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Thursday August 31, 2006
ILX planning eco-resort in Sedona
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... But the time-shares would be constructed according to green-building standards. The hotel's earth-sheltered cottages would be topped with native-plant gardens. ...
No place like dome
Clinton Herald - Clinton,IA,USA
... David South, owner of the Monolithic Dome Institute in Italy, Texas, said ADM is constructing a dome for coal storage as part of its new co-generation power ...
Cu Chi tunnels, a tourist draw
Nhan Dan - Hanoi,Vietnam
... Vietnam’s war effort, and were possibly an inspiration for Hezbollah's bunker system. ... the camp on top of part of the Viet Cong's underground tunnel network ...
Maximizing nature's gifts; MELC grows food, energy, fellowship
Willits News - Willits,CA,USA
... manure flows naturally into the swales, where it combines with rainwater or greywater. ... kitchen; and camping side by side in the farm and garden section of 31 ...
Unusual spaces can be fun
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
Sometimes it's the unusual spaces in our homes that offer the most potential. Unused closets can be converted into open display ...
Building an intentional community
SunJournal.com (subscription) - Lewiston,ME,USA... by the clear-cutting. They have a new root cellar lined with stones dragged out of the forest by their draft horse. There is a greenhouse ...
What happened to the summer?
This Is Lancashire - Blackburn,England,UK... Fullerton, who works at the Royal Bolton Hospital, said: "We have been spoilt by two months of good weather, culminating with record-breaking temperatures in
Meteorologists say '06 marked wettest summer since 1858
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA... Since the Weather Bureau was formed in 1931, the most rain at the Sunport from June through August - before ... August 2006 could also be a record-breaking month. ...
’Its all made of gold
Saigon Times Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
... idea of visiting a gold mine to see real gold would be almost unimaginable, almost dreamy, since they are buried deep underground, preciously hidden far away
Walls of mud
Scenta.co.uk - London,England,UK
An experienced engineer is going to build a lecture theatre with rammed earth walls in Wales. Commissioned by the Centre for Alternative ...
Code Burgundy - The Long Escape World War II gunner to tell his ...
Eagle Tribune - North Andover,MA,USA
... research in an effort to be as accurate as possible with names, dates and places. He went back to Europe to collect information about the French Underground ...
Waste dumps turned to prime real estate
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... The Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment is testing a range of methods for breaking down the underground ...
Pooled water under home raises red flag
Mortage 101 - USA
... Your mushroom garden in the crawl space indicates that you certainly have water ... Connect the downspouts into the pipe so that the rainwater discharges well away ...
'Forgotten wisdom': A local community lives off the land, like the ...
Northwest Explorer - Tucson,AZ,USA
... The Dancing Rocks community, named for volcano flows that danced there in ancient times before hardening into rock, includes five rammed-earth homes. ...
Cold Comfort Farm
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
... Borlaug and his associates sought technology that would dramatically increase ... Known as "passive-solar design," Carroll's work involves building greenhouses ...
Wednesday August 30, 2006
It's no secret what burns in royal car
Bangkok Post - Thailand
... ''The King once said that when the oil underground runs out, one alternative is the oil from plants because Thailand is an agricultural society,'' said Mr ...
Asked and answered
Detroit Free Press - United States
... Cheney described it on CNN in 2002, his Secret Service agent "grabbed me and propelled me out of my office, down the hall, and into the underground shelter in
An unusual tourist attaction: VC tunnels from the war
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA
By KEVIN SITES. When US troops first deployed in large numbers to Vietnam in the mid-1960s, one of the first steps of the Army's .
New Solar Hybrid Technology to Produce Drinking Water
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
Hirrlingen, Germany [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] Using a solar hybrid technology, the final development of a process that can generate drinking water from the ...
Marginal seats get place in the sun
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... Origin Energy, BP Solar, ANZ and the South Australian Housing Trust - to create solar initiatives, more effective pricing, energy efficiency and "green" homes. ...
Energy Adviser: Tenants can save energy with a few simple steps
The Columbian - Vancouver,WA,USA
... time now and it seems like all the money and energy-saving tips you ... Appliance and home improvement stores often sell special brushes made just for cleaning ...
Geothermal powers resort
Petroleum News - USA
... when there is no potential for solar power. Geothermal energy can also be used directly, rather than converting it to electricity.
Green building catches on in area
Martinsburg Journal - Martinsburg,WV,USA
... Geothermal heating systems, when placed in newly constructed homes, can also have ... fact that has already been calculated using current electricity rates, which ...
DOWN-TO-EARTH SOLUTIONS COMPLIMENTS OF PLANET EARTH
Earthtoys (press release) - USA
... The unit runs on electricity, and for every 1000 watts of energy it uses, it ... so you are better off to install the DX or other geothermal system, eliminate your
Jenolan Caves in Australia are the world's oldest
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA
... Service at Cave House, the 117-year-old hostelry, was described as "appalling" - so bad, in fact, that Cave House ran out of complaint forms. ...
Disaster-prone China takes heed of global warming
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
... reminder that global warming will bring about increasingly extreme weather events more ... year much of Sichuan and Chongqing has suffered record-breaking hot days ...
Inside an Infestation: The Dance of the Pine Beetle
New West - Missoula,MT,USA
... Besides, in its own secret way, the tree may be asking for it. ... Underground mining, as it was practiced out West a century ago, had a huge appetite for lumber. ...
Living Homes
Pure Contemporary - East Amherst,NY,USA
... walls, ceilings, windows, exterior cladding), fixtures (lights, handrails, handles, sinks, tubs, toilets, skylights), appliances, a living roof, inside garden ...
Millionaire wants to turn Botanic station into cafe
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... The station served an underground line that ran from Maryhill to Stobcross junction. The line, part tunnel, part deep cutting, still runs across Glasgow ...
The Trouble With Normal
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
... My father, a Nebraska-born farm boy, saves rainwater for his vegetable garden and has been known to reuse coffee filters, but these are not altruistic actions. ...
Life Cycle of Diamonds Indicates the Best Places to Search for ...
Azom.com - USA
... The research suggests a number of places to start digging. “In order to find diamonds at the surface, you need both diamonds deep underground and kimberlite ...
Einstein's man in China
International Herald Tribune - France
... that China needed "total revolution," he resolved to join the Communists underground. ... of China's first atomic bomb, wanted him as a research assistant to study ...
Brooke Library Announces Plans For WWII Museum
Wheeling Intelligencer - Wheeling,WV,USA
... ships” followed by nearly four years of captivity by the Japanese Army. ... Library for a tribute to the “POWs: American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor.”.
Try an Organic Hot Dog, Meet an Organic Farmer at Organic Valley's ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... Agency, includes a local and organic food and farming exhibit called "Healthy Local Foods," an indoor green space with lush rain gardens, an eco home, a live
Man designs concept for I-45, TxDOT looking at it
KHOU (subscription) - Houston,TX,USA
... He designed what he calls the 1-45 Parkway, complete with two underground, double-stacked tunnels. ... It’s probably close to a year of research. ...
August 28, 2006
Money flowing to new ideas in energy
Boston Globe - United States
... While solar energy has been used as a power source for decades in relatively small numbers of homes and buildings, the technology may finally be ready for large ...
Thin Film Solar To Go Large
Red Herring - CA,USA
... Still, most other companies developing thin-film solar technology are focusing on smaller applications to take advantage of the thin nature of thin films.
`Green' homes use less energy
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
By Ken Sheinkopf. Q: There's a new phrase that seems to be in the news on a regular basis: ``green building.'' I think I understand
US Gives Energy Giants Blessing To Turn Rock Into Oil
CattleNetwork.com - Stanley,KS,USA
... This isn'ta view shared by Shell, which with 20 years of research under its ... study into the use of atomic energy, even proposed an underground nuclear explosion ...
—Man will return to moon Bradbury
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
... and fantasy classics as The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes said he believes humans will return to the moon, then go to Mars and other ...
Throw out pesticides; get rid of pests naturally
Poughkeepsie Journal - Poughkeepsie,NY,USA
... He sells the adult yellow jackets, which often nest underground, and bald-faced ... He also extracts saliva from the larvae for research into its anti-microbial ...
Miniature rock glaciers. Drying meadows. Warming lakes. High ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... temperatures under snow in winter are clear evidence of underground ice nearby ... Geoffrey Schladow, director of the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center.
Town board to consider wind turbine project, public concerns
Oshkosh Northwestern - Oshkosh,Wisconsin,USA
... All future phases, including other renewable energy projects such as a proposed bio-mass digester/processor to handle sewage treatment plant sludge, a steam co
August 26, 2006
Japan: Activity around North Korean site
Houston Chronicle - United States
... suspicious activity had been observed at a suspected underground nuclear test site ... monitoring station to detect tremors that could indicate a nuclear explosion. ...
Summer heat a disaster for farmers
Red Bluff Daily News - Red Bluff,CA,USA
... During those periods, temperatures were above 100 degrees with six-record breaking days, the ... The bee industry was also hurt by the wet weather in the winter. ...
Getting a deep appreciation for a tough life
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... miner who toiled for years underground. "I started in the mine at age 16, my dad when he was 9. I worked in four mines. I went through an explosion in '79, I ...
Website to track solar-power output
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... It will also help people better understand the advantages solar technology offers over other types of renewable energy systems, said Rob McMonagle, executive ...
Warmer, wetter climate linked to increased plague epidemics
Zee News - Noida,India
London, Aug 24: Researchers have said that climatic changes could lead to more outbreaks of bubonic plague among human populations. ..
Mining plan at UP wetlands area stirs opposition
Traverse City Record Eagle - Traverse City,MI,USA
... The company discovered an estimated $4.2 billion underground deposit of nickel, iron ... studied the local population since 2000 and said the research team never ...
China to open 90-km long underground Great Wall soon
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
BEIJING: China will soon open to public a 90-km-long underground Great Wall in Hebei Province, which was possibly used as a military defence line
Academic development: USDA opens underground laboratory
Daily Mining Gazette - Houghton,MI,USA
HOUGHTON — Under blue skies and eventually underground, the US Department of Agriculture unveiled it’s new subterranean research facility Wednesday ...
"Green House" with a Conscience
News-Review - Roseburg,OR,USA
... They also consulted a variety of local people who specialize in "green homes," including local contractor Rob Lieberman, Walker and Bent Juhl, who designed the
The time comes to sell the ranch
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
... down. The house is a log cabin built in 1903. The sod roof has been covered with steel and a bedroom or two have been added on. What ...
Architects are walking the walk of life
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norfolk,England,UK
... Not only have we got the first earth sheltered affordable housing scheme in the UK, but also the first building in the country to use recycld rainwater for ...
How top-secret tunnellers of MI5 infiltrated the man from the Pru
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... did our best in the autumn of 1951 to keep well underground, have reared ... Numerous secret tunnel systems have been built, first during the Second World War as a ...
China's first eco-village proves a hard sell
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... The problem is, no one is buying. The price of an eco-house is now about 100,000 yuan, twice the cost of building an ordinary house. ...
Natural building catches on at Kensington park
Detroit Free Press - United States
... up in early winter, was initiated by Deanne Bednar of Oxford's Strawbale Studio with a ... stepped in and enabled Bednar to expand the size of the house, which is ...
Codename "Turnstile"
Open Democracy - London,UK
... I had been commissioned to produce a series of photographs for his book Secret State, and at ... This underground landscape was ideal for this photographic approach ...
August 24, 2006
Sell-off plan for disaster mansion
Lancashire Evening Post - Preston,England,UK
Lancashire's 19th century disaster nerve centre and underground bunker could be turned into a house. Bosses at County Hall are considering
Enjoy a slice of adventure or a taste of history
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... towering Bridge Climb, West Virginia's storied bunker lies deep underneath the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, where it remained hidden for more ...
SeQuential Biofuels to Open First Solar Powered, Bio-fueling ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... The "living roof" will help to control rainwater runoff on the site and will help cool the convenience store during the summer.
August 23, 2006
Sustainable Ways: Promoting sustainable lifestyle, local ...
Wet Mountain Tribune - Westcliffe,CO,USA... But the construction of the four houses varied. First, on the tour was an off-grid, rammed-earth home built by Dave and Ann O’Conner, in Centennial Ranch. ...
The new age of sail
Energy Bulletin - USA... even wood pulp becomes scarce due to increased demand for cellulose-based fuels, we will no doubt remain supplied with furniture made of rammed earth, with an ...
FEATURE-Illegal trade in "get rich" algae expands deserts
Reuters - USA... buy the facai, but the ban has pushed the trade underground and created a climate of fear. A wholesale market, officially closed in 2000, is now hidden down a
Barbuda sand woes continue to plague construction industry
AntiguaSun - St' John's,Antigua and Barbuda by Hazra C. Medica. The construction industry is continuing to feel the after-effects of the rising price in sand which some say ...
Volcano eruption affects 1 million Ecuadorians
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
More than a million Ecuadorians have been affected by the eruption of the Tungurahua Volcano last Thursday, the government reported on Monday.
Sustainable House
Canadian Architect - Toronto,Canada
... A green roof on the garage reduces heat gain and storm-water runoff, and sun shades on the south façade reduce solar heat gain while creating a series of .
Go green when you go to the fair
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA... Visitors can tour a 900-square-foot "eco home" -- outfitted with natural linoleum flooring and recycled paper countertops -- and watch "rain" fall on a garden ...
Xantrex demonstrates new solar Hybrid Power System for remote ...
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
Vancouver, BC Xantrex Technology Inc. (TSX:XTX) installed its new Hybrid Power System combined with solar power on the Xeni Gwet'in First Nation near Chilko ...
August 22, 2006
Lancaster master carver makes his hobby pay off
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA... Mr. Lubkemann is quite proud of his 20-foot-high carpeted tree house with a crow's nest. "It's the coolest tree house in Lancaster County," he said. ...
She's got the whole world in her pans
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA... Bettie painted the floor herself, red flowered squares that camouflage the trap door to a root cellar where Hugh used to make his own beer. ...
Dan Harper: Home canning
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA
... Until one of them moved. I ran back to the house all atremble to tell Aunt Mammy there were black snakes in her root cellar
Living simply, working hard
Charleston Gazette (subscription) - WV, USA... Mexico, Chile and New Zealand kept America’s produce bins full year round, people built cold cellars — also called root cellars — in hillsides to store .
Will it ever be safe to fly again?
Sunday Business Post - Dublin,Ireland... on flights last week are carried on the Eurotunnel and other underground rail networks ... The hidden security behind the processing of luggage is funded by the ...
North Koreans flee into China but dwell there in fear
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
... deportation, some dwell in hidden work camps or caves. Others scrounge for food in the hinterlands. Most hope to hook into a fragile underground railroad that ...
Revelations on getting back to nature
Bismarck Tribune - ND, USA
... now, first shower in 15 days, and eaten fresh tomatoes and onions from my garden. ... In the morning, when I woke up, I found almost two inches of rainwater in the ...
Burying the evidence of global warming
USA Today - USA... fuels, but economic forecasts from the Joint Global Change Research Institute in ... the carbon dioxide from power plants and elsewhere underground might be one ...
The spy who loved sleuthing out oil deposits
Edmonton Journal (subscription) - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada... needing dynamite or another energy source to generate underground echoes that are ... Dietmar Schumacher is director of geochemical research with Tulsa-based Geo
Diamonds: An investor's best friend?
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA... His research shows that diamonds provided better returns than gold since 1948. ... structures known as kimberlites at least 150 kilometers (93 miles) underground. ...
Artist invites her community to get fired up over earth oven
Olean Times Herald - Olean,NY,USA... To protect the oven from the elements, Mark of Excellence landscaping and carpentry company is designing a living roof — growing a canopy of vine leaves ...
Down to Earth: Arquitectonica's Laurinda Spear is going from ...
Miami Herald - FL,USA... Among the projects ArquitectonicaGEO is tackling are a roof garden for Bouygues Telecom, a cellphone company in Paris; five gardens for a New York City ...
Push to pay WWII POWs renewed
The Hill - Washington,DC,USA
... personnel fought against Japanese military forces on Wake Island, Guam, in the Philippines Islands, including the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor, and in the
Veteran laughed at Katrina
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA... to produce the atrocity known as the Bataan Death March: The Japanese still had to defeat the 12,000 American troops on the island of Corregidor across a 2
WWII gets fresh look through eyes of POW doctors in Japan
Flint Journal - Flint,MI,USA
... American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese 1941-1945.". Volumes have been written about the battle for Bataan and Corregidor in the
SKorea maintains 24-hour surveillance on NKorea over possible ...Mainichi Daily News - Japan... network ABC that reels of cable had been unloaded outside an underground facility at a ... possible signs of a nuclear test, citing construction of a tunnel and a ...
The high life: Vacationing in a tree house CNNMoney.com - USA
These tree-house lodgings put a whole new spin on the term 'high-rise hotel.'. By Les Christie, CNNMoney.com staff writer. NEW YORK ...
Underground water will be valuable commodity, some say
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA CALDWELL — On a balmy October evening three years ago, Diane Johnson was kicking a soccer ball around the front yard with her two little girls when a ...
The Bunker is Unlocked at the Greenbrier
HotelChatter - Charlestown,MA,USA At the Greenbrer, you can play some golf, get a massage, go bowling, and...see an underground bunker that looks like it came right out of Dr. Strangelove. ...
August 21, 2006
The Tal-Papa field
Times of Malta - Valletta,Malta
... In fact, walking down the slope into this secret garden, one feels as if one ... lays an enormous ship's rope cable in the street to lead the rainwater down into ..
One killed, 60 missing in volcano eruption in Ecuador
Hindu - Chennai,India
Ecuadorean officials said they feared the death toll from the eruption of the Tungurahua volcano could rise because 60 people remained missing yesterday after .
70 percent oppose Nowegian's anti-Israel article
European Jewish Press - Brussels,Belgium... He explained that "this letter had been dictated by mobile telephone from the underground bunker of a handicapped youth village kibbutz in the Galilee, under ...
—North Korea Could Attempt Nuclear Test Soon Russian Expert
MOSNEWS - Russia... little doubt that the North is capable of conducting an underground nuclear test ... Dvorkin, an ex-director of the Defense Ministry’s Fourth Research Center for ...
Keeping the Dead Sea alive
Israel 21C - Cupertino,CA,USA
... As part of that research, Wust-Bloch along with a German colleague developed a ... As the water level drops, freshwater washes out mineral pockets underground.
Hollowed territory
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA... are believed to be many more that have been kept secret by cavers ... But deeper caves, which might stretch several miles underground, have temperatures slightly ...
Other countries show more solar initiative
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... Shelly Sanders Greer has a strong interest in healthy, green homes. You can contact her with story ideas at shellywrites@cogeco.ca.
Devastating floods push Surat backwards by 25yrs
Business Standard - India... die. The people of Surat have spiritedly fought disasters like floods and plague in the past, and have overcome them successfully
Floods and tornadoes as freak storms batter Britain
Guardian Unlimited - UK... rain, lightning strikes and even tornadoes have swept across the UK as the record-breaking July heatwave fades into memory. The freak weather has caused power ...
’Christianitys Forgotten Jews
Reform Judaism - New York,NY,USA... The Jesus sect, however, provided both the attractions of an exotic/mystery religion and also the dignity of an ancient and respected tradition.
August 18, 2006
NEW INTERLOCKING BRICK FOR HOME CONSTRUCTION CAN WITHSTAND 240 MPH ...
Mass Media Distribution LLC (press release) - Naples,FL,USA
... with hurricanes, floods, forest fires, termite and insect infestation, high heating and air conditioning bills, mold and mildew problems, escalating insurance
The USGBC LEED for Homes Pilot Program Awards LivingHomes the ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA... Permacity/Gridpoint * Solar water heating and radiant floors from ACME Environmental and Creative Climate * Native landscape and rooftop garden designed by ...
Make your own biodiesel on the farm
Brownfield - Jefferson City,MO,USA... at a slightly larger model that could be used in a community, “Where we create a small biodiesel plant that sits next to a methane digester.” The digester ...
Unusual accommodation offered in France
Go Travel Insurance - London,UK Travellers bored of staying in run-of-the-mill hotels have a host of interesting options to choose from in France. The village of ..
State and federal disaster officials meet at FEMA bunker
Daily News Transcript - Needham,MA,USA... for the first time yesterday under one roof -- actually underground -- to meet ... Federal Regional Center on Old Marlboro Road, a FEMA bunker activated whenever ...
Remembering the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Infoshop News - USA
... The minority that wasn’t physically exterminated was forced underground, leading a ... The revolution was sparked by an incident, when the secret police opened ...
Memories of his beloved Cuba
Quincy Herald Whig - Quincy,IL,USA... Del Castillo was part of a Cuban underground movement working to undermine Castro. ... Secret police, secret codes, false names, pistols pointed at his head and ...
North Korea Appears to Be Preparing for Nuclear Test
ABC News - USA... Korean leader Kim Jong Il has isolated his country and made no secret of his ... is new evidence that North Korea may be preparing to for an underground test of ...
Missiles and madness
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong... 2 ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads deployed in underground silos or ... a considerable capability since the early 1960s with nuclear-research facilities at ...
August 16, 2006
[ENERGY]When tomorrow brings the twilight of oil
Korea Herald (subscription) - Seoul,South Korea
... Traditionally, crude oil has been classified as light, medium and heavy by the American Petroleum Institute's gravity scale. An ...
Barnard Goes Solar
New Haven Independent - CT, USA... The building, the city's only LEEDS-certified school, is stocked with environmentally friendly features, from its nature center with a "green roof," to the
The eco-friendly house that's been named best in the UK
ic Wales - United Kingdom
The Coach House, in Hamilton Street, Pontcanna, Cardiff, won the best eco house category in the Grand Designs Magazine awards for its green credentials, which
Gulf leaves gas supplies in precarious position
CNNMoney.com - USA
... This fragile state of affairs in the Gulf, along with the record-breaking heat that's blanketed large parts of the country ... You'd be better off asking weather man ...
Brokers, builders tout environmental focus as home energy costs ...
MarketWatch - USA... The industry is predicted to reach a "tipping point" in early 2007, when more builders will be churning out green homes than those who are not.
Robotic milking
Frederick News Post (subscription) - Frederick,MD,USA... milking cows in the future. In 1978, the farm built a biogas digester, turning manure from the cows into energy. The farm has been
August 15, 2006
Investing in a brighter future
Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg,MA,USA... decades. All three can be used to generate electricity, while others, such as geothermal power, can heat or cool a building. John ...
The construction of four “earth-sheltered” houses is planned on a tract northwest of Beloit by builder Bruce Martindale of Martindale Builders. this date in 1981 in Wisconsin.
Wall Street's New Love Affair
BusinessWeek - USA
... It expects demand for power from wind, sun, geothermal heat, biomass, and water to rise from 2.5% of the nation's electricity to 3.4%. ...
Bataan lets freedom ring
INQ7.net - Philippines... zigzagging footpath on the mountain slope, paved with bloodstones from the island of Corregidor. Finally, there is the Philippine-Japanese Friendship Tower in ...
This week in Bolling History
The Beam - Washington,DC,USA... McDonald had been one of the nurses assigned when the Japanese attacked Fort ... no supply lines of their own and after a withdrawal to Corregidor, the American
Weather eats into harvest
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada... Across Quebec, farmers are harvesting poorer-quality crops than usual and lower yields as a result of this summer's record-breaking hot, wet weather and a very ...
Green on a Budget
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... The houses range from 1,200 square feet to 1,500 square feet; Ms. Johnson says the average utility bills for non-green homes of the same size are about $150 a ...
High-tech `green' homes enter mainstream
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USAWith much of the nation baking in record-breaking heat this summer, many homeowners might be getting anxious about the utility bills arriving in their mailboxes ...
Giving 'window shopping' a whole new meaning
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
In "Minority Report," a 2002 science-fiction thriller starring Tom Cruise, futuristic technology allows the characters to control enormous glass computer ...
N. Korean leader makes first public appearance since missile tests ... The Hankyoreh - South Korea... There were some press reports even suggesting that Kim might be in an underground bunker to avoid a US precision strike. Others ...
Satellite solar touches down
NEWS.com.au - Australia
SOLAR technology developed to power satellites in space will be adapted to Australia's sun-drenched lands in a $10 million deal signed today. ...
Syria's Secret Nuclear Program and Long Term Threat
AINA - Modesto,CA,USA
... The site is built underground and has two facilities: civil and military. ... Since then they have been hidden away at a secret Syrian military installation where
Inventor Dean Kamen sounds off on Segway's disappointing start and ...
TIME - USA... A pit next to the box and the most basic bio-digester you've ever seen...the pipe comes out of it and into our engine, and it made electricity. ...
August 14, 2006
DEEP SECRET By GWEN WOOLF THEFREE LANCE-STAR W
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA... The bunker was built between 1958 and 1961 to serve as an emergency government ... The refuge was hidden in the small mountain community of White Sulphur Springs, W ...
Homestake Underground Lab Receives 70 Million Donation to Complete ...
BlackHillsPortal.com - Deadwood,SD,USA... Mike Rounds announced today the donation of 70 Million in funds from Sandford to Open the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at Homestake ...
Pull the plug
Courier Mail - Australia... I've been told that Australia has a veritable ocean of underground water beneath ... be bought from a tanker begs the question - is there some secret water supply
Fab Find: Defying gravity
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States By Cherice Jones. The Down Under Pots have put a 180-degree turn into gardening. These pots allow you to grow your plants upside down. .
A solar lifestyle
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA... Solar technology has been around since the 1950s, but it wasn't until the 1970s that it started gaining popularity. Soaring oil ...
Bamboo weaves its voodoo
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA... Rhizomes, food-storing stems that grow underground, can spread rapidly, undetected, before ... The secret, he says, is daily watering, loose soil and leaf mulch ..
Ruffed grouse keeps its unusual habits in ever-dwindling habitat
Pocono Record - Stroudsburg,PA,USA On one of those very hot and humid July days, I drove along a quiet dirt road through a forest of oak, pitch pine, mountain laurel and huckleberry near the ...
Slim pickings at local orchards
Lynchburg News and Advance - Lynchburg,VA,USA... Jan Jackson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, said the Lynchburg ... Then last week’s almost record-breaking high temperatures made the peaches ...
His Emperor's reluctant warrior
The Japan Times - Japan... rockets, naval and antiaircraft guns and even tanks, buried or hidden deep in caves ... the Japanese resolve, sending men and weapons so far underground they were
—In the heat of the night and day
Broomfield Enterprise (subscription) - CO, United States... It's been another summer of record-breaking heat with little precipitation. ... The summer of 2006 will go down in weather history as one of the hottest, with 21 90 ...
Israel and the Bombs
TIME - USA... official, the Pentagon in 2002 offered to supply Israel with bunker-buster bombs capable of punching deep into an enemy's underground defenses, but Israel's ...
’Kansans find faces celestial status loss
Kansas City Star - MO,USA... made his own high-powered telescopes at the family farm north of the western Kansas town of Burdett, grinding glass for them in a root cellar that provided ...
The pioneering pleasures of Patagonia
Salt Lake Tribune - United States... sole inhabitant is Françoise Dutheil, a French expatriate who 16 years ago traded her phone for a two-way radio and her refrigerator for an earthen root cellar
Bombs in our midst
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia... to life our worst terrorist nightmares because his bomb consisted of household chemicals similar to those that devastated London's Underground rail system last ...
Legazpi City Residents Cashing In On Mayon Volcano Eruption
All Headline News - USA
Legazpi City, Philippines (AHN) - Residents of Legazpi City, Albay in central Philippines are cashing in on the eruption of Mayon Volcano by selling posters ...
Weathered stone look gains appeal
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
... People see really creative patios and garden paths on ... Some predict that these concrete pavers — designed to direct rainwater runoff into the ground before it ...
US makes legal entry tough for Mexicans
Lexington Herald Leader - Lexington,KY,USA
... part of the arduous trek across the Sonora desert and no part of life underground in the ... The Washington area research center promotes expanded legal immigration
Cheaper fuels, independence from foreign oil within easy reach
Uniontown Herald Standard - Uniontown,PA,USA... You can produce 25 tons of cane per acre, put it into an anaerobic digester in the ground, let certain bacteria digest it and make methane. .
As fighting rages, Israelis express an uneasy confidence in the ...
Boston Globe - United States... I see all the children in pajamas, with slippers and pillows, running to the underground shelter. . . .Sometimes we were in the
’Winds, water form park Natural boundaries shape Colorados Great ...
NewsOK.com (subscription) - Oklahoma City,OK,USA... on its sides, even the water that’s miles away and deep underground. ... offers great views of the sand sea and unexpected delights: hidden creeks disappearing
Oil crisis: It's only just begun
Seattle Times - United States... long wooden measuring sticks into the Marathon station's 40,000-gallon underground tanks, and ... again and again, to get the boat unstuck from hidden bars of mud. ...
Border security's honor system anything but secure
Buffalo News - NY, United States... If underground sensors, hidden cameras, unmanned drones or even satellite surveillance watch the cars and trucks driving back to New York on Chapman Road
UK Airlines Cancel Flights, Urge Army to Deploy
Bloomberg - USA
... attackers killed themselves and 52 other people on three underground trains and a ... trains serving London, Paris and Brussels through the Channel Tunnel, got 50
Liquid explosives easy to make, say experts
Herald Publications - Panaji,Goa,India... and hair colouring contain chemicals can be combined to make an explosion and are ... Bombers who attacked London Underground trains and a bus in July 2005 used ...
August 12,, 2006
Pacific'Dead Zone'Said to Exceed Fears
FOX News - USA... Oregon State University scientists looking for weather changes that could reverse the situation aren't ... "The last two years have been record-breaking years in
Electric power interest
Duncan Banner - Duncan,OK,USA DUNCAN — As with the record-breaking heat, so goes the record-breaking electricity while trying ... the rest of the state as a whole, as the hot weather has hit ...
From that first crop of garlic, Pleasant Lake Farm grew
Boston Globe - United States
... The Lees are also in the midst of building a large root cellar for refrigeration and are planning for two wells that will go with the new irrigation. ...
Green homes go mainstream as costs climb
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand... An organisation in the US called Earthship oversees the building of houses made of car tyres, filled with compacted earth to form a rammed earth brick encased ...
Greenland's ice loss accelerating rapidly, gravity-measuring ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA... results on the significant loss of ice from Antarctica were published in Science in March by other researchers participating in the Gravity Recovery and ...
Ranching Over Rockets
Tucson Weekly - Tucson,AZ,USA... Area residents began hearing what sounded like a cannon being fired. There were also strange lights flickering from the site on some nights. ...
Liquid explosives sit on bathroom shelves
Washington Post - United States
... Bombers who attacked London Underground trains and a bus in July 2005 used ... and the clear yellow or colorless liquid can produce an explosion sometimes with
The Solar Silicon Shortage and Its Impact on Solar Power Stocks
InvestorIdeas.com (press release) - Point Roberts,WA,USA
... Solar power investors should have a basic understanding of solar technology and the economics of silicon. The most prevalent kind ...
Israeli civilians flee border as resolve hardens on both sides
Times Online - UK... Inside the school’s underground shelter scores of mattresses were lined up inches apart, with dozens of children’s games and books donated by charities. ...
Tactics having kept Israeli army at bay
China Daily - China... southern Lebanon, consisting of tunnels, expanded natural caves and underground bunkers where ... that is all but invisible to Israeli drones when hidden inside an
FEMA regional headquarters calls Maynard its home
Beacon Villager - Concord,MA,USA... The underground bunker - with its 2-foot thick concrete walls, bank-vault-like steel doors and the ability to completely seal itself off from the outside world .
Israel Asks US to Ship Rockets With Wide Blast
New York Times - United States
... The rockets, while they would be very effective against hidden missile launchers ... said this week included at least 25 of the 5,000-pound “bunker-buster” bombs ...
August 9, 2006
Voller introduces new way to boost batteries
This Is Basingstoke - Basingstoke,UK... Voller said: "We are extremely excited by the new opportunities offered by the agreement with Conergy, whose expertise in wind and solar technology makes them
Scorch of July has nation concerned
WFAA (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA... where just about every news outlet buzzed with talk of the weather. ... July's electricity demands broke records, but those record-breaking days still occur only ...
I Saw the Sign
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA... Who will show up at an ancient, possibly forgotten burial mound in the year 3000 AD ... some aspects of what life was like then, most of that era is a mystery to us ...
Israel Confronts 'New Kind of War'
Washington Post - United States
... Steinberg estimated that Hezbollah had 1,000 to 1,500 rocket launchers before the conflict began, many of them hidden or kept underground. ...
Hezbollah's Civilian Strategy
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA... Some of these bunkers are connected by underground trenches with hidden openings. Tens of Hezbollah posts were built alongside the ...
Shanghai Completes Massive Underground Bunker to Protect Citizens ...
Worldwatch Institute - Washington,DC,USA The massive underground shelter is able to accommodate 200,000 citizens at a time, offering protection from ground-level disasters such as nuclear radiation ...
Conflict Tests Mideast Firms
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
... city, for example, have been using underground wireless connections to work from bomb shelters. The chip manufacturer reportedly has 2,400 research staff in ...
Iceland: Energy to Spare, Ideas to Share
The Progress Report - USA... Molten rock heats huge underground lakes. ... Marie Maack is a research consultant with the Hydrogen Research Project: "If we make hydrogen and use that as a fuel
Fuel costs plague food bank
Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA,USA As it tries to serve more people, Salem's Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank is seeing its budget grow thin. Kitty Tabor
August 8, 2006
Arctic Heat Breaks Records in Nunavut
The Dominion - Sackville,New Brunswick,Canada
Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, has experienced record-breaking temperatures this summer. ... Recent weather has provoked concern from some corners of the ...
Carson City is Nevada's friendly little secret
Inside Bay Area - Oakland,CA,USA... Our two favorite exhibits included a cool trudge through an underground mine that was re-created with timber, vents and ores from once-active mines around the ...
Praise For Norfolk Earth Houses
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
Ministers have praised an environmentally-friendly "hobbit-style" housing scheme in a Norfolk village. Barry Gardiner, minister ...
After 40 years' burrowing, Mole Man of Hackney is ordered to stop
The Observer Blog - UK... His face lights up when he relates stories about holes under the towpath on Regent's canal or secret underground train networks.
Community Solutions: Ideas for sustainable living
Bolton Common - Harvard,MA,USA... Children discuss energy-saving ideas in school. ... enjoyed helping us find the refrigerator and washing machine with the most efficient Energy Star appliance label ...
Learn more about bats at the Soudan Mine State Park
Tower Timberjay News - Tower,MN,USA... a lot of attention for being home to the deepest underground mine in Minnesota, as well as recently becoming a location for high energy physics research. ...
RepairClinic.com Releases Energy Saving Tips for Freezers and Ice ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA... Appliance cleaning kits can be found for under $18 at http://www.repairclinic.com/0081.asp?RccPartID=939455&Acc=1 . 3. To keep your refrigerator smelling fresh ..
Green thumbs: Organic is best grown at home
Bridgewater Courier News - NJ, United States... includes produce and flowers. Only when they've run out of what they store in the root cellar does Jeans shop for produce. When she does ...
Researcher delves into Spring Valley Caverns in Fillmore County
SmallTownPapers News Service - Seattle,WA,USA... of research that has been done and will be done in Fillmore County is extensive. Some of the projects include using dye tracing to establish underground water ...
Solar power
Adam Teva V'din - Israel.. Once upon a time, Israel could proudly present itself as a “light unto nations” in solar technology. Since the 1950s, no visitor ...
Serious Megawatts
EcoWorld.com - Fair Oaks,CA,USA... In particular, the project will help reduce the costs of proven parabolic trough solar technology so as to enhance its commercial viability. ...
The Mikvah of the High-Priest Discovered
Temple Mount - Jerusalem,Israel
... These new photographs reveal that the water actually followed a long path from the spring to the tunnel. Inside, these underground spaces were used as a Mikvah ...
August 7, 2006
ENERGY-NIGERIA: 'Solar Power Brings Relief to Villagers'
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy... Hamzat said the solar energy technology is less expensive than electricity generated by the new Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) that replaced the ...
Where tourists fear to tread
Sunday Business Post - Dublin,Ireland... One person who has yet to visit his underground shelter is Dr Harry Stark, a retired paediatrician who moved to Israel from Australia in 1958
Revealed: secret locations we knew about anyway
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... interception aerials at RAF Digby in Lincolnshire and the vast underground munitions dump ... slashed to a more manageable "S list" of super-secret targets, such
Alert level 4 raised as Mayon nears explosive eruption
INQ7.net - Philippines... An explosive eruption could happen "possibly within the day," said Ernesto Corpus, chief of the government's Volcano Monitoring and Eruption Prediction Unit. ..
Unusual beauty taking shape
Berkshire Eagle - Pittsfield,MA,USA WILLIAMSTOWN — It may be hard to imagine how a building dominated by concrete could exist in harmony with the natural beauty of the Berkshires, but architect
Israelis' underground life amid air raids
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China... in this northern Israeli city have fled since Israel began military attacks on Lebanon, and those who remained spent most of their time in underground shelters ...
Works start on new affordable village homes
Cambridgeshire Times - March,England,UK BUILDING work has started on a £1.4million eco-home development in Wimblington helping to provide affordable housing in Fenland.
Go underground...
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada Went underground in Carp's Diefenbunker, followed by refreshment above ground for both stomach ... Tourists see more of the bunker than did the men who actually
RISING ABOVE THE PAST
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA... Great. I was lost deep in Hitler's underground bunker, alone with the ghosts of the Third Reich. Or was I alone? I heard footsteps.
GREEN TECH'S GROWTH
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA... sun on solar panels, effectively squeezing more energy out of less silicon. San Francisco firm Nth Power has been active in clean technology investments for a ...
SOLAR POWER PROVES POPULAR
Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta,ME,USA... to be doing what it was designed to do, make solar power a more realistic alternative for more Maine people. "This is a mainstream technology that works in ...
In England, where gardeners are media celebrities, Bob Flowerdew ...
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... is about as far from the archetype of the flowery, bowery English garden as you ... Flowerdew's potting bench is a former deep freeze, and he has rainwater and bath ...
UTSA students help preserve a culture
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Rainwater collection bins will provide some water, and gray water from faucets and showers will irrigate a garden for herbs and baby pine trees. ...
August 5, 2006
Flooding brings mosquitoes, mold
Ashtabula Star-Beacon - Ashtabula,OH,USA... are steps resident can take to control mosquitos and minimize exposure to mold . ... The key to preventing mosquito problems is to eliminate standing water on a ..
Underground Factory Makes Beverage Bottles from Plastic Waste
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA An underground processing factory in Southwestern China produces beverage bottles from plastic waste, according to a report from Western China Metropolis Daily
Church helps as Katrina clean-up continues
Johnson County Sun - Overland Park,KS,USA... there is excessive moisture, especially flooding. Mold spores have been linked to respiratory, allergy and other health problems. ...
Lava flow continues; Mount Mayon eruption inevitable
Manila Times - Philippines
LEGAZPI CITY: Mayon’s restiveness continues at a very alarming level and Phivolcs officials have warned that the volcano is nearing eruption. ...
The incredible journey across wartime Germany
Femail - UK... the most nightmarish part of the girls' journey entering that underground hell; exhausted ... The little girl glimpsed daylight down a branch tunnel and went back ...
Underground Railroad's poignant connections
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA... t know if that home was enlarged or knocked down, but there was a house here," says historian Anthony Cohen of Olney, author of "The Underground Railroad in ...
Solar World: Solar cells go nano
United Press International - USA
... Neidich's Solarity signed an agreement with NanoHorizons on Tuesday for the rights to NanoHorizon's patented solar technology. Solarity ...
July heat breaks record
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA... California cities, including Pasadena, experienced record-breaking temperatures in July, according to recently released data from the National Weather Service. ...
Record breaking heat
Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre - Owen Sound,Ontario,Canada Environment Canada says a new record temperature was reached at the Wiarton weather office yesterday at 33.2 degrees. It was recorded
Relief too late for some as Eastern US boils
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States... Wednesday's high hit a record-breaking 102 at New York's LaGuardia Airport. ... when it's been 10 below zero, and the fruit actually freezes, so this weather is no ...
Heat wave overwhelms local library cooling system
Norristown Times Herald - Norristown,PA,USA
COURTHOUSE - Montgomery County is not watering some rooftop garden on the roof of the Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library in Norristown. ...
Sustainable Living In The Mountains: Local Environmental Pioneer ...
Boone Mountain Times - NC, USA... If you’re expecting Tygielski’s house to resemble a dome, underground bunker, or perhaps to be constructed of recycled tires, you’ll be pleasantly ...
Metulla Residents Have Front-Row Seat on War
CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA... while Hizballah dug a "quarry" out of the Lebanese hillside facing his home. The "quarry" turned out to be an underground bunker.
Bomb Shelter Saves Patients in Israeli Hospital
Forward - New York,NY,USA
... The explosion blew off doors, twisted wall panels, scattered glass shards and ... The underground warren of shelters, though never used before, had been prepared ...
A dotted line of destruction: Haifa again city under siege
Boston Herald - United States
... In the command and control center in an underground bunker adjoining city hall, the map told the cold, hard story of what this city and its people had endured ..
Vietnam Vets center wins approval
Houston Chronicle - United States... Ray Saikus flew in from Cleveland to tell the planning commission that an underground "bunker or tunnel" is insensitive to veterans who fought enemies ...
August 3, 2006
More deaths as killer US heat wave nears end
ABC News - USA... "We have had more record-breaking heat today, a lot of it in New York state," National Weather Service meteorologist Dennis Feltgen said
8/2/06 Electric Power Stuck In Model T Era
Evening Bulletin - Philadelphia,PA,USA... Communications Office combined with a few hours Internet research left me ... and transmission lines in southeastern Pennsylvania; only about half are underground. ...
GREEN BUILDING 101: Indoor Environmental Quality
Inhabitat - USA... condensates. Also inspect the house for leaky pipes, windows, skylights and other areas to eradicate problems from mold. The Environmental ...
Underground storage workers keep their cool
MLive.com - MI,USA... He spends most of his work day in an above-ground office but, during the dog days of summer, he sometimes takes a stroll underground
Drier times lead to much learning
Huntsville Times - Huntsville,AL,USA... How about frogs and crayfish? On two ponds I frequent, I've never seen a crayfish or even one of their "towers" indicating an underground home
Troubled Bath Spa prepares to put the spring back in city's step
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... arrives in the city at 45C, having made its way through cracks and fissures and hidden streams from a mystery source three miles or so underground, where it ...
Hezbollah Fires Over 200 Rockets Into Israel
New York Times - United States
... shadowy Hezbollah fighters, flitting between shattered villages and underground bunkers, were ... from guerillas setting ambushes and firing from hidden positions.
August 2, 2006
NORAD shelves mountain fortress
Globe and Mail - Canada... The underground bunker housing the Canadian Air Defence Sector of NORAD in North Bay is in the process of being shut down, with its operations transferred to a ...
Portland Walking Tours Launches ''Underground Portland'' Tour ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA... on a journey of shady characters, dark alleys and hidden tunnels littered with ... 30, the "Underground Portland" tour begins at the Visitor Information Center in ...
Church coalition staffer in Beirut warns of 'underground disaster'
Church World Service (press release) - Elkhart,IN,USA... Aid, reports that are were signs that fuel is running out, water supplies in the capital and elsewhere are intermittent, and there is a hidden problem of ...
The New Space Race
Newsweek - USA... open for private players," says Steven Morris, president of Research Reports International. ... The facility is going to be built partially underground with shops ...
War game over for underground nerve centre
The Australian - Sydney,Australia... inside the mountain. Metal walls and tunnels were built to withstand a five-megaton nuclear explosion within kilometres. The war .
Senator Clinton Visits DayStar Technologies, Promotes Solar Cell ...Yahoo! News (press release) - USA... local economy. DayStar is creating cutting-edge solar technology, with a goal of mass-producing highly affordable solar energy. I am ...
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