January 31, 2006

Heaven Looks a Bit Like a Greenhouse In this case, a 'pit' is ...
The Southern - Carbondale,IL,USA
Very seldom is the word "pit" associated with "heavenly." Patrick Sweeney, of Carbondale, has turned an attached pit greenhouse into what one could call a ...

Israeli startup turns organic waste into energy
Israel 21C - Cupertino,CA,USA
... After you've enjoyed a tangy olive, don't throw away the pit - it could ... rot, or it is burned; both rotting and burning create methane, a greenhouse gas which ...

January 26, 2006

Biggest palace structure discovered in NW China ruins
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China... which lies in the northwest part of the palace group, is 160 meters long east-to-west and 50 meters wide north-to-south, with a rammed earth structure at its ...

Cold War secrets revealed as nuclear bunker prepares to open its ...Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds ,Yorkshire,UK... The Royal Observer Corps bunker, which is hidden beneath an earth mound off Acomb Road in York, was opened on December 16, 1961. ...

MSNBC.com: Cities to seek plug-in hybrids MSNBC - USA
... a possible option. This month it began testing the plug-in hybrid Sprinter vans for an unidentified fleet customer. The plug-in ...

Sago explosion may have lightning implications
Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech - Blacksburg,VA,USA
... Cables and wires that run underground and natural gas and water wells can all serve as ... that a lightning strike did occur around the same time of the explosion. ...

Experts assess the risks of an electromagnetic pulse attack on the ...Newstarget.com - Taichung,Taiwan ... of EMP are harmless to people, a well designed and well-executed EMP attack could kill --- indirectly --- far more Americans than a nuclear weapon detonated in ...

Nuclear doom & gloom
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA... They've shot non-nuclear, self-destroying test warheads into an arc high over the Caspian Sea. ... One EMP over Kansas or so, and it's over. What's our response? ...

Electro-Magnetic Pulse: The Biggest Threat No One Talks About
Human Events - USA
... An electro-magnetic pulse--or EMP-- caused by a specially designed nuclear device is "the biggest threat that no one talks about," Gaffney told me over ...

Building a friendly environment, one brick at a time
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA The ''Earth House" is expected to be the first and only structure of its kind in the greater Washington area, using a revolutionary technology that ...

Going underground in Mexico
Daily Journal - Caracas,Venezuela
... underground waterways and pipelines. "It is the nastiest job there is," said Carlos Salgado, a city water department engineer. "It is like at home, what ...

Bringing home news of disaster
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA ... The Sun Herald editors paid attention to Weather Underground bloggers, who were warning that ... Tiner sat out the storm Monday and Tuesday in his home in Gulfport ...

The Zanja gave settlers direction San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... "A water wheel used to generate electricity was found in the basement of a building at the corner of Redlands Boulevard and Orange Street," Burgess said. ...

GREEN Solar Gets Practical Is it finally time to put solar panels ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
The sun's shining a little more brightly here in California since the state Public Utilities Commission approved a new California Solar Initiative earlier this ...

Qualifications Strict for Tornado Shelter Funds
WLBT-TV - Jackson,MS,USA
... A tornado shelter installed at your house, paid for by the state. ... Nearly 40 years later, in 2002, Durr's sister Kay Payne heard about a tornado shelter grant. ...

Geothermal project a win win for Nevada, Navy
Lahontan Valley News - Fallon,NV,USA
... Ormat has a proven history of bringing geothermal power projects on line. Currently, Ormat generates 75 megawatts of electricity in Nevada. ...

Md. beekeepers in demand as mites put sting on bee population Delmarva Daily Times - MD,USA ... Two invading mites, one that sucks bees' blood and one that blocks bees' tracheas, arrived in the 1980s and are responsible for the bee decline. ...

Generating electricity efficiently from heat -- Siemens builds a ..
noticias.info - Spain
... covers the turbine generator set including the turbine, gearbox and generator, the Kalina ... The small town of Bellheim is situated in the Upper Rhine Graben (rift ...

January 22, 2006

Nano-based Lithium Battery for Hybrids A Step Closer
EV World - Papillion,Nebraska,USA
... set forth by the US Council for Automotive Research FreedomCAR Energy ... range twice that of conventional nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries presently used in ...

Looking out for earth fissures
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... uses electromagnetic sensors -- like the one hanging from the copter -- to detect underground fissures, which are ... "We want to make sure our home buyers are ...

Firefly Energy Awarded Patent for Innovative Battery
Nanotechnology News (press release) - USA
... in weight than today's lead acid batteries. Firefly Chief Scientist Kurtis C. Kelley developed the technology while serving as senior research scientist in ...

Markets steadier, but investors wary
Australian Financial Review - Australia
The near cataclysm that took hold in the Tokyo equity market on Wednesday failed to generate much of a follow -through on Wall Street overnight, but analysts ...

Ford's Entry-Level Hybrid SUV BusinessWeek - USA
I figured out that I was going to be giving the 2006 Ford (F) Escape Hybrid SUV a pretty rigorous winter driving test about 9 pm one recent evening as I headed ...

January 20, 2006

New Self Contained Growing Environment for Gardeners Provides ... PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Homegrown Hydroponics has recently released a series of self contained growing machines geared towards the indoor or hobbyist gardener.

Salad days Pueblo Chieftain - Pueblo,CO,USA... Sandquist, 54, starting reading about hydroponics, or growing plants without soil, by chance. ... There's nothing new about hydroponics, Sandquist said. ...

Over 3,200 people still listed missing in Hurricane Katrina
Xinhua - China 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Over 3,200 people are still officially listed as missing nearly five months after Hurricane Katrina hit the US Gulf Coast region in late ...

New Orleans Mayor Apologizes for Calling Hurricane God's Will Beliefnet.com - New York,NY,USA... 18 - Faced with howls of protest, Mayor Ray Nagin apologized Tuesday for claiming that a vengeful God smote New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina because of

Basin energy efforts abound
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA... Turning these wells into geothermal wells not only could generate cash to the well's owners by selling the electricity into the state's grid but producers also ...

Underground Explosion Blows Off Manhole Cover WTOL - Toledo,OH,USA DOWNTOWN TOLEDO -- An underground explosion in downtown Toledo closed a number of streets around the courthouse and jail early Tuesday morning. ...

Hybrids Dominate Vincentric's Best Value in America Awards
Autochannel - USA ... Toyota Sequoia SR5 - Mid-Size SUV, over $30,000: Toyota Highlander Hybrid - Mid-Size .. . Ford F-350 Vans - Full Size Passenger Van: Dodge Sprinter Wagon - Minivan ...

A decade on: is GM winning hearts and minds? FoodNavigator.com - Montpellier,France ... Last week, the EU ordered Greece to lift its ban on a GM seed manufactured by Monsanto, and also granted European approval for three Monsanto GM maize types. ...

January 15, 2006

20 picks for 2006
philly.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... premium "estate" labeled chocolate bars, and menus identifying cocoa-growing areas are the ... pairings include yuzu ice cream with sushi, wild mushroom ice cream ...

Taming wild mushrooms
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA ... Fresh mushrooms (and there's a whole world of them out there, from the earthy, funky porcini to the woodsy morel to the mellow lobster mushroom) keep for about ..

An Italian Nice Guy
Magic City Morning Star - Millinocket,ME,USA
... On one of his short walks he saw an interesting wild mushroom growing down on the forest floor. He thought that he recognized it ...

Deadly gases poured from blast-hit mine ic Wales - United Kingdom Hours after an underground explosion that led to the deaths of 12 miners in West Virginia, deadly carbon monoxide gas poured from the entrance at more than ...

This is Guernsey >Business >Business Stories >Mushroom Grower Guernsey Weekly Press - Vale ,Guernsey,UK... the summer. 'I will carry on learning; I don't think any mushroom grower ever stops learning about growing them.'. Mr Billien ...

Growing paddy straw mushroom Hindu - Chennai,India
Presently, paddy straw mushroom cultivation is slowly gaining the attention among mushroom growers because of its taste and fast growing nature compared to ...

Councils "could save millions" with home food digesters
letsrecycle.com - UK
... Dr Knipe said of using food waste digester schemes: "Costs are better than half the average for segregated collection and centralised treatment, which should

THE KING OF COOKWARE San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA... enemy of nonstick, wouldn't affect the surface as much. He called his invention the "high-low food release system," and patented it. ...

January 13, 2006

Everbright translucent roof -- light, but strong enough to walkInfolink Architecture & Building - Australia Everbright Roofing Systems is launching a system that is a versatile translucent polycarbonate roofing and wall system that it says is unique to Australia. ...

Avocados, dates bring tropics to living room Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA
... papery coating around the seed and wash and dry the pit before planting. ... Donna Gardner, greenhouse manager at Sunrise Garden Center, used to live in California ...

Johns Manville Debuts Translucent Gorilla Wrap & DuraBase Roofing ...
BuildingOnline - Dana Point,CA,USA DENVER -- Johns Manville's Engineered Products Group is introducing Gorilla Wrap, a translucent, non-perforated housewrap and DuraBase, an asphalt and nonwoven ...

Planning board recommends Hurricane Homes
Pascagoula Mississippi Press - Pascagoula,MS,USA ... Modular home manufacturing in Pascagoula got one step closer to reality following ap-proval Wednesday by the planning board for Hurricane Homes Inc. ...

Farmers bank on the rice harvest grown in a vault
Times Online - UK ... Nomura vault was designed to isolate its precious contents from attack or accident -- a level of environmental control that made it perfect for hydroponics. ...

Old mines converted to community assets
Ferret - Australia... 5B open cut mine is transformed into the magnificent Lake Kepwari, a 103ha waterway that will soon support water sports, aquaculture, freshwater fishing and ...

Photo Exhibit Depicts Subterranean New York
WNBC - New York,NY,USA
... on a faucet around 2015 -- the estimated date for the tunnel's completion -- and draw water that has traveled through the 60-mile underground labyrinth from an ...

Guardian Industries Announces Innovative Glass Technology to .Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
11, 2006--Coated glass technology has taken a revolutionary step forward with ... 99.9% of ultraviolet (UV) radiation without any visible change in day lighting. ...

Turning on LEDs
MIT Technology Review - Cambridge,MA,USA... The US Department of Energy's Lighting Technology Roadmap calls for LEDs to be able to produce 150 lumens of illumination per watt of input power by 2012, up ...

Adaptive Lighting Technology From Ford Azom.com - USA
... the same thing. By taking the state-of-the-art technology, and imagining, 'What if?' we created an all-new solution for lighting.".

Supermarkets have tomato growers over a barrel
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia Peter Cumming (left), tomato farmer turned winemaker and cherry grower, with father Ron in the cellars at Water Wheel Vineyards near Bendigo. By Jeni Port. ...

Camry, Saturn Hybrids Unveiled Red Herring - CA,USA
... show. The company said it will sell the hybrid SUV for $23,000, making it the lowest-cost hybrid SUV announced so far. That compares ...

Monsanto accused of GM pollution in Europe FoodNavigator.com - Montpellier,France 12/01/2006 - Greenpeace, together with a former manager of Monsanto and Limagrain in Romania, claim that Monsanto is contaminating European agriculture with ...

January 11, 2006

Marin's 'greenest' mansion: Estate touted as zenith of ...
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
... Most of the building material is recycled or uniquely created; columns and other structural elements are made from rammed earth (strengthened by fly ash coal

Onyx in high end interior design
phillyBurbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Natural patterns of onyx form unique and intricate designs. ... They are particularly recommended for bars and restaurants where lighting is usually dim. ...

State Paying for Personal Storm Shelters
WLBT-TV - Jackson,MS,USA
... With a new spin on a 2001 program, the federal government is providing millions to make sure everyone can afford a tornado shelter of their own. ...

Cave-in reveals a tunnel at border
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
US and Mexican authorities are investigating a cross-border tunnel found Monday by US Border Patrol agents just west of the San Ysidro port of entry. ...

Naples considers going underground with utility lines
Naples Daily News (subscription) - Naples,FL,USA
Now Naples Mayor Bill Barnett says it's time to bury the subject for good and find out whether Naples residents want to pay to put utility lines underground. ...

Volcano eruption sends ash five miles into air
Ireland Online - Dublin,Ireland
... Two explosions indicated an eruption at the volcano, said geologist Jennifer Adleman of the Alaska Volcano Observatory. Satellite ...

Space-age solution to 'number one' issue
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... The Urilift devices are hidden underground when not in use and rise above ground at the flick of a switch on a remote control panel. ...

January 10, 2006

Sole surviving miner moved home
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
... One of the 12 trapped coal miners scrawled a timeline detailing how he was alive but losing air at least 10 hours after an underground explosion, his daughter ...

Roofs: It's What's on Top That Counts Porterville Recorder - Porterville,CA,USA
... Fred Oesch, an architectural designer in Charlottesville, Va., says a green roof absorbs pollutants, soaks up rainwater, reduces storm water runoff and keeps ...

Biotech crops mark first decade Malaysia Star - Malaysia
WHEN Monsanto introduced the world to genetically modified crops a decade ago, the biotech advancement was heralded as the dawn of a new era that could reduce ...

Local officials predict SSA spillover MSNBC - USA
... Opus South Corp. in Atlanta. The building will have a "green roof" that uses rainwater to feed a rooftop garden. Crenshaw calls the

January 8, 2006

Miner leaves hour-by-hour account of dying
Boston Globe - United States
... A coal miner left a detailed note showing that he and other trapped workers were alive at least 10 hours after an underground explosion, a family member said ...

o sets new standard for sustainability
Business Edge - Alberta,Canada
... organic compounds. On its second level, the building contains a green roof that features slow-growing pine trees and shrubs. Their ...

SuperFast Pizza proves that competition improves the breed
Gizmag - Victoria,Australia
... it should be noted that Matthew has chosen the Chrysler (Mercedes in some markets) Sprinter which will be the first to offer plug-in hybrid technology and ...

Rainwater harvesting to be made mandatory
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
Kolkata, Dec 23: Rainwater harvesting will be made mandatory for housing projects in West Bengal, city Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya said today. ...

New telescope will bring heavens closer to FCA
Kosciusko Star Herald - Kosciusko,MS,USA
It will take a crane and a half-dozen heave-hoing men to get the 4,000-pound telescope into a new domed building at Rainwater Observatory this spring. ...

January 5, 2006

New Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls
Blackanthem.com - Clinton Township,MI,USA
... is in the next room, Edward Baranoski from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's ... will be waterproof and rugged, and will run on AA batteries, he said ...

Smoke alarms, sprinklers save lives
Tampa Bay Newspapers - Seminole,FL,USA
... And always use new batteries when replacing old ones. ... The US Fire Administration's research in home fire sprinkler systems successfully focused on systems that ...

Punishing hurricane seasons tied to ocean's temperature moods
Lexington Herald Leader - Lexington,KY,USA
PHILADELPHIA - The incredible 2005 hurricane season, one of the deadliest and by far most expensive on record, has inflamed worries about global warming. ...

Neighbours train their fire on 'gun tower' tree house
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Stewart Payne. A father has been ordered to remove a treehouse he built for his children after a council said it needed planning permission. ...

Source: Library of Congress Historic American Engineering Record: Cryptome.org - USA
... Consequently, the underground equipment capsules were introduced with the third Minuteman wing ... is a reinforced concrete room called the tunnel junction, which ...

Push coming to turn office towers green New Zealand Herald - New Zealand Some of the cutting-edge ideas being adopted around the world - such as cladding office towers in rammed earth, building rooftop gardens to collect rainwater

Old is new for veterans of the unusual
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
After all, he is the man who built that round, underground house on Keisler Dairy Road near Claremont -- the one that sticks out like a cactus on a ski slope ...

Green Buildings Are Good for People and Business
Natural Life - Toronto,ON,Canada
... The Haliburton building also features an earth-bag foundation with used carpet insulation, a rammed earth floor, clay plastered hemp bale walls, sheep's wool ...

With grants set, renewable energy is all the go
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Geodynamics received $5 million to help develop its geothermal electricity plant near Innamincka in the north of South Australia. ...

Number of miners in Nevada being hurt underground rises
Reno Gazette Journal - Reno,NV,USA
A quarter of all injuries to Nevada miners in 2004 came in underground mines, the highest percentage in the past 22 years, the latest federal safety figures ...

SAVE's latest project gets funding boost from recycling commission
Ft. Washington Montgomery Newspapers - Fort Washington,PA,USA
... that the house would be heated by a solar-powered geothermal piping system ... in a pre-made windmill for the site, which will power the building's electricity. ...

Unalaska considers using geothermal energy
KTUU - Anchorage,AK,USA
... A big advantage of geothermal energy is that it provides hot water in addition to electricity. Unalaska sees that as a double bonus ...

Secure the US against bloodless terrorist warfare
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
... EMP attacks are the result of a nuclear explosion's fission chain reaction interacting with the earth's magnetic field and ionosphere to electromagnetically ...

Checking stored produce and other January gardening tips
Manchester Journal - Manchester center,VT,USA
... Potatoes, onions, carrots, turnips, and other root crops that you have stored in your basement or root cellar should be checked regularly for signs of decay.

Prevent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and other Home Emergencies NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) - USA
... Follow the instructions that come with your generator. ... Try to use a room with no outside walls or only one outside wall and small, if any, windows. ...

The ABCs of Outdoor Survival
ATV Rider Magazine - USA
... ATVs allow us to fairly quickly travel into remote wilderness areas. ... 1. Create a survival kit (see Making a Survival Kit), and pack it on your ATV. ...

Survival imperative? Shelter a must Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA ... "Survival begins with the 'Three Ps:' Prior planning and preparation," said Nick Weighton, wilderness survival instructor for the Colorado Mountain Club and ...

Solar Powered Wi-Fi Streetlights Coming Soon
Teleclick.ca - Victoria,BC,Canada
The University of Abertay in Dundee, Scotland is currently conducting tests of solar-powered streetlights, which include built-in Wi-Fi networking hardware. ...

Holographic storage: the 500GB business card
CNET.com.au - Australia
HD-DVD may stretch up to 45GB. Big deal. The next new storage medium, holographic storage, may be able to cram 300GB onto one inexpensive disk. ...

Discovery opens use of nanocrystals as solar cell materials
EE Times Online - USA
According to the scientists, the discovery increases the potential for the use of nanocrystals as solar cell materials to produce higher electrical outputs ...

Ultracapacitors turn Malibus into Mercedes
Homeland Response - Cleveland,OH,USA... store large amounts of energy in a relatively small volume; ultracapacitors ... or the parallel-hybrid configurations, a belt-driven starter generator captures the ...

Hydroponic fever strikes the Brac Cay Compass - Grand Cayman,Cayman Islands
Now, thanks to a Department of Agriculture--sponsored visit to the recent 22nd Annual Hydroponics & Organic Growers Conference in Orlando, the students are ...

Shickel's Moves Forward Into Project From The Past
Harrisonburg Daily News Record - Harrisonburg,VA,USA
... The company fabricated new water wheel axles for Beeler's Mill near Charles Town, W.Va., and White's Mill, a national and Virginia historic landmark in ...

The river helps power Argyle
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA
... (Martin is also the Argyle Volunteer Fire Department chief.). A "Turbine Water Wheel" made by the James Leffel Co., of Springfield, Ohio, installed in 1928. .

Brazil Cuts Sugar Cane Harvest Forecast on Drought (Update2)
Bloomberg - USA
... the world's largest producer of sugar and ethanol fuel, cut its estimate for the sugar cane crop ending in April for a second time because of a drought in the ...

Natural lighting through "smarter" windows
fona - Forschung für Nachhaltigkeit - Bonn,Germany... Apart from daylight provision, this technology also provides visual contact with the ... way of manipulating the optical properties of day lighting systems by ...

January 3, 2006

Biotech crops mark first decade with wins, losses
Checkbiotech.org (press release) - Basel,Switzerland
By Carey Gillam. KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - When Monsanto Co. introduced the world to genetically modified crops a decade ...

13 W.Va. Miners Trapped Miles Underground After Blast
NBC30.com - Hartford,CT,USA
-- Rescuers still can't get inside a coal mine in West Virginia, where 13 miners are now believed trapped three miles underground after an explosion. ...

Drought shrinks water level of the Yangtze
China Daily - China
A fisherman casts the net in the Yangtze River near Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province December 28, 2005. Due to a long absence ...

China admits 300 million drink unsafe water
Toronto Star - Canada
... About 90 per cent of China's cities have polluted underground water, Xinhua News ... 13 chemical plant explosion in Jilin, forced cities along the Songhua River to ...

Gas leak blast forces evacuation within city
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA
A freak encounter between a roofing crane and high-voltage electrical lines yesterday afternoon led to an underground natural gas line explosion and the ...

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient drought 'changed history'
Ancient sediments from African lakes reveal a major drought occurred at a key
time in human evolution.

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