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June 29, 2005
Lowes may build massive warehouse near US 20 and Montague
Rockford Register Star - Rockford,IL,USA
2 home improvement retailer, is expected to build a massive distribution center ... applicant, Lowe's, is taking up 178 acres, 191 including storm water detention ...
June 27, 2005
Parking lot's 'solar trees' offer shade, provide power
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
... Beyond providing 186 covered parking places and a small fraction of the energy the ... bulk of its power provided by a natural gas-fired generator supplemented by ...
Plague in Tibet under control, claims China
Hindu - Chennai,India
Beijing, June 26. (PTI): The plague outbreak in Zhongba, a region in a remote region of Tibet, close to the Sino -Nepalese border, has been brought under ...
Two die of plague after eating marmot in China's Tibet region
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
Beijing - Two people died of plague and three others were hospitalized after they ate marmot meat in a remote area of China's Tibet region, state media said on
Lewis cooks suet dumplings
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
... Capt. Clark, back at the lower camp, selects the articles to be deposited in a cache (hidden underground vault). He deposits Lewis ...
June 26, 2005
Pedal power, Linux gets Ugandans talking
Tectonic - South Africa
... The system provides computing and phone capabilities while operating with battery power charged from solar panels or bicycle generators. ...
On the level: I asked for a wind turbine but all I got was hot air
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
... I used its plans to construct my own solar-heating panel from an old radiator, and a wind-powered battery charger using a hand-carved wooden rotor blade and an ...
Living off the Grid
Upstate House - New York,USA
... The solar panels provide two kilowatts of electricity, which is conveyed through an underground cable to the charge controller and the two 24-volt battery ...
Lithium Tech to go sky high
Philadelphia Business Journal - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Sanswire plans to test the batteries in a prototype of its solar-powered, high ... Each battery can produce 17.3 kilowatt hours of electricity, which is a little ...
No bull: Dairyland dedicates first manure-powered plant
LaCrosse Tribune - LaCrosse,WI,USA
... tank that creates methane gas. Dairy-land buys the gas and uses it to make electricity with a small generator right on the farm. ...
A natural way of building
Elmira Star-Gazette - Elmira,NY,USA
... Natural building includes construction that uses such material as straw bales, unmilled logs, rammed earth, cob, adobe, earthbags, thatch, cordwood, bamboo and ...
Scientists Create Holographic TV
Digital-Lifestyles.Info - London,England,UK
US scientists have created imaging technology that lets viewers enjoy what they claim to be the first truly three-dimensional holographic movies. ...
June 25, 2005
A CRITICAL LOOK AT MY MOTHERS HOUSE
Mother Earth News - USA
With My MOTHER's House pretty much finished, some of the people involved in designing and constructing our earth shelter got together recently to analyze the ...
Scientists Make Smallest Manmade Organic Particles
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
... constructed as spheres, rods, cones, or trapezoids. They could be made biodegradeable to disintigrate after insertion into the body.
Anatahan emits thick ash plume
Saipan Tribune - West Orange,NJ,USA
... the volcano displayed a series of eruptions that sent ash to 50,000 feet in the air. It matched the intensity of Anatahan's strongest historical eruption on ...
Vacation return to nature
Downtown Express - USA
... thrilled and spun everybody like a big uncle come down from hidden caves to ... We went to the Blanchard Caves, a wet masterpiece of underground beauty where the ...
Fire sensors may prevent devastation
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
By Craig Gustafson. What if small, self-powered sensors scattered across the backcountry could have detected the first flames of ...
Eastern coral snakes dangerous, beautiful
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA
... Two to 13 eggs are laid underground or under ground cover from May to July. ... They remain hidden most of the time, but they can sometimes be seen in the open and ...
June 16, 2005
The River Wild
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... Another guide, Tim Smith, a former prep school hockey star turned wilderness skills and survival instructor at his base in New Hampshire, used one of ...
Luxury living ... up on the roof
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... The extra bracing and waterproofing required for rooftop pools generally limits ... project planned for uptown, estimates the pool, kitchen, garden, putting green ...
Brightest LED Puts Light Bulbs in the Shade
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
Known as Ostar Lighting, this LED supplies 200 lumens, thus literally putting light bulbs and neon lamps in the shade. Previously ...
Historical Records Preserved from the Ravages of Time
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
... He says, "The idea of trucking records to a hidden, blast-proof underground storage facility sounds so very 1950s, but increased regulation and electronic ...
June 14, 2005
Women learn outdoor survival skills
Madison Courier - Madison,IN,USA
... Participants in the wildernesssurvival course were given a checklist of supplies they should carry with them whenever they go hiking or camping. ...
US-Based Group Accuses China of New Crackdown on Underground...
Voice of America - USA
A US-based religious rights group says authorities in China have recently carried out a major crackdown on underground Christian churches in northeastern Jilin ...
Micropower Heats Up: Propane fuelcell packs a lot of punch
Science News - USA
"A propane-driven fuelcell could be the same size as a lithium ... A small cartridge of liquid propane under moderate pressure could feed a fuelcell for days. ...
June 12, 2005
Living roofs aid the Earth
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron,MI,USA
... How much weight a roof can sustain will limit the thickness of vegetation. A greenroof can absorb between 40% and 90% of the rain that falls on it. ...
rainy day
Oshkosh Northwestern - Oshkosh,WI,USA
... So she decided to put in a raingarden on the side of her house by planting lots of thirsty plants like dogwoods, Wisconsin wild roses, blue irises and tiger ...
June 10, 2005
Hemmingsen: Falls City
KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
... amateur eye. You pass a couple of those earthhomes dug into the bluffs along the highway and then you hit Falls City itself.
Hotel's war secret back on the radar
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
... But the underground "strong-room" remained a mystery until a Second World War ... had taken over the Victorian hotel and turned it into a secret training centre ...
UK's Biggest GreenRoof Project
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
At the design stage, the Environmental Projects Officer for Lambeth Housing, Matt Prescott, suggested using a greenroof as a way of getting both value for ...
Acid Mine Drainage: Susquehanna's 'Unknown Danger'
WTOP - Washington,D.C.,USA
... have long been abandoned, but their 3,000 miles of underground tunnels -- some of ... and along the Lackawanna River through Scranton as "a hidden, unknown danger ...
Rare Space Artifacts Found At Cape Canaveral
WESH.com - Winter Park,FL,USA
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A security officer at Cape Canaveral stumbled across a rare artifact of an effort to use astronauts in space as Cold War spies. ...
RammedEarth : Dirt is Green
Dexigner - USA
... The house made of dirt - it's actually an established environmentally sensitive building technique called "rammedearth" - is one part of a larger experiment ...
Natural building blocks make eco-friendly home
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
... It will be a hands-on outdoor university, celebrating straw, cob, unmilled lumber, rammedearth, slate and other natural materials. ..
Man faces transplant after eating mushrooms
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Wellington - A New Zealand man in intensive care in Auckland hospital faces a liver transplant after eating deadly mushrooms he picked in his garden, it was
70-mpg diesel concept car unveiled
MSNBC - USA
... A diesel-powered JeepLiberty is available as is the Mercedes E 320 CDI diesel sedan. Volkswagen sells Beetle, Golf and Jetta diesel models.
Life in a treehouse
Hindu Business Line - India
... Nothing unusual, we thought, until we were told that our treehouse was beside the pond. More information came in... not mentioned in the Web sites. ...
Cybertrips: Head underground to Kentucky's Mammoth Cave
USA Today - USA
A little Internet travel research can help you plan a cooler vacation this summer, to the naturally air-conditioned underground scenery of Mammoth Cave in south ...
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Sherman City Worker Discovers Underground Storefronts
NBC5i.com - Ft. Worth,TX,USA
... The amazing discovery is actually a passageway underneath Travis Street that seems to lead to an old underground shopping area. ...
Solar Hydrogen Pilot Plant to Tap Landfill Gas
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
... According to the Saskatoon-based company, their prototype solar hydrogen generator has now ... This one project (a small-to-medium sized landfill gas project) will ...
.June 6, 2005
Atlas reveals global devastation
Macon Area Online - Macon,GA,USA
LONDON (Reuters)- A photo atlas released by the United Nations Environment Program shows mankind's impact on the planet, from major deforestation to urban ...
Cheese company wants to pump waste underground
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
MODESTO, Calif. A San Joaquin Valley cheese company that was fined earlier this year for polluting is seeking a federal permit to ...
Coming in out of the cold: Cold fusion, for real
Christian Science Monitor - USA
... equipment, not the sort of stuff easily available to build a generator. ... experiment went something like this: scientists inserted a small pyroelectric crystal ..
New UN atlas reveals gradual global devastation
CTV - Canada
... The agency says the images clearly illustrate the major environmental devastation that has been wreaked on the planet over past decades that isn't noticeable ...
June 4, 2005
Plague found in local dog
Los Alamos Monitor - Los Alamos,NM,USA
The Scientific Laboratory Division of the New Mexico Department of Health has confirmed bubonic plague in a dog from Los Alamos County and two cats in Santa Fe ...
Discover Poland's little-known gems
Mid-Ocean News - Hamilton,Bermuda
... A network of underground passages not unlike some we've visited along the Maginot ... intent was to establish a factory to produce some of Hitler's secret weapons. ...
June 3, 2005
Most Americans Believe Alien Life is Possible, Study Shows
Space.com - USA
... life can be seen in instances such as the 1996 announcement by researchers claiming to find evidence of ancient microbes inside a Martian meteorite, which sent ...
Cpl. Bill McMillan captured at Corregidor
Charlotte Sun-Herald - Charlotte,FL,USA
... He was a coastal artilleryman stationed on Corregidor in the Philippines when the Emperor's forces overwhelmed Gen. Douglas MacArthur's troops in May 1942. ...
The wounds of war
Mesabi Daily News - Virginia,MN,USA
... The Army recognized her father's death as a war casualty, she said, and two years ago she and husband John brought orchids to Corregidor, the island of rock ...
Toxic Mold: Is Your Home at Risk?
WNEP-TV - Scranton,PA,USA
... He said mold spores float in the air coming into our homes from outside. They then stick to a surface and if that surface has moisture, the spores grow. ...
XsunX Produces Transparent Solar Cell on Thin-Film Plastic
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... of low temperature manufacturing techniques has allowed the Company to produce its first transparent solar cell on inexpensive true thin-film plastic. ...
PM encourages aquaculture at sea and on islands
Viet Nam News Agency - Hanoi,Vietnam
... He noted that the sea-based fish farming will also contribute to the ... organisations, households and individuals wishing to get involved in aquaculture at sea ...
Home-grown arid area greenhouse wins global prize:-
Webindia123 - India
... This is the result of the ETHE technology, which places a number of pipes underground, where the temperature is significantly lower. ...
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