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February 26, 2007 Tuesday
Going deep
HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
Then I met our guide, a 22-year-old former roofer from Modesto named Kevin Geary, who has been a cave guide for only seven months. ...
GREEN TEMPLE
Electric New Paper - Singapore,Singapore
Seven solar panels on temple's roof are connected to seven water tanks. Each tank costs about $5000. Wind turbines on roof charge batteries that light up ...
Qualms Over Clean Energy That Would Come From 12 Stories Up
New York Times - United States
For Kim Scott, owner of the Goddard School, a day care center next door, and for many other residents, there is nothing wrong with wind turbines if they are ...
Going green with sun, grease & turbines
Wicked Local Milton - Quincy,MA,USA
It’s become part of everyday life – from solar panels on the roof to plans for a wind turbine. David DeSantis has even brought those values to his real ...
Arizona goes solar, thanks to Spain?
Gather.com - Boston,MA,USA
It will instead use enormous numbers of focused mirrors to heat up liquid oils which will spin turbines to generate electricity. ...
Tree House
Boston Globe - United States
Parker Nichols doesn't cut down healthy trees. Yet his company, Vermont WildWoods, crafts flooring, cabinet panels, and furniture from local butternut wood. ...
Jobs in green industry may lead to prosperity
Online Athens (subscription) - Athens,GA,USA
A rainbow is visible next to wind turbines recently in Palm Springs, Calif. The wind energy industry currently employs about 45000 people in the US and had ...
Whistle while you work
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The Kent bunker is deep underground: "The radar operators were supposed to survive 30 days after a nuclear strike." Some of his subversiveness may have ...
Dairy farming, California style, is here to stay
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
Bees are a much bigger concern among San Joaquin Valley crop farmers. There is a shortage of bees buzzing around and through the dozens of fruit and tree
RAISE GREENHOUSE VEGETABLES AS CASH CROPS
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
Economical greenhouses for a have-more plan. (from the Have-More Plan)... Beginners guide to glass cutting, including where to find new and used glass, ...
Greenhouse can get greener, owner says
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
"Greenhouses are actually one of the least green industries," said Tim Travis, owner of the nursery with $2 million in annual sales. ...
February 19, 2008 Tuesday
–Do not be fooled the blizzard is still in season
Times Online - UK
Power lines came down and blackouts affected thousands of homes, water supplies dried up when pumping stations lost power and commercial greenhouses ...
Natural-gas drilling threatens ancient rock art
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
A Denver-based energy company's proposal to drill at least that many wells on the West Tavaputs Plateau threatens the thousand-year-old Anasazi ruins, ...
Uncovering Ancient Jerusalem
theTrumpet.com - Edmond,OK,USA
But if it’s wrong for Jewish settlers to lay claim to the region by raising the ruins of their historical legacy, where does that leave Islamic scholars who ...
Belgian soil hides battle scars
BBC News - UK
Yet, beneath the soil hidden reminders lie undisturbed. Daily life under fire forced the warring armies to seek safety underground; hundreds of shelters and ...
Quake swarm rattles border area
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
She and co-workers at Desert Properties in El Centro spent part of Tuesday running through earthquake drills in the office. Firefighters in the region say ...
Holly Springs man builds his own 'man cave'
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
Wouldn't there be enough space for an in-house man cave? "My wife is a neatnik," Brookins says, getting to the point. "She doesn't mind people coming over, ...
Nationally Known Wisconsin Cheese Marketer Buys Tennessee Cave Hellenic News of America - Havertown,PA,USA
So itΆ?s not surprising that some people were taken aback recently when Jaeckle purchased a Tennessee cave that was at the center of an infamous marijuana ...
Heritage caves have no takers
Express TravelWorld - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
The Kanheri caves are also the best example of the rainwater harvesting technique used by the monks for their daily water consumption. The 86 storage tanks ...
Silicon Valley Starts to Turn Its Face to the Sun
New York Times - United States
One novel approach is called “solar thermal,” which uses large mirrors to generate steam to run conventional turbines that generate electricity. ...
All aboard the Solar Taxi
Cooma Monaro Express - Cooma,New South Wales,Australia
"It surprises me there is so much sunshine but compared to other countries there's nothing by way of renewable technology, like wind turbines and solar ...
Deepwater Wind
Forbes - NY,USA
Borgen, 44, is still making wind turbines. His company, Sway, is developing an arresting-looking turbine that will float 20 miles or more out in the frigid ...
February 12, 2008 Tuesday
The pros and cons of solar power
BBC News - UK
Johannes Gleede installed a solar thermal panel in the roof of his semi-detached house in south west London ten years ago and paid around £1500 for it.
Mansfield teacher growing minds with hydroponics
Attleboro Sun Chronicle - Attleboro,MA,USA
"I always had an interest in hydroponics," said Cote, who outside of school is a hobby farmer, growing an organic garden and raising goats and bees. ...
Soil-less agriculture helps save planet
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
Gökşsin Agriculture is growing 58000 tomatoes in its greenhouse farm that costs 2 million euros to operate. Tomato flowers are pollinated by bees and grown
Winter in the garden: Salvaging trees after a storm
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
By Alison Lapp AP Winter's special hazards for trees include heavy snowfall and windstorms. In some cases, it's best to call an expert. ...
A GREENER FUTURE: Builders see demand for homes based on ...
La Crosse Tribune - La Crosse,WI,USA
His partner on most projects, Dan Johnson, taught Romary a building method he learned in Colorado that uses bricks created from soil on site or near where ...
“”Environmentally-Friendly Earth Homes
By admin
Rammed earth homes may have over 18-inch, thick walls that are made from a comcination of dirt, sand, cement and water. Energy conservative, rammed earth homes have the appearance of bungalow-style charm and help keep the house warm in ...
Jasperand the friendly host; Explore the Maligne Canyon in Jasper ...
The Kingston Whig-Standard - Kingston,Ontario,Canada
The notion is that this canyon is an extension of the underground cave system. Ten thousand years ago, the glaciers retreated and carved off the top layer ...
Who Nuked Mississippi? - Part One
WLOX - Biloxi,MS,USA
The Salmon explosion created a jolt like an earthquake. Although the five kiloton bomb was detonated 2700 feet, or a half mile underground, ..
Couple is thankful for their lives after storm destroys their home
Jackson Sun - Jackson,TN,USA
Most of the green roof on the four-bedroom home either blew away or caved in. On Thursday a large pile of plywood, roof shingles and other debris sat in the
Tectonic subduction surfaces in Italy
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
Like other areas of plate collision, subduction zones are earthquake prone. They have the added bonus of producing volcanoes with a tendency to explode,
‘’1bn city beneath a city planned for Amsterdam
Building.co.uk (subscription) - UK
By Karolin Schaps Dutch engineers have unveiled plans for a £1bn underground city beneath the canals of Amsterdam. Engineer Strukton, architect Zwarts ...
It's not just a statement, it's survival
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
So do the two small wind turbines that cut the air overhead, the battery assembly on the porch, and the small refrigerator covered with insulation in the ...
February 5, 2008 Tuesday
How the Military Conquered the Natives of Subterranean Earth
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USA
Roadways were constructed through the mouths of caves." It takes days at a time to get anywhere; people move between underground base camps and vast instant ...
Slaves found path to freedom through Licking County
The Newark Advocate - Newark,OH,USA
Another difficulty existed with documenting what was an implicitly secret operation. An estimated 3000 miles of Underground Railroad routes rambled through ...
Students give college tips on energy efficiency
Community Press - Florence,KY,USA
The group at NKU seemed receptive to the first two ideas, but maybe not as much to the idea of a roof of wind turbines, said Missy Weatherly,
Quick renewal of tax incentives urged
Capital Press (subscription) - Salem,OR,USA
Sandra Walden, a developer with Commercial Solar Ventures in Portland, said her company just recently closed financing for an 870 KW roof-mounted solar ...
So it appears that Arctic ice isn't vanishing after all
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Still more inconvenient was the truth about an image that has been relentlessly exploited to promote this panic over the "vanishing" Arctic ice. ...
The Kelton House Museum
Coshocton Tribune - Coshocton,OH,USA
In the basement, a sparse room with a bed and chair replicates where slaves may have been hidden. The Underground Railroad Learning Station is in the same ...
Investigators deny report of Russian doomsday sect member deaths
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
... who called him a 'devil' and said he had forced his followers, including children, to undergo 'inhuman suffering' in their underground cave.
Green thumb in winter
The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
They are not as good as they were when they came straight from the garden, Barbara Dieffenbach admitted. "But they taste every bit as good as the ones you
Wild weather whacks Quinte
Belleville Intelligencer - Belleville,Ontario,Canada
It was very strange." She couldn't guess how much the damage might total, but said she and her husband hope to recover costs through their home warranty. ...
Up on the roof
Newport Daily News - Newport,RI,USA
The Aquidneck Avenue firm installed a new vertical-axis turbine Thursday afternoon on the roof of a three-story home on Wolcott Avenue owned by Sue Wallace
Energy efficiency is about attitude
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Domestic wind turbines are elegant and graceful, while batteries, generators and photovoltaic cells are excellent social currency, but they're not necessary ...
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