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May 29, 2007 Tuesday
The Bensons' home: An earth-friendly, mini-Italian villa Ithaca Journal - Ithaca,NY,USA
Andra welcomed us into their "earth-sheltered, straw bale-walled, living roof abode with solar tubes for hot water and geothermal radiant heat. ..
A year after quake tragedy, village takes a new shape Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia More than 70 dome homes have been built to replace housing flattened by the giant earthquake across Java's Yogyakarta region a year ago. ...
Kenya: War Tunnels May Be Vital Tourism Site AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
"The tunnels were secret security paths underground this town, and because of that they were not mapped, and we cannot know where they start and where they ...
Bee Disappearance is a Honey of a Mystery
Kiplinger.com - Washington,DC,USA
Roughly 11% of all US crops (measured by value) require the bees to do their ancient job of aiding propagation by spreading pollen from one plant to another ...
Femtocells bring 3G, cellular signals indoors and underground
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
One of the problems with relying on a cellular phone as the sole source of voice connectivity is spotty coverage indoors and underground. ..
May 22, 2007 Tuesday
Report: Costs, risks of Cheyenne Mountain move still unknown
9NEWS.com - Denver,CO,USA
The underground bunker outside Colorado Springs has served as the headquarters for the United States Northern Command and the North American Aerospace ...
Local eats
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
There is also the tradition of Vermonters foraging for fiddleheads and other wild foods to feed themselves at a time when root cellars had become diminished ...
Planting potatoes, the old way
Trenton Times - Trenton,NJ,USA
A hundred years ago, farmers would have put aside some of their own potatoes in root cellars, if possible, and by spring they would have begun sprouting
The Radiation Belts
The Earth actually has two radiation belts of different origins. The inner belt, the one discovered by Van Allen's Geiger counter, occupies a compact region ...
Lush landscapes
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... was 24 and an architecture student at New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, "he built the new earth-sheltered greenhouse that we still have.
Global eco home inspirations part one: Earthship
Newconsumer.com - London,London,UK
... of it as a source of heat and lighting), part-earth sheltered and heavily insulated with tyres - a useful possible inroad into Britain’s tyre mountain. ...
Scientists solve spud origin mystery
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Unraveling The Mystery Of Modern Potatoes' Origins (April 11, 2005) -- When it comes to veggies, almost everyone can agree on potatoes.
Architect Daniel Smith: The Strength in Straw
WorldChanging - USA
... Gold-rated building where we have photovoltaics integrated into the roofing, and the other half of the building is an earth-sheltered green roof. ...
Disappearing earthworms: Solving the mystery
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA
Their tunneling action helps to improve aeration and rainwater penetration. "We have raised beds in our garden, composting them twice a year and covering ...
Solar panel planning row
Norwich Evening News - Norwich,England,UK
Buy a water butt and collect rainwater in the garden. This does not need permission. Create a compost heap of kitchen scraps and garden waste in the garden
Blooming practice popular in Chicago may take root here
Aurora Beacon News - Aurora,IL,USA
Millennium Park is a noted green roof project. Aurora Downtown Development Director Karen Christensen said Feldmann's is the first rooftop garden downtown.
When thinking a Green Home Consider an Earth Home
By TheBuilder(TheBuilder)
Another reason earth homes are so environmentally friendly is that they are typically small in square footage. In addition, they usually have few windows, except for the open side. Consequently their heating/air conditioning ...
Surface indications
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Coober Pedy's opal fields are covered in mounds of debris from shafts and the hills are a honeycomb of underground dwellings. ...
Lawn-area farmer goes solar
Lebanon Daily News - Lebanon,PA,USA
Hetznecker said the solar technology allows the farmers to sell what they don’t use back to electric utilities. The 28 panels, a 5000-watt system,
Cloudy Germany emerges as a powerhouse in solar energy
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA
German officials readily acknowledge that they are embracing solar technology not just for its environmental benefits. German firms that manufacture ...
PNG villagers flee after volcano erupts
NEWS.com.au - Australia
UP to 2000 villagers have fled to higher ground from their seaside homes on Siassi Island in Papua New Guinea after a volcanic eruption on nearby Ritter
Be prepared
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
But if we want to still be eating locally next Christmas, a good portion of our food is going to have to come from our own freezer, root cellar and kitchen ...
Forgotten But Not Gone: Our Ghost Towns
Hartford Courant - Hartford,CT,USA
Near the houses are sometimes the remnants of barns, animal pens, wells and root cellars. Along nearby brooks can be found dams, stone culverts
'Teletubby' homes make quake-safe living child's play
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
More than 70 earthquake-resistant dome homes have been built to replace houses flattened by the massive quake that devastated Java's Yogyakarta region a ...
May 16, 2007 Wednesday
A rare trip through Hizbullah's secret tunnel network
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
In March, I was fortunate enough to have received map coordinates from a source that led me to a bunker, which could be accessed by a 20-foot shaft.
Two Harbors cut off without power, phones
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The community consists of modest, down-to-earth houses and some trailers. Many who live here work in the store, restaurant, bar and lodge — all closed .
Officials to address wind energy questions
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA The process uses wind energy to force air into the underground shale formation as far as 3000 feet below ground. The compression is usually done through the ...
New farm tech turns Ladakh green
Financial Express - Bombay,India
Even in winter when the temperature falls below 50 degree Celsius, about 18 fruits and vegetables in greenhouses and semi-underground trenches
What do you do with a Soviet bunker 22 stories underground?
By pmankad@carnegieendowment.org (Prerna Mankad) With stores of food and medicine, as many as 3000 people could live and work in the underground network for 90 days without assistance from the "outside world" thanks to its air recycling system and diesel generators. .
Technology tunes in on underground grubs
ABC Regional Online - Australia
But now, some new technology is making it easier to track down the underground-living pest. Farmers are normally forced to get the shovel out and dig holes ...
Underground Rome gives Island producer opportunity of a lifetime
Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber - Vashon Island,WA,USA
That’s the subject of Dunakin’s “Hidden Worlds: Underground Rome,” an unusual documentary that’s about to be distributed to outlets around the world. ...
Study backs vets exposure claims
TVNZ - New Zealand
The Nuclear Test Veterans' Study was made public on the 50th anniversary of the first hydrogen bomb detonation on Malden Island. .
Study: Modern medicine originated in Egypt
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Acoustical mystery of Greek theater solved (April 4, 2007) -- US scientists have discovered ancient Greeks unwittingly created a sophisticated acoustic ...
Green technology updates Cox Reservation farmhouse Gloucester Daily Times - Gloucester,MA,USA A new solar panel array, foam insulation that expands to 100 times its original volume, and an underground cistern fed by bright copper gutter pipes, ...
Scientists develop technology to make next-generation solar cells
Yonhap News - Seoul,South Korea
DAEJEON, May 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korean scientists said Monday that they have developed the technology to make next-generation solar cells and infrared ...
Winery harvests solar energy
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
Sokol Blosser is only the second Oregon winery to invest in solar technology -- following Stoller Wine Farm in nearby Dayton, which finished its project in .
May 9, 2007
Berlin's underworld comes out of the dark
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
BERLIN -- Behind a nondescript steel door next to a busy subway platform, a hidden passage leads to an underground complex straight out of the Cold War: a ...
Italian volcano Etna comes to life again
Xinhua - Beijing,China
Seismologists said the latest eruption cycle was unlikely to cause disruption, unlike the most recent one in October-November, in which Etna sprayed the ..
Money down a hole?
Gloucester Daily Times - Gloucester,MA,USA
I guess he was just poking around the old underground sewers and found a secret door into the situation room. They even have an elevator that can whisk them ...
What lies beneath
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
Long after outliving its original purpose, an elaborate network of underground tunnels continued to exist for decades in Casper, in some places until just ...
Science: Local lab runs hell's kitchen
The Columbian - Vancouver,WA,USA
The eruption "unzipped" the volcano along a fissure measuring 12 miles from top to bottom. In just 23 days, Mauna Loa disgorged a huge flowing reservoir of ...
Wal-Mart Looks to Sun to Save Environment - and Money
E-Commerce Times - USA
Wal-Mart's decision to use solar energy is an indication that the technology works in a mainstream setting and can be cost-effective, Douglas added. ...
ASU student team wins EPA award for solar greenhouse
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
... Department of Technology has won a $75000 award from the US Environmental Protection Agency for the development of an affordable solar greenhouse. ...
AN UNUSUAL CATCH
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
Fishing, freshwater or saltwater, along South Mississippi will always present anglers with obstacles or unusual events. Little did Robert Borries and Johnny
All Nations to build new church, auditorim
Sudbury Star - Sudbury,Ontario,Canada
The church design will feature a monolithic dome spanning the entire 22000-square-foot facility, he said. Ideally, development work could begin on the new ...
Top 10 tips for a more eco-friendly home
AboutProperty.co.uk - London,UK
As the fridge-freezer is constantly on, this is a key appliance to buy wisely when the time comes to replace it. EU ratings go up to A++ for fridge-freezers
Cave Hotels: Underground But Over The Top
Hotel Interactive, Inc. - Smithtown,NY,USA
The 18-room Gamirasu Cave House Hotel in a restored thousand-year-old Byzantine monastery offers several different suite options, some of which collect $750 ...
How plan for nuclear fallout
Scripps News - Washington,DC,USA
That means one's best bet is to head to the deepest underground shelter within minutes, if wind is blowing in their direction. ...
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