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March 30, 2007 Friday
Master Gardeners: Pepper your spring garden with seeds of ...
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
In the midst of the Bay Area buzzes a sustainable garden that is a joy to behold and hosts a plethora of birds, butterflies and bees.
Welcome to Britain's secret Cape Canaveral (... on the Isle of Wight)
This is London - London,England,UK
Heather Bradshaw from the National Trust said: "We have been clearing the underground rooms and the control rooms of rubble and dust for four years to get ...
Discovery of underground labyrinth halts street work in Eger
Caboodle.hu - Budapest,Hungary
A new cellar system has been discovered in the wine town of Eger (Heves County) during work on an underground drainage system, reports nol.hu.
Solar street lights a bright idea - but not bright enough
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
Professor Tariq Muneer, professor in energy engineering at Napier University, said technology for solar-powered street lighting was not quite advanced ...
Solar World: Sea sponge solar
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
'It`sa very powerful generic method' for making semiconductors like those found in solar technology and electronics, Morse said.
10 ways to cut water bills
This is Money - UK
Save water in the garden - collect rainwater in a water butt, and give plants a summer soaking once a week rather than watering daily.
Sidoarjo Journal Spirits Are Angry. Bad Time to Bomb Their Volcano.
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
The mud started gushing from the ground nearly 10 months ago when a shaft probing for natural gas pierced a pressurized aquifer about 9000 feet underground. ...
Students compete to design solar home
Penn State Digital Collegian - University Park,PA,USA
In addition to education and experimentation with solar technology, the team hopes the project will demonstrate that solar technology is not a futuristic ...
Towns that bury electric power lines pay steep cost for aesthetics
Ashland City Times - Ashland City,TN,USA
In Franklin, where new developments must have underground utilities, officials have approved a new developer fee that could be used to run utility lines ...
STCC plans new rooftop solar system
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USA
The STCC Technology Park across Federal Street from the main campus installed 108 solar panels last year on top of Building 111 on State Street.
Secrets swirl around ancient Mayan ruins
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Lubaantun, in fact, was miserably treated by some of those who worked there and there's no mystery about how it got its modern name.
Ancient riddle of the Great Pyramid's construction is turned ...
Independent - London,England,UK
Yet the story of how the Great Pyramid of Giza was actually built has remained a mystery for more than four millennia - until, perhaps, now. ...
Solel Inks New Major Deal for Supply of Solar Thermal Receivers
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Solel is the world leader in solar thermal technology for solar systems and central power plants for clean electricity. Its unrivalled solutions have set ...
March 27, 2007 Tuesday
’Bejings Underground City
By David
Beijing Underground City. Finding the entrance on it’s own is not an easy task as it’s located in the middle of a run down Hutong and you’d have difficulty finding anyone who can tell you the way to it (the address is 62 West Damochang ...
Israel to Build Underground Hospitals near Borders
The Media Line - New York,NY,USA
Israel intends to build underground hospitals in cities located near the border with Lebanon and close to the Gaza Strip, Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) radio ...
Ann's Organic Garden: Simple technique transforms a sorry lawn
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
It also absorbs rainwater freely, while typical lawns shed water in summer at about the same rate as a cement sidewalk. This means that about 85 percent of ...
Drug-resistant form of plague identified
Guardian Unlimited - UK
A multiple drug-resistant form of the plague, one of the oldest and most lethal diseases in human history, has been identified by scientists, ...
Appleton, other cities set record highs
Appleton Post Crescent - Appleton,WI,USA
Balmy weather abounded on Sunday, as several cities in eastern and central Wisconsin, including the Fox Valley, set records for high temperatures.
Basketmaker lives his love for white woods
New River Valley Current - Christiansburg,VA,USA... to take a tree and turn it into something so delicate yet sturdy, a vessel to transport potatoes from the garden or jars of jam from the root cellar.
Greenhouses help kids see connection to natural world
Canyon Courier - Evergreen,CO,USA
Even in winter, "Gebo" brims with beauty and mystery and latent miracles. Named for an ancient runic symbol discovered at the site, Gebo is Werthan’s first ...
Following in Darwin's footsteps, three scientists chart an ...
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA
It has no beaches and no sources of fresh water other than collected rainwater. Most of the island's visitors are either scuba divers drawn to the nearby ...
Strange and Secret Places on the Oregon Coast
Beach Connection - Manzanita,OR,USA
Off the beaten path of 101, or perhaps even hidden in plain sight, these unusual beach spots are waiting to jolt the explorer with a bundle of features and ...
Solar-powered homes keep pocket books full, air healthy
Auburn Journal - Auburn,CA,USA
This solar technology works together to generate up to an estimated 60 percent of total household energy for homebuyers, according Julie Fraga,
Blimp will be a fish out of water
Swissinfo - Bern,Switzerland
In his underground laboratory, he holds up one of the hand-made polymers. It is a clear acrylic-based plastic film coated with a black graphite solution.
Tapping tourism with mining
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
Visitors would be able to watch the whole operation from an observation deck outside the historic former Cave House Hotel, which now sits empty at the edge ...
Greek Scientists Help Build the First Solar Hydrogen Reactor in ...
Energy.gr - Greece
The program is called Hydrosol and researchers from the Laboratory of Aerosol and Particle Technology (LAPT) at the Center for Research and Technology ...
New Technology For Manufacturing Flexible Solar Cells
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Science Daily — The University of Delaware's Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC) has developed new technology for the manufacture of flexible solar cells, ...
Kamchatka volcano spews hot lava 500 feet into the air
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
Prior to its February eruption, Klyuchevskoi last came to life in January-May 2005. Following that eruption, the volcano "sank" by 50 meters (about 165
Bend ranks high on list of 'green cities'
KTVZ - Bend,OR,USA
"I'd love to be a lot higher (on the list) than that," said Steele, who has been interested in "green design" since his days building "Earth shelter" models
Hunt for the God particle
Cosmos - Sydney,Australia
It’s hidden from most eyes, buried 80 to 100 metres deep as an oval tunnel 27 kilometres in circumference beneath the Swiss and French countryside outside ...
March 20, 2007 Tuesday
What drove a man to carve out 10 acres of underground gardens?
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA A wrought-iron gate leads to a large hall at the Forestiere Underground Gardens, which started as a shelter from the heat and became one man's artistic ...
Missing links New law driving towns to unearth old roads
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
Adopted by the state Legislature last year, it requires communities to identify and add unused, unnoticed yet legally established "ancient roads" to their ...
Another Record-Breaking Warm Day in Phoenix
KTAR.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Chris Breckenridge, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Phoenix, says the high Friday at Sky Harbor was 99 degrees. ...
áOn the Yucatn Peninsula, a first attempt at an eco hideaway
International Herald Tribune - France
Water will be pumped from wells, and sewage will be treated by a natural wetlands filtration system commonly used in the area.
Tinkering with Earth's climate to stop global warming raises new risks
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
Studying the concept of how volcanic pollutants could lessen global warming -- the Earth was slightly cooler after the eruption of a Philippine volcano 16
Honda introduces EU65is powers generator
Ferret - Australia
The EU65is' low fuel consumption is aided in part to Honda's load-sensitive ECO-Throttle function, which automatically allows the generator to adjust the ...
Nature's pest control
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA
"There's nothing like just going out and picking a broccoli," said Ronnie Fergus, who has an organic garden at her home in Satellite Beach. ...
It's not easy going green - but more are hearing the call
Waterloo Record - Waterloo,Ontario,Canada
He has barrels to collect rainwater from eavestroughs, for his garden and lawn. He uses energy-efficient light bulbs. He rarely uses his drier,
Tornado turned house into kindling
The Marshall Democrat-News - Marshall,MO,USA
When the March 12, 2006, tornado roared across Route AC in western Saline County, Dan Keller was right under the storm in a root cellar with no doors as it ...
Creating a symbol of Christian faith
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
The Browns' earth-shelter home is filled with furniture Jimmie Brown has made in his wood-working shop. Angie Brown, whose talents include music, ...
Going underground in Moscow
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
In the Soviet era, subterranean Moscow was filled with secret tunnels and nuclear bunkers. But Josef Stalin's paranoid underground facilities are about to ...
Cave Could Halt Low-Income Housing Plan
WTOP - Washington,DC,USA
"If developers were to blast without documenting what is underground, the foundation of existing buildings might collapse because there are voids," she ...
Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings
FOX News - USA
Typically, when a big earthquake takes place on a normal fault such as the Teton, the ground is pulled apart. This kind of extension or stretching causes
March 16, 2007
This was world's warmest recorded winter
Reuters -WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This has been the world's warmest winter since record-keeping began more than a century ago, the US government agency that tracks ...
Archaeologists uncover WWI underground village
Scotsman, UK - 17 hours ago
Archaeologists first estimated the bunker would measure 200 metres by 150 metres, but tunnels have been found over an area 800 metres by 600 metres, ...
Ramming earth makes a green house
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Recently, my husband and I heard of someone who built a "rammed earth" home in southern Arizona. We have never heard of this term and have no idea what it ...
U of T prof invited to explain nanotech solar
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Current solar technology only taps the visible spectrum of light, leaving half of the sun's energy out of reach. The opportunity to add infrared light to ...
Solar World: SAI includes CPV
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
Concentrating PV technology uses lenses or mirrors to focus a strong beam of sunlight on a small piece of highly efficient solar material -- usually ...
Solar Powered Water Treatment Machine Introduced into US for ...
SocialFunds.com - USA
The Spectra Watermachine is the result of technology known as the "Clark" High Pressure Pump. Until the inception of the Spectra system, it was not possible
Find the Secret Staircases, Tunnels and Rooms at a Bed and ...
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USA
They have selected several historic Bed and Breakfasts and Country Inns that preserve the architectural art of the secret room, underground tunnel or hidden ...
Arizona's Kartchner Caverns | Xanadu under the desert
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
Though it would take numerous trips to fully explore, the opening led to more than two miles of passageways and underground chambers, some with ceilings up
March 6, 2007
Hamas's Underground Fortress in Gaza
By David Seaton's Newslinks(David Seaton's Newslinks) Beneath the Rafah-Philadelphi border region between Gaza and Egyptian Sinai, the Palestinian Hamas has built a vast underground stronghold. A separate series of secret tunnels snakes under another Gaza border into western Israel. ...
Fuel Efficient Cars: How Far Are We From 100 Miles Per Gallon?
Desicritics.org - Bangalore,Karnataka,India
Both Tesla and the cars based on solar technology remain very expensive.The Aptera Concept Car from Steve Fambro of Accelerated Compositeshave a 330 mpg,
MTEM to seek out hidden reserves of Caribbean oil
Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK It can also indicate before drilling starts whether deep underground reservoirs contain hydrocarbon deposits, therefore reducing the amount of drilling and
—Health Eco-friendly plan for White Barn envisioned
Wilton Villager - Wilton,CT,USA
WILTON — Solar energy, greenhouses, outdoor classrooms, geo-thermal heat, rainwater reuse, restored wetlands, hiking trails and rooftop gardens are part of ...
Aging Office to soon have herbal garden
Saipan Tribune - Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands,Micronesia Macaranas said the garden would not be affected by the flooding because the rainwater directly goes down to the Man'amko Center. ...
Solarworld builds USA's largest solar cell factory
EETimes.com - USA CEO interview: What will Micron Technology do next? To get a handle on the company, EE Times caught up with Steve Appleton, its fearless and opinionated
Century-old secrets
Monroenews.com - Monroe,MI,USA
... had been an Underground Railroad link. But one Monroe man thinks the house and others could have played an integral role in the secret slave migration.
GREEN VALLEY
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
Rather than collect the sun's energy with silicon wafers, the traditional solar technology, Miasolé uses a combination of copper, indium, ...
Germans caught hiding their CO2 underground
Blogger News Network - USA... a group of mad (as in angry) and panicked German scientists has been caught pumping excess greenhouse gas into a huge underground reservoir near Berlin. ...(EHN-Seems the environmentalists are all going a little crazy these days)
Go underground in Toronto
Kane County Chronicle - Geneva,IL,USA
“It’s really a world underground,” said Sousie Tsotskos, a spokeswoman for Tourism Toronto. “Some people go to work, go out to eat, go shopping,
Old barns deserve better fate than disrepair, neglect
Evansville Courier & Press (subscription) - Evansville,IN,USA
I'd like to put a bright green roof on it and paint its sides red and its doors white. Just a few thousand dollars would put it right, but there seems ...
"Watertown Dome" in the works?
Newswatch 50 - Watertown,NY,USA
Bartlett, councilman Stephen L. Rich, and former fire chief Charles Dillon visited the Monolithic Dome Institute in Italy, Texas last month and came away
‘’When the earth moves: Dont plan on calling 911. Plan on being ...
Daily Inter Lake - Kalispell,MT,USA
The last earthquake of that scale in Montana — and the only one to take place here during historical times — was the 1959 Hebgen Lake quake near West ...
As warnings grow more dire, Nobelist emerges as leader
Scripps News - Washington,DC,USA
Racing against time, Chu is particularly interested in solar technology. Chu started the Helios Project as a framework for his total energy campaign and,
Israel's green technology leads the world, but not at home
Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem,Israel
They are trying to sell their wares abroad. Let's say, solar energy. And then they get asked, does your country, does Israel use this technology? ...
Moser Baer to set up Thin Film solar fab
Moneycontrol.com (press release) - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Photovoltaic modules based on large area Thin Film technology bring cost parity between solar generation and grid power. According to market estimates, ...
County buying new sirens as tornado season nears
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
If you are in a car or mobile home, get out immediately and seek shelter in a sturdy building or designated tornado shelter. Do not seek shelter under ...
March's roar is a weather warning call
Palladium-Item - Richmond,IN,USA
Waters rise in the Midwest, including Indiana and Ohio, as snow melts in warming temperatures. Heavy rains worsen the problem, with up to 2 inches falling ...
Children sad at losing 'healthy fun' tree-house
Sudbury Today - UK
Lindsay Anderson, of Swanfields, was delighted when her children, Daniel, 13, and Olivia, 10, started building the tree house with friends opposite their ...
Tree-house felled after complaints
East Anglian Daily Times - Suffolk,England,UK
IN an age when many youngsters are more likely to be playing computer games, the lost art of tree-house creation may seem like something off the pages of an ...
Wilcox County left in pieces
Montgomery Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA
Jamie Wallace and his wife, Patsy, retreated to a three-foot-wide underground shelter as the tornado passed overhead. The Wallaces lost their home and both
Stromboli Volcano Erupts Again in Italy
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA
The 1919 eruption threw 60 ton pieces of volcanic bombs that destroyed homes. The area records several earthquakes per hour and explosions from Stromboli ...
Geologists Reveal Secrets Behind Supervolcano Eruption
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Analyses of titanium also revealed that the high-temperature rim-growth must have taken place within only 100 years of the massive volcano's eruption. ...
Fire down below
Economist - UK
Geothermal electricity is clean, with no emissions of carbon dioxide or other pollutants; and sustainable, since the supply of underground heat would appear
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