February 28, 2007 Tuesday

Some turning to green technology, but not quickly
Tahlequah Daily Press - Tahlequah,OK,USA
Supporters of this “green technology” say solar panels – tubes of heated water and massive windows – are the future of architecture, but the larger, ...

Stacy Ellingen column: Misconceptions plague those with disabilities
The Reporter - Fond du Lac,WI,USA
I am often asked if I could have one ability that I don't currently possess, what would it be? Many people are surprised by my response. ...

Celebrities Make Green Issues Cool
Today's THV - Little Rock,AR,USA
CATE BLANCHETT: plans to equip Sydney Theater Company building with solar panels, rainwater collection systems to make it completely eco-friendly.

Vermont pioneer makes energy smarter
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
Lundberg Family Farms grows organic rice and they monitor their 2kW solar PV array with Draker Solar's technology. The system's sensors upload data to the ...

Rammed earth from Ramco
Infolink Architecture & Building - Australia
There are many variations, styles and colours available for you to choose from in the design of your rammed earth home, allowing you to embrace your ...

 Root, root, root for the rutabaga
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
STORAGE: Rutabagas can be stored in a plastic bag in the refrigerator for up to two weeks. Can be stored in a root cellar for more than a month.

Developer: It's not easy being green
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
There's an organic garden where customers pick up fresh produce, a wind-and-solar-energy system monitored by UNC-Chapel Hill interns and a small biodiesel

Oil Glut Hidden by Rig Dearth Makes Drillers Good Bet (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
The oil left underground in the US alone is enough to replace every barrel pumped from Iran for the next 20 years, according to statistics compiled by ...

Challenges and Advancements in Solar Cooking
WorldChanging - USA
In our email thread, he mentioned a newer solar technology that has improved upon some of the earlier glitches in ultra-simplistic solar cookers,

‘’Green features make new building energy efficientRecord-Searchlight (subscription) - Redding,CA,USA By Dylan Darling (Contact). Forget the brown paint on its exterior — with solar power, an efficient air conditioner and a rooftop garden, the new Redding ...

Ground Rises Near Ancient Italian Volcano
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
A caldera forms when a volcano collapses into itself after the underlying magma chamber empties, usually from an eruption. ..

Charter school intends rounded education to start in library dome
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA
When complete, The Children's Reading Center Charter School will be one of just two schools in Florida to use the monolithic dome design.

Making Prague a little greener
Prague Post - Prague,Czech Republic
By that he means they integrated the building into the surroundings, used solar energy, earth-sheltered it to protect it from the elements and designed it

US solar use growing despite manufacturing woes
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
NEW YORK, Feb 22 (Reuters) - A burst of new solar technology will help the United States cut its reliance on fossil fuels, but experts say the nation is ...

Family's Roof Ripped Off By Council
Life Style Extra - UK
"We spent nearly three weeks with buckets in the children's rooms collecting rainwater which is seeping through the tarpaulin.

Mapping a solar energy strategy
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
ALBANY -- Solar energy experts gathered at the University at Albany this week to create a business and technology "road map" for the solar industry in New ...

New Homes in California Using Solar Technology
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA
The houses will have solar panels on the roof, to generate electricity in the homes. Each house will also have an interactive digital electrical system .

Some celebrities who made green issues cool
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
CATE BLANCHETT: plans to equip Sydney Theatre Company building with solar panels, rainwater collection systems to make it completely eco-friendly. ...

February 22, 2007 Thursday

How to ride a wild volcano
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
At 160 years old, Cerro Negra is a young volcano. It currently is at the end of its fourth seven-year eruption cycle. The last time it erupted in 1999, ...

Team Set to Install and Monitor Solar Powered Rooftops
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
Old Country Roofing (OCR) has signed agreements with Xantrex Technology Inc. and Fat Spaniel Technologies (FST) to offer a comprehensive solar energy ...

Something new under the sun
National Post - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
But for all its promise over the years, the technology has so far been a dismal failure. Canada's total solar production in 2005 hit a record 16.75 ...

Colombia orders evacuations after volcano erupts
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
The evacuation order affects towns located near rivers in Huila and three other provinces that could be hit by avalanches caused a major eruption. ...

What Birds Want
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
The roof should be sloped and watertight to keep rainwater out. The base should have drainage holes to prevent rainwater from soaking nests and tenants. ...

Freedom tunnel
Cabinet.com - Milford,NH,USA
American artist Charles T. Webber painted “The Underground Railroad” in 1893 as a tribute to the work of abolitionists. It shows fugitive slaves arriving at ...

Stalin`s secret underground shelter opens for tourists
Russia-InfoCenter - Moscow,Russia
Stalin visited the shelter in 1941 to examine a ready command post and a test car trip through the underground tunnel. The Soviet leader also worked there ...

Ocean 'dead zones' spell disaster as wind patterns change
Guardian Unlimited - UK
'Beaches were littered with the bodies of dead sea birds,' said Dr Julia Parrish, from the University of Washington in Seattle. ...

Old Macon military site plagued by underground explosives
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - Atlanta,GA,USA
They had hoped to use two old bunkers in their yard, one of which was going to be a tornado shelter. But detonation experts told them not to touch the piles ...

Museum mine assists research
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
THE UNDERGROUND MINING MUSEUM is a premier attraction for visitors to Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve in Antioch. But the former sand mine in which

Root vegetables at Pete's Greens
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
Below them, in an old root cellar, potatoes were wintering in slightly warmer temperatures. In the dimness, farmer Pete Johnson dug his hand into the white ...

Hot rocks project gets some help
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... it could significantly accelerate the building of sustainable, large-scale geothermal electricity generation capacity in regional and remote areas,

Maximizing canola hybrid performance
Bismarck Farm & Ranch Guide - Bismarck,ND,USA
By John Van Dam, US Canola Digest. Hybrid corn is the dominant crop in the United States. So when corn prices started increasing to current levels, ...

Plague in potato field, farmer hangs himself
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
Burdwan, Feb. 20: A disease that destroys acres of potato in a matter of days and has struck Bengal this year because of the unusual late-winter rain has

February 20, 2007 Tuesday

Clever reader defies tomato-free winter
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA
Having vine-ripened tomatoes in your solarium in February is akin to having morel mushrooms growing in your backyard in May. If this analogy is lost on you, ...

Column: Of cold room, pantry and root cellar
The Tomah Journal - Tomah,WI,USA
The shelves of the pantry were filled with home-canned vegetables and fruit and the root cellar was the repository for many bushels of potatoes,

The Risk of Radon: HEALTH I New studies confirming the link ...
Vancouver Sun (subscription) - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
The first thing the couple did was pour concrete over the one-third of their basement that still had exposed dirt, designed for a root cellar, ...

’President Bushs Texas Ranch Is Off-Grid, Eco-Friendly
Ecorazzi - Ithaca,NY,USA
... with the rainwater. It is used to irrigate flower gardens, newly planted trees and a larger flower and herb garden behind the two-bedroom guesthouse. ...

Gardeners save the day as butterfly habitats disappear
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA So if you create even a rooftop garden, just with plants in pots, it's extremely likely that a monarch butterfly will come through there and lay eggs on the ...

Shining a Light on Solar Power
MSNBC - USA
This company is involved in all aspects of alternative-energy generation, energy storage, and information-technology markets. The United Solar Ovonic ...

February 15, 2007 Thursday

Midnight pegger says actions not unusual
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia A maverick mining developer has denied in court there was anything unusual about his midnight pegging of a billion dollar uranium site in the Northern ...

Green movement grows in area suburbs
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA Austin offers cash rebates to homeowners who install solar water heaters and rainwater harvesting systems. In Seattle, the city gives cash subsidies to

Scientists looking for hidden volcano on Czech-German border
Prague Daily Monitor - Prague,Czech Republic German and Czech scientists are looking for a volcano that they believe is hidden underground in the Cheb area, west Bohemia, and that is responsible for ...

No money for missile silo preservation
Bismarck Tribune - Bismarck,ND,USA
Pleas by historic preservationists failed to persuade the North Dakota House to endorse spending $250000 to preserve a former nuclear missile silo as a ...

BNP unearths a Corsham secret!
British National Party - Waltham Cross,Herts,UK A system of underground power stations would have provided electricity to the 100000 lamps that lit its streets and, believe it or not, guided the way to a ...

Underground rumblings have some quaking in their lab coats and boots
Cowichan Valley News Leader - Duncan,British Columbia,Canada
By Toby Gorman. The rumblings beneath our feet have settled down for now, but seismologists are keeping a close eye on subterranean tremors beneath ...

A cold feeling at the pump
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
Higher gasoline prices in previous years have fueled demand for hybrid-electric vehicles, which are powered by a gasoline engine and an electric motor. ...

Prince Charles To Begin Construction Of Eco-Friendly Property
All Headline News - USA
The house will have its own 200-liter reservoir to collect and recycle rain water, and an eco-friendly reed bed sewage system. Solar panels will heat the ...

’Buyers guide to pellet- and wood-burning stoves Consumer Reports - USA
Plus, pelletized wood and more-traditional solid wood are eco-friendly alternatives to nonrenewable fossil fuels such as natural gas, oil, and coal. ...

Unusual heavy rain takes admn unawares
Chandigarh Newsline - Chandigarh,India
Chandigarh, February 12: In the first two weeks of February, the city recorded 200 times more rainfall than was recorded in the entire February last year.

City goes for gold on Treasure Island
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA In recent years, about 3000 people – including some of San Francisco's poorest residents – have been allowed to live in former Navy housing on the island. ...

Finland planning large eco-city near Chinese capital Helsingin Sanomat - Helsinki,Uusimaa,Finland Most of the food would be grown in the city, energy would be produced using non-polluting means, and water would be recycled through sewage treatment.

Crackdown on Religion Intensifies in China
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
... of atheistic communist leaders, or go underground and practice in secret, risking arrest, harassment, torture and detention in a forced-labor camp.

February 12, 2007 Monday

Going With the Wind
American Spectator - USA
Next, stand under one of these sleek, whisper-quiet, magnificent feats of engineering being installed today. The new turbines generate over 30 times more ...

Solar Panel Project Saves Business Thousands
CBS2 Chicago - Chicago,IL,USA
It commits $6 million toward solar technology. Mayor Daley announced the city's thermal panel project at the North Park Village Senior Residence. ...

Guardian Industries Announces Innovative Low-E Glass Technology ...
Glass on Web - S.Floriano del Collio,Gorizia,Italy
Guardian Industries today introduced ClimaGuard 55/27, an innovative low-E glass for residential windows that offers the best of many worlds: enhanced solar ...

Oberstar introduces legislation to fight global warming
BusinessNorth.com - Duluth,MN,USA
Eventually, Oberstar says solar technology could be expanded to all of the 900000 square feet of office space that is owned by the federal government. ...

Covering the Planet With Solar Panels
ScienceCareers.org - Washington,DC,USA
The key to making the company’s triple-junction solar cells affordable is concentrator technology, which focuses sunlight on a small area so that a little

Solar World: Climate reports support solar
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
'I think the interesting thing in our report is that there`sa growing consensus that solar photovoltaic technology will make up a reasonably large portion ...

Quilt wasn't made just for staying warm
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
It was a well-kept secret passed down from generation to generation, but never written down." After Hart finished the Underground Railroad quilt,

Filthy rich future with smog bank
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
But perhaps also in the news that day is a story about a breakthrough in solar technology that raises the real prospect of low-cost, base-load solar ...

Sunset Magazine Features Solar in a Box in 2007 Idea Houses
CSRwire.com (press release) - USA
The use of solar power in the residential market is now becoming mainstream, and Ready Solar’s Solar in a Box product line takes solar technology to the ...

Commercial Market Potential for Solar Power Technologies
InvestorIdeas.com (press release) - Point Roberts,WA,USA
Photovoltaics: Photovoltaic or PV technology employs solar cells or solar photovoltaic arrays to convert energy from the sun into electricity. ...

Totally Wired
By Rammed Earth(Rammed Earth)
If you forget to put an outlet in your rammed earth wall, but you have stick frame under the windows you can still run conduit beside the window and install the outlet below it. This is another way to avoid having to run conduit through ...

True love, and a very recycled tree
Savannah Morning News - Savannah,GA,USA
Once upon a time, there was a big cypress tree in the swamps of South Georgia. Cypress doesn't rot easily and makes strong building material. ...

February 8, 2007 Thursday

The Battle for the Border Begins Under the Streets of Nogales, Arizona
KOLD-TV - Tucson,AZ,USA
The element of surprise is important to the tunnel team that's why they don't have a set schedule of when they conduct their underground patrols. ...

The Future in a Tiny Sphere: A Conversation with Yoshinobu Tsujikawa
WorldChanging - USA
BB: Japan is currently the leading producer of solar technology in the world. Could you speak more about the government’s support for solar energy? ...

Ben Bova: Threat of anti-satellite weapons greater than you might ...
Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA
The EMP from a larger nuclear bomb exploded about a hundred miles above the American Midwest could knock out electronic systems on the ground across most of ...

Heliotube Solar Concentrator
Future of Things - Jerusalem,Israel
Concentrator solar technology which uses optics to increase the output of solar panels is nothing new. Several companies including Energy Innovations in

Rotherham family find their cave in the Sun
Easier - Chester,UK
Now when we tell people we have a cave house many need us to explain that they have all the mod cons of any other property with the added bonus of natural ...

Deep freeze in Detroit could set a record
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
The National Weather Service said the cold spell could become record breaking. For the first time since 1901, the Detroit area may have seven consecutive ...

Canadian Geothermal
WorldChanging - USA
For the majority of Canadians, geothermal electricity-generation will likely never make practical sense. But think about it this way: if new housing ...

No shadow for Punxsutawney Phil
ABC12.com - Flint,MI,USA
(AP) - - (02/02/07)-- Famed groundhog Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his underground home this morning, and for the first time in years, did not see his ...

Steve Boggan on what to do in the event of a nuclear war
Guardian Unlimited - UK
There is his toilet, and here, in the dead centre of a 34-acre underground bunker in Wiltshire, is the reinforced chamber in which preparations for nuclear ...

Officials say Iran has assembled 2 uranium-enriching units underground
York Dispatch - York,PA,USA
Iranian leaders have repeatedly said the Natanz underground hall would house first 3000 centrifuges and ultimately 54000 machines. ...

Ypsilanti's tracks on the Underground Railroad on the cover
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
Like the old Indian trails that once crisscrossed Michigan, the state's Underground Railroad sites are all but invisible. For example, Michigan Avenue, ...

Hot Post - A Conversation on Energy Issues
He lives in a solar rammed earth tire house (pictures can be seen here) in the Rocky Mountains west of Colorado Springs with his wife Diana. ... Rammed Earth Tire House ? Owners/Builders: Diana and Jerry Unruh (Updated: August 31, 2006) ...

Octillion Surpasses Several Milestones for Development of New ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Octillion is developing a new nanosilicon photovoltaic solar cell technology that could adapt glass windows into ones capable of generating electricity from ...

Plan To Store Frozen CO2 Beneath Seas
Life Style Extra - UK
Researchers at Leicester University say CO2 can be hidden below the ocean in reservoirs where it can stay harmlessly for many thousands of years

Iran 'working feverishly' on nuclear bunker: UN Atomic Agency
CBC.ca - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
Diplomats in Tehran said Friday Iran has begun laying down piping and installing electric cables for its underground uranium enrichment plant, with hundreds ...

Erupting mud volcano
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
University of Aberdeen research supports the suggestion that the eruption of the Indonesian mud volcano Lusi, which has been erupting for more than 200 days ...

Launch to test both missile, silo door
Lompoc Record - Lompoc,CA,USA
By Janene Scully/Associate Editor. For the first time in years, the countdown for a Minuteman 3 missile test will include blasting open the 106-ton silo ...

February 5, 2007 Monday

Remembering and learning
The Space Review - Rockville,MD,USA
After the Challenger accident, NASA buried the wreckage in a missile silo, as if it was hiding its mistake. The agency took a different approach with ...

UO Student group presents plan for eco-friendly bus shelter
Oregon Daily Emerald - Erb Memorial Union,OR,USA The proposed structure will feature a "living" roof and wall, and utilize "rammed earth," a substance somewhat like the indigenous-American natural building ...

Solar Industry Needs to Take A Leaf Out of Google's Book, Study Says
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
'Short Fuse' Approach to Solar Technology Adoption Promises Most Success BOSTON, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The solar power industry could significantly ...

Kaliningrad Wants Its Castle Back
Spiegel Online - Berlin,Germany
The remains of the castle's heating system were also found, as was a secret underground tunnel. Despite the near total loss of the original building ...

U of U Researchers Hoping to Pump CO2 Underground
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
Researchers at the University of Utah are launching a major project to bury greenhouse gases deep underground. And you could be part of the solution too. ...

Drinkers love new sensation
Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide,South Australia,Australia
Our much-maligned Adelaide tap water was singled out by 12 people, while the rainwater and desalinated samples each received 10 votes naming them as the

Former technology instructor still dreams of passive solar heating
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
Almost 20 years have passed since he last taught his class on designing passive solar heat systems. And it's highly unlikely he will become a solar heat ...

On 24 June 2005, two months before hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans,
the Lord delivered a prophetic word to Deeper Life Fellowship in Mobile
Alabama, USA. http://www.storm-harvest.asn.au/powerpoint/Katrina%20Prophecy.WMV