December 24, 2007 Monday

Nazareth, Re-Creating Jesus' Birth
Christian Broadcasting Network - Virginia Beach,VA,USA
Downstairs, the courtyard led to a room in the basement, which was really a 'cave' dug out of soft limestone. That room was used for storage. ...

A gathering of angels
renewamerica.us - Washington,DC,USA
The Ancient of Days had a special message for all the angels. The angels were very enthusiastic. The angel Gabriel flew up to a battlement of the palace, ...

Quake fears rise along S. Utah fault
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... crews with a consulting company - conducting a geologic study for a new development in Washington City - discovered a rupture a few inches underground.

Solar greenhouse provides plants, savings
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
That has provided enough heat storage for a greenhouse with 10-by-10 feet of glass on top plus the ends (about 208 square feet). Don't use milk jugs.

Pressing business at Queen Creek Olive Mill
MSNBC - USA
By SARAH J. BOGGAN TRIBUNE 'Tis the season to harvest olives, and the Queen Creek Olive Mill has dozens of gallons of extra virgin olive oil flowing from

Stable staples
Pueblo Chieftain - Pueblo,CO,USA
Olives, olive oil. These were extremely important to the ancient Hebrews as well as other cultures around the Mediterranean.

Time for flintlock preparations
Leader Times - Kittanning,PA,USA
There's no mystery to installing a flint in the hammer vise. Be sure the flint's striking edge is perfectly flush with the surface of the frizzen. ...

At New Pond Farm: Farm-fresh cheese is for sale year-round
Redding Pilot - Georgetown,CT,USA
Next time you encounter this dilemma, consider something inherently natural and totally homemade, from a process as old as recorded history itself.

Business is booming for makers of reusable grocery bags
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
And since last summer, California law has required all large supermarkets to offer reusable bags for sale. Meanwhile, worries about climate change and ...

Amy's Green Kitchen: Olive Oil
The Green Guide - New York,NY,USA
by Amy Topel by Mindy Pennybacker by Amy Topel The worldwide demand for extra virgin olive oil has led to some unscrupulous marketing.

The OLIVE
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India
You can't do without oil. As more and more Indians scour the market for the best cooking grease, olive oil emerges as the preferred option for the ...

‘’Nutritionist: Oil is Not the Enemy
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA
When it comes to cooking, olive oil is considered a healthy choice. But it's not the only one. Alex Martinez loves to cook, and he loves to cook healthy. ...

From caves to chateaux
Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK
The front of the dwelling looks like the front of a house but the rooms are carved out of stone and it's an almost surreal experience to sleep under rocks, ...

December 18, 2007 Tuesday

Climate change affected by soil
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... extra carbon dioxide generated by new activity underground - so-called "soil respiration". Scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute,

Global warming fix offers hope and risk
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... in underground reservoirs; fertilizing the ocean with iron; adding sulphate aerosols to the stratosphere; and even painting rooftops white. Research on ...

Global Warming May Have Boost From Underground Magma To Melt ...
AHN - USA
San Francisco, CA (AHN) - Some scientists now say that underground magma, along with warming surface temperatures, might be contributing to melting glaciers ...

Study: West Bank pollution threatening Israeli groundwater
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
... to Israel underground. he two-year study was conducted by the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, the Blaustein Institute for Desert Research at ...

China's 5158-m-deep well to help forecast earthquake
Xinhua - China
"Researchers will be able to record the movements of liquid and gas which lies five kilometers underground. While drilling the well they have found abnormal

Russian special forces plan to storm doomsday sect cave
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
"The underground shelter is three to four meters deep," said an officer. "When the sect members enter into negotiations, their voices sound as if they are ...

Playa Viva Living Tree Houses Protect and Inspire
E-Wire (press release) - Dallas,TX,USA
These elements led the Playa Viva team to design tree house casitas, or individual suites, to incorporate coconut palms as living building materials

Homes as power stations
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
... show a different type of trophy home." The tour included homes with a variety of features, from ENERGY STAR-rated appliances to straw bale insulation. ...

4 Steps to Power Your Home When the Grid Fails
Popular Mechanics - New York,NY,USA
... injuring a lineman if you don't shut off the mains, your generator will conk out/overload as it will try to power the grid and your neighbors stuff. ...

Oil-eating bacteria may hold secret to cleaner energy
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
By Steve Connor A breakthrough in the understanding of how microbes break down underground deposits of oil could revolutionise the extraction of fossil ...

Filmmaker goes underground
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
As he discovered people living underground, he found a powerful metaphor in real life. It was a story he felt compelled to tell. ...

Olive oil pipeline leads right to St. Louis
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
The result: Kreta Reserve, a fruit-forward olive oil with mild pungency, currently sold only in St. Louis. Sansone, 59, spent more than 25 years in the ...

The price of oil
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
Called Extra Virgin, an Olive Ovation, the store features a tasting bar with about two dozen olive oils. In addition to extra-virgin olive oil,

Ban on danger fats 'behind the times', say government experts
Daily Mail - UK
Moves by the Government to ban trans-fats from processed foods and restaurant meals have been rejected by experts. Health Secretary Alan Johnson recently ...

Olives - a sacred gift to mankind
Gulf Daily News - Manama,Bahrain
Sequentially, to produce the grade of oil known as pure olive oil, extra virgin is added to the extra light to realise the desired concentration of flavour ...

Birnbeck - Everything you need to know!
Weston & Somerset Mercury - eston-super-Mare,England,UK
On land, there will be earth-sheltered dwellings and terraced houses. Birnbeck 3 - Levitate Architecture and Design Studio Ltd, London - proposes to reveal

Keeping the Home Fires Burning
Orangeville Citizen - Orangeville,Canada
Other local families have made use of straw bale construction to maximize insulation for the home. Friends on Manitoulin Island added a greenhouse on the

Forgotten city lies beneath Seattle's streets
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
Rome has its catacombs; Paris its sewers, and Seattle in America's Washington State has its underground city. So, here I am beneath Seattle's sidewalks,

President Bush's Texas Ranch Is Off-Grid, Eco-Friendly
Ecorazzi - Ithaca,NY,USA
Had it not occurred to you that the person who hires the architect generally has major input and decision power over the final design (that would be that ...

December 11, 2007 Tuesday

Edible outdoor decorations attract wildlife
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA
One couple living on a Pennsylvania farm is known to buy stale Krispy Kreme Doughnuts in commercial quantities for feeding foraging flocks of wild turkeys ...

Going underground
Explorer News - Tucson,AZ,USA
Simply put, the escape route of the cool air inside a basement is cut off by the tons of concrete and soil that surround the underground structure. ...

Going underground
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
So I took a deep breath and went underground. Having missed the infamous Otay Mesa tunnel of 2006 (I was on vacation in Hawaii) I was glad to be around for ...

War of words over an oil named Peace
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP Peace Oil, an olive oil made in Israel by Jews and Arabs, would seem an ideal Christmas gift for those wishing to take a stand ..

Austere lives of Mount Athos monks shown to cut cancer risk
Independent - London,England,UK
The brothers alternate their meals, and ration olive oil, wine and dairy products on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The 20 different monasteries in the ...

Olive oil sector struck by internal fighting
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
Once ranking forth after Spain, Italy and Greece, Turkish olive oil production suffered a setback. Now it ranks sixth after Syria and Tunisia. ...

Going underground: Cave tour expands
9NEWS.com - Denver,CO,USA
GLENWOOD SPRINGS - Bob Buecher is bundled up in a winter coat, ski pants, and hat as he walks through about 4 inches of fresh snow, exploring underground ...

Trapped and starving Chinese miners cook leather belt to keep ...
Times Online - UK
They were pulled out alive early on Sunday after 129 hours underground, their nightmare prolonged because the owner of the illegal mine delayed reporting ...

It's not easy building green
Adirondack Daily Enterprise - Saranac Lake,NY,USA
We sought a home-construction loan to build off the grid using solar photovoltaic cells for all of our electricity needs — hardly experimental construction, ...

Barry Tompkins: Waiting room or time warp?
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
Across the room is a man who is obviously suffering from something that I have immediately diagnosed as bubonic plague. Next to me is a woman who has just

December 4, 2007 Tuesday

Texan shines light on the mystery of the Christmas star
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
"It's a 2000-year-old mystery," Larson said. "I'm not claiming I discovered all this stuff. But I treat it as a celestial poem that began with Christ's ...

It's a bird. It's a plane ... no, it's a rescue tricycle
Globe and Mail - Canada
Scattered around the glowing forge are cast-off parts from contraptions that have included everything from the frame of an underground home to a ...

Underground Urban Farm In Japan.
By Venus
An underground rice and vegetable field has been planted beneath an office building in Tokyo's Otemachi business district. This urban farm - that used to be the vault of a major bank - is maintained using computer-controlled artificial .

Mole Man Dug 200-sq ft Underground Home
By Zolamarquis
But this doesn't affect Tracy as it is no big deal for him and moreover the guy is hunting for a new location to set his next underground abode. Tracy also claims to have opened countless eye-catching underground homes before. ...

Businesses See Green in Iceland's Volcano Power
NPR - USA
NPR Hot water piped up from underground feeds outdoor pools throughout the country. Here, a woman swims at Blue Lagoon, with a geothermal plant behind her.

Explore the air raid shelters
Rundtownnews.co.uk - Spain
There are reconstructions of underground schools and cafes and an impressive video. This is where modern warfare that terrified civilian populations began. ...

Going underground in an area bunker
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
New fears raised by a world with al Qaeda have led one Alabama community to revive and expand its old fallout-shelter plan in case radioactive fallout is ...

Gardeners oppose human fertilizer room (aka bathroom)
Downtown Express - USA
"I don't want to be gardening next to the bathroom," said Larry Wasser, the gardener representative on the Friends of Washington Market Park board. ...

Residents pleased with dome proposal
Garden City Telegram - Garden City,KS,USA
This illustration shows the design of a proposed $5.5 million monolithic dome school that would replace LeotiÕs deteriorating RB Stewart Elementary School.

"Magma PI" Unearths Clues to How Crust Was Sculpted
Newswise (press release) - USA
... Earth's outer layer formed when crystal-free molten rock called magma oozed to the surface from giant subterranean chambers hidden beneath volcanoes. ...

Green buildings make employees see red
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
NSOF is unusual because it has a "green" roof, with soil and plantings on top of the building. Most green buildings have drought-resistant plants rather ...

Seen/scene: Indie magazine helps fine-tune your life
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
From her earth-sheltered home north of Monroe, Loynd oversees a telecommuting team of about 15. "We appeal to a very wide variety of readers who might not ...

Turning over a new Woodleaf
Appeal-Democrat - Marysville,CA,USA
... home to Woodleaf Outdoor School are two of the largest buildings in North America constructed of rammed earth, and 13 small coiled-earth dome cabins. ...

Meeting to discuss self-sustaining community
Daily News - Galveston County - TX,USA
We'll show everything from how to construct eco-friendly rammed earth housing to designing water collection systems for use in arid regions. ...