive, including an underground sewing ...

Solar Power for new Bellingen Library
Bellingen Shire Courier Sun - Bellingen,NSW,Australia
He said elements of the building which contribute to energy savings are sun louvres, deep overhangs, wind turbines, roof insulation, floor insulation and ...

'Eary' indictment: Corn blamed for everything
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The owner of Uncle Charley's Sausages in Vandergrift, Westmoreland County, produces sausage for sale in Western Pennsylvania, as well as in parts of West

–Russian scientists develop earthquake model The New Scientist
ITAR-TASS - Moscow,Russia
He said that the quake epicenter might be located in either of the five regions: the western sector of the US-Canadian border, Chile, Kashmir, ...

Emergency readiness hits home
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
The recent 5.2-magnitude earthquake in Illinois sent shock waves of a different kind through emergency managers in Springfield and Greene County. ...

Earthquake danger may be greater than previously believed
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USA
... not far from the Canadian border. Known as the Boulder Creek Fault, it is thought to be capable of producing a magnitude-6.8 earthquake and has been ...

Midwest nerves get good shake by quake
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The 5.2 earthquake, centered about 230 miles south of Chicago near the Illinois-Indiana border, rattled Americans from Kansas to Tennessee. ...

Remembering Columbia, 1968
New York Times - United States
The police entered through secret tunnels and met no resistance. Nearly all the protesters there were taken into custody peacefully. ...

Going underground in Wisconsin
OnMilwaukee.com - Milwaukee,USA
A lower meandering portion of the cave was formed by the rushing water of an underground stream. The contrast between the chemical and mechanical processes ...

April 22, 2008 Tuesday

Active aftershocks
Indiana University - Bloomington,IN,USA
Early last Friday morning a magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck near the Indiana/Illinois border just west of Mt. Carmel, Ill. Q: What exactly happened on ...

Living roofs produce food, clean the air and conserve energy
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
This will separate their straw bale construction business from their living roof installations, alternative waste water installations, and rainwater ...

Hessel, Mich.: Little house on the lake
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Trip themes include birding, botany, geology, cave tours, moonlight paddles, cave tours and biking adventures. I'm small enough that I can customize an ...

Luxurious Tree Houses Have Adults Never Wanting To Grow Up
NBC 10.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
A fabulous spring day like Thursday makes anyone want to be outside, maybe even climb a tree house. It's hard to deny the inner-child when climbing 20-feet ...

Aquadome project aims to boost fishing industry
Daily News Tribune - Waltham,MA,USA
The fish will be released into what is called an Aquadome, a mesh-covered geodesic half-dome structure 32 feet in diameter, 16-feet tall, and installed on ...

Fishy business
Boston Globe - United States
The game plan is to attach half of a geodesic dome, about 30 feet in circumference and 15 feet high, to the floor of Buzzards Bay sometime in May or June ...

How to build a business in a nuclear bunker
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The village includes an incredible underground world filled with tunnels and rooms, constructed for a bygone age when we needed somewhere safe to bunker ...

’Jay Lenos Garage Gets A Vertical Wind Turbine
Ecorazzi - Ithaca,NY,USA
... roof of his garage. From the article, “[The Turbine] can produce 10 kw at around 28 mph and has a cut-in wind speed of 6 mph. These turbines don’t

They Call the Small-Wind Firm Mariah
Greentech Media - Cambridge,MA,USA
Unlike larger traditional wind turbines that generate electricity with propellers similar to those on airplanes, Mariah Power uses a 30-foot-tall spire that ...

UK gets hydrogen fueling station
Cleantech - San Jose,CA,USA
... England's Green Gases, which uses renewable energy to manufacture the gas. The company said it gets methane from cow manure to fuel the generator used ...

RRU unveils Bateman living building
Victoria News - BC, Canada
The structure is timber framed with rammed earth walls. The soil that is excavated from the site will be used to construct the walls, Iredale explained. .

April 15, 2008 Tuesday

Food Costs Rising Fastest in 17 Years
The Associated Press -
That's lowered the supply of corn available for sale in the US, raising prices here. Ethanol production has also diverted corn from dinner tables and into ...

Shelter, safe room inquiries rise in aftermath of storm
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
But he said an increasing number of people are building indoor and underground shelters, with some indoor safe rooms featuring lots of bells and whistles.

Report: Greenhouse glow disturbs minks and humans
Earthtimes - London,UK
Helsinki- Mink ranchers and greenhouse farmers in western Finland are arguing over the strong glow from artificial lighting used in greenhouses in Narpio, ...

No food grain use for bio-fuel production: PM
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
“But how can a country like India, where many still face food shortage, use food grains to produce fuel? We promote bio-fuels made of plants like Jatropha ...

Let Them Eat Ethanol!
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
Mainstream economists have usually described the global food crisis as a food “shortage”, but the shortage has been greatly exacerbated by the merciless ...

Doomsday cult leader comes back from the dead
RussiaToday - Russia
... themselves up in a bunker in Russia's Penza region awaiting the Apocalypse. Nine cultists still remain underground and two are believed to have died. ...

Bunker Construction Has Started
NewsChannel5.com - Nashville,TN,USA
The underground cavern that will make up the 15000-square-foot Conservation Hall project has been carved out. Workers will begin pouring concrete soon.

Hidden history buried in the hills
Portsmouth News - Portsmouth,England,UK
The bunks were set out in tiers of three, in the style of those in the London Underground shelters. Canteen facilities were provided, with hot and cold ...

Are wind farm turbines making people sick? Some say yes
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Porter said he has had the property up for sale for a year, but can’t find a buyer. According to a lawsuit filed in federal court by Porter, it was during ...

Eco homes: Fiddlers on the roof
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Wind turbines are not yet exempt, but are likely to be soon. Housing minister Caroline Flint says: "We want to make it easier to help people reduce their

Man to be evicted from elaborate tree house
KOMO - Seattle,WA,USA
But then he found three sturdy trees under the Ship Canal Bridge in the Eastlake neighborhood and decided to build himself a tree house. ...

Neighbours chip in to buy RV for Seattle man facing eviction from ...
CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Canadian Press: AP SEATTLE - A homeless man who has spent the last two years living in a tree house has a new, terrestrial home just in the nick of time. ...

A close encounter with our heritage
Sunday Times.lk - Columbo,Sri Lanka
“It was so exciting when my people led me through secret tunnels from one level of the ramparts to another,” he says, adding that walk tours will be ...

April 8, 2008 Tuesday

Green arts center's design has power
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
It will be elevated and both marked by and mounted to a large rammed-earth wall created by an antique reinforcing construction method.

Wind farm powers Indowind
Business Standard - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Indowind Energy, engaged in developing wind farms for sale, manages wind assets, generates green power for sale to utilities and implements wind power ...

Russian doomsday cult emerges from underground bunker after six ...
LIVENEWS.com.au - Sydney,NSW,Australia
Fourteen members of a Russian doomsday cult on Tuesday abandoned the remote underground bunker where they had been hiding for nearly half a year awaiting ...

…On and Off the Beaten Track in Gush Etzion
Jewish Action - New York,NY,USA
Today, visitors can experience the art of making olive oil at Tekoa’s Alfa Olive Press, where state-of-the-art equipment stands next to an exhibit of a ...

Buy your own island, while it lasts
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand
By KIM KNIGHT - Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 06 April 2008 LOSTEE: One of New Zealand's smallest islands, Ngarango Otainui, is for sale in Auckland's Manukau

Personal Journey: Enjoying a slice of birthday cave
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
But this time, while my husband and I were living in South Australia, we signed up for Adventure Caving, a three-hour journey through the underground ...

New complex reuses rubble
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
It also will have environmentally friendly features, such as a green roof that will absorb stormwater, and windows designed to enhance natural lighting and

Wind turbines providing families with cheaper energy
MLive.com - MI,USA
The Swift Rooftop Wind Energy System, developed by Edinburgh-based Renewable Devices Ltd., can be installed on a flat roof. Models are available for ...

Green-tech base stations cut diesel usage by 80 percent
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Flexenclosure's base station, called E-site, comes with a wind turbine in the network tower and solar panels on the roof. The renewable energy sources ...

Houston: Going green?
KHOU - Houston,TX,USA
He’s talking about wind turbines. But they’ll look very different from the ones we’re used to. Soon sensors on top of cranes will measure the wind speed way ...

Savannnah Miller prefers her home eco-friendly
Times Online - UK
... the Miller/Skinner home needs only a wind turbine on the roof and a wormery on the patio before ticking almost every green box going. ...

ASU using wind turbines to power computers
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
Those passersby are gawking at wind turbines on the roof of Arizona State University's Global Institute of Sustainability building on the Tempe campus.

Energy Efficient & Smart Buildings Of The World
Informative Post - Toledo,OH,USA
This building features a stunning tower of helical wind turbines at its spine. The tower would act as an aerofoil and concentrate the greatest wind speed to ...

Mother Earth offers chilly caves and warm springs in Virginia
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
Today the white octagonal pool house where he soaked remains, but it's ordinarily for men only; the women's facility, built in 1836, sits next to it. ...

April 1, 2008 Tuesday

Researchers continue to unravel mysterious PIN illness
Post-Bulletin - Rochester,MN,USA
By Jeff Hansel In the southeastern Minnesota community of Austin, which has about 23000 people, a mysterious illness has been caught in the act. ...

Tube tunnels hid a wartime secret
East London and West Essex Guardian Series - UK
... who use the Central Line each day could possibly imagine the vital role played by its miles of underground tunnels during the Second World War. ...

Officials warn Russian doomsday sect's cave may collapse
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
... in danger if they remained underground. They have had to urgently strengthen the walls of the cave recently," said a spokesman for the local prosecutor,

Back to the caves
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Rules Creek gurgles through the valley below Caves House and simply disappears down a rocky sinkhole. It makes its way underground through the limestone ...

Not enough land
Inquirer.net - Philippines
... shortage in the rice supply is inevitable. As we pointed out in our March 10 editorial, it is time to sound the alarm about the coming food emergency.

Secret Sinai
Guardian - UK
Patches of scrub and trees betrayed the presence of water deep underground. The Bedouin have many uses for these seemingly unprepossessing plants: one ...

A green approach for nature complex
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
It will also have environmentally friendly features such as a green roof that will absorb stormwater and windows designed to enhance natural lighting and ...

Peary observances planned
The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown,PA,USA
BY KATHY MELLOTT CRESSON — Next year at this time, the 100th anniversary of the first man to reach the North Pole – a hometown hero – will be observed. ...

America's vanishing grasslands
USA Today - USA
By Sue Kirchhoff and Jeff Martin, USA TODAY DE SMET, SD — To the west of this small town, which helped inspire Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic book series ...

Cold temperatures threaten one local business
KXLY - Spokane,WA,USA
Snow is piling up on his frail greenhouses, threatening to destroy his plants inside. "Too much snow on the roof, it's too dark. The plants won't grow right ...

Experts see promise in biofuel production
Michigan Daily - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
Bioenergy, which contains energy stored from the sun, comes from plant and animal byproducts like garbage, crops, manure and wood. ...