DM Aug 2005

August 29, 2005

Soneva Gili Private Reserve establishes the new criterion for over ...
e-Travel Blackboard (press release) - Australia
... on its own deck within the water garden. Breathtaking sea views can be enjoyed from every room. There are water decks for lounging and a rooftop deck with ...

Shanxi sinking as mines riddle land
China Daily - China
Honeycombs of underground mining tunnels have caused one-seventh of the land in Shanxi Province, which produces nearly one-third of the nation's coal, to ...

Rudder's Miracle
Bryan College Station Eagle - TX, United States
... an errant shell from a British ship struck the side of the bunker, killing a ... inward, Rudder's troops eventually stumbled on the guns, which were hidden in a ...

After a life underground, reconsidering the future
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
... days. I'm never going underground again after this. ... fathom. I went underground at Homestake once, not long before the mine closed. ...

Universities on cutting edge using 'green' technology
Syracuse Post Standard - Syracuse,NY,USA
... House, a dormitory which houses 360 students. The green roof above the dining hall, for instance, wasn't big enough to earn a point.

Secret bat maternity cave created
BBC News - UK
... turned into a bat cave and maternity roost at a secret location in ... There are also temperature loggers to record underground conditions and provide the best ...

Simple (Relatively) Pond Building - Part I: The Pre-Formed Pond
Bella Online - USA
... You can easily find something that suits you at your local garden supply store or on ... you want to paint the wall behind it, or need access to the roof, is there ...

Cavers study, explore Iowa's underground jewel
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - Waterloo,IA,USA
By DAN HAUGEN, Courier Staff Writer. A knee bends and the body maneuvers a notch deeper down the 95-foot ladder chute. The air chills ...

Earthquake felt in NC town may offer clues about seismic activity
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
... When an earthquake rocked the tiny mountain town of Hot Springs late Wednesday, fear struck. ... "This was larger than the typical earthquake felt in that area. ...

Powerco tries gas-fired home generator
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
... and it was heating a small hot-water radiator. It was still a long way from being sold on the market because the average home would need a 7kW generator.

August 27, 2005

'SGI Technology Helps US Military See' Underground
Voice of America - USA
The same technology used to find oil reserves deep underground is of great interest to the United States military, which wants it to help hunt down terrorists. ...

Light bulbs could face extinction
VNUNet.com - Haarlem,Netherlands
The report predicts that the market for LED lighting will show an annual growth rate of over 50 per cent and be worth $850 million by 2010. ...

Power in Preparing for Potential Blackouts
Red Cross - USA
... battery-operated radio or television with batteries as well as a small supply of ... Do not run a generator inside a confined space, like home or garage due to the ...

Katrina Claims 4 Lives In South Fla.
WESH.com - Winter Park,FL,USA
... Its 80 mph winds ripped apart gas stations and tossed small planes. ... In Miami, a family suffered carbon monoxide poisoning after running a generator in a closed ...

Earthquake Insurance May Get Cheaper
10News.com - San Diego,CA,USA
SAN DIEGO -- The cost of earthquake insurance is a step closer to becoming cheaper for most property owners, but not for everyone, 10News reported. ...

A ROOFTOP OASIS
Mother Earth News - Topeka,Kansas,USA
... water retention is important for container-grown plants -- especially when they're exposed to as much heat as the crops in my hot-tin-roof garden would face ...

It's not easy being green
Hampstead and Highgate Express - London,England,UK
... Solar House boosts a roof garden but unfortunately its renowned inhabitant - the rabbit Soleil - died in February at the ripe old age of 10-and-a-half. ...

August 25, 2005

Villages of learning for all ages
The Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... The double-glazed windows and rammed-earth walls will reduce the need for air-conditioning and heating, and 500,000-litre rainwater tanks will be used for ...

Australian inventor believes he can turn sewage into energy source
Mongabay.com - USA
... sewage and paper pulp into methane and other raw energy sources. He calls the system the d'Oliveira Natural Gas Refinery (dNGR) and claims the technology could ...

Briefly: Florida coast warned of possible hurricane
International Herald Tribune - France
MIAMI A tropical storm that formed Wednesday in the Bahamas could reach hurricane strength before hitting the coast of Florida this week, the National ...

Hurricane kills six in Uruguay
Xinhua - China
24 (Xinhuanet) -- A hurricane of 175 km per hour killed six people and caused serious damage in south and east Uruguay, according to official sources on ...

Camp Jeep(R) On The Road Hits the Cross-Country Trail in Houston
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... The launch last year of the award-winning Jeep Grand Cherokee, Jeep Liberty CRD (Clean Running Diesel) and Jeep Wrangler Unlimited represented new models and ...

Holographic Memory
TechnologyReview.com - USA
... It's likely to be one of the first commercial systems to use "holographic storage," in which bits are encoded in a light-sensitive material as the three ...

Seattle native who led WWII's 'Great Raid' talks about the movie ...Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... The POWs included many who endured three years of starvation, disease and torture after the battle for Corregidor and the Bataan Death March. ...

Why biomass energy is booming
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... A typical 2 gigawatt generator could make £12.5m ($22.5m) a year in profit by ... Al-though most coal-fired power stations could easily take a small proportion of ...

New book documents S.African meteorite crash
AngolaPress - Angola
Cape Town, South Africa, 08/20 - A meteorite that crashed into the earth near Vredefort in South Africa`s Free State millions of years ago is the single

TV show seeks homes with history
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
... "It turned out to be an old root cellar, but it's such a cool cellar," she said. "We've never seen anything like it. He restored it and installed lights. ...

Futuristic spy plane maneuvers like a bird
MSNBC - USA
By Robert Roy Britt. Robotic drones developed in a military-funded project change their wing shape to navigate urban areas. The goal

USDA declares Missouri a drought disaster area
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
WASHINGTON - The US Department of Agriculture has declared virtually all of Missouri a disaster area because of the severe drought, Sen. ...

Severe drought forces opening of emergency wells
International Herald Tribune - France
Spain's worst drought in 60 years yesterday forced the Environment Ministry to open one of its 16 emergency wells in the Murcia and Alicante regions. ...

Mold infestation cancels production
The University of Hawaii Kaleo - HI,USA
... of the Environmental Health and Safety Office said the mold will be removed with a vacuum called a Hepa Vac. Then, the carpet will be wet cleaned and air dryed ...

An alien nation might be setting up camp in your yard
Kinston Free Press - Kinston,NC,USA
Everywhere I walk, I see holes leading to an underground labyrinth of tunnels ... Grubs and beetles fall prey to these hidden insect controllers, doing gardeners a ..

Geothermal system gets warm reception
Muscatine Journal - Muscatine,IA,USA
... years of on again/off again discussion, the Muscatine County Supervisors are nearly ready to make a commitment for installing a geothermal heating and cooling ...

Geothermal energy heats, cools homes here for less
Marshfield News Herald - Marshfield,WI,USA
... have proposed an option to give potential residents the choice to pay an additional $5,000 to $7,500 dollars per unit for geothermal heating and cooling. ...

Global grape moments
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
... The world's largest underground winery, once a Cold War bunker, winds for 40 miles under staunchly communist Moldovia, the poorest country in Europe. ...

Japanese satellites launched atop converted missile
Spaceflight Now - Orlando,FL,USA
A Russian rocket formerly tipped with nuclear warheads blasted out of its missile silo shrouded in smoke and fire overnight Tuesday bound for space with a pair ...

Missiles being dismantled
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
... During most of the year, a missile silo appears to be no more than a thin, white pole that serves as a sensor, surrounded by a security fence. ...

Native mushrooms
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
... Oyster: Looking like oyster shells and growing in layers, these delicate mushrooms have a mild flavor, chewy texture and the slight aroma of annisette ...

Fried Italian sausage with peppers, mushrooms, and onions
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... Cut the pepper and onion slices into 1-inch pieces. Combine the peppers, onion, and mushrooms in a medium mixing bowl and set aside. ...

New Cameras Issue Speeding Tickets From the Road
TheNewspaper.com - Washington,DC,USA
Hidden Botts dots camera to spy on traffic and issue speeding tickets from the road ... of the camera system have also been made, but the underground fiber optic ...

Coal to Electricity
Chemie.de (press release) - Germany
... The generator produces current, electrons that speed through a power line. ... to electricity at temperatures as low as boiling water-one small step towards a ...

August 21, 2005

Natural space above the fray offers place to relax
Houston Chronicle - United States
... The urban roof garden is a collaborative effort between Jerry Gontownik, investment partner with Greenbriar owners CMS; Rockwell Management's Etan Mirwis, who ...

Former Soviet `anti-plague` labs a risk
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
ODESSA, Ukraine (UPI) -- More than 80 "anti-plague" labs are scattered across the former Soviet Union, and each is a repository of knowledge, equipment and ...

MSU group abandons bugs to help volcano victims
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Bozeman,MT,USA
... Soufriere, the volcano that dominates the island, had started spewing ash again ... out of the question, the most obvious matter after the eruption was cleaning the ...

Hope rises from ashes on the island that blew its top
The Observer - UK
... Words like 'magma chamber' and 'phreatic eruption' are dropped casually into the ... Rather than playing down the impact of the volcano, she believes it could be ...

NW Gardens: Winning gardens tread lightly on Earth
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... launching into a new project, which leads to less work and a better garden. ... Their system of raised beds and rooftop gardens makes it possible to grow most of ...

Lone sailor ready for sea Today Lewiston native sails on 2-year ...
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
... They worry he could fall off the boat -- or his relatively small vessel could be ... for long-distance sailing, adding a food freezer and a wind generator to power ...

Living in color
Boston Globe - United States
... Meanwhile, the US Department of Energy estimates that under the influence of LED lighting, national energy consumption for lighting could drop by almost a ...

Tokyo snaps up book on survival after earthquake
Independent - London,England,UK
The powerful earthquake that struck Japan this week caused only minor damage, but jittery Tokyoites aren't taking any chances: a booklet showing the best ...

Tour of skyscrapers hits a lot of high points
Seattle Times - United States
... It starts at a rooftop garden where, in one 360-degree turn, you take in examples of the city's architectural history, from the early 19th century to the 21st. ...

San Francisco rocked by explosion in underground electrical vault
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
... But authorities instead traced the blast to an approximately 10-foot-long underground electrical vault that housed four transformers and monitoring equipment ...

'Light show' spotted on Mount St. Helens
kgw.com (subscription) - Portland,OR,USA
... Photographs from a camera on the mountain show that the volcano's new lava spine ... The mountain - site of a deadly eruption in 1980 - had been quiet for several ...

August 18, 2005

City gives farms new lease of life
Times Online - UK
... Miss Hosokawa works for a company called Pasona, which has even built an underground hydroponics farm in a bank vault in the Tokyo financial district to train ...

HOW TO MAKE & MARKET MAPLE SYRUP
Mother Earth News - Topeka,Kansas,USA
... them. Put the jars away in your basement or root cellar until a hot summer day . . . then try them as a light and refreshing drink! ...

Ancient floor a work of nature, not nurture
Grand Junction Sentinel - Grand Junction,CO,USA
... feet of boulders and clay. Instead of an outhouse, Kenney decided he would have a tiled root cellar. His curiosity aroused, though ...

Extended drought impacts corn growers
Drovers (subscription) - Shawnee Mission,KS,USA
The drought's impact on crop production and waterway use across Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin have highlighted the need to improve crop-insurance ...

Technology could mean 3-D sonograms
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... screen. But the inventors are not discouraged by the performance of the holographic television - they are ecstatic about its promise

UFO expert bidding to revive county interest
News & Star - Carlisle,Cumbria,UK
UFOLOGIST Chris Parr is writing a book on Cumbria's fascinating UFO history as he seeks to resurrect interest in unexplained aerial phenomena in the county. ...

Fresh Tortellini With Mushrooms and Pancetta
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... Drain. Add onion, garlic and mushrooms; cook 3 to 4 minutes or until onion is tender, stirring frequently. Add spinach, broth, tomato bits and pepper. ...

Global Environmental Energy Corp. (GEECF), Subsidiary Biosphere ...PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... Biosphere Development Corp.'s unique proprietary technology, EcoTechnology(TM ... surpluses, agricultural effluents, forestry wastes, sewage sludge, medical waste ...

New Supplies Ease Guangdong Fuel Shortage
CRI - China
Pressure on fuel supplies is easing in Guangdong province as Sinopec and PetroChina rushed in 80,000 tons of fuel to south China's economic engine.

Fuel shortage hits Pearl River Delta
Xinhua - China
... Information Times reported Wednesday that Guangzhou and its neighboring cities in the Pearl River Delta will face increasing pressure of fuel shortage in the ...

Is the 'Rapture' a Rupture?
The World Crisis Web - Ireland
... Of course, America caught the "Rapture." Back in 1891, William Blackstone, a Darby believer, author of Jesus Is Coming (1882), initiated the first of a ...

Nature's call in Spain
Taipei Times - Taiwan
... They apologized, for example, for the rumbling generator which, due to a new solar ... They were sorry, too, that the pool (small and shallow but swimmable) was a ...

Strong earthquake shakes Japan, at least 46 injured - UPDATE 2
Forbes - USA
TOKYO (AFX) - A powerful earthquake off Japan's Pacific coast injured at least 46 people, set off small tsunami waves and swayed towering buildings in the ..

Experts predict upsurge in activity as Atlantic Hurricane Season ...
Caribbean Net News - Georgetown,Cayman Islands
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CDERA): If hurricane researchers and forecasters are correct then the current lull in hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean should ...

Florida 2004 Hurricane Recovery Passes $5.6 Billion Mark
Homeland Response - Cleveland,OH,USA
One year after Hurricane Charley made landfall as the first of four major hurricanes to strike Florida, federal and state disaster assistance totals more than ...

House construction in Sana'a
Yemen Observer - Sana'a,Yemen
... Less common is the use of coursed rammed-earth and plastered mud brick above. Some have coursed rubble stonework below and mud for the upper storeys. ...

Terrific tree-house hotels take a bough! - Travel Deals - MSNBC.com Tired of staying in bland hotel rooms? Add a twist to your next holiday and book
a leafy overnight at a gorgeous tree-house hotel.

Treasures abound Underground
Roseville Press Tribune - Roseville,CA,USA... Also of note in Black Chasm is an underground lake that serves as home for colonies of shrimp. Jones notes the animals have adapted ...

A Log-End Cave
Mother Earth News - Topeka,Kansas,USA... drains efficiently. Therefore, when building our underground house, we brought in 25 loads of sand for backfill. Surface bonding ...

Kataleh Khor a most beautiful, mysterious cave
IranMania News - Iran
... in the form of monster. In 1951, a veteran mountaineer from Zanjan, Asadollah Jamali discovered the mysterious cave and a team visited it the following year. ...

Bracing for storms in an efficient, round home
Munster Times - Munster,IN,USA
... Monolithic Dome Institute. See step-by-step illustrations of the construction process of these steel-reinforced concrete structures at www.monolithic.com.

'Meteorite found in Rajasthan showing radioactivity'
Khaleej Times - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
AHMEDABAD -- Elaborate tests conducted on a meteorite fragment, which fell in Rajasthan recently, has revealed it to be a very rare iron meteorite showing ...

From Bataan to Corregidor, a POW's story
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
... invasion. On Dec. 26, the 31st Infantry left for the island fortress of Corregidor, where the fighting was extremely fierce. Uzelac ...

Japanese POW survives slave labor, hellship
Carlisle Sentinel - Carlisle,PA,USA
... ripped apart.". The shipyard destroyed, Navy personnel were evacuated to Corregidor, an island fortress guarding the entrance to Manila Bay. ...

UN Poised to Take Over the Internet
Human Events - USA
... is birthing an information revolution potentially as powerful as the invention of the ... In the aftermath of the oil-for-food scandal, handing control of the

Is a hybrid car worth the gas savings?
MSNBC - USA
... $81 over a conventional Camry. It doesn't matter to Scott Neal, who's about to buy a hybrid SUV. "I will have fun driving it ...

August 17, 2005

China's rice suffering from "comparatively severe" pest plague
Xinhua - China
16 (Xinhuanet) -- As pests and diseases plague south China's rice yield earlier this year, the Ministry of Agriculture Tuesday said it was taking measures to ...

Red Cross Helps Wyoming Town After Tornado
Red Cross - USA
... The F2 tornado struck with little warning, leaving most of the town's 1800 residents with no time to move to shelter. About one ...

August 16, 2005

Cyberlux Corporation Awarded US Patent Claims for Emergency ...PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... of electrical energy support. The development of Cyberlux's ReliaBright Emergency Lighting System (ELS) led to the patent filing.

Bomber recalls awe of seeing devastation
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
WITNESS TO HISTORY: Retired Duluth doctor saw destruction of Hiroshima and the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, Japan. BY CHUCK FREDERICK. ...

5.8 quake shakes Maug, some 570 temblors noted on Sarigan
Saipan Tribune - West Orange,NJ,USA
... lagoon. They represent the remains of a volcano that was believed to have collapsed following a massive and explosive eruption. The ...

The Clinch's Magnificent Trout
Tennessee Sportsman Magazine - TN,USA
... Having discovered that trout stocked at catchable size made up a very small part of ... A single generator turning puts too much water in the river for wading and ...

Green power receives cool reception in Georgia
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA
... It now buys electricity produced by two landfills and a small hydropower project ... Their rotation powers a generator, creating an electric current which is cabled ...

Biogen Idec plant gives hope for 'green power'
Boston Globe - United States
... a separate negotiation last year established firm standards for how small off-grid ... far more about the world of energy production and generator design than they ...

Scenes of death and devastation in valley where plane crashed
IrishExaminer.com - Ireland
BLACKENED bodies, tattered luggage and smouldering debris lay scattered among the pine trees in a scenic Greek valley after the Helios Airways flight slammed ...

Earthquake Shakes Mississippi County
KATV - Little Rock,AR,USA
Dearman (AP) - A mild earthquake with a magnitude of 3.0 rattled a portion of northeastern Arkansas in a region that has seen a number of temblors this year. ...

mystery this is the secret deep of fame
Pressbox.co.uk (press release) - London,UK
... what about those underground tunnels do they exist do they breed underground- still no ... but- the lake its still there always will remain- and the secret what a ...

My years as a captive of Japanese warlords
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... "It was a few days after Pearl Harbor," she recalls. "There was a lovely roof garden and we went up there. It was dark and we could see the tracer bullets.". ...

Quakes rock islands as Northern Marianas volcano erupts
KPUA - HI,USA
... Geologists have found no evidence of ancient explosive eruptions by the volcano. The first historical eruption began in May 2003.

August 14, 2005

Underground blast disrupts daily routine Section of Southbury ...
Waterbury Republican American - Waterbury,CT,USA
SOUTHBURY -- An explosion in an electrical conduit triggered an underground fire late Friday afternoon at the intersection of busy Roxbury and North Poverty ...

Sonia shocked at rain devastation, spares Deshmukh
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
During her whistle stop tour of Maharashtra and neighbouring Karnataka, the Congress chief saw the devastation and destruction caused by the floods, which had ...

Start-up sees new dawn for old solar tech
CNET News.com - USA
... It consists of small metal tubes filled with hydrogen, which are heated by a ... Scotland reverend Robert Stirling in 1816 that in turn drives a generator and thus ...

Rockin' the boat: Gigayachts taking industry by storm
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... rooms, a wine cellar the size of most beach bungalows, a dozen yacht-length tenders and a generator capable of providing enough electricity for a small town in ...

Ecology prof right at home in straw bale house AP Photos gastjlh
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA
... that was $900 a month," said Womersley, referring to the small coastal city about ... The couple did splurge on a $1,500 backup propane generator, which Womersley ...

County evicting homeless man who dug his own underground home in ...KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
Riverside County is telling a man in Thousand Palms he has to leave his home, which happens to be underground. It may not look like ...

Jet fuel shortages plague airports
Canada East - Canada
While fliers haven't yet had to add that problem to the list of headaches associated with air travel, it may not be far away - at least at North America's ...

August 12, 2005

Work Progressing On Botanical Garden's Horticultural Building
Queens Chronicle - Rego Park,NY,USA
... The auditorium will have a "green roof" that slopes to the ground. A rainwater-fed stream will run between the terrace and visitor center. ...

Finding Minnesota: An Underground Mystery
WCCO - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Below the rolling fields of southeastern Minnesota lies a mystery hidden under limestone and ... has eaten away enough rock to form 13 miles of underground passages ...

Tsunami: Why America's Toast Would Be Toast
CDNN - New Zealand
But unlike the eruption in the 1997 film Volcano (which threatened in its tagline that 'the coast is toast') scientists believe the threat from the volcano of ...

Infestations continue to plague PCs
Marshalltown Times Republican - Marshalltown,IA,USA
By STEVE HILL. According to the a Sept. 2005 magazine article by Consumer Reports PC owners in the US spent over $2.6 billion dollars ...

August 11, 2005

Soil-free farming...
Carlisle Sentinel - Carlisle,PA,USA
Tomatoes are the king crop in hydroponics because of the demand for them in early spring and late fall when field tomatoes aren't available. ...

MORE ON HOMESTEADING IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA
Mother Earth News - Topeka,Kansas,USA
... the summer harvest . . . however, a well-planned canning and root cellar storage scheme would work just as well. Around here, you ...

Drought and negligence blamed for rise in fires
International Herald Tribune - France
BRUSSELS Drought and human negligence are to blame for the recent rise in forest fires across Europe, the European Union's head office said Wednesday, warning ...

Missouri to get $1 million for drought relief from agriculture ...
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA
WASHINGTON - Missouri will receive more than $1 million in federal funds to help farmers and ranchers cope with a severe drought, Sen. ...

China Military Could Threaten US Cities, Says Defense Dept. Report
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
... weapons in a different, unconventional way: It involves detonating a nuclear weapon in the upper atmosphere to create an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would ...

Trees Hold Record of Ancient Hurricane Activity
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
Georgia pine trees harbor a record of every hurricane to hit the area in the past century, a new study found. Further research across ...

Pilgrimage sites - Visit the famous
Thread - New Zealand
... They have erected a signpost to Hobbiton in the town's main street to the film's fond memory and local pride to be involved. (Intro Image, Matamata)

Great Raid on Cabanatuan depicts Warrior Ethos
Army Public Affairs (press release) - USA
... these Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen, as well as American civilians and some allies, had survived the valiant but doomed battles of Bataan and Corregidor ...

Rajasthan meteorite a rare radioactive cosmic object
Hindustan Times - India
Elaborate tests conducted on a meteorite fragment, which fell in Rajasthan recently has revealed it to be a very rare iron meteorite showing significant ...

UH Cancels Season-Opener Because of Mold in Theater
KHNL-TV/KHBC/KOGG - Honolulu,HI,USA
... University officials say a combination of circumstances during repairs and renovations this summer led to the mold infestation. The air conditioning was turned ...

Tales of an Estate Agent
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... If this had happened in recent years, I would have been able to show him Mole Manor at Westonbirt, an underground house, where all you can see above ground are ...

'Tree-house' for sale
KHON2 - Honolulu,HI,USA
There's an Oahu home for sale being advertised as a tree-house--a multi-level, tree-house living in town. But it all depends how you define tree-house. ...

Terrific tree-house hotels
MSNBC - USA
Tired of staying in bland hotel rooms? Add a twist to your next holiday and book a leafy overnight at a gorgeous tree-house hotel. ...

Doctors' germ war concern
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... With teams of ambulance staff, doctors and fire staff working in difficult conditions in underground tunnels on 7/7, protective clothing was essential. ...

REMOTE VOLCANO ERUPTING
Special Broadcasting Service - Australia
... Senator Campbell said the 2002 volcano eruption created a pumice beach area, a favoured habitat for king penguin rookeries. "King ...

140 quakes rattle Northern Islands
Saipan Tribune - West Orange,NJ,USA
The Emergency Management Office and the US Geological Survey also said yesterday that Anatahan's rumbling volcano remains in a state of continuous eruption. ...

August 10, 2005

'Green' roofs sprouting across US skylines
International Herald Tribune - France
NEW YORK As temperatures soared and New York City broke records for electricity use at the end of July, landscapers were installing a "green" roof at Silvercup ...

Neighbors can attest to nuclear devastation
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Most people in the world associate Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear devastation. We can imagine the buildings that were leveled ...

200 held in underground church raids
The Standard - Hong Kong
Authorities recently detained more than 200 members and clergy of underground churches in several provinces, closed down a Shanghai church and harassed two US ...

August 9, 2005

Hints of quake under central USA
USA Today - USA
The sleeping giant of American earthquake faults, the New Madrid zone in the middle of the country, may be showing new signs of activity. ...

Keys Glee Energy Expo - Green Living in Key West and the Florida Keys
What are "Earth Homes?" Earth homes are houses that are basically ... Some earth
homes are built from adobe, mud, straw or even underground as an ...

MOTHER'S ARMCHAIR GUIDE TO HOMESPUN OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT IDEAS
Mother Earth News - Topeka,Kansas,USA
... "The Anyone-Can-Make-It Copperhead' Survival Knife" (MOTHER NO. ... Wilderness Gear You Can Make Yourself (Stackpole Books, 1973) by Bradford Angler. ...

Harvest reaches to the sky
Madison Courier - Madison,IN,USA
... and co-owner of Local Harvest Market, waters and cares for the store's vines and corn as well as her own vegetables and herbs in the roof garden, which is a ...

Blueprint for green homes is on display
Buxton Advertiser - Buxton,England,UK
... underground to provide under-floor heating. To light the flats, LED lighting systems and low voltage halogen have also been proposed. ...

August 8, 2005

Volcanic ash emissions continue
Saipan Tribune - West Orange,NJ,USA
... recorded for the period June 17-26, which followed a strong eruption that sent ... feet and extended about 140 nautical miles northwest of the volcano, based on ...

The Armageddon Plan
Center for Research on Globalization - Canada
... in which Cheney and Rumsfeld participated were a hidden component of ... Eisenhower Administrations the US government had built large underground installations at ...

An Earth Shelter for Independence
Evelyn and Gifford Knapp built a passive solar home for their sustainable lifestyle in Kansas Waterproofing post and beam construction are discussed.

August 7, 2005

How to build a rammed earth house
Mother Earth News - Topeka,Kansas,USA
Back in the 40's I was considered an oddball. I wore a beard--revolutionary then--and I started, by myself, to build a house out ...

Texas Tech center studies wind
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Fourteen-foot long pieces of lumber are loaded musket-style into the PVC gun barrel and then blasted at hurricane-proof glass or tornado shelter walls that are ...

Reclaiming old mines a race against time
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Although hidden, underground mines cause the worst property damage because of subsidence, the remnants of surface mines -- such as gaping, water-filled ...

Dig unearths cool finds
Pensacola News Journal - Pensacola,FL,USA
... A lot of Pensacola's deep history is hidden underground and studying it can sharpen the community's identity, said Archaeology Institute associate director ...

MAKE YOUR OWN EMERGENCY POWER PLANT
Mother Earth News - Topeka,Kansas,USA
... Actually, the design of an alternator is somewhat opposite to that of a generator: Rather than ... 68 (.031") bit, to allow a small amount of buffering air bleed. ...

Rooftops becoming an urban oasis
Joongang Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea
... "Small Nuri" is the name of the rooftop garden atop the Unesco building in Myeong-dong, downtown Seoul. The tiny "park" is a wild ...

August 6, 2005

Here's how to keep asphalt shingles algae-free
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
... However, a power washer can also dislodge the color granules and damage the roof, plus the cleaning solution in a garden sprayer or washer makes the roof very ...

Earthquake slip weakening and asperities explained by thermal ...
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
An earthquake occurs when a fault weakens during the early portion of its slip at a faster rate than the release of tectonic stress driving the fault motion 1 ...

Mary, Mary, how does your rooftop grow?
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... garage in Southeast. "I see it as an extension of my garden," says Roy, who plans to weed and water his roof regularly. "In order ...

Strong eruption brings ash plume over Saipan
Saipan Tribune - West Orange,NJ,USA
... The EMO issued no update on its volcanic activity report, but confirmed that the volcano had a strong eruption that sent ashes to 42,000-ft. ...

Nicaragua warns of eruption of Concepcion Volcano
Xinhua - China
MANAGUA, Aug. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Nicaragua's disaster prevention agency on Wednesday warned of an impending eruption of the country's Concepcion Volcano. ...

Tsunami: Why America's Toast Would Be Toast
CDNN - New Zealand
... But unlike the eruption in the 1997 film Volcano (which threatened in its tagline that 'the coast is toast') scientists believe the threat from the volcano of ...

FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... to have it on display.". The root cellar has a dirt floor and storage shelves are lined with canning jars. A sauerkraut masher and ...

Underground 'observatory' in US to study earthquakes
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India
... A permanent underground observatory called the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD), to be completed by 2007, will be installed at the Parkfield ...

Leh's medicinal herbs to the aid of troops
Hindu - Chennai,India
ROOF GARDEN: Ladakhi women at work in the herbal laboratory in Leh. --PHOTO: LUV PURI. LEH: In an initiative by a research laboratory ...

GREEN ROOFS: Up on the roof
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... Last year, they traded in their old tar and gravel roof for a green one. ... Green roofs, sometimes called garden roofs, are living roofs planted with low-growing ...

August 4, 2005

Visit a pub... underground
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa Buy this cave house in Turkey Ankara - Nuri Demirci has lived in the cave house all his life remembering well the changeover from oil lamps to neon lighting but now the 63-year-old man ...

Then and Now
Robertson County Times - TN,USA
... Most were recruited from outlaws who came to Cave-in-Rock for hiding. Ford was mostly unsuspected as a criminal. ... They led him to a small house down the road. ...

Scientists to drill under bay where meteorite hit
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
About 35 million years ago, a meteorite smashed into what is now Virginia's Chesapeake Bay with so much force that debris flew for thousands of miles. ...

Expedition sent to meteorite crash site in Siberia
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
Irkutsk, August 1 (RIA Novosti, Alexander Batalin) - A new scientific expedition has set off for the crash site of a gigantic meteoroid that hit eastern Siberia ...

Question for vet about WWII sparks return to Corregidor
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle - Clarksville,TN,USA
Everything Clarksville native John Holt had known about World War II battles on Corregidor Island in the Philippines was learned from history books. ...

Scientists weather a space storm to find its origin
Space Ref - USA
... Triggered by a massive explosion on the Sun with millions of times more energy than a nuclear bomb, these CMEs are blasts of gas that could engulf Earth. ...

The futuristic world of Japan
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
... drivers push a button, actually - most have digital gsm navigators showing surrounding streets and, just to show that not everything is futuristic, the drivers ...

Frank Gaffney's Speech at "A Closer Look into China" Forum
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
... nuclear device, launched high over the United states, outside the atmosphere, optimized to create this phenomenon known as electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, could ...

Huber+Suhner lightning protector is self-extinguishing
Eetasia.com (subscription) - USA
... SEMPER, claimed to be the world's first self extinguishing EMP protector. The latest addition to the company's lightning (LEMP) and Nuclear (NEMP) range ...

W.Va. and blackberries: A long-term love affair
Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington,WV,USA
... There, they camped for a week - picking, cleaning, cooking and canning between 75 and 100 half-gallon jars of blackberries on the spot. ...

Report says US held two Yemeni prisoners in secret underground ...
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Two Yemeni men are telling stories of being held in solitary confinement in secret, underground US detention facilities in an unknown ...

Creative strategists say you must strike twice -- at least -- to ...
Small Times - USA
... one. The LED lighting market -- or markets, as the case may be -- provides an illustrative example. LEDs are hardly new. They ...

How we finally solved mosquito problem at cabin
Alaska Star - Chugiak-Eagle River,AK,USA
... We have no electricity - a generator yes, but no electricity to operate 24 hours ... with the crackling of burnt mosquitoes I thought for sure a small plane might ...

East meets West in garden of landscaping experts
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... from their home, has designed Japanese-style landscapes for the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Va., and a Zen rooftop garden at Mount Holyoke ...

The Coming Plague
theTrumpet.com - Edmond,OK,USA
... Control and the World Health Organization worried about what humanity fears the most: an uncontrolled disease outbreak commonly referred to as "the plague ...

Step back Mole Man; send in the clones
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
It involved covering the globe with millions of identical drone-people which the diabolical genius bred and brainwashed in a secret underground laboratory. ...

Earthquake fault drill hits milestone
Palo Alto Online - Palo Alto,CA,USA
... The project, to be completed in 2007, will be the only earthquake observatory with instruments installed directly within an active fault. ...

Nearly Perfect Plants, Hiding Up on the Roof
Washington Post - United States
... And rock garden fanciers have been growing some of the other succulents. But the green-roof movement has brought many more varieties into commerce and produced ...

August 3, 2005

Origin unknown
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... am watching the Spanish drought and the crazy draining of underground aquifers, let ... toms are open-air (many are under hideous plastic), the hidden indignity of ... (storyline about food miles)

Australia's highest loo for peak performers
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... construction is finished. "It will be built like a hidden bunker, not your typical brick shithouse," Mr Harrigan said. Sewerage will be ...

World's Smallest Advanced Lighting Management Unit for Handheld ...
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
... The LP3954 is a lighting management unit that drives two separately controlled white LED backlights for the main and sub-display.

John Deere plows for profits from wind
MSNBC - USA
... land development, project management and financing, and Deere may collect the power generated by small farms to ... the leading US electricity generator, said wind .

How to make city green?
Financial Express.bd - Bangladesh
... This can encourage rooftop gardening. ... This park must have attractive landscaping which can be compared to any world famous garden. ...

Cities combat 'heat island' effect
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum - OH, United States
... community. The largest "living roof" covers more than 10 acres over the Ford Motor Company's Rouge River truck plant in Dearborn, Mich. ...

August 1, 2005

A life in the woods
Skagit Valley Herald - Mount Vernon,WA,USA
... About 13 miles up the road, Whited points to a small, white sign tacked to a ... He installed a generator and built a gravity feed system to provide the cabin with ...

London faces lockdown to thwart third terror strike
Times Online - UK
... The devices, hidden in rucksacks, were studded with razor sharp nails and only failed ... Hussain said that he had been recruited in an underground gym in Notting ...

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