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July 29, 2008 Tuesday
Underground explorers document architectural ruins
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
I've actually hidden stuff that I thought might be taken." Thanks to the Internet and digital photography, St. Louisans can visit shuttered shopping malls, ...
'Green' easy for companies to tout but hard to guarantee
The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
Gregg and Toni Christoffersen along with sons Anders, left, and Hans shop for organic produce at Old Beach Farmers Market at Croc’s 19th Street Bistro.
Something Different
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA
Game warden Jim Owens lived in this improvised cave-house, under an overhanging cliff, nearly a century ago. Of all things to know about the Grand Canyon's ...
Mining News: Keno Hill still promises silver payday
Petroleum News - USA
The main feature is pervasive faulting where fluids bubbling up from deep underground infiltrated cracks and fissures in the rocks and chemically interacted ...
Where is the economy going in the next six months?
Stockhouse - Vancouver,BC,Canada
These food shortages have already contributed to a doubling and tripling in the price of grains over the last two years. But even these elevated prices have ...
Senior fights for US citizenship
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
They married in November 1941, but they were separated when the elder Rusher was transferred to Corregidor in the Philippines. Left behind in Shanghai,
Ruddock launches one-stop shop for adapting to climate impacts
eGov monitor - London,UK
... ensure that it is both safe and cool, rainwater storage, and ways to reduce the impacts of flooding, such as putting power outlets higher up the walls. ...
Homeowners living near windfarms see property values plummet
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
It means many other families living in the shadow of the giant turbines could see thousands wiped off the value of their homes, as the Government pushes ...
Environmentally friendly living
Times Online - UK
Over the past two years, they have seen two wind turbines blown away by gales and have bought a bank of forklift-truck batteries to store energy from the ...
How Green is Redlands, and How Green Should It Be?
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
"(The designer) came back with a plan to do an earth-sheltered building," Hempel said. "So we use the earth to help cool and heat in the winter the interior ...
Sichuan-Shaanxi Border Hit by 6.0 Aftershock
Economic Observer - Beijing,China
Since an 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan province on May 12, constant aftershocks had took place there almost on daily basis. ...
WILL PRIDE DESTROY AMERICA?
NewsWithViews.com - Merlin,OR,USA
Don’t we have the mighty, powerful eagle as our American symbol and haven’t those in the NASA program built a nest among the stars? ..
July 22, 2008 Tuesday
Big residential projects are going up green
MLive.com - MI,USA
... PMA Consultants LLCThe plans for Tierra on Ashley call for use of geothermal energy, a living roof and other green building elements. .
A very expensive fill-up: $500
Charleston Post Courier - Charleston,SC,USA
"Most of the time it can come from rainwater that overcomes the seal on the storage tank," Hixson said. "Also, in the high humidity like we have in ..
Hexagons, teardrops and hubris
Financial Times - London,England,UK
Fuller is best known for the geodesic dome he patented in 1947. Strong, lightweight, inexpensive and efficient, built out of agglomerations of triangles ...
Back to the Garden
Wall Street Journal - USA
... one of the world's largest collections of rare orchids, and a tropical rainforest within a geodesic dome conservatory -- where plants include the rare ...
Taking Green Builds to New Heights, Rainforest Exhibit Goes Solar
Popular Mechanics - New York,NY,USA
foot living roof that's covered with native plants—has been under construction for the past three years and will open to the public in September. ...
In praise of follies
Times Online - UK
John Harris, the present owner, has filled the underground caves with ferns and exotic flowers, an attempt to recreate the feel of the original garden.
Explorers find one-of-a-kind formation inside cave
Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces,NM,USA
Elsewhere in the cave, Boston points to tiny yellow blotches and large patches of shimmering material, both examples of bacteria unique to the underground ...
Natural Stone Bridge and Caves
WCAX - Burlington,VT,USA
And from there, it's back underground via Kelly's slide. "If they're seriously claustrophobic and can't stand small spaces, you wouldn't have fun," warned ...
Get Outside Goes Underground
TheDenverChannel.com - Denver,CO,USA
Colorado is home to more than 100 caves. There are two commercial caves, Cave of the Winds in Manitou Springs and Glenwood Caverns in Glenwood Springs.
'Top experts' using global warming as a weapon
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - Waterloo,IA,USA
Who are these mysterious “people” who have “always wanted to control and manage human action?” I don’t know who he’s referring to. I deny that they exist. ...
July 15, 2008 Wednesday
The Visionary Thinking of John Todd
Metropolis Magazine - New York,NY,USA
We did a geodesic structure at New Alchemy in 1980, on Cape Cod, near the Ark. He came to me, and his great protégé Jay Baldwin was working with us at that ...
Enjoying the sea views from a villa atop Santorini
Chicago Tribune - United States
Having experienced the cliche for four days from the panoramic terrace of a modern cave house at Chelidonia villas, I must say the view is as timelessly ...
Poverty is not a lifestyle choice anyone would make
The North Bay Nugget - North Bay,Ontario,Canada
I was totally shocked by one comment in the Nugget's Vent column on eliminating poverty. How about you get an education and a job first, secure a roof over ...
Citigroup's $1.1 Trillion of Mysterious Assets Shadows Earnings
Bloomberg - USA
``A lot of these so-called off-balance-sheet exposures, there's no mystery about this,'' Haas said. ``Whether they're on or off balance sheet is frankly not ...
The right building materials can foil fires
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
You might imagine that a bale of straw would ignite easily, but in fact straw bale construction is highly fire resistant. The high compression of straw in ...
Despite 800 billion barrel potential, oil shale a hard sell
Houston Chronicle - United States
The world's largest deposit of oil shale is hidden here, beneath a landscape dotted by pinyon pines and twisted junipers. If the oil industry can learn how
Roof of Sweden's Ringhals nuclear reactor catches fire
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
Stockholm - A fire that broke out Friday on the roof of Sweden's Ringhals nuclear power plant was put out safely, local fire control authorities said. ...
July 8, 2008 Tuesday
G-8 summit goes green in Japan
Hindustan Times - India
... of solar panels on its roof and windows and from nearby small wind turbine generators - but it currently costs three times more than a normal house. ...
Waste Wise in Calgary
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
... be successfully and easily diverted from Calgary's landfills, mitigating the negative consequences of organic waste in landfills (ie greenhouse gases). ...
Fresh Produce From Under the Dome
Telluride Watch - Telluride,CO,USA
And even if he’s wrong: “I’ll have organic food here.” Debra Hynes has a 26-foot dome in downtown Ridgway. Installed last August, it’s been planted and ...
Couple's Earth-friendly lifestyle takes root on Northern ...
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
They've built a straw-bale home, they've adopted several children and their Massa Organics crop is a hit. By Richard C. Paddock, Los Angeles Times Staff
Big jump at the pump hitting reinsmen hard
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
Good oats run around $3.75 a bushel, a bale of straw for around $6 and a bale of straw for about $3. Dorchester figures it costs $1000 a day to run his ..
source of a mysterious salmonella outbreak that has sickened more ...
簑?富?獟?經? - Hong Kong
In relation to the stock quote service (the "Quote Service") information, the stock price, trade volume and turnover are provided by The Stock Exchange of ...
Impacts of lightning fires hit close to home
The Eureka Reporter - Eureka,CA,USA
The tax rate would fluctuate, depending on whether an area was considered “high-risk” for a natural disaster — such as a fire, earthquake or flood. ...
SEEING GREEN
Newsweek - USA
Plus, he's cranked up his new ecofriendly factory, with the world's largest "living roof" blanketed in flowering ground cover. He's even convened a panel of ...(2004 article. Good)
Rare bird vanishing from Everglades
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
Experts say the number of Everglades snail kites are falling fast because of droughts and a water management scheme intended to help another at-risk bird.
’Americas middle class is quickly vanishing
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
The working middle class is vanishing. Our voice has fallen on deaf ears. We have been sold out to legalized slave labor. The labor force that has powered ...
Underground adventure: Cool off at Howe Caverns
Oneonta Daily Star - Oneonta,NY,USA
They are full of cracks, crevices and mysterious passages. For every nook you explore, there is a cranny that you can't reach. And that is what makes them ...
Op-Ed Contributor Looking for Liberty
New York Times - United States
... case at the National Archives, where it is protected by bulletproof glass, argon gas and the 55-ton underground vault it is lowered into every night. ...
On cornet, the cave man
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
It was hard for Trout to grow up in Carlsbad, NM, and not be enthralled by the extensive underground network of chambers that made up the nearby Carlsbad ...
Moldy Cave Art Is a Tale of Human Missteps
Washington Post - United States
The extraordinary creatures -- hundreds of exquisite beasts etched and painted across the undulating walls and ceilings of large underground cavities ...
At Longwood Gardens, fantastic treehouses grow
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
They range in size and scope from the simple "Kyle's Tree House" (a collection of hammocks suspended at different levels among the trees) to the elaborate ...
Tales from the dump
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
Lynn Roberto of Springfield brims with interesting dump stories, some with an element of mysterious coincidence. "When I bought my first house in New Jersey
July 1, 2008 Tuesday
Going underground: the world's subterranean holiday destinations
Gizmag - Victoria,Australia
Beckham Creek Cave Hotel is located in Buffalo National River country, Arkansas and is one very luxurious cave hotel. The Cave House is on a 530 acre estate
Prices, not profits, growing for local farmers
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
Of course, there's the cost of fuel that continues to climb and even the cost of cow manure – "If you can find it," Cargill said – which has also risen. ...
How the rich dig deep to expand city homes
Independent - London,England,UK
Wealthy homeowners are building underground rooms housing everything from swimming pools and gyms to home cinemas. Amid concern about a rapid increase in ...
Fishermen pay price for polluted waterways
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
Despite this, we can see further land for sale with planning approval for commercial and industrial use. Secondly, the instances of pollution have increased
TWO YEARS UNDERGROUND
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
Daniel Rinker built an earth-sheltered home in northern Michigan. The roof is covered with soil and landscaped. Winter heating and summer cooling figures ...
‘’This cathedral is colored green
Kennebec Journal - Augusta,ME,USA
Members of the congregation want to have the sanctuary done in time for a dedication of their new "green," solar-powered, earth-sheltered church. ...
Tree houses for all
Providence Journal - Providence,RI,USA
By Virginia A. Smith This detail of IDDI tree house shows the bottom floor support as it radiates around a center tree. The tree house does not use the tree
Can weeds help solve the climate crisis?
International Herald Tribune - France
... projection that envisions continuing greenhouse gas increases but also some success in abatement programs. By comparing three sites — an organic farm in ...
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