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August 26, 2008 Tuesday
Vanishing ice opening Arctic for ships
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
By RACHEL D'ORO • AP • August 24, 2008 BARROW, Alaska -- Rapidly melting ice on Alaska's Arctic is opening up a new navigable ocean in the extreme north,
Gulf Coast Western Participates in Major Natural Gas Discovery in ...
PR-CANADA.net (press release) - Murino,Montenegro
Gulf Coast Western, LLC participated in a significant natural gas discovery in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The Dallas, Texas based exploration and ...
Grizzlies credited with oil discovery in Waterton
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
Even these enthusiastic authors admit, "there has never been any major amount of oil" in the Waterton area. Clint Tippett, president of the Petroleum ...
City clears way for solar panels on rooftops
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
Easing the rules for individual wind turbines is still being looked at, Younger said, but are more complicated because of possible vibration and noise ...
The Father of Earth-Sheltered Design
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
By Charles Higginson Malcolm “Mac” Wells has been called the father of modern earth-sheltered architecture, the guru of underground building and the gentle ...
’Exploring Berlins endangered bunkers
The Local - Hamburg - Hamburg,Germany
However, if you’re interested you in getting underground you should soon - although the structures were built to survive bombing raids and nuclear blasts, ...
China's stress on "harmony" keeps tight lid on religion
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
Since religious polling is difficult in China, specialists are unsure about whether this data includes the somewhat misnamed "underground" churches and ...
Flow & Grow, the hydroponic garden center, is holding a grand ...
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville,NC,USA
But by this time next year, the hope is to have greenhouses in front of the business, which is a former paint and body shop, said manager Pamela Jackson. ...
Get a load of these organic, vine-ripened tomatoes
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
His challenge began with growing the tomato seeds in his greenhouse and then planting them after the frost. He uses a drip system to irrigate the tomato ...
Growing Points: Dolce Vita Farm
VillageSoup Belfast - ME, USA
Now she farms three acres and raises winter greens and, in summer, heat-loving crops in two 48-foot-long greenhouses. “I always wanted to be self-employed ...
Southwick Tunnel is "secret military installation"
The Argus.co.uk - Brighton,UK
He said: "As a ten year old playing on the Downs at the top of Kingston Lane, in Southwick, I was conscious of a secret underground bunker there.
August 19, 2008 Tuesday
Underground Polar Cities: Our Last Defence Against Global Warming?
Environmental Graffiti - London,England,UK
Whether you believe in global warming or not, the world is changing. The areas around the equator are getting hotter, so much so that scientists believe ...
From inventor boot camp, gadgets that could change lives
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
One team rammed earth into a simple mold as part of a system for making stabilized interlocking construction blocks. Another came up with a machine that
Eco-friendly social homes scheme 'vision' approved
Spalding Today - Spalding,England,UK
The Long Sutton Earth Sheltered Social Housing (LESH) scheme received massive praise from South Holland District Council development control committee ...
The truth behind GE ads' green dreams
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
REAL STORY: In August, GE announced that its Jenbacher Biogas Engine would be used for a biogas plant fed by chicken manure from a large farm north of ...
Killing Cement Manufacturers Softly
This Day - Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
Would I ever build a house of my own? Yes I would, I told myself, I shouldn’t be a tenant forever. So I started starving and started saving. .
Land of the Free, Home of the Bug
Biscayne Times - Miami,FL,USA
And those mysterious wormlike bugs in the pages of my books? My husband dismissed them as ants “or something.” It took a couple of dozen of flying insects ...
‘’Former drug farm now used for education
Muskogee Daily Phoenix - Muskogee,OK,USA
Smith told Harding he was building an underground house. The front had caved in and Smith was in the process of bracing it up. Harding didn’t think anything
Candy, anyone? Factory tours can be a sweet time
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
... while environmentalists are attracted to such features as the factory’s “living roof” planted with 10.4 acres of sedum, solar panels, and a storm water ...
GREENTECH; Hydrogen Car Is Here, a Bit Ahead of Its Time
New York Times Blogs - New York,NY,USA
Scanning the dashboard for unmarked switches, mysterious buttons and puzzling controls, I looked for the inevitable loose ends of an engineering prototype ...
Earthship Trooper
Miller-McCune.com - Santa Barbara,CA,USA
Earthships use photovoltaic cells that produce enough electricity to run lights, computers and flat-screen TVs; their roofs funnel rainwater into
August 12, 2008 Tuesday
'Biofuel can ensure India's energy security'
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
Other biofuels can be extracted from dry organic matter or combustible oils produced by plants. Alcohol (from fermented sugar), black liquor from paper ...
Scientists stumble upon 'carbon-capture' farming
CNN International - USA
... a third greenhouse gas -- nitrous oxide. They also are trying to determine how to minimize another potential problem -- dissolved organic matter. ...
Bush Declared 422 Major Disasters
New York Times - United States
By AUSTIN BOGUES During his seven and a half years in office, President Bush has declared 422 major disasters — severe storms, tornadoes, wildfires and ...
Bucky's dome right at home
Cape Cod Times - Hyannis,MA,USA
The geodesic dome overlooking Woods Hole Harbor, formerly a restaurant, is believed to be one of the first designed and built for commercial use by R. ...
Slide show of our sun-powered future
Plenty Magazine - New York,NY,USA
By Alisa Opar When someone mentions solar energy, most of us think of rectangular panes attached to the roof of a house. But solar has gone way beyond ...
Ask AP: Drilling for oil, the role of honeybees
The Associated Press -
___ There are occasional news stories about the mysterious reduction in the honeybee population. The articles always warn of dire consequences to fruit and ...
White House Briefed On Potential For Mars Life
Aviation Week - New York,NY,USA
News media cited the water ice finding as a major discovery, but it was totally expected by the science team. The different MECA data combined with TEGA is ...
The outlaws of Worcester county
Independent - London,England,UK
They opened the trapdoor to an underground bunker where agricultural machinery was usually stored, and found boxes and bins covered with straw, inside which ...
Honecker's nuclear bunker open to public
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
Visitors are flocking to the once top-secret bunker of Erich Honecker and other leaders of former East Germany after it opened to the public yesterday,
Secret Cold War bunker vacant in Chatham
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
Now one of the nation's most secret Cold War installations -- a giant underground bunker built into a hilltop now flanked by some of fast-growing northern ...
Millions of stolen antiques lie hidden and buried in the Midlands
Sunday Mercury - Birmingham,West Midlands,UK
WHEN detectives found an Aladdin’s cave of treasures in an underground bunker in a Midland field many believed they had cracked their case. ..
Searching For Richardson Cave
WISC - Madison,WI,USA
When I spent some time in New Zealand, I went rafting on rivers that ran through underground tunnels, with glowworms hanging on the ceiling. .
Holocaust survivor to return to cave where she hid
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Hochman was one of 38 Jews who dwelled underground for more than a year, with most of the time spent in a cave known as Priest's Grotto.
Tuesday August 5, 2008
In Canada, a rammed-earth wall for the ages By admin The relationship between architecture and nature rarely gets more explicit than with rammed-earth construction. The 18-foot-high western exterior wall of the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Center in Osoyoos, British Columbia, stretches for 260 ...
China's Transformation
Hartford Courant - United States
... while many in the countryside are literally dirt poor, living in man-made caves, or simple houses made from wood, bricks, clay and rammed earth. .
Seattle security expert helped uncover major design flaw on Internet
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Three weeks ago, Kaminsky's discovery caused a minor media stir. But before word leaked out he had assembled a group of experts who worked in secret to ...
Finding gold in California: 2 natural treasures just across the ...
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
You’ll need them for a day trip to nearby Marin County, where you can walk among ancient redwoods, roam with a herd of elk, and maybe even feel the earth
Plastic Fantastic
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
Artist Diedra Krieger of Philadelphia stands outside her 16-foot geodesic dome made with over 4000 plastic water bottles on the Vermont College green on
Whole lot of shaking going on
KVBC - Las Vegas,NV,USA
In fact, a 6.0 earthquake rattled Wells, Nevada, near the Utah border. Two historic buildings in Wells suffered major damage, and minor damage was reported ...
’Fort Edmonton Parks Welcome Centre aims for LEED Gold
Journal of Commerce - Burnaby,BC,Canada
Additional insulation will be provided by setting the building into the side of a berm (creating an earth-sheltered building mass) and topping the structure ...
Tours of East German leaders' nuclear bunker
The Associated Press -
Until the Berlin Wall fell in late 1989, about 30 secret police employees kept the bunker running around the clock. The reunified Germany's military used ...
Secrets of Erich Honecker's nuclear bunker revealed
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Harry de Quetteville But curious visitors to the long secret underground command centre will have only three months to inspect the site before it is
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