November 27, 2007

An urban legend has resurfaced
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
A dark crawl space may be evidence of vast underground tunnels in Fresno's old Chinatown. The finding creates a buzz -- and a backlash. ...

New look at old world
Times Record News - Wichita Falls,TX,USA
CYRENE, Libya — From thousands of miles of pristine Mediterranean coastline, to sweeping desert sand dunes and ancient ruins that rival Greece and Italy, ...

Disney Imagineers Honored With Prestigious Awards
Magical Mountain - Orlando,FL,USA
In this state-of-the-art renovation, Disney Imagineers created a new undersea world in which guests embark on an expedition of colorful reefs, ancient ruins ...

Smart appliances learning to save power grid
MSNBC - USA
At the GridWise lab, a refrigerator, washer, dryer, dishwasher, water heater and even coffeemaker are all doing their part for the national power grid.

Cave world a whisper away
expressandstar.com - Wolverhampton,England,UK
When John Smith heard a child at school whispering about the "secret underground caves" he knew he had to go down there himself. "I grew up near Eve Hill in ...

Millions of Trees Damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Forest Experts Find
ScienceMode - USA
Pictures taken from space by NASA satellites tell the story of how the monster storm damaged 320 million large trees across five million acres.

The future of the farm bill
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
Soil organic matter increases infiltration and retention of rainwater, often several hundred percent. Soil holds more water than the atmosphere,

25 Real Life Cavemen
By admin
Underground House The Underground House: This is Cumbria's first underground home (UK), built in an old, disused quarry site. The house has been built into the hole left by the removal of stone from the quarry, making it invisible from ...

M2E Working To Turn Motion into Energy Source
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Technology like this isn't going to solve the climate crisis, but it does two important things: First, it produces watts in off-grid applications that need ...

Cappadocia, a magical landscape of fairy chimneys
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
... depending on the weather conditions. The balloons have a capacity of 8, 10, 12 and 20 persons.HH Where to stay? :Yasemin Cave House.

Russian cult members await apocalypse underground
Malaysia Sun - Malaysia
'The inhabitants of the underground shelter have threatened to set themselves on fire if forced out,' Volchkova said. A criminal investigation had been ...

Scanning for underground secrets
BBC News - UK
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) allows investigators to build up a picture of what objects may be buried underground - without having to dig up any earth. ...

Deep underground - Derinkuyu, Turkey
The idea of an underground city captured our imaginations. First we had to get their. Starting from Uchisar, Jess was in the navigator seat to take us directly there. 'Straight on to Navsihir and then turn left' she told me. No problem. ...

Underground Temple Village
Technocrat.net - Boston,MA,USA
An amazing series of interconnected underground temples/grottoes built starting with one man and visions he had as a child, now carried on by the group ...

Visiting an Underground Garden Built in a Former Bank Vault Under ...
By adam frucci
Underneath an office building in the Otemachi business district of Tokyo is an underground rice and vegetable field. Created in a former bank vault this hidden garden is maintained "using computer-controlled artificial light and .

Wide-open lands of Northern Tier beckon hunters
Republican & Herald - Pottsville,PA,USA
Be aware of fresh deer sign, including dropping and evidence of browsing or foraging. Knowing where food sources are will go a long way in the effort to ...

Conecuh County cave home to mysteries
Press-Register - al.com - Mobile,AL,USA
By CONNIE BAGGETT Imagine packing all your belongings into a barrel, attaching trunnions to each end, and rolling the contraption across dense woodlands,

Integrated Patterns of Civilization
American Thinker - Bellevue,WA,USA
An unexplained little ice age unexpectedly occurred between about 1600 and 1750 AD (9) when Europe was covered with ice and snow, and the Venetian canals ...

Ancient trees to be cloned for 'living library'
USA Today - USA
By Kate Naseef, USA TODAY Scientists have launched a project aimed at solving the mystery of the giant redwood tree: What allows it to grow so tall and live ...

November 20, 2007 Tuesday

What lies beneath
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Located between High Holborn and Fleet Street near the London Law Courts, this unique labyrinth of "shops" several floors underground boasts "the world's

Under 3 cities, dens of the dead live on
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
The chapel built to honor St. Sebastian in the catacombs of Rome sits atop part of a vast underground network of tunnels and burial niches tied to the early ...

Sect members dig tunnel, await apocalypse in Central Russia
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
They wrote a letter to local authorities saying they had gone underground of their own free will. "The inhabitants of the underground shelter have ...

Russian cult remains underground as fears of violent outcome grow
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
MOSCOW, November 16 (RIA Novosti) - Cult members waiting for the end of the world in an underground tunnel in the central Russian Penza Region are still ...

Doomsday Cult Refuses to Leave Underground Bunker
ABC News - USA
Peter Kuznetsov , leader of a doomsday sect whose followers have barricaded themselves in an underground cave in Penza Region to wait out the end of the ...

Everything old is new again: smart design for MADEC HQ
ABC Regional Online - Australia
There is a move towards natural heating and cooling too with the striking rammed earth wall which Bill says is, "there for thermal mass in that it absorbs ...

Eco tree houses come of age
SmartPlanet.com - London,UK
It has walls woven from vines, soy-based plastic windows, rammed earth and tile flooring, plus solar hot-water heating, which warms the house through ...

Secret Files Prove Saddam Had WMD
International Analyst Network - NY,NY,USA
Incredibly, their reports were lost in the postwar confusion, and Saddam's underground nuclear storage sites were left unguarded for the next three years. ...

Even in Wyoming you can be completely off the grid... if you want ...
Wyoming Tribune - Cheyenne,WY,USA
"We were trying to show a different type of trophy home." The tour included homes with a variety of features from ENERGY STAR-rated appliances to straw bale ...

Notes from underground: It's time to eat those roots, you dig?
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
Many seem like alien creatures -- alarming in appearance, tough in texture, pale in color, downright foreign. Close the door and try not to think of "Attack ...

Jasper bee keeper cares for his hives as the nation's bees decline ...
Evansville Courier & Press (subscription) - Evansville,IN,USA
"Somebody would have a swarm. They'd call him, and he told me the times they'd (the bees) be way up on a limb and he'd shoot the limb off with his rifle," ...

November 13, 2007 Tuesday

Microenergy technology prolongs operating life of off-grid devices
Engineering News (press release) - Garden View,South Africa
Says Fraunhofer’s Dr Christopher Hebling: ‌At least one out of two electronic devices today is portable or is operated off-grid. ...

Star Island Promises Off The Grid Luxury in the Bahamas
Luxist - Santa Monica,CA,USA
The plan is to have Star Island be entirely off the grid and 100% energy self-sufficient. Buildings will be designed to meet LEED-certification requirements ...

Global Warming Targeted
Harvard Crimson - Cambridge,MA,USA
By BENJAMIN M. JAFFE One Harvard researcher is devising a plan to take on two of the greatest threats to the Earth's future—acid rain and global warming. ...

The Winchester Star
Winchester Star - Winchester,VA,USA
For fans of Wright, there's an advantage to the more down-to-earth house: Unlike Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob, visitors to the Duncan House can go beyond a ...

Architect's cool house jazzes up Shadyside
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
It's a "green" house in both color and sustainability, from leafy top to earth-sheltered bottom. "A building that looks like it has hair is totally cool," ...

Earth sheltered house
News 10NBC - Rochester,NY,USA
It's not exactly an underground house, but it's close. Homeowner Dave Fulmer Wednesday took News 10 NBC's Ray Levato on an exclusive tour of an ...

Fresno Underground
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
... creating a multi room shelter that keeps him cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Tracy's home reminded me of the Forestiere Underground Gardens, ...

Biologist dies of pneumonic plague in Grand Canyon
Xinhua - China
12 (Xinhuanet) -- A wildlife biologist who was found dead at Grand Canyon National Park probably died of pneumonic plague, according to media reports Monday ...

Pneumonic Plague In The United States?
News Locale - Gulbarga,Karnataka,India
MONDAY, Nov 12, 2007 (News Locale) - A 37-year-old wildlife biologist who died of pneumonic plague on November 2 likely contacted it when he was performing ...

A buildable feast
commercialappeal.com (subscription) - Memphis,TN,USA
Problems with exotic (ie non-native) weeds and insects makes Druse even more committed to natural gardening. "In natural design style, plants rely on ...

Uranium Plant Sparks Community Concerns Over Radioactive Poisoning
CityNews - Toronto,Canada
A federal estimate suggests there are 3.5 million cubic metres of low-level contamination hidden underground in Port Hope, an issue Ottawa has earmarked ...

Santiago fire smolders in forest
Orange County Register - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
Hand crews follow up by going through and looking for hot spots, some of which are hidden underground in the roots of vegetation, Romero said.

Lake Boga's flying history
ABC Regional Online - Australia
The museum now inhabits the underground bunker, built in the forties to withstand enemy attack. It is a long domed structure with turf over the top and a ...

Yellowstone Viruses 'Jump' Between Hot Pools
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Since subterranean water temperatures are so high, underground migration seemed unlikely. Following a hunch, the researchers found viruses in the air column

November 6, 2007 Tuesday

(AP) First lady details plans for underground facility at mansion
WKRN - Nashville,TN,USA
A new underground dining hall at the refurbished governor's mansion will be unobtrusive, quiet and environmentally friendly, first lady Andrea Conte said ..

Underground Garages a Hot Trend in New Homes
First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USA
As property lots rise in value, some people are choosing to take their improvements underground. A castle in Highland Park, Texas just north of Dallas has

In from the Cold War: a little-known part of the city's past
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
EDMONTON - A bomb shelter intended to serve as Edmonton's civil defence headquarters if the Cold War ever turned hot is on the way to becoming one of the ...

Frequent fires slow nature's rebound time
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Other species, such as kangaroo rats, which burrow underground to survive blazes, thrive in post-fire conditions. But measures to save homeowners and roads ...

Glenelg manor has fallout shelter
Baltimore Sun - United States
... when an underground fallout shelter was built; and recent years, when the house was remodeled by owners John and Sandi Riegert with updated amenities

Defense Ministry induces Israelis to return gas masks, won't ...
Israel Insider - Tel Aviv,Israel
The government, however, is investing billions of shekels to build a huge underground bunker between Jerusalem and the airport to protect a few thousand ...

Further education: Going greener
Independent - London,England,UK
The building uses an array of environmentally friendly materials and processes, from straw bales in the Straw Pavilion, through rammed earth walls in the

Huge new sewage plant on way
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA
Rather than digging trenches, the tunnel options would use a boring machine to dig a 12 foot tunnel underground, meaning most of the property owners

Cleaning the gutters safely
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
If you don't have a gardening trowel for scooping out the gutters, a spatula or ladle works well enough. If you do end up cleaning them yourself, ...

Looking beneath Chinatown: Few have seen the tunnels hidden under ...
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
"My dad told me how people used to go store to store underground and about a lit tunnel," Kenneth Mendez, 49, of Malaga, says while he waits in a Chinatown ...

Nobody hurt in Cross Roads blaze
York Daily Record - York,PA,USA
Eckert built a roof over the foundation to fashion a kind of underground house. He said the house was about 70 percent underground and had had skylights