June 27, 2007 Wednesday

Mysteries of underground Moscow
Russia-InfoCenter - Moscow,Russia
Moscow is a huge city not only on the surface but underground also: multiple labyrinths, shelters, secret constructions, abandoned mines, catacombs, ...

Johnny Biosphere: early eco-warrior
Hamilton Spectator - Ontario, Canada
... led a hand-picked research team that proved detergent phosphates discharged in sewage into the lakes were feeding algae's voracious appetite and causing ...

Stifling Heat, Torrential Rains Cover Parts of Europe, Middle East
Voice of America - USA
By VOA News A record-breaking heat wave over southeastern Europe and parts of the Middle East is expected to continue, closing out what experts say will be ...

Record-breaking heat brings lemonade in Bluefield
WDBJ7.com - Roanoke,VA,USA
According to the National Weather Service, the previous record for June 18th, set in 1996, was 85 degrees. The last time Bluefield saw 90 degrees was on

Energy-efficient homes showcased
News 8 Austin - Austin,TX,USA
... green building materials, rainwater collection systems and/or landscaping with native plants. The city of Austin's Green Garden has tons of information ...

Living the Good Life with Rob Jacobs
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
At Jacobs Farm, the buildings are built out of rammed earth, sustainable building materials with solar heated greenhouses. Farm labor housing is a real ...

Glastonbury goes Green
Design Week - London,UK
Among the items on display in Christian Aid's Green Garden are 'rammed earth' planters, inspired by building projects in Honduras, and multi-storey planters

Former US Nuclear Missile Site Open to Public
Voice of America - USA
Today, visitors to a remote area of South Dakota can see firsthand a missile silo and launching station that are no longer in use and experience what it ...

Gallop to Horsecave
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
Less fortunately, for many years, the cave also served as the town's giant septic tank, and the ecology of the underground habitat was nearly destroyed. ...

Honey bees swarm house
Langley Times - BC, Canada
A swarm of bees approximately four feet deep and with a six foot circumference landed in south Langley on Wednesday. By Kristyl Clark Kathy Calder was ...

Solar energy continues to gain steam
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Within the past week, however, Ontario took its support for solar technology to a new level. The McGuinty government announced the ambitious goal of having ...

Chile probes missing lake
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
Other hypothesis about the disappearance included an earthquake-caused crack in the ground that could have drained all the lake water.

Nuts about saving... - Eastern chipmunk could teach humans about ...
Dunn County News - Menomonie,WI,USA
Each individual chipmunk makes it own underground home. They laboriously dig a long, expansive tunnel containing numerous chambers.

Cold War-era chills. Tourists welcome.
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
By David Holley, Times Staff Writer -- Deep underground in a Cold War-era nuclear bomb shelter, guide Alexei Alexandrov did his best to set a spooky mood, ...

Symantec outgrows underground nuclear bunker
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service, 06/20/07 Symantec Corp. has emerged from its bunker in the British countryside, moving its malware-fighting operations

Going underground: caves appeal to families, extreme adventurers
Canoe.ca - Canada
Besides welcoming tourists, the Horne Lake Caverns run school tours to teach students the importance of caves as underground river systems. ...

The secret garden
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Some species in tropical jungles attach themselves to the tops of trees and survive on light, rainwater and air. Which probably accounts for the fact that ...

Restored farmstead surrounds travelers with rock-solid history
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
When available, home canned preserves stored in the stone root cellar accompany bread and sweet rolls. THE HIGH POINTS: The recommended activity at the inn

Grandfather sought heat relief in our basement
Cheboygan Daily Tribune (subscription) - Cheboygan,MI,USA
Mother told me that where they lived in Copemish, they had a root cellar where they stored their vegetable and grandfather had a pace there, too, ...

Artifacts from 1800s Tuscaloosa unearthed in redevelopment area
Dateline Alabama - Birmingham,AL,USA
"The root cellar material seems like it was made in the 1880s and 1890s," Lolley said, examining some of the aqua blue and sea green water bottles that he ...

Being prepared key to surviving fire
Homer News - Homer,AK,USA
"And I had an escape plan, a root cellar if it got too bad," he said. "But Thursday night I wondered if I'd made the right choice to stay.

June 19, 2007 Tuesday

Tree house? Try tree home
Globe and Mail - Canada
Gerald Sheff decided his six grandchildren needed a tree house. He wanted the kids, all under age 15, to have an adult-free zone during trips to grandpa's ...

'Pantry' stocked with history
Nashua Telegraph (subscription) - Nashua,NH,USA
She explains terms such as Butt'ry ("a cool, dry place for foodstuffs"), Root Cellar, Milk House, Summer Kitchen and Springhouse: "built over a cold flowing ...

Two views -- living lightly
Cook County News Herald - Grand Marais,MN,USA
The root cellar Ken dug by hand is large enough to hold neighbors' produce as well. The Hoffmans have had great success with growing fruit, ...

Our Designer/Builder, Susan Clellen
By Jan Zorman(Nature Center)
The renewed interest in adobe, rammed earth, cob and straw-bale construction that started in the 70's and 80's proved to be quite a progressive movement. Building codes now include most of these and the internet provides an ...

Bangladesh faces "unusual" monsoon, fears flooding
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
By Masud Karim DHAKA, June 17 (Reuters) - Flood-prone Bangladesh is bracing for an unusual and unpredictable monsoon this year, with environment experts and ...

NEW! NORAD move would cost $12 billion, Air Force says
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
At issue is the underground home of the US-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command and Northern Command, headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base

Hitler bunkers revealed - real and virtual
Guardian Unlimited - UK
"We know for sure that underneath there is also a massive multistorey bunker complex." The plan is to penetrate 20 metres into the north-eastern face with a

ACTS has developed a solar heated fully sustainable heat-treatment ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
... taken a massive step towards making solar drying kilns best-practise technology for drying materials, particularly timber products on a global basis. ...

Unique Arkansas Lodging for Father's Day: More Than Just a Place ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... complete with limestone cave walls. But you won't have to live like a caveman. This five-room cave house is complete with top-of-the-line amenities.

June 13, 2007 Wednesday

Man living underground prompts dismay in family Buffalo News - Buffalo,NY,USA
She added that Rounds' family is concerned about his health and safety and does not want him to continue living underground. She said she would like to buy ...

UK OLED project will give lighting 'like the sun' ElectronicsWeekly.com - UK
Another aim is that at the end of the three year project it will be producing emitters with 1000cd/m2 with a 20000hr life to 50 per cent brightness, ...

Sun Ovens International
Quad-Cities Online - Rock Island,IL,USA
Solar cooking can be used year-round since an oven's effectiveness depends on the brightness of the day, not the outside air temperature. ...

New Big George's boasts real kitchen Larger space includes a ...
Ann Arbor News - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
BY STEFANIE MURRAY. Exactly five years from when vice president Mark Bishar conceived the idea, Big George's Home Appliance Mart opened in its new building ...

Missile site proves to be hot tourist attraction
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
The second opportunity will be the opening of Launch Facility (missile silo) Delta-09 to drive-up visitation from 8 am to 11 am Monday through Friday during ...

Earthquake hits Big Isle near the top of Kilauea
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
HILO >> An unusual magnitude-4.7 earthquake near the summit of Kilauea Volcano yesterday was felt as far west as South Kohala on the other side of the island ...

Going underground for a greenhouse gas solution
Houston Chronicle - United States
Their goal: to find even the slightest hint that the carbon dioxide they injected 4000 feet underground two years ago had made it to the surface at the ...

Seattle Underground \
A photo tour of Seattle's underground downtown from the perspective of an antiques lover, who also likes history, ghost stories and Victorian architecture.

Whole Foods Not Green Enough For Some Brooklynites
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA
"The community is looking forward to welcoming Whole Foods Market to our neighborhood," he and Marni Horwitz of Green Roof Brooklyn wrote to the chief ...

Big Solar: Stirling Energy Systems
Business 2.0 - San Francisco,CA,USA
A 200-foot solar tower looms over a collection of dishes, troughs and other solar technology from a bygone era. But among the rusting hulks are six shiny ...

Hybrid Solar Lighting Earns National Technology Transfer Award
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
The technology was developed through funding by DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Solar Technologies Program, along with a partnership ...

State Rebates Help Make Home Solar Technology a Realistic Option
KPBS - San Diego,CA,USA
A new study by Roper found nearly 90 percent of Americans think solar electricity should be an option for all new home construction. ...

Amish are surprise champions of solar technology
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
Recent advances in solar technology, however, have made photovoltaic panels an attractive alternative. And in an unusual turn of events, green techies, ...

A Recycled Tire Swing
The Green Guide - New York,NY,USA
But other reuse and recycling options are many, from tires filled with rammed earth and built into the walls of "earthships" to roofing tiles, flooring and ...

CALEARTH DISASTER RESISTANT HOUSING Attracts NASA
Inhabitat - USA
Not only are their dome-like clay houses earthquake resistant and eco-friendly - but, thanks to some attention from NASA, there'sa possibility that they may ...

June 5, 2007 Tuesday

Earthquake breaks whisky bottles in Sheridan
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
Stickney said it's not unusual to hear a "boom" during an earthquake. This noise often is caused by the sound waves from the quake traveling through the ...

Oklahoma hit by quake, aftershocks
Earthtimes.org - USA
MCALESTER, Okla., May 28 Many people enjoying their holiday weekend in an eastern Oklahoma county were greeted by a minor earthquake and two aftershock ...

All shook up: Seacoast jittery over series of baby quakes
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA
On Sunday, police were working with local officials to find the cause of explosions, believing they may be related to underground methane explosions tied ...

Warriors of a forgotten conflict
Newark Star Ledger - Newark,NJ,USA
... in bunkers hidden among West German farm fields and facing the East German frontier. Some 20 soldiers would be locked in a bunker for 24-hour stretches. ...

Otter Creek Seasonal Cheddar
By cheese underground lady(cheese underground lady)
A new Wisconsin farmhouse cheese is about to hit the market and I predict it's going to be big. Otter Creek Seasonal Cheddar - made from milk produced by the Zimmer family dairy herd near Spring Green, Wisconsin - is currently in ...

Get a 'green' thumb: Grow an eco-friendly lawn MSNBC - USA
It is a by-product of the Milwaukee County sewage plant. And boy does it green up your lawn and garden. The slow release nitrogen and iron digs deep into ...