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June 24, 2008 Tuesday
China grows 'Super Vegetables' with Seeds from Outer Space
Macedonia - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Futuristic greenhouses in southern China give birth to 15-stone pumpkins - 10 times their normal size - 160lb Chinese winter melons, chilli plants the size ...
Sustainable living in the suburbs
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
“So my dream is to some day own an underground house in western Nebraska, collect power from the wind, heat with the sun, collect rain water in underground ...
A bit of Carlsbad history for sale
Carlsbad Current Argus - Carlsbad,NM,USA
And not only is the entire town being sold, its surrounding acreage is going to be gaveled over to another owner with the auction scheduled for 11 am on ...
White's City will be sold to highest bidder
Carlsbad Current Argus - Carlsbad,NM,USA
The entire town of White's City as well as its surrounding acreage will be sold at 11 am July 14, according to information released by the folks who will ...
In Search of Local Produce, but Coming Up Short
New York Times - United States
Mr. Bucciaglia cited a nearby property I had asked about that has been scraped of its topsoil and sits, ugly and forlorn, with a “For Sale” sign.
Tree house fire scares Madras neighborhood
KTVZ - Bend,OR,USA
COM A tree house fire in Madras, sparked by two boys playing with lighter fluid, posed a dangerous threat to neighboring homes. The tree house on the corner ...
Ancient Harvest
Surrey Leader - BC, Canada
It sheds light on a mystery that has puzzled scientists: how did coastal aboriginal people – thought to be reliant on hunting, fishing and gathering ...
Green, "Living Building" Opens in Florida
TMCnet - USA
The building will also be topped by a “Living Roof,” or “roof park,” provided with greenery, plants, trees and a lawn. In the builidng, a Living Machine
Fort Lauderdale resident wants 66-foot-tall windmill
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
The design for the two-story home also includes a canopy of solar panels, heat-repellent windows and a rainwater storage tank to water the yard. ...
Will someone save this bungalow?
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
... into the development plans, which Shenkarow said will include buildings using rammed-earth construction and a lot of glass and diffused light.
Cities of the Future: from Lilypads to Green Cities
TECH.BLORGE.com - Sydney,Australia
Highways would be a source of energy with special turbines lining the median. These special turbines designed by Mark Oberholtzer, would be powered by the ...
The engineer of dreams
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), in case you've never heard of the Whole Earth Catalog (which he inspired) or seen a geodesic dome (like, who are you? ...
Can Fuller be rehabilitated as a 21st century design hero?
International Herald Tribune - France
His most successful project, the geodesic dome, has provided emergency shelter for many thousands of people, but other designs, including a flying car and ...
Spectacular new caving passage found
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand
A bit of judicious digging and a whole new system of caves was found. "We were spending a week at a time underground," Silverwood said. ...
Tales of a caveman: Exploring dark and narrow spaces in Carlsbad ...
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA
... feet over the first mile into the cave. If that's too much, an elevator descends 750 feet to a trailhead near an underground rest and concessions area.
June 17, 2008 Tuesday
Double rarity: Family start-up dairy & small 320 cow herd
Manteca Bulletin - Manteca,CA,USA
But since the dairy was up for sale, "we decided we'd give it a try" on a short notice and put in their application at the farm service agency, Lisa said. ...
Homes for bees, please
Schenectady Gazette - Schenectady,NY,USA
Industrial agriculture means ever larger plantations of single crops, a situation that supports pests rather than beneficial insects. ..
Dan Bouwman's giving spirit fuels nature reserve project
Niagara Falls Review - Niagara Falls,Ontario,Canada
There are the hard-as-steel white oak trees he used to build a 30000-pound tree-house last year. There are the vernal pools that unite the ducks,
Dubai is building a prefab Rotating Tower
TECH.BLORGE.com - Sydney,Australia
Forty-eight wind turbines will be sandwiched between the 59 floors. Each turbine will create .3 megawatts of power that is expected to total 1200,00 ...
New Modular Wind Turbines Snap to Buildings to Blow Away the ...
DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USA
(Source: Aerovironment) A series of the devices sits perched atop a city roof. Aerovironment is look to generate interest in preparation to mass produce the ...
Doctors tell how new life began after cellar girl woke from coma
guardian.co.uk - UK
Elisabeth, 42, was locked up and sexually abused by her father Josef Fritzl for 24 years in a purpose-built bunker beneath the family home. ...
WOLCOTT: Weird, cool, and often overlooked
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal - Lockport,NY,USA
That’s the way it was Sunday at the Lockport Cave and Underground Boat Ride, all tourists, no Lockportians. The folks I talked to were from Thailand, ...
Hiking Ohio's Hocking Hills
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
The distinction is important to naturalists, but it doesn't change any hiker's love of the region's hallmarks: Old Man's Cave and Ash Cave. "In a true cave, ...
Hot gas plumes detected at Mt. Kurikoma
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
"There's a possibility that volcanic gases that had been confined below ground are gushing out through fissures in the mountain created by the earthquake," ...
Mysterious Strangers Pay For Everyone's Expensive Fill-up At US ...
CityNews - Toronto,Canada
An entire city is abuzz about the mysterious identity of two men who are as close to being living legends as you can get in this mortal life.
Who Needs Soil? Colossal Hydroponic Complex Set to Open in England
Discover Magazine - New York,NY,USA
Greenhouse operators will deploy bees to pollinate the plants, and wasps to keep pests like aphids from wrecking their rows and rows of produce. ...
Independence sued By Space Center Inc. over cave in
Blue Springs Examiner - MO, USA
By Toriano L. Porter - toriano.porter@examiner.net Damages related to work done on the new Independence Athletic Complex has led to the underground ...
Underground history
Telegraph-Journal - Saint John,New Brunswick,Canada
In accordance with the military engineering practice of the day, the entire fortress was low and earth-sheltered. Surrounded by a five-metre-high earthwork, ...
‘’Lathams Unveils New Modern Movement Architecture in Derbyshire's ...
PR-CANADA.net (press release) - Murino,Montenegro
Taking advantage of the site’s topography, the new houses are substantially earth-sheltered, a sustainability advantage which is supported by high levels of ...
Probing the inner life and legend of R. Buckminster Fuller
International Herald Tribune - France
From 1927 on, Fuller seemed utterly self-assured, even messianic, as he developed innovations like the geodesic dome, equal parts engineering élan and ...
June 12, 2008 Tuesday
China's food crisis will exacerbate global shortage
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
China's rising grain demand is poised to exacerbate the global food crisis over the next few years. Having only seven percent of the world's total farmable ...
BIG-$$ TUNNEL OF KINKY LOVE
New York Post - New York,NY,USA
... connected by passageway to an elaborate underground paradise that had already been built. The lair featured a grotto, hidden doors, winding tunnels, ...
Talking green: A guide to eco-English
Times Colonist - Victoria,British Columbia,Canada
Green roof: The use of a growing medium to transform a building's roof into a garden or grasslands. Grey water: Recyclable waste water that doesn't contain ...
BARKER SCHOOLS: Learning by design
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal - Lockport,NY,USA A geodesic dome is a spherical structure comprised of a network of circles that intersect to form triangular elements. The elements distribute any stress ...
Dynamic Architecture creates rotating tower for Dubai
Building Design - UK
There will be 48 horizontal wind turbines fitted in between the floors, each able to produce 0.3MW of electricity, and solar panels on the roof. ...
6 ways to make your home energy efficient
Livemint - Delhi,Delhi,India
Prakash has provided an 80000-litre underground tank to harvest rainwater. A gift of the sky and extremely pure, this filtered rainwater is fed to the
Travel to Coober Pedy and Try Some Noodling By Martina The Desert Cave Hotel is a favourite, or if you’re one who tends to get claustrophobic, then you could try the above ground Mud Hut Motel which is built of rammed earth and reflects the Australian Outback. You’ll also find underground
Making a mark on the trophy circuit
Globe and Mail - Canada
The eye candy outside is the artificially coloured bands of a rammed earth wall, but there is nothing inside to match this catchy come-on. ...
“”The Mysterious El Sereno
Panama Travel News - Panama City,Panama,Panama
This is an example of the English warning about the vicious El Lereno: Occurs when someone steps outside suddenly at night and is sprinkled by a mysterious ...
India, China vow to boost strategic ties, keep border peaceful
Hindu - Chennai,India
On Mukherjee's part, he is paying a visit to Chengdu, the provincial capital of earthquake-shattered Sichuan province in southwest China,
Those vanishing community history books
Nova News Now - New Minas,Nova Scotia,Canada
They’re not collectibles or rare, but there are many village and community history books that are difficult to find today. Take the original edition of the ...
Nuclear bunker was beneath post office
Worcester News - Worcester News, UK
On Thursday, your Worcester News published pictures of the city's secret nuclear bunker. Royal Mail said the underground network of 10 rooms were built ...
June 3, 2008 Tuesday
Climate Catastrophe for Washington
Hawaii Reporter - Kailua,HI,USA
With billion dollar subsidies for farmers, ethanol, wind farms, solar, geothermal, and huge energy taxes and rationing back to levels of the 1800s, ...
’Its All Green for Dirty Thumb
Centralia Chronicle - Centralia,WA,USA
In 1992, after they came back from Florida where they witnessed Hurricane Andrew, a windstorm blew away one of their greenhouses. In 2006 another greenhouse ...
Hydroponic tomato farmers learn as they grow
Capital Press (subscription) - Salem,OR,USA
That's how many of the vegetables Ramie, husband Matt, mother-in-law Dixie Smith and the Mickelsens' five children grow in their two-bay greenhouse. ...
A solution will be 30 years in the making
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
Current scientific consensus, he said, points to a one-square-kilometre underground containment bunker with multiple protective linings as the best ...
Going green makes financial sense, too
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
With energy prices going through the roof, an alternative lifestyle powered by solar panels and wind turbines has suddenly become more appealing to some. ...
Gas station to mix fuel and green energy
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA
Zaremba won tentative approval Tuesday night from city commissioners to add a small-scale wind turbine, a set of solar panels, a green roof and a botanical ...
Backyard gardens likely to flourish as gas, food prices rise
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The number of places people are planting vegetables is increasing, said Susan Cyr, owner of Susan's Greenhouse in Saltsburg. "They're putting in gardens at ...
Scalable wind turbine might fit on your roof
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
The rotors can even be mounted on poles that are light enough to be hand-held or attached to the roof of a house. Using ten 18-inch rotors, for example, ...
Wind energy go-ahead
Albany Great Southern Weekender - Albany,Australia
Mr Cowie installed solar panels on the roof of a Spencer Park home owned Mark Henson this week. Mr Henson expects to at least break even after 10 years by
3 Hidden Costs of High Oil Prices
CleanTechnica - San Francisco,CA,USA
Another technique involves injecting steam underground, requiring large amounts of energy. Tar sands oil generates 2-3 times the greenhouse gas when ...
Slow food finally arrives
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
In Israel, as usual, the situation is a little more complicated. The farms supplying produce to the population concentrated in the center of the country
Chinese Sub Base Prompts Concerns in India
NPR - USA
Recent satellite imagery on the Web sites of Jane's Intelligence Review and the Federation of American Scientists show large tunnels carved into the ...
Digging up stories on the West's underground
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The lore includes mythical secret tunnels under Chinatowns and a little girl trapped in a San Marino well. By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer ...
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