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July 31, 2006
Step up to the energy debate
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA... They systematically undermined the fledgling industries of solar, wind, low-head hydro, rammed earth, alternative fuel production and other technologies being ...
Superintendent gets board approval to research construction of ...Eureka Springs Times-Echo - Eureka Springs,AR,USA... Green Forest middle school, the school board gave Superintendent Dr. Larry Bennett the go-ahead to further research the prices on a monolithic dome building. ...
A French church carries the legacy of Le Corbusier
International Herald Tribune - France... And while some will see the changes as a betrayal of Le Corbusier's genius, the church's monolithic dome still cloaks a remarkably assured work of architecture ...
Underground Hospital
Jewish Agency for Israel - Jerusalem,Israel
What can I say? Thank goodness for foresight and for the underground hospital. This is what saved many lives late afternoon Friday
Shanghai constructs underground bunker capable of sheltering ...
680 News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Shanghai has constructed a massive underground bunker complex capable of sheltering 200,000 people from a nuclear attack, a local ...
Chemist finds high level of arsenic in Katrina's wake
KLFY - Lafayette,LA,USA
... other heavy metals and bacteria in the soils of coastal areas battered by hurricanes last year are causing residents to become sick with unexplained illnesses. ...
Israelis adapt to life underground amid dangers looming in the ...
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada... rocket-dodging down to a science ever since he's being forced underground by Hezbollah ... later, there is the familiar whistle followed by a loud explosion nearby ...
Mega-Geothermal Plant Baked Up Red Herring - CA,USA... “There are some that are close to that size in the Philippines , where 20 to 25 percent of the electricity comes from geothermal energy, but in Indonesia ...
’Escalating costs cloud agricultures future
Delta Farm Press - Bellevue,NE,USA... including alternate energy. We hope methane digester systems will become more practical in terms of cost and efficiency. “We’re ...
Heat Wave
WSLS.com - Roanoke,VA,USA
"For us to have another record breaking summer compared to what we ... So it's not going to happen? Right now it's not.". And the National Weather Service agrees. ...
Gardening for climate change
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... She's speaking of the record-breaking temperatures — 36C was a recent high — and ... As weird weather and record-high temperatures continue to afflict much of ...
Outages identify PG&E's limits
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
... most neighborhoods, are metal cylinders attached to utility poles or hidden inside large ... about 60,000 of its 1 million overhead and underground transformers as ...
Designer has land to conquer
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA... world, Smith has long been a wunderkind, known for small, eclectic projects in New York City, particularly the Museum of Modern Art's rooftop garden and an ...
At the Borders, Creative Crossings
Washington Post - United States
... And an eco-friendly green roof speaks to the importance of cutting costs in a federal building, not to mention insulating the workplace in a wintry region. ...
NORAD's Bunker Home Going Into Standby Mode
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA... symbols of the Cold War carry the clanging, into-the-bunker resonance of ... standing buildings, each two or three stories tall, were built underground as offices. ...
Souk it and see if you can leave
The Sunday Times - UK... the southern Tunisian coast, isn’t exactly a secret Mediterranean hideaway ... with rooftops cunningly designed to channel rainfall into underground storage tanks
Inner peace among the clouds
NEWS.com.au - Australia... Each of the rammed-earth homes was selected from surrounding villages and relocated, log by log, into the valley and remade into two-storey suites and villas. ...
Grieving Kentucky mine widow wants to be safety advocate
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA... She believes coal operators should have tracking devices underground to pinpoint the ... In the days after the explosion, when other widows were talking publicly ...
THE MARCH OF TIME
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA... HG Wells-like contraptions -- mostly parts of the clock -- fill the space, looking futuristic and ancient at the ... The mystery of the clock becomes the real thing ...
July 28, 2006
Death toll mounts as California's record-breaking heat wave ends
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... While it's difficult to attribute any single weather event to the warming trend, experts said California's record-breaking heat was consistent with predictions ...
Underground church leaders sent to Chinese labour camps
Ireland Online - Dublin,Ireland
Four leaders in China’s underground Protestant church were sentenced to two-year terms in a labour camp, a church monitoring group said today. .
Spring from the ashes
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... There are three adobe-style rammed earth villas and a main lodge, which houses a dining area, a cosy bar and lounge area and the king-size rooms. ...
Thousands of Indonesians flee fearing volcano eruption after top
Forbes - USA
The top alert status means scientists believe an eruption of the volcano, one of Indonesia's most active, could be imminent. More ...
Children of Haifa go underground
MSNBC - USA
... closed. So the children of Haifa have gone underground. In one neighborhood, we found them three stories below, in a bomb shelter.
Hot weather causes London black-outs
Daily Mail - UK - UK
... Friday. The problems led to the closure of the busy Oxford Circus underground station for more than an hour in the middle of the day. ...
Lebanon Fighting Street to Street, Town to Town
PEJ News - Victoria,BC,Canada
... almost certainly sheltering from their firepower in the same underground cells in ... In the early hours of yesterday morning, a tremendous explosion woke me up ...
Earth Homes Make For Affordable Housing
OPB - Portland,OR,USA
By Tom Banse. If you're like most people, you wouldn't think "striking architecture" and "low income housing" belong in the same sentence. ...
Building 'green' reaches a new level
USA Today - USA... Construction survey in March predicted that green building would reach a "tipping point" next year and that two-thirds of builders would be building green homes ...
The Green House That Bointon Built
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
... and expensive to run, so he sold it, but kept half the garden - about a ... Two giant water tanks collect up to 2,000 litres of rainwater -grey water - from the .
Designing a greener island
Bainbridge Island Review - Bainbridge,WA,USA... The building’s roof will take on a “butterfly” appearance, with panels channeling rainwater to a new garden leading to the main entrance. .
Beirut port swamped by evacuees, who bring harrowing tales
CBC Prince Edward Island - Charlottetown,Prince Edward Island,Canada... Ali Sousan of Windsor, Ont., who was in the country with his family for the summer, said they hid in an underground bunker for 14 days.
Round Belly business moves to Pine River
The Lake Country Echo - Pine River,MN,USA... facility. She envisions a living roof: dirt and plants atop a rubber-covered roof - as well as solar panels and a greenhouse. The ...
Exploring Lockport Cave
City Newspaper - Rochester,NY,USA... merry pranksters. Then you hit the tunnel --- now a cave complete with baby stalactites --- leading to an underground boat dock.
July 26, 2006
School board hears presentation on dome building
Eureka Springs Times-Echo - Eureka Springs,AR,USA
GREEN FOREST - A presentation on the advantages of using a monolithic dome to house the new middle school was the main topic at the Green Forest School Board ...
Building blocks of urban warfare
Jacksonville Daily News - Jacksonville,NC,USA... and secret rooms will offer enemies a place to hide or a secret vault for ... a barn made of containers that are also connected via an underground tunnel complex. ...
Helen Caldicott: Fuel plan beset by fossilised thinking
The Australian - Sydney,Australia... equipped. As solar technology becomes cheaper and more efficient, a huge market in Indonesia, the Philippines and India will emerge.
Theft puts evacuation at risk as volcano rumbles
Guardian Unlimited - UK... ft) volcano at Mayon, 200 miles south-east of the capital, Manila, came to life on July 14, spilling lava and red-hot boulders in a "mild and quiet" eruption. ...
There may just be a brighter future for coal
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa... storage can be a commercial technology in which CO2 will be extracted from flue gas and stored in underground storage systems ... "Sasol's research and development ...
Behind Israel's New Battle Strategy
TIME - USA... ground offensive, the Israelis had lost another tank to a hidden mine, killing ... of commandos to flush Hizballah out of their trenches and underground hideouts.
Calif. blackout threat eases slightly
Reuters - By Bernie Woodall and Leonard Anderson. LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California sweltered under record-breaking, triple-digit ...
Power grid wobbles, but it doesn't fall down
Stockton Record - Stockton,CA,USA... century-old records have never seen anything like this," National Weather Service meteorologist Basil Newmerzhycky said of the string of record-breaking heat. ...
British Jews rally in show of solidarity with Israel
Middle East Times - Cairo,Egypt
... The rally featured a live link-up with an underground bunker in northern Israel, an area repeatedly hit by Hizbullah since the crisis began 12 days ago. ...
Kibbutzim in Line of Fire in North Israel
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... They emerge from the underground bunker for a few minutes at a time to rush to their apartment for an occasional shower or to bring food back to the shelter. ...
Summer tour ends with an unexpected surprise
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA... a false air of authority, "Photographs are not permitted" as we pass the mound of dirt (on our left.) Adolf Hitler created this underground bunker, where he ...
July 24, 2006
How one boy's underground ordeal turned into a TV drama for ...
Times Online - UK... soil was loose and engineers, fearing a collapse, had to reinforce the tunnel with a ... Then, after 50 hours underground, at 7.45pm local time, the conscious boy ...
Phoenix, Tucson have two record-breaking days of temperatures ...
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
... If it hits that temperature, that'll make three record-breaking days in a row. Friday and Saturday were also record-breaking days in Tucson. ...
Europe and US fry in hot weather
Taipei Times - Taiwan... were being urged to stay cool on Friday as a record-breaking heatwave that has ... The state-run Meteo-France weather center advised the public to keep windows and ...
Mayon threat not over
Journal Online - Manila,Philippines... are indications that Mayon Volcano has sustained its high level of unrest. These manifestations indicate fair probability for an explosive eruption to occur ...
The innocent pay as war returns to Beirut
Scotland on Sunday - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK... An Israeli attempt to kill the Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, by heavy air strikes on an underground bunker in south Beirut also failed. ...
A Trio of Rabbit Holes Take You Out of the Bustle of the City
LA Downtown News Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA... buildings, burrow down sides of Bunker Hill, tunnel through hallways and cut through city blocks. They can end at the next street over, in a hidden garden, or
Hell in the Holy Lands
The Sunday Times - UK... The soldiers quickly found a steel trapdoor hidden by bushes. “We opened the door and discovered a well-equipped underground bunker with several rooms for up
Texans finding deep delights
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA... lake. Paris also remembers diving in a Cold War nuclear missile silo in Abilene that's since filled up with spring water. Piles ...
Tunneling for trendy goods
Houston Chronicle - United States... If you work anywhere near the tunnel, it's easy to make your way to the underground store. If you don't, remember to drop by during ...
Unusual mugginess makes heat feel worse
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA... And if that isn't driving your inner thermometer wild, consider the unusual spike in humidity that's turning Northern California's pleasurable summer nights ...
July 22, 2006
Bennett: Give some thought to resident's "green" house
Easton Journal - Milford,MA,USA... Our home will be one of the first in the country to become LEED certified, and will be an example for other green homes around the country. ...
People, Opinions and Smells Fill Emergency Shelters
The Jewish Journal of greater L.A - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Last Saturday and then again on Sunday, more than 100 people crammed into the underground shelter as Katyusha rockets launched by Hezbollah terrorists rained ...
Green housing is profitable, says CIOB Environmental Data Interactive - UK... environmentally friendly home. CIOB points out that in the US there are already estate agents which only sell "green" homes. "We'd ...
IDF: Hizbullah built mass bunker network Ynetnews - Israel A senior IDF Northern Command officer told Ynet that Hizbullah has set up an extensive underground bunker network not far from the Israeli border. ...
’Storms nature was unusual Alton Telegraph - Alton,IL,USA ... "That’s somewhat unusual," he said. ... The meso-scale convective complex systems are "pretty unusual, but not unheard of," Carney said. ...
NEWS ALERT: China Security Forces Raid House Church, 20 Detained BosNewsLife (subscription) - Budapest,Hungary... However most of the Christians prefer to worship in the 'underground' house churches which they claim are more focused on Christ as the Communist government ...
A struggle of myths and monsters at a desert museum San Diego CityBEAT - CA,USA... Later, I’m watching an eerie real-estate channel in my hotel room when this dealer starts pitching a decommissioned missile silo in Arizona for $1.5 million.
Chicago Expedites Permits for Green Buildings; Program Exceeds ...Architectural Record - USA... Olsen explains that LEED status verifies an application (residential projects must conform to the Chicago Green Homes rating system), while the menu items act ...
THE DISPUTATION: Of Al Gore, Global Warming and God
Forward - New York,NY,USA
... Maybe a resolution of the mystery can be found in the Bible's famous story of ... What was so wrong with constructing the ancient Near Eastern equivalent of a ...
Quake won't slow Mount St. Helens climbing program The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA... September 2004, after a series of earthquakes signaled the start of an eruption that still is going on. Climbers will go to the summit of the volcano on Friday ...
In pictures: Philippines volcano
BBC News - UK The 2,462m (8,000ft) peak is the country's most active volcano. It began emitting lava, ash and boulders last week. Scientists say a major eruption could come ...
Heat blamed in 2 deaths, suspected in others Kansas.com - KS,USA The record-breaking heat wave claimed its first lives today, the fifth straight ... The National Weather Service is projecting another triple-digit day, but other ...
Humidity, sewage water: the ills of monsoon plague city
Lucknow Newsline - Lucknow,India Lucknow, July 20: “But it rained”...goes one of Parikrama’s most famous rock anthems, to the beat of drums and the wail of guitars.
An answer to nuclear energy?
News Wales - Knighton,UK
... 6/. Municipal CHP is a MUST, see www.woking.gov.uk for their unit, and www.greenfinch.co.uk for the Ludlow Food Waste Digester CHP unit. ...
'It's worth the drive'
Times-Standard - Eureka,CA,USA... The Boughners, who have owned the coffee shop and adjacent Hobbiton USA for four generations, raise all the free-range, grass-fed beef served in the restaurant ...
Kandahar, Baghdad, and a Global Holy War Eat the State - USA... Canadians called in a US B-1 Bomber and dropped a JDAM "Bunker Buster" at ... At dawn, the guns were hidden and these guerrilla soldiers pretended to be farmers ...
July 20, 2006
Turbine request weighed in Town of Menasha Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA... turbines, Rousseau said other renewable energy projects to be pursued at the site include steam co-generation and a bio-mass (human waste) digester/ processor.
Myanmar and North Korea share a tunnel vision
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong... are strengthening their strategic ties in a military-to-military exchange that includes weapons sales, technology transfer and underground tunneling expertise. ...
People could cook to death on the underground says professor
Life Style Extra - UK... He said: "With current high temperatures, this could certainly occur if, for example, an underground train was stuck in a tunnel for a long period of time.
Round up the youthful suspects! Govt to target crime at birth
Register - London,England,UK
... University, who is involved in a five university ESRC-funded research programme into ... on the receiving end of the data kleptocracy will start to go underground. ...
Intel Haifa Staff Tap Away in Wi-Fi Bomb Shelters
PC Magazine - USA
JERUSALEM (Reuters)—Staff at Intel Corp's Haifa research center have been ... city, but they are still working, thanks to wireless connections underground. ...
Survey Shows Nearly 50 Percent of Residents in 'Hurricane States'
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA... A survey released today by the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC ... fact, propane marketers are able to provide homeowners with an underground tank that ...
Severe Storms Prompt Tornado Warnings WHIOtv.com - Dayton,Ohio,USA... the storm. In Wilmington, a McDonald’s restaurant was turned into a tornado shelter as dozens of people rode out the storm. The ..
Turn off lights, save energy
St. George Daily Spectrum - St. George,UT,USA... You can calculate the operating cost of any electrical appliance by checking its wattage and using these formulas: ... A few basic energy-saving tips are: ...
Monitor Energy Spending with Cent-a-Meter AZoBuild - Sydney,Australia... When an appliance, air conditioner or even a light bulb is turned on ... of Cenergies Unlimited, a distribution company that specializes in energy saving and "green ...
Coral's black plague
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... The microbial diseases, including black band, white plague, white pox and white band, come on top of extensive bleaching of corals over the last few years ...
Disaster in 'Ring of Fire'
News24 - South Africa
... The volcano is still on alert for possible eruption although the warning was last week downgraded from code red, the highest.
Councillors unable to decide on Eco-Home future
ABC Regional Online - Australia
The future of Newcastle's Eco-Home project remains in doubt, after councillors last night failed to reach a decision about whether to retain the house ...
Study Shows Underground Rodents Can Be Eliminated Quickly Cherokee Sentinel - Murphy,NC,USA
A variety of underground pests invade homeowner and farm properties each day across the United States, presenting a frustrating dilemma to those besieged with ...
Staying cool easy if you're underground
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA By Jen Haberkorn. On a sweltering August day in 1878, Andrew Campbell felt a cool rush of air from a limestone rock crevice in Luray, Va. ...
Measuring a city from underground Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
By ROBERT STEINBACK. When you're riding this city's sprawling subway system with the specific purpose of observing people -- and ...
Underground city endures barrage Boston Globe - United States ACRE, Israel -- The underground city in the ancient port of Acre was built by the Crusaders and at this time of year is usually thronged with tourists.
Workers go underground to avoid heat
WFAA (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA... heat when I do that," said one tunnel-user. But some say the tunnels have hurt downtown. White-collar workers bustle in a safe, secure underground, free from ...
July 18, 2006
Diversions on Middle East road map point to all-out war
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... Hezbollah is also believed to have hidden thousands of missiles in southern Lebanon ... its warplanes to buzz Assad's home, sending him scurrying into a bunker.
Airline operators, security forces stand by on shaky ground of ...
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA.. belts, rushed through the terminal. They ordered Zaiter and his workers to run to an underground shelter. There, about 40 soldiers ...
Hezbollah barrage leaves a town in shock
Hamilton Spectator - Ontario, Canada... town's hospital, patients were being transferred to a new and hitherto unused underground complex of ... There was a huge explosion and then I saw dark in my eyes. ...
Officials Say Terror Plotters Targeted WTC Flood Wall
1010 Wins - New York,NY,USA... a terrorist plot targeting lower Manhattan hoped to destroy a huge underground wall that ... One of the officials said the tunnel attacks actually were a separate ...
White Sands test lights up morning sky
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA... live target. After the explosion, some Northeast El Pasoans called police concerned about strange lights in the sky. Sgt. Rick Limas ...
Cold War refuge in the hills reopens
Charleston Gazette (subscription) - WV, USA... Resort officials thought they would have a hard time finding a new use for a thick-walled, blast door-equipped underground compound, but the bunker turned out ...
Greenbrier's bunker reopens -- to tourists
Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA,USA... he was unsure they'd ever find another lucrative use for the underground, concrete complex ... a referendum to allow the hotel to operate a casino in the bunker. ...
They live underground
National Post - Canada... Life underground is an escape of a different sort, she says. ... game of catch with her six-year-old daughter, Sarah, in the cramped quarters of a bunker of the ...
A hidden bunker is re-open to the public
WDBJ7.com - Roanoke,VA,USA Back in 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, the US government decided to build a secret bunker under the Greenbrier resort. It ...
Mayon Volcano erupts
Sun.Star - Philippines.. Authorities stockpiled food and prepared evacuation centers Saturday, after lava began trickling down the slopes of Mayon Volcano in a "quiet eruption.". ...
Villagers flee Ecuador eruption
ABC Online - Australia
... "The volcano has been active for some time but this is an eruption that goes beyond the sustained and moderate... and has become ...
Poverty continues to plague Louisiana families
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA Shuronda Grant and daughter Kaliyah, 5, walked to their government-subsidized Yorkshire apartment in the 2000 block of North Hearne Avenue in Shreveport on ...
Should conscience name your price?
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA... takes you beneath the surface, too, so there's no ignoring signs of serious problems. ... It's the same with drips in the attic, mold under the dishwasher, clogs ...
Building with Mud Brick in Southeast Atlanta
Duluth Weekly - Duluth,GA,USA... Adobe, cob, rammed earth, wattle and daub, and other techniques exist in all corners of the earth and in all climates including Asia, Africa, Europe and ...
Mount Fuji Overdue for Eruption, Experts Warn
National Geographic - Washington,D.C.,USA... Shigeo Aramaki, one of Japan's leading volcano experts, led the committee's hazard map project. The last Fuji eruption, he says, was in 1707. ...
Volcanoes erupt
The National - Port Moresby,Papua New Guinea... Eruption was observed on Mt Ruckenburg, or the Karai volcano, on July 10, and two days later on Mt Bamus, and the threat of more eruptions prompted authorities ...
July 15 2006
Colombians cheer as volcano calms down
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Bogota - Authorities lowered the threat level for a volcano in south-western Colombia on Thursday, a day after an eruption spewed burning ash and rock on a ...
Climbers can return to the rim of Mount St. Helens
KXLY - Spokane,WA,USA
... Helens starting July 21st. Climbing the volcano has been banned since September 2004 when a minor eruption began pushing new rock into the crater.
FEATURE-Killer salinity rings Australia's desert heart
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... in despair at desertification of Australia's farmlands as underground salt rises to ... Kevin Goss, chief executive officer for the Cooperative Research Centre for ...
Hydrogen cars to hit the road by 2015?
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
... said it would spend $350 million over four years on hydrogen research. ... tinkering with ways of sequestering manufactured carbon dioxide in underground caves and ...
Residents hunker down as shells fall in Israel
Chicago Tribune - United States
... Factories closed. At Nahariya Hospital, doctors and nurses moved dozens of patients to a stuffy, crowded underground shelter. Handwritten ...
Feeling hot? This July's warmer than last
San Diego Union Tribune - United States... Record-breaking hot, no. And it is July, after all. The average temperature for July is 70.9 degrees at Lindbergh Field, the National Weather Service's main ...
Crop payout a new record
Winnipeg Sun - Canada
Manitoba farmers are looking back at another record-breaking year -- but it wasn'ta ... Manitoba farmers to compensate for losses due to last year's wet weather. ...
Circling Back for the Hidden Energy Treasure Left Behind
InvestorIdeas.com (press release) - Point Roberts,WA,USA
... years. Deep underground, the basin has spongy, porous structures because of the way the formation developed millions of years ago. ...
Astounding Hikes, Insane Views of the Oregon Coast
Beach Connection - Toledo,OR,USA
... on this cliff structure, and in such places there are always hidden spots in the brush and forest. Indeed, there are the remnants of an old army bunker in the ..
July 13, 2006
Growing lure of American ginseng sparks study of centuries-old ...Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA... It's an activity that's literally and figuratively an underground operation ... Penn State University doctoral candidate, and a teaching and research assistant, has ...
10:20am -- Copper Thefts Plague El Paso
Albuquerque Journal (subscription) - Albuquerque,NM,USA It's a heck of a leading economic indicator, but the rash of copper thefts in El Paso -- and, according to the number of hits on "copper thefts" on Google News ...
Blast victim: Fire around us didn't stop
Ynetnews - Israel... Maale Yossef regional councils, residents were asked to hide in underground shelters ... in the morning there was a very loud and prolonged explosion accompanied by
China Sentences Underground Church Pastor to 7.5 Years
Christian Post - San Francisco,CA,USA
By The Associated Press. BEIJING (AP) - A prominent Chinese minister of an unofficial Protestant church has been jailed for seven ...
A step beyond concrete
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... "People see really creative patios and garden paths on ... Oberg predicts that these concrete pavers -- designed to direct rainwater runoff into the ground before ...
Visitor centre opens its doors
This is Local London - UK
... Rainwater will be collected and recycled and a wood-chip boiler will be ... the new facilities, visitors can still enjoy the park's sensory garden, arboretum, lakes ...
Aid Urged for Commercializing Clean Power-Generation Technologies
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
... wind, small hydro, biomass, ocean thermal, tidal and wave, geothermal, fuel cells ... Fuel cells: Fuel cells convert hydrogen and oxygen into electricity, with only ...
Energy founder out of steam
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
... from the geothermal energy outfit, citing irreconcilable differences with non-executive directors. Geodynamics is working to generate electricity using steam ...
It's Not Too Early
MIT Technology Review - Cambridge,MA,USA
... continents. There's much more that can be done to promote "green" homes and offices through a more enlightened federal policy. Mass ...
Exclusive: Family Emergency Planning Tim Wilson
Family Security Matters - Ridgewood,NJ,USA
... large scale disaster such as a major terrorist attack or record-breaking storm ... each), warm clothing (adequate for a night outside in bad weather), a lightweight ...
At last, a plaque marks site of Hitler's Bunker in Berlin
Combined Jewish Philantropies - Boston,MA,USA
... Dietmar Arnold said the sober, factual description of the bunker on the panel was meant to rob it of the mythical power it had in the city while it was hidden. ...
Not afraid to try something new
Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA
... The innovative polysteel system is more energy efficient, withstands about 240 mph wind, has few mold problems, no insect problems and saves 33 percent on ...
July 11, 2006
Reduce - Reuse - Recycle
Columbus Free Press - Columbus,OH,USA
... It uses more energy than any other appliance in your home. ... Install water saving devices for your taps and showers.Energy saving shower heads can save up to 20 ...
Former POW invested in Navy, businesses, veterans' causes
Virginian Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
... He escaped to Corregidor, where he was recaptured and forced to join the Bataan Death March. ... He learned Japanese and taught the camp officers English. ...
Green Building Is Now A Trend, Maybe One Near A Tipping Poing
MortgageNewsDaily.com - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
... As it is expected that homebuyers are going to increasingly demand green homes, builders should be able to speak intelligently to them about the advantages of ...
July 10, 2006
They got maps from gov site: sources
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
The tunnel terrorists got their maps of the region's vital underground passageways off the Department of Homeland Security's Web site, sources said yesterday. ...
'Threat remains' in nervous New York
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia... came to light on the first anniversary of the London Underground bombings, apparently ... it plays into New Yorkers' worst fear: being caught in the tunnel when it ...
Downtown tunnel renovation to be 'interesting, educational'
NewsOK.com (subscription) - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
... A third tunnel with no visible entries runs under Hudson Avenue between the Myriad Gardens and Stage Center. ... The tunnels will be renamed "The Underground.". ...
Sister cities - Building a cross-border bond
Minot Daily News - Minot,ND,USA... a tourism theme off the Prohibition-era tunnel system used by Al Capone and his bootleggers, using re-enactors to guide tourists through an underground tunnel. ...
Oil company uses gravity to its benefit
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
... Way, way, way down on the list, if at all, is a miner wearing a hard hat with a lamp that illuminates an underground tunnel -- a miner who has to drill up to .
Descending 300 metres underground
Montreal Gazette (subscription) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
It's amazing what you can find when you're berry picking. Joseph Fecteau was looking for blueberries in the Thetford Mines area ...
Carson City sheriff: A history
Nevada Appeal - Carson City,NV,USA... Curry St. The building, which had since been used as a root cellar and shed, was being razed for a parking lot. Fortunately, someone ...
House churches gaining acceptance, study finds
Raleigh Biblical Recorder - Raleigh,NC,USA... church bodies. And in communist countries like China, Christians have used an underground home-church model for years. Experts estimate ...
Island Park May Get More Inviting
Kitsap Sun (Subscription) - WA, United States... storage wing. Construction of the earth-sheltered restroom could be completed by the end of next February, Eber said. The Bainbridge
July 8, 2006
FBI breaks up 'real deal' plot to attack underground trains
SooToday.com - USA
By David Helwig. Washington, DC - Working closely with the Intelligence/Information Directorate within the Internal Security Forces ...
Aberdeen Considers Bay As Drinking Water Source
WBAL Channel.com - Baltimore,MD,USA... And it is behind a super-secret fence on an Army base, virtually ... Aberdeen would drill a collector well which would have underground lateral intake pipes .
Plan to attack NY tunnels thwarted Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada... systems that have a significant amount of track mileage underground — and under the ... that investigators had found no evidence that the Holland Tunnel was part ...
Mystery of bunker in the dunes
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
AN elaborate underground bunker built in sand dunes on a Surf Coast beach has ... McKiterick said foreshore workers were too frightened to enter the hidden den for
A space that rocks
Williams Lake Tribune - B.C., Canada... Adrian Karolko is a meteorite searcher for the department of geology and geophysics at the U of C. Only two meteorites have ever been found in British Columbia ...
Rain, Rain Finally Gone Away
McLean Connection - VA,USA
... Last week's record breaking rainfall took its toll on Dunlop's property. ... According to the National Weather Service, Fairfax was hit with approximately 10.85 ...
Farmers fret hot, dry days
Winnipeg Sun - Canada
While southern Manitoba is basking in record-breaking heat, Lauren Labiuk dons his mitts and ... But the extreme heat and dry weather could spell disaster for some ...
Solar World: Dead Sea hotels look to solar
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK... for driving around the city,' he said. 'Likewise, you don`t need the highest solar technology for an area with so much sunlight.'. ...
Homeowners slow to warm to idea despite sunny rebate
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
... people.". Until now, the solar technology most people are familiar with has been the traditional flat solar panels. Criticized by ...
NEWS ALERT: China Sentences Religious Leaders To Death; 7.5 Years ...
BosNewsLife (subscription) - Budapest,Hungary
... Church watchers say however that most of China’s estimated 80-million Christians prefer to worship in the underground 'house churches', named this way as ...
after the rains come the weeds t
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA
It slurped rainwater and sucked nutrients and grew so fast you could pull up a chair ... Grasping hands may eliminate a single weed in a single garden on a single ...
July 6, 2006
Passages protect privacy
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... an even better option few residents know anything about -- underground tunnels that ... The tunnel stretches from beneath the courthouse building on South Main
Lack of tornados unusual for season
KHAS-TV, NE - 14 hours ago
By Corinne Hautala We are half way through the year and still no reports of tornados for Central Nebraska or North Central Kansas.
Eco home plan for former docks
Weston & Somerset Mercury - eston-super-Mare,Somerset,UK
A MASSIVE eco home scheme - one of the biggest in the UK - is to feature as part of a development of Portishead's former docks. .
Deer population could see sharp decline
Casa Grande Valley Newspapers - Casa Grande,AZ,USA
Despite recent rainfall, officials say this year's record-breaking dry weather could lead to a sharp decline in the population of fawns that survive in ...
Protesters Swarm Bulldozer at Urban Garden
Houston Chronicle - United States
By OSKAR GARCIA Associated Press Writer. LOS ANGELES — Workers began bulldozing a 14-acre urban garden Wednesday, and 10 protesters ...
July 5, 2006
Western US sees resurgence of geothermal
United Press International - USA
... States), however, interest in geothermal power production resurged with ... (mandates) for utilities to provide a portion of their electricity from alternative ...
At least 34 die in Spanish underground crash
Independent - London,England,UK At least 34 people were killed and at least 20 were seriously injured yesterday when an underground train derailed in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, in ...
Koreans confront their oil addiction
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA... The two structures generate power from wind, solar and geothermal sources, storing it in fuel cells that provide electricity to the complex. ...
28 - Filipino soldiers' WWII exploits to be incorporated in
Balita.org - Minsterley,UK
... veterans have suffered the pains of discrimination, inspite of the sacrifices they poured in defending Bataan and Corregidor during the Japanese occupation of
Growing more, living with less
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA
... “By my 28th birthday, I’d never grown a garden vegetable in my entire life. ... He collects rainwater from his roof and stores it in a cistern. ...
£PRODUCED WITH Scottish Gas WE THROW AWAY 5BILLION EVERY YEAR
Glasgow Sunday Mail - UK
... Phone 0845 601 2123, quoting MAIL, for more information. When buying a new electrical appliance, always look for the energy saving recommended logo. ...
July 3, 2006
“’”Im afraid the future will be like this
IsraPundit - Canada... And invariably, we find ourselves making our way to the half-underground bunker of graves for people who were killed during the siege on Jerusalem in 1948. ...
'Every day I thank everyone who rescued me'
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia... a long and painful journey to the surface from the depths of London's Underground, and several ... Mr Kerr said his wife got out of the tunnel alive because of the ...
Montserrat volcano now at level 4 alert
Sun St.Kitts/Nevis - St. Kitts and Nevis Scientists at the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO) have reported that there is an ongoing swarm of volcanic earthquakes at shallow depths, “the likes of ...
Clowns Break Into A Nuclear Missile Launch Facility
KLTV - Tyler,TX,USA
... it was enough time for the three protesters to cut through the outer fence with bolt cutters, pound the concrete lid of the missile's silo with sledgehammers
Jaap Penraat Dies at 88; Saved Hundreds in Holocaust
New York Times - United States
... A secret resistance formed to help them. ... He took the Jews to Lille, France, where he presented them to the French underground for transport to neutral Spain. ...
A whistling river: the Somme is remembered
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia... Moments later, on July 1, 1916, a massive underground explosion behind German lines blew more than 500 million kilograms of chalk and mud two kilometres into ...
A balancing act
Hindustan Times - India
... As darkness fell, they made their way to the thatch and earth home of Dhuraji and Babuben Thakur at the edge of their small seven-acre farmland. ...
Creating a refuge for creatures great and small
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA... Planting a garden like this is a way to restore habitat for native wildlife. ... Use a barrel to collect roof-runoff rainwater to water plants. ...
Saudi's crude oil reserves
Houston Chronicle - United States... What is being so poorly hidden from the American people is that perhaps Saudi ... to 30 million foreign visitors a year and the entire underground economy would ...
Seed banks could help crops survive the next disaster
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
While underground construction in Norway of a so-called doomsday vault for storing seed ... seed stocks from around the globe for preservation and research at what ...
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