December 29, 2005

2005, a Year to Remember: Busiest Hurricane Season of the Century
Insurance Journal - USA
The hurricane season made 2005 a year-to-remember, with the southeast encountering the busiest hurricane season of the century, with 26 named storms and 13 ...

BLDGBLOG: The Monolithic Dome Institute
The Monolithic Dome Institute operates a number of subsidiary companies, ... [Image: Anatomy of a dome: "The Monolithic Dome is a super-insulated, ...

The Great Wall of MIT
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA ... Parts of the Great Wall of China, still standing despite being built more than 2000 years ago, were built using a construction technique called rammed earth. ...

Windmills, Correction and Comment Hawaii Reporter - Kailua,HI,USA... Solar and geothermal, as well as others, are already in place. ... Tremendous amounts of electricity could be saved by implementing some of the fiber optic ...

90 years later, Peru battles Yale over Incan artifacts
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA... Get all the Monitor's headlines by e-mail. But they won't find too many bowls, tools, ritual objects, or other artifacts used by the Incas of the late 1400s. ...

Power lines project launched
Frontiersman (subscription) - Wasilla,AK,USA... electrical power - a 1.5-million-watt generator, according to hospital spokesperson Elizabeth Ripley. "It's unbelievable. It would power a small city," she ...

Soy-based fuel plants to open in Pa. Miami Herald - FL,USA
... biodiesel. A soy-based fuel is currently being made by Soy Energy Inc. in ... Middletown. "It's not pie in the sky, it's not cold fusion.". Agra ...

New Ford Vehicle Lighting
Autochannel - USA
... A third concept vehicle incorporates the latest in lighting technology -- head-intensity light emitting diodes (LEDs) in headlights -- with a unique style ...

Clean car gets a powerful plug
philly.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Unlike gasoline and electric hybrids such as the Toyota Prius and Ford's Escape hybrid SUV, neighborhood electric vehicles must be plugged into a power outlet ...

Metro suggests tunneling through Tysons TimesCommunity.com - Leesburg,VA,USA Virginia is studying a proposal from Metro to tunnel through Tysons Corner ... The state did initially consider an underground alternative when plotting Metro's ...

Farms to provide 70 per cent of fish China Daily - China... said. By then at least 70 per cent of the output will come from aquaculture (fish farming) instead of offshore fishing, he said. ...

US Helping Thailand Rebuild Tsunami-Devastated Industries
US Dept of State (press release) - Washington,DC,USA... One of the agency's largest projects is to teach new aquaculture and business techniques. Aquaculture is being promoted heavily ...

Home lets visitors spend the night in cave News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA A former bomb shelter, Beckham Creek Cave Haven in Arkansas is built inside a cavern. By Larry Bleiberg. PARTHENON, Ark. -- The house has five bedrooms. ...

Underground Water in Most Chinese Cities Polluted
Voice of America - USA
A survey by China's Environmental Protection Administration says underground water supplies in 90 percent of Chinese cities are polluted, raising concerns ...

Venture capitalists embrace solar energy MSNBC - USA NEW YORK - When Rusty Schmit landed his first job 25 years ago as an engineer for Motorola Inc., he was given a choice: specialize in weapons or solar power. ...

Expert Says Post-Hurricane Mold Could Be Toxic The Bahama Journal - Nassau,Bahamas... Even if there is initially a certain amount of mold, allowing sunlight to filter through and air to circulate could rid the home of mold, he said.

Goodbye mini bar, hello mini room CNN International - USA
... But, like their easyHotel rivals, Yotel rooms may seem a little claustrophobic, with no natural lighting -- a concern that Woodroffe says is likely to be ...

A Space Full of Lofty Ideas
Gilroy Dispatch (subscription) - Gilroy,CA,USA ... Using organic elements, natural colors, dramatic cabinetry and modern lighting, I created a sleek and contemporary loft with a cool "dig your toes in the sand ...

December 26, 2005

Death spanned income levels in Katrina devastation
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
By Nicholas Riccardi,. The bodies of New Orleans residents killed by Hurricane Katrina were almost as likely to be recovered from ...

Builders fight rules on rainwater runoff Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA OLYMPIA -- Calling new state regulations on polluted rainwater runoff at construction sites too difficult and expensive to comply with, the Building Industry

Assamese scientist gets patent for floating power plant
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India ... after retirement. In 1999 he completed research on floating water wheel turbine project using mainly timber and bamboo. The state ...

Report: Japan wants to test for Monsanto traits in Canadian seed St. Louis Business Journal - St. Louis,MO ,USA Japan will test its Canadian rapeseed imports for the presence of an unapproved strain of genetically modified oilseed developed by Monsanto Co., according to ...

Monsanto donates seeds to fight Malawian food shortages
St. Louis Business Journal - St. Louis,MO,USA Monsanto will donate hybrid corn seeds worth about $840,000 to combat food shortages in Malawi, in Southern Africa, the company said Tuesday.

December 22, 2005

Field Notes-- Deck The Halls With Boughs of...Winterberry
Newtown Bee - Newtown,CT,USA
... With barely nine hours of daylight and 15 hours of darkness, most of us are running on a deficit of sunshine and ... Harvesting a sprig or two requires effort. ...

Students: Dump is potential field of new opportunity
Middletown Press - Middletown,CT,USA ... landfill began in the 1940's as an abandoned, 15-acre clay pit into which ... it turns into two gases: carbon dioxide and methane, a potent greenhouse gas blamed ...

The Best and Worst in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Century Foundation - New York,NY,USA It is easy to come up with the worst resulting from Hurricane Katrina. The Category 4 storm itself was among the worst natural disasters .

Powering up a new breed of batteries ARNnet - Australia
... It has a prototype that matches the power of lithium ion batteries; the company's research goal is a fuel cell that offers between three and five times this ...

Thin Film Lithium Technology May Power Christmas of the Future Newswise (press release) - USA... Sciences and Engineering, and Laboratory Technology Transfer Research Program, ORNL has developed materials for thin film lithium batteries that withstand

EPA invents battery-less hybrid system CNN - USA... says. According to a 2004 EPA report, a hydraulic hybrid SUV would weigh about 190 pounds more than a conventional SUV. That means ...

EUREKA brings sunshine to peoples' hearts
innovations report - Bad Homburg,Germany
... Once the benefits of this natural lighting system can be experienced in a trial installation, the decision to provide funding for implementation should be much ...

State's consultant says nation is primed for using Alaska gas
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
... Or Cold Fusion? And ... Even GM is close to bankruptcy. All the energy alternatives over the years have ended up going nowhere. Natural ...

Viewpoint: We are facing a severe survival test
Rock River Times - Rockford,IL,USA... energy outlook, predicts the next several months will test our survival skills to ... Mike Ruppert, publisher of From the Wilderness publications, says it this way ...

Fuel shortage claims misleading: Mobil
ABC Online - Australia
Oil company Mobil says there is no risk of Adelaide running out of fuel, despite RAA concerns that the minimum fuel storage is often as low as three days ...

Marshall Islands faces fuel shortage ABC Asia Pacific - Australia A dispute with Mobil Oil Micronesia over fuel pricing, has put the Marshall Islands capital of Majuro in danger of running out of fuel by next month. ...

Fuel shortage forces Heathrow flights to make 'pit-stops'
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Airlines at Heathrow airport have been put on fuel rationing following the devastating Hemel Hempstead oil depot explosions, it was confirmed today. ...

Sylt: Northern Germany's hidden haven
CNN International - USA
... A sculptor, Rieck built the site out of a disused bunker, making the half-underground rooms sitting beneath grassed hills peculiarly reminiscent of Tolkein's ...

The man who saved the world
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA ... 26, and 120 staff were working the graveyard shift in Serpukhov-15, the secret USSR command bunker hidden in a forest 30 miles northeast of Moscow. ...

Protect our electronics against EMP attack
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA An EMP is generated by a nuclear explosion, or by a smaller-scale "e-bomb." If a terrorist or rogue nation detonated a nuclear bomb a few hundred miles above ...

Honda to Mass Produce Next-Generation Thin Film Solar Cell RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
has become the first car company to enter into the solar photovoltaic (PV) market. This week, the company announced its plan to ...

Tehran's missile project 'is hidden underground'
Scotsman - United Kingdom
AN IRANIAN exile group has claimed that Tehran has secretly built a network of tunnels and underground facilities, with the help of two Russian scientists, in ..

Cricova: the Largest Underground Wine Cellar in the World
Moldova.org - Falls Church,VA,USA
... wine lover could dream of is also in Moldova. The largest underground wine cellar in the world is "hidden" in this country. ..

Holographic Storage Dwarfs DVDs
NewsFactor Network - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
... InPhase, a leader in the field of holographic storage, claims its prototype discs can store about 40 times as much data as a typical DVD, or almost 300 times ...

How to choose the best heating- cooling system
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
... Btu/gallon; electricity, 3,414 Btu/kilowatt-hour; firewood, 22,000,000 Btu/cord; and corn, 448,000 Btu/bushel. In many areas, you will find geothermal heat ...

December 18, 2005

Christmas 1890: A better place indeed
Ledger Independent - Maysville,KY,USA
... candied). Families raided the root cellar and produced turnips, carrots, parsnips and cabbage. All were boiled, baked, mashed or pureed.

A lost nativity scene is replaced
Canada Western Catholic Reporter - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
... But Red Deer was a new and strange place for my sisters and me. ... I disliked the new ornaments and lights especially my mother's fad of all blue lights. ...

Monica Yant Kinney | Critics are tilting at wind farms
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
A sewage treatment plant in New Jersey on the cutting edge of clean, green ... These sleek, white wonders of technology and nature are right off the expressway ...

EMP - (Enemy Media Propaganda) RA Hawkins
Opinion Editorials - Fairfax,VA,USA
Several years later an unrelated article came out in Scientific American magazine regarding the fact that a nuclear weapon detonated over the North East, North ...

Hurricane Katrina: The Long Road to Recovery An Insurance Journal ...
Insurance Journal - USA
... trying to recover from the country's worst natural disaster ever, two Insurance Journal reporters set out to see for themselves the effects of Hurricane Katrina ...

New Herculean Materials
TechnologyReview.com - USA
... Much of the past research on shape-morphing materials has involved piezoelectrics ... For years, researchers in the related field of batteries have faced the ...

Schwarzenegger Backs New Solar Power Plan
Forbes - USA
NEW YORK - The California Solar Initiative (CSI): Science fiction? Not if Total Recall star Arnold Schwarzenegger has anything to do with it.

Space 'spiders' could build solar satellites
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
The engineers behind the project hope the robots will eventually be used to construct colossal solar panels for satellites that will transmit solar energy back ...

Solar power company listed in New York
Xinhua - China
15 -- Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd, one of the world's leading solar energy companies, was last night due to make its IPO (initial public offering) debut in ...

Environment Waived in Hurricane-Hit Gulf Coast
FOX News - USA
... were pumped into Lake Pontchartrain, regulators said environmental rules had to be set aside to save the Gulf Coast from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. ...

Tunnel of love
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... killer. But Elliott had seen a photo of the lakefront Axenstrasse in Switzerland, celebrated as the world's only tunnel with windows. .

The land down under
Southeast Missourian - Cape Girardeau,MO,USA
... of it will go into the Crevice Cave system, which is the longest cave in the ... During the 1970s, Scott House of Cape Girardeau avidly explored Perry County caves ...

®Diamond Doctor is Exactly What the Doctor Ordered
PressZoom (press release) - Amsterdam,Netherlands
... Inc., a leading producer of environmentally safe dust and soil erosion control ... troublesome to those with asthma, allergy and breathing problems, while creating .

Move those tea roses to a sunny place
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... winter can whip around long canes and possibly loosen roots from the soil. ... oil formulated for dormant plants should also help reduce disease problems next year .

Soil protection form not daunting
FarmersWeekly - UK
... "But on a more practical level, they can start to determine the soil types on the farm and identify any soil problems that may exist. ...

Nuke Over US Could Unleash Electromagnetic Tsunami
Omega Letter Intelligence Digest (subscription) - USA
... execute such an attack by launching a small nuclear armed missile from a freighter off the coast of the United States. The ingredients for an EMP attack may be ...

Predicting earthquakes Granite batteries
Economist - UK
... that earthquakes cannot be predicted, although every large one brings tales of animals sensing trouble hours beforehand and of people seeing strange lights. ...

Ground Penetrating Radar
WXXA - Albany,NY,USA
The huge apartment explosion in New Jersey on Tuesday ... President John Shafer of Spectra Engineering says, "It can look underground and give a very precise within ...

Here's What the Best-Dressed Holiday Cards are Wearing This Season
Finanzen.net - Germany
... Confetti - Add the element of a delightful surprise with a sprinkling of delicate confetti inside the envelope, like the frosted translucent snowflake card ...

'We woke up to devastation'
BBC News - UK
By John Hand. Few places took the force of the blast from the early morning explosion more severely than Wellbury Terrace - a row ...

Saddam's bunker now a tourist attraction
Indian Express - New Delhi,India
BAGHDAD, DECEMBER 9: Saddam Hussein's underground bunker, surprisingly undamaged despite heavy US bombing in 2003, has become a tourist attraction for .

Petzl Headlamps Shine Brighter
OUTDOORNEWSWIRE - Seattle,WA,USA
... Petzl is dedicated to bringing the most advanced lighting technology to end users. Petzl America is the US division of Petzl, headquartered in France. ...

Some look to the heavens, others to Mother Earth to beat high ...
Olean Times Herald - Olean,NY,USA
... The whole system doesn't require any fuel but runs entirely on electricity. An open-loop geothermal system isn't as common and requires a large supply of ...

Revealed.. the true horror of the Hemel explosion
Mirror.co.uk - UK
... of the roof collapsed. Firefighters said many workers would have been killed by the shockwave and fireball. Meanwhile, the bitter ...

Green Gas, Cool Wind
Boise Weekly - ID, USA
... Economic viability remains an issue with small wind farmers in areas where the ... The planet-friendly benefits of the landfill gas-to-energy generator also goes ...

Fuel Shortage
WGRZ-TV - Buffalo,NY,USA
... the shortage is apparently fueled by a lot of people making pellet stoves popular. Bill Sim, Southtowns Fireplace: "Everyone's concerned about their fuel bills ...

Mysterious Oxygenation
Now Toronto - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Clearing the air around aerobic oxygen Super-oxygenated water: a good immune booster and bacteria buster or a scientific dud? By ELIZABETH BROMSTEIN. ...

Arizona school conducts research at solar-powered farm
Newstarget.com - Taichung,Taiwan
... but the generator backup has not been used. The ventilator fan was whirring in the greenhouse, the lights were on in the caretaker's house and the small food ...

Spaceport could see rocket test launch
Brazosport Facts (subscription) - Clute,TX,USA
... The group launched two small rockets from the proposed site near Demi John in May ... The association is also looking for a public address system and a generator. ...

Spinning Power from Waste Energy: Louis Michaud's Atmosphere ...
PESN - Eagle Mountain,Utah,USA
... In this small setup, the ratio of container wall to vortex is ten to one. ... In June of 2005, Tom Fletcher built a square vortex generator eight feet tall, and ...

Library will have green credentials
Devon 24 - UK
... "Adequate natural lighting, maximising solar gain, the avoidance of dust mites, healthy non-toxic finishes using natural paints, stains and waxes and the ...

It takes an Island to change a light bulb
Martha's Vineyard Times - Vineyard Haven,MA,USA
... electrical demand by seven percent, according to the "Vineyard Lighting Challenge." The ... It has now evolved into natural looking full-spectrum light in standard ...

December 12, 2005

New Solar Panels for Hybrid Cars Improve MPG
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
7 /PRNewswire/ -- Solatec LLC(TM) is pleased to introduce flexible, rooftop-mounted Solar Panels for Hybrid Vehicles, starting with a kit for the 2004-2006 ...

Linthicum Man's Christmas Tree House
WJZ - Baltimore,MD,USA
During the holidays he opens his house for tours to raise money for his church. "I do this because I celebrate the birth of Christ," Gilbert says. ...

Sixty feet under
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
By Ann Geracimos. The Garay home nearing completion in Clinton is an underground house built on top of the ground. That's not the ...

Massive blast hits UK fuel depot, believed accident
Khaleej Times - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
... got off a lot more lightly than you would expect with an explosion of this ... brought to the depot, near the town of Hemel Hempstead, by underground pipeline from ...

Boeing shows off futuristic bomber
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription) - Tacoma,WA,USA
The aircraft, called the X-45C, would fly unmanned missions at nearly the speed of sound. A prototype was on display at Boeing facilities in Seattle. ...

Monolithic Dome Picture Gallery
A gallery of Monolithic Dome homes, churches, schools, arenas, industrial buildings, and theme domes. Additional information is also provided regarding the ...

Don't be SAD, beat the winter blues
Cochrane Times - Cochrane,Alberta,Canada
... Artificial lighting also interferes with the body's absorption of nutrients, a ... Wearing sunglasses limits the amount of natural light that travels the path ...

~~~~Spinach Creek Farm finds loyal buyers for winter carrot sale
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks,AK,USA
... fall. But Pete said it has become a tradition to keep some in the root cellar, so they will still be fresh for the December bazaar. ...

December 9, 2005

Exploring underground
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
... through crevices, jumping over holes and puddles, wading through underground rivers and ... climbers and fly-fishermen, keep their honey spots secret to prevent ...

Marin feud with a view Fight over burying utility lines divides ...San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA... we regularly have power outages during the winter." She bought her home in the ... the $3 million to $4 million it would cost to hide the utilities underground.

A Terrorist's Dream, An American Nightmare
FrontPage magazine.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... It's not like we're just learning about EMP. Soviet and American nuclear scientists first discovered this effect during atmospheric testing in the early ...

Green Building: Public Need and Perception
SLCC Globe Link (subscription) - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... "They offer tax breaks on homes that meet certain energy efficiency requirements. They even have building codes for rammed earth and straw bale construction

Remember Pearl Harbor: Dec. 7, 1941 On 64th anniversary, Hartselle ...
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA... for Gen. Douglas MacArthur's troops in Australia, after MacArthur and his family escaped Corregidor in the Philippines. "Everyone ...

Big Spring man remembers Pear Harbor attack, WWII
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA... 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor was shocking to people in the United States but especially troubling to Army soldiers on the island of Corregidor because they

NEW FROM JAMESTOWN
Jamestown Foundation - Washington,DC,USA
... When the explosion happened, no one could tell exactly how many miners were trapped underground because the work-shift record was so confusing that there was a ...

Most Dangerous Volcano Erupts Zaman Online - Istanbul,Turkey... The danger relates to the massive explosion that is likely to occur when Lake ... The sides of volcanic lake could collapse from the underground pressure, and this

Students to install solar fountain in Chapel Pond
The Ithacan - USA
... The small fountain will work by solar power and spray an average height of five feet ... The other, which is larger and used as a back-up generator at EcoVillage ...

Fuel shortage has Cape Town running on empty
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa... The shortage in the City Bowl has seen at least one petrol station without fuel since Monday but the pinch has also been felt in Kommetjie, Green Point and at ...

Ban on animal fat fuel 'bizarre'
Scotsman - United Kingdom
FARMERS and the meat trade continue to protest as a European ban on the use of tallow as an energy source creeps closer. The ban ...

Next-generation storage to use holographic technology
ITP.net - Dubai,United Arab Emiratesare working on a technology called Tapestry Holographic Memory that uses laser beams to save 300GB of information onto a single disc. ...

Spectrometer helps processors detect the right blend
FoodProductionDaily.com - Montpellier,France
... in a batch. The instrument features a integral microprocessor, memory and custom-designed holographic grating. Very little sample ...

Translucent Roof's Properties Prove Efficient and Durable
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
A translucent patent-pending roofing structure allows natural, filtered daylight to penetrate living areas without the energy loss and higher heating and ...

Photonic breakthrough for Aus owned firm
Ferret - Australia Translucent, a subsidiary of Australian company Silex Systems, claims to have developed electroluminescence at room temperature in silicon compatible with mass ...

Stand Up and Be Counted
Egypt Today - Cairo,Egypt
... 4,000 miles from the lakes of Central Africa to the Mediterranean, may well be the cradle of civilization and that the ox-driven water wheel was introduced in ...

December 6, 2005

Underground explosion leaves nurse with burns
Brandon Sun - Manitoba, Canada
A St. Adolphe man is in stable condition after being the victim in Tuesday's underground explosion of a Manitoba Hydro transformer. ..

Bose suspension makes leaps ahead Poughkeepsie Journal - Poughkeepsie,NY,USA
... in fields as diverse as nuclear submarine technology and cold fusion, with varying ... audio are also used to minimize fuel costs by regenerating energy flowing in ...

December 3, 2005

The bunkers to penthouse rise of Berlin
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
... The remains of another huge Nazi-built bunker are still to be seen at the ... Instructed to blow up the airport's secret underground complex in April 1945, shortly ...

Inside Symantec's underground bunker
ZDNet UK - UK
In one of the rolling hills above Winchester rests a decommissioned nuclear bunker, which is now owned by IT security company Symantec.

Call for earthquake resistant buildings
I-Newswire.com (press release) - USA In light of recent events in Pakistan, Rollo Reid, Director of Reid Steel, has been looking at the need for earthquake resistant buildings. ...

First of Five Wind Turbines Raised in New Jersey
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
... The project is predicted to produce approximately 19 million kWh of emission-free electricity per year, which is enough emission-free energy to power more than ...

Hundreds more earthquake survivors Ireland Online - Dublin,Ireland Hundreds more survivors of Pakistan's huge earthquake sought treatment today for weather-related ailments following a cold snap, hospital officials said. ...

Composted biosolids bind lead in soil, reducing danger of ...
uwnews.org - WA,USA
... Co-author Chaney, a metals specialist, says, "Ever since we found the extensive urban-soil lead problems in the mid '80s, we've been seeking a lower-cost ...

Australia looks to discover new ene MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA ... Several countries, including the United States, the Philippines, Iceland, New Zealand and Japan, already produce commercial geothermal electricity. ..

The New Face of Philips
BusinessWeek - USA
... The lighting industry is making the step from vacuum technology -- from traditional light bulbs to solid-state technology LEDs [light emitting diodes]. ...

Translucent claims EL first at room temperatures
EE Times Online - USA
LONDON -- Translucent Inc., the US subsidiary of Australian research group Silex Systems Ltd., has demonstrated electroluminescence (EL) at telecommunications ...

A Hero Speaks
FrontPage magazine.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA ... painful cast on his arm. Day was bound at the ankles and carried to a small underground bunker. After dark, he managed to untie ...

Crack found in levee after earthquake Xinhua - China
29 -- A crack appeared in the levee of the Yangtze River after an earthquake hit Jiujiang, East China's Jiangxi Province, an official said Monday. ...

December 1, 2005

The bunkers to penthouse rise of Berlin Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
... Instructed to blow up the airport's secret underground complex in April 1945, shortly before the Russian capture of Berlin, its director, Colonel Rudolf ..

The SolarBee: A Solar Sci-fi Fantasy to Save $130,000 Annually RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
Drawing about 5,000 horsepower of 'free' energy from the sun, this solar aerator reduces greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), lowers maintenance time and is safer ...

Hurricane Wilma Spurs Interest in EcoShells
AZoBuild - Sydney,Australia
... "Hurricane Andrew in 1992 made me aware of Monolithic," David said. "That's when I attempted to build Monolithic Dome homes, but my plan didn't work because ...

Valpo ponders revoking bakery's tax abatement
Munster Times - Munster,IN,USA
... a rocky start when pickets from the building and construction trades protested the use of nonunion labor for the construction of the monolithic dome, and the ...

You can get a-round in this home
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
... During the Internet search, he said that he came across a Web site for the Monolithic Dome Institute. What Darrick found on the Web piqued his interest. ...

Mains power finally lights up the valley that time forgot
ic Wales - United Kingdom
... costs mean Mam and myself have to be very careful about when we switch on the generator. ... "It's difficult to say whether these are the last small farms relying ...

Rounds: Outages may last weeks
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
... three daughters spent Monday night huddled in one bedroom around a small propane heater. ... Oster planned to use the other generator to fire up the boilers in the ...

Wind-ups Gadget - Pinegowrie,Western Cape,South Africa
... been partly funded through a government-sponsored funding prize from Smart (small firms merit ... Simply by winding the hand generator attached to it by a short .

Loveland farmhouse took couple's life on a different course
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... They left historical touches intact, including the signature of Louella Humphrey scribbled in 1870 in fresh plaster in the root cellar under the original house ...

3 Months After Katrina, Some in Mississippi Feel Overlooked
ABC News - USA
GULFPORT, Miss., Nov. 30, 2005 -- For more than 80 miles along Mississippi's coast, the devastation is still stunning three months after Katrina hit. ...

Mount St. Helens hit by swarm of small earthquakes
uwnews.org - WA,USA
23, an earthquake swarm has been occurring at Mount St. Helens. ... Prior to the 2001 swarm, the last period of increased earthquake activity at Mount St. ...

1st C2C house nears construction
Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA,USA
... One of the homes slated for construction was to be made of "rammed earth," a process of building walls by compressing a mixture of earth and concrete. ...

If you go down to the woods today The Observer - UK
... While mainstream society is busy erecting monuments to perpetuity, low-impact livers construct their dwellings from rammed earth, mud, straw bales and local ...

Architecture students to design and build experimental 'green' ...uwnews.org - WA,USA
... Eco-friendly features range from rainwater irrigation, to computer-modeled natural lighting, to concrete slab floors that stay cool during the area's torrid ...

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