November 30, 2006 Thursday

China executes three Christians
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... Attorney Li Heping told CAA that he was deeply disturbed by the secret arbitrary execution without even notifying the family members of the executed in advance

Dark matter hides, physicists seek
Stanford Report - USA
... Buried deep underground in a mineshaft in Minnesota lies Cabrera's project, called ... The detectors are hidden under layers of earth in Minnesota's Soudan mine to ...

A day in the life of a deer hunter
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... or B) store it in a carbon case or, C) bury it underground. ... the forest, the scentless hunters of Pennsylvania already sat, suspended and hidden, in thousands ...

Degussa AG
news aktuell (Pressemitteilung) - Germany
... SolarWorld recently took over Shell’s solar operations, and now ranks as one of the three largest producers and suppliers of solar technology in the world. ...

Going for Green
Potomac Almanac - VA,USA
... Guy Semmes was considering buying a new car before he decided to spend that money on the solar technology he installed in his home. ...

Near-normal hurricane season to end, months after last storm
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
... hitting the US this year and in stark contrast to a record-breaking 2005 season ... said that no El Nino forecast models were predicting the weather pattern in May

Reseviors in Washington State Hit an All Time Record
DigitalJournal.com - Canada
The resevoirs in Washington State are having record breaking levels this year after last ... The pattern of this kind of weather will continue at least through

November weather expected to break records
Globe and Mail - Canada
VANCOUVER -- The snow that fell throughout Vancouver yesterday is expected to be the record-breaking end to a month ... These are unusual weather circumstances,"

November 28, 2006 Tuesday

Scientists chance upon rare underwater volcano eruption
Discovery Reports Canada - Toronto,Ontario,Canada This past April, US scientists on an otherwise routine mission witnessed and retrieved data on a rare underwater volcano eruption.

Polar volcano disrupts weather in tropics
Cosmos - Sydney,Australia... Iceland has over 30 active volcanoes, with the most recent eruption in 2004 of the Grímsvötn volcano sending an ash cloud over Europe

$50,000 Grant Helps Power-up University of Calgary's Solar Car
NETCOMPOSITES - Chesterfield,UK
... is helping students with a $50,000 grant for the University of Calgary's solar car project, to allow students to put innovative technology, including composites ...

Professor Devises New Form of Solar Cell
Washington Post - United States
... The Lewiston Tribune. "But it's so much cheaper to use fossil fuels, despite all the obvious advantages of solar cell technology.".

As Investors Covet Ethanol Plant, Farmers Resist
Wilmington Morning Star - Wilmington,NC,USA... One mysterious investor who visited the Mid-Missouri plant a few months ago claimed to ... to sell out now so they can take part in the ethanol boom with existing ...

School's Roof Will Collect Sunbeams
Hartford Courant - United States
... up for a massive roof replacement project at New Britain High School that would incorporate the installation of electricity-generating solar technology. ...

Natural building, the way of the future
The Republic - Vancouver,Canada
... The transpiration of water moisture from the living roof during the summer season helps keep the roof (and building) cool, instead of warming up. ...

Hard slog worth it in the end
Border Mail - Albury,New South Wales,Australia
... MORE than 10 years of hard work paid off yesterday as Wirraminna Environmental Education Centre’s new rammed-earth interpretive building officially opened at ...

Tales of the Sleepy Town of Ping Yao (population 400000)
By AJH The old section has a 6 km (~3.5 mile) wall around it originally built in the 9th century BC out of rammed earth and then rebuilt out of real bricks in the 1300s. Within the walls are a number of well preserved houses and traditional

Met Office predicts hottest Autumn for 300 years
This is London - London,England,UK
... in temperature in recent years is simply down to changing weather patterns ... Details of the record-breaking season were released as forecasters warned Britain to

Buchanan: Energy efficiency ... one home at a time Amesbury News - Amesbury,MA,USA
... and save up to 30 percent on your energy bills by taking some simple energy-saving steps. ... Refrigerators use more energy than any other appliance in your home.

Tapping into hot water energy
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
... Corp. -- were developing geothermal in partnership with the state-run electricity company PLN and a local private firm. Investors .

A different kind of tree house
HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
By Bill Sheets. ARLINGTON - With the cost of housing still on the increase, many prospective home buyers might wish they had an option ...

November 24, 2006 Friday

Rammed Earth In Quebec!
By Sonorama(Sonorama)
I went to Hudson, Quebec as a Rammed Earth consultant for the first insulated rammed earth house in Quebec. I was present for the first half of the rammed earth portion of the project, to get the crew up and running

Solar house finds a home
Ann Arbor News - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
... University of Michigan students and faculty designed and built the Michigan Solar House, their entry in a 2005 international solar technology competition, they ...

Down there where the dark things are
Tiffin Advertiser Tribune - Tiffin,OH,USA
... Stacey finished an internship and moved to work at Hidden River Cave in Horse Cave ... a cave in Tennessee and now spend their anniversaries in the underground sites

Record-breaking early snow
Charleston Post Courier (subscription) - Charleston,SC,USA
By DAVE MUNDAY. A chilly weather front that brought record-breaking early snow flurries Tuesday morning also knocked out power to thousands of households. ...

Solar-powered catamaran on Transatlantic trip into record books
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
... billed as a record-breaking project to cross the Atlantic from Spain to New York without using a drop of fuel along the way, although bad weather delayed the ...

The dawn of a green-living paradise
icBerkshire - Reading,England,UK
... homes. The new structure will link into the existing building and have an energy conservation theme right up to its 'living roof

Cameron architect knocks the wind out of his turbine
This is London - London,England,UK
... The makeover also includes the installation of a 660-gallon tank under the garden to collect rainwater. Once cleansed, this will ...

The Sigiriya Story
Asian Tribune - Bangkok,Thailand
... King Dhatusena was asked to reveal where the treasure was hidden. ... They are fed by underground conduits and operate on a simple principle of gravity and pressure ...

VESDA safeguards underground document archive
Materials Handling World Magazine - West Yorkshire,UK (Hemel Hempstead, November 2006). 150m below the ground, carved into the Winsford rock, is an innovative document archive owned ...

November 22, 2006

Building Green in DC
WorldChanging - USA
... At the same time, they'll be creating a unique green roof on top of the building, another space they hope will encourage employees to get out of their offices

$70m expansion for BP Solar
Engineer Online - London,UK
... capacity, our plans are to upgrade the interior of the existing facilities and to use sustainable building techniques such as a roof garden, bio-retention

A life interrupted
Southeast Missourian - Cape Girardeau,MO,USA
... Koenig's father's farm. Starting in the winter of 1942, the farmer hid 11 Jews in an underground shelter beneath his barn. The shelter ...

California volcano showing signs of life, professor says
StateHornet.com - Sacramento,CA,USA
... indicated that the volcano in Clearlake, which she said last erupted around 10,000 years ago, may be "actively recharging" for a future eruption for several

Harnessing hydrogen
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA
... “We know the way technology is going these days and, unless there is a big breakthrough with solar technology, it’s pretty impractical to continue building ...

Germany now opens up its secret innards for the public
Indian Express - New Delhi,India
... Ringed with barbed-wire fences and hidden among the leafy vines, it was—with ... Just maintaining the bunker cost $14 million a year and required the work of 180 ...

Applied invests in solar-wafer maker
ZDNet - USA
... Despite the shortage of solar chips, the price of solar technology has been declining and should continue to do so, once large-megawatt plants are running.

Rain, strong winds continue to plague areas of British Columbia
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
VANCOUVER (CP) - BC's Lower Mainland continues to recover from the ravages of Mother Nature after two major storms in the past five days.

’How green are your MPs credentials?
The Argus.co.uk - Brighton,UK
... One of the most impressive replies came from Labour MP Alan Simpson, of Nottingham, who said: "I have designed and constructed my own eco-home, which generates ...

US Green Building Council Certifies First LEED(R) for Homes ...
Earthtimes.org - USA LEED for Homes is a USGBC "green" homes pilot program that evaluates the environmental features of single and multi-family homes by regional, third party ...

Not Your Daddy's Tree House
ABC News - USA... But look at what's causing a buzz now: the million dollar tree house. We're not talking about the kind of tree house built by 10

FutureGen research could improve global air, water quality
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA
... cleanly," she said, because the process would entail capturing the carbon dioxide emitted in the gasification process and storing it in underground formations. ...

Calm after storms
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA
... Three leading weather experts explain how turbulent tropics transitioned from fury to fizzle ... Storm Zeta ended the 2005 season as the record-breaking 27th named ...

New gadgets save on energy
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA... The energy saving means the replacement bulb - some of which are guaranteed to last nearly ... that is placed between a wall outlet and the appliance being checked ...

November 20, 2006

Jim Dunn on New Energy Sources
PESN - Eagle Mountain,UT,USA
... As a result of this new silicon, the price of solar will come ... Another company that has Dunn's attention is EEStore, whose ultracapacitor technology enables an

Treading lightly new mantra of oil giant
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... Ugly wellheads are hidden behind berms, or heaps of straw and dirt, to ... multiple wells snake out in different directions for several miles underground to grab

Life in an underground bunker
Ottawa Citizen (subscription) - Ontario, Canada... 2nd class) Rob Fraser, who grew up in Ottawa's west end and is serving on HMCS Windsor, describes life on the boat as akin to living in a underground bunker. ...

Why the use of supplemental oxygen in spud guns is a bad idea
By Bill Gurstelle
Remember the scene in Road Warrior where one of the freakish biker guys injects nitrous into his suped up buggy to get more power? This story reminds me of that. Some things are better left un-supercharged, un-turbocharged, ...

November 17, 2006 Friday

The secret life of water
New Times SLO - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
... A shiny new aluminum dome covers a huge underground hydraulic reservoir, where two million gallons of treated water are stored before daily distribution to

Snowy season still gives chill
In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA
... sees its first inch or more of snow, according to the National Weather Service ... The record-breaking snowfall during the 1996-97 winter was followed by a 500-year

Social safety net worked
Goldstream News Gazette - Langford,British Columbia,Canada
... human engineering is less robust than nature, and with record-breaking rains, officials ... At the same time, weather patterns are changing, human engineering is .

’Never underestimate the power of a boys imagination
Robertson County Times - TN,USA
... Having built all types of forts above ground and in trees, it now became evident that the time had come to move underground for a secret fort known only to the ...

FEMA Urges US Residents to Prepare Now for Winter Flooding
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA... While spring and summer months typically bring wet, soggy weather to many ... may be at greater risk of flooding this year due to a record-breaking 2006 Wildfire

Journey to a dark past
Indianapolis Star - United States
... Hidden: Sheila Sims plays farm owner Sarah Merrick, who hides the slaves in her ... Slaves using the Underground Railroad would travel 10 to 20 miles in a night

Former Heywood inventor in big solar deal
Warrnambool Standard - Warrnambool,Victoria,Australia
... ``This is a new generation of solar technology. The secret is to be able to make a solar power module work about 1500 times harder than typical solar panels.

Taming the Salt Monster
Radio Netherlands - Netherlands
... water was always in short supply and had to be stored in rainwater tanks ... been sweet enough to supply the farm with water for its home vegetable garden - now it

Millionaires' Green Mansions 2006
Forbes - NY,USA... that is distributed around the house. And since its hidden underground, there are no air conditioning units cluttering up the land

Work Starts On CAT's New Solar Roof
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK... A circular, 200-seat lecture theatre will be constructed from rammed earth – at 7.2m, these will be the highest earth walls in the UK

November 14, 2006 Tuesday

Volcano pierces small hole in ozone layer
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
... plane loaded with instruments for measuring various particles in the atmosphere flew over Iceland shortly after an eruption of the Hekla volcano there. ...

Apples and Apple Butter: It Must Be Autumn
MyMotherLode.com - Sonora,CA,USA
... The small farm—where I played in the root cellar with my cousins, the place where I was squirted in the face by a stream of hot milk straight from the hand ...

Keep highway noise out of house with glass, berm San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA... However, your best bet is an earth berm between the house and the highway. An earth berm is simply a long, narrow mound of earth

Hundreds feel 4.0 quake
Ukiah Daily Journal - Ukiah,CA,USA
... Last night was the first time (an earthquake) scared my dogs," she said. Other pet owners reported cats and dogs acting "strange" before the quakes occurred.

How to save a mountain
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... of years are being blasted away to provide electricity for televisions ... By using a geothermal system, passive solar construction and integrated photovoltaic

Snowstorm in Buffalo tackled by 1,200-plus Baptist volunteers
BP News - Nashville,TN,USA
... BUFFALO, NY (BP)--No one would have wished for the record-breaking blizzard that ... Although they normally revel in handling harsh winter weather and are used to

Expectations beyond Earth
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
... if it wasn’t for the fact that Sagan sometimes referred to Mars as Barsoom. ... look at this book and say he’s the ‘skunk in the garden party,’ ” said

That's the home of Continental's new crisis operations center.
Houston Chronicle - United States
... in 1961, and because of his fear of nuclear war, he bought hundreds of acres outside Conroe to build an office building and a two-story underground bunker. ...

Government seeking to license solar water heating technology=
Barbados Advocate - Barbados
... of Barbados will be seeking to not only manufacture and ship solar water heaters ... but the Government will be seeking to license and franchise the technology.

The Hidden Biospheres Of Planet Earth
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA
... One such community has been found deeply buried underground, while the other ... A large international research team, led by scientists from Princeton and Indiana

Island born in Pacific Ocean
Times of India - India
... one called a vast field of floating pumice stone spewed by the same eruption. ... Next day, Haken noted, they saw an active volcano, sailed within two miles of it

November 13, 2006 Monday

Wales Institute of Sustainable Education
By Dic WISE's rammed earth lecture theatre will also use a hemp-lime mix for its 500mm super-thick insulation, which is also a first for a building of this size in Europe. ... Both rammed earth and hemp lime have very low embodied energy.

–WEBSITE OF THE DAY secret-bases.co.uk Pocket-lint.co.uk - UK... Dotted all over the UK are hundreds of secret Government and military ... site, the MoD’s stealth technology research centre, an underground ammunition store and ...

‘Prickly tree skeletons' plague residents of Old Forge Road Waynesboro Record Herald - Waynesboro,PA,USA By Karen Karaszkiewicz The Record Herald. ROUZERVILLE - David Boon of Old Forge Road used to have to pop an old Western film into ...

Green home loans boom
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
... He says the US may be the biggest polluter on the planet, "but in terms of the whole green movement and solar technology they're streets ahead.".

PowerLight relishes being bright spot in solar Company major ...
Alameda Times-Star - Alameda,CA,USA
... The existing silicon-based technology for solar cells (has) increased (in) efficiency by 50 percent in the last five years. Companies ..

Sales soar for eco online superstore
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... more than 500 products, from biodegradable nappies to space-saving rainwater tanks. ... says sales of all three grey water systems — straight to garden, pump and

Log cabin to become focus of garden project
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... The Master Gardeners may use the site to feature a rain garden, which would direct rainwater to the garden rather than storm sewers. ...

Going underground in Bolivia
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia These were gifts for some of the miners we were about to visit underground who still work the Cerro Rico — the famous mountain of silver that towers over the

November 10, 2006 Friday

Inspector set to hear the eco-house arguments
Times 24 - Herts,UK
Neil Bedford from Water End has asked for a public inquiry into his plans to build an earth-sheltered property on Green Belt land near Brookmans Park.

A West Virginia Cold War Bunker Now a Tourist Spot
New York Times - United States
... the fourth is inside the West Virginia Wing, where it was hidden behind a ... grand opulence above, the bunker exudes all the charm of an underground parking garage ...

Pueblo heats up to record high temps
Pueblo Chieftain - Pueblo,CO,USA
... Wednesday and wrapped Pueblo and Southern Colorado in surprising, record-breaking warmth ... set in 1978 and tied in 1999, according to National Weather Service in ...

Satellite antenna can detect nuclear tests
United Press International - USA
... The pulse can determine whether underground seismic activity was the result of an everyday earthquake or a secret underground test. ...

Earth's Hidden Biospheres
Space Ref (press release) - USA
... be previously hidden biospheres that exist on Earth alongside our more familiar neighbors. One such community has been found deeply buried underground, while ...

Video foreshadowed Twin Towers attack
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
The key piece of evidence was found hidden on a videotape of the Bruce ... not mind history repeating itself - would be a limousine in the VIP underground carpark

Designing in the Desert
BusinessWeek - USA
... own,” says Ibarra. “We rarely use frame construction, but mostly adobe, rammed earth, and block masonry. Sometimes the simplest

Earth House Plans Go To Appeal
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
A Hertfordshire man is taking plans for his dream eco home to appeal. Neil Bedford from Water End has asked for a public inquiry ...

The Lost Streams of Los Angeles
LA Weekly - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... of digging up of old systems and building new ones.” An underground water tank ... it the “shooting gallery” for all the trouble that gets hidden behind its

Permaculturist takes green to the extreme
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... Her garden starts by the telephone pole out front and wraps around her house to the backyard. She has ponds and barrels of rainwater, all mini-ecosystems with ...

Fully built rammed earth homes
Infolink Architecture & Building - Australia
Rammed Earth Homes is associated with Ramtec Pty Ltd, a leading rammed earth wall building contractor. Rammed Earth Homes has introduced ...

November 7, 2006 Tuesday

Elkhart County's Pipewort Pond is home to unusual flora
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
... "The main thing that is unusual is it's a shallow, sandy pond," he said. "Its level goes up and down with the level of the groundwater.".

’Tribune refrigerator shows you are what you didnt eat
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
... What was unearthed was not a pretty sight - only testimony to the fact that a lot of employees are slobs who deserve nothing better than a root cellar for food ...

Caretaker farmers end first 'successful' season
North Adams Transcript - North Adams,MA,USA... line to dry. Cows mooed, chickens clucked. The root cellar brimmed with potatoes, onions and rutabagas. "Where are the brussels ...

Don't call us 'snowed in' -- we're just cozy
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
... When spring approaches, and we are down to a few wizened turnips in the root cellar and the last tough shank of moose meat, we start itching to go to town.

Biggest UK cave discovered in Peak District
Sheffield Today - England,UK
... said: "It wasn'ta matter of stumbling, it was a lot of research and a ... cavers to abseil into the cave, saving them a challenging five-hour underground journey.

Public warm to eco house
St. Albans Observer - St. Albans,England,UK
By Alex Hill. POPULAR interest in the St Albans eco house has meant it will be opened for an additional day to the district's residents.

Underground but above the fray
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
A Louisville company has gone underground to make a home for a high-tech data center and it's hoping Kentucky's low electric rates will light the way for some

‘’Superman scanner to spot bombers
The Sunday Times - UK
... to hidden CCTV cameras can scan from long distances for knives, guns and even drugs. The Sunday Times was invited to the system’s underground control room ...

Saddam found guilty and sentenced to death
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... ousted. • 1967: Escapes and takes charge of the underground Baath Party's secret internal security organization. • July 1968

Take your pick
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... His winery extends out from his home, part of which is underground, explaining his business' unusual ... He says the secret to making wine is to never stop learning ...

Sunny side up
The Columbian - Vancouver,WA,USA
... possible money savings. They cite the environmental benefits of using renewable energy and the "cool" factor of solar technology

California looks to alternative power in greenhouse gas battle
Globe and Mail - Canada
... of aggressive energy efficiency targets, per capita use of electricity has remained ... Mr. King said wind, solar and geothermal are all increasingly competitive ...

Man 'planned massive explosions'
BBC News - UK
... explosion, and an attack on London's rail or Underground network, including the Heathrow Express, of an explosion on a Tube train while in a tunnel under the ...

Paranoid Mugabe builds bomb-proof hideout
afrol News - Oslo,Norway
... workmen are currently fortifying his retirement mansion in the plush Harare suburb of Borrowdale Brook - building a bombproof underground shelter and placing ...

Massive bomb shelter built in J'lem
Jerusalem Post - Israel
... Earlier this week, both The Sunday Times and CNN reported about the construction of the underground shelter in the context of today's Iranian nuclear threats ...

Preparing for the Wrath of Vesuvius
Spiegel Online - Berlin,Germany
... and that's cause for concern. Italian authorities are preparing for the next eruption of the most dangerous volcano in the world. .

November 4, 2006 Saturday

US speeds Attack Plans for North Korea
Center for Research on Globalization - Canada... Recent intelligence reports also provided new information about Pyongyang's uranium-enrichment program, which remains hidden in underground facilities in

How green is your household? A family adds up The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia... "Next year we will probably get a rainwater tank and a grey water system so we can reuse water from the house on the garden," Mrs Chitale said.

Reflecting the future
In Business Las Vegas - Henderson,NV,USA... Although most solar technology was originally developed in the US, when fossil fuel prices fell and renewable technology development dropped out of fashion in ...

Underground treasure: Education is major focus of Lincoln Caverns
Altoona Mirror - Altoona,PA,USA... conservation,” she said. “It is a very fragile environment. What we do above ground affects what goes on underground. We have an ...

The first inner city orchard
ABC Regional Online - Australia... the older people who maybe can’t bend over to garden. Up the top, we’re looking at clearing out a space for propagation and rainwater tanks, and are really

Las Vegas' Version of Central Park a Model of Sustainability
Earthtimes.org - USA... such as: carpet made from recycled pop bottles, bio-filtration ponds that reclaim on-site wastewater, certified sustainable lumber, rammed earth walls, straw ...

Solar energy in the mix
Voltimum (subscription) - London,England,USA... change. A good example of this is the UK Renewable Power Association's establishment of a working group to promote solar technology.

Serious Security Breach At Los Alamos
CBS News - New York,New York,USA
... The woman had top secret "Q-clearance" with access to all the US underground nuclear test data, and additionally "Sigma 15" clearance which allows her access ...

The Harriet Tubman of Syrian Jewry
Jewish Press - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... the American South to freedom in the North via the "Underground Railroad" before ... the totalitarian Ba’ath regime, under surveillance of the secret police and ...

Underground Vaults News
By Mitchell
There have been some big time moves on Yahoo! for Underground Vaults and Storage keywords. ... Underground Storage is now at 2 from a previous 49 ... Louisville Underground is now at 4 Salt Mine Storage, which we've only been after for ...