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September 25, 2007 Tuesday
Underground to a roof over their head
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
BY MARK BROWN Sun-Times Columnist The homeless men and women lounging on their bedrolls at mid-morning on Lower Lower Wacker Drive, two levels below the ...
Kansas Underground Salt Museum is truly deep
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
To reach the underground museum -- located 650 feet below the surface in salt deposits formed millions of years ago -- I had to ride an elevator that ...
Fast Five: It's time to winterize your abode
IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA
Clean and store gardening tools. Lubricate all blades, disconnect battery-powered tools, change the oil and filters on gas-powered tools and either drain ...
Bunny Guinness on aspects
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
How do you stop plants drying up on a south-facing, wind-swept roof garden? A top priority is to block or filter the wind with a trellis, glass panels, ...
Rustic roundup coming to Denver
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
This artist from Nelson, British Columbia, describes his own home as a "timber-frame, straw- bale house ... on top of a mountain." He grew his wood-carving ...
On the throne ... off the grid
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Richard Griffith's eight-year-old custom home in Grey County boasts environmentally friendly designs, from straw-bale construction to solar panels and a ...
More find Lost Sea this year
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA
The Sweetwater, Tenn., attraction features a cave system and giant freshwater lake that's fed by underground springs and contains rainbow trout.
'Off the grid, self-sufficient'
Daily Inter Lake - Kalispell,MT,USA
They wanted to live off the grid and be completely self-sufficient. The North Fork -- with no electricity or other utilities -- was just the plac
Xantrex to showcase three ground-breaking new product lines at ...
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
The Xantrex XW System is the first fully-integrated, battery-based system designed for residential and commercial solar and off-grid/backup power ...
State wants new homes off grid
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
So far, he said, the home is requiring zero electricity from the power grid. The solar panels, however, were expensive, Anders said, adding that it remains ...\
Rammed Earth
By Video Editor
Making a home from mud in Spain. www.undercurrents.org
September 18, 2007 Tuesday
Ancient Technology May Be Answer To Operating in Wake of Hurricanes
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
The domes are made of super-strong concrete, coated with insulating foam and covered by waterproof fabric. It's built from the inside out. ...
They're eating it up
London Free Press - Canada
... an energy-efficient, solar-powered timber-frame straw bale home, an association with the burgeoning organic food home delivery industry and higher
United Solar Ovonic Signs Multi-Year Supply Agreement with EDF ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
Because of these characteristics, UNI-SOLAR triple-junction products offer the ideal solution for both grid-connected and off-grid solar electric systems. ...
Enchanted feeling of space
Hindu - Chennai,India
This dome is one of the largest non-reinforced concrete domes in the world. It is decorated with recessed panels or coffers and the vortex or oculus is left ...
Hershey History Goes Underground
CBS 21 - Harrisburg,PA,USA
A piece of Hershey history is going underground in a time capsule in celebration of what would have been Milton Hershey's 150th Birthday.
New views from ancient Bulgaria
Seattle Times - United States
Poking through the trees were a crop of gold, onion-shaped domes. Shipka was the site of an important battle fought by Bulgarians and their Russian ...
Underground Water Regulates Earthquakes
innovations report - Bad Homburg,Germany
The earthquakes character depends on underground water. Earthquakes taking place "at different sides of the boundary" differ from each other not only by the ...
Artfully carved hedges, older trees blend in with home's landscape
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
It is long, straight and rectangular -- except for a series of small domes carved into the top. Mrs. Krieger said she had to prune the fast-growing hedge at ...
What does the underside of a slab-on-grade house look like?
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
... reveals several shallow domes that reflect the outlines of the house's "bell footings." Rather than building concrete-block "stem walls" atop trenches
Tornado shelters to be built at mobile home parks
The Newark Advocate - Newark,OH,USA
The Monolithic Dome is a super-insulated, steel-reinforced concrete structure that can be designed for virtually any use, including homes, schools, ...
Professor unearths area's underground past
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria,IL,USA
By GARY PANETTA Instead, the so-called Underground Railroad was a series of secret networks in Northern states that helped escaped slaves flee from bounty ...
Undiscovered underground
The Spectator - Eau Claire,WI,USA
You can explore the cave with an hourlong guided tour through a third of a mile of underground trail. Crystal Cave, located in Spring Valley, ...
Artists create impressions of local farm occupants
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA
As some of the visitors learned about Ms. Erickson's artistic process, others were led to the goat barn and foraging fields by Kimberly and her friends, ...
Residents put up defenses against foraging black bears
The Register-Guard - Eugene,OR,USA
Wildlife officials reject feeding bears in time of drought, saying that would artificially support a population that nature cannot. ...
Germans fight to save hidden Nazi bunkers
Washington Post - United States
The Berlin bunker where he committed suicide remains sealed and inaccessible. Hitler ordered the building of the Siegfried Line, consisting of 17000 bunkers ...
Modesto Bomb Shelter
KTXL - USA
Back then, that safe place may have been a bomb shelter -- a safe underground hideout. Fast-forward more than a half century to a home in Modesto built in
Travel: Garden creates fantasy out of cement
MLive.com - MI,USA
Cement chimneys created to look like tree trunks rise out of an underground rathskeller built into the side of a hill where McCourtie (known as Herb to his ...
Living with nature year-round
Baltimore Sun - United States
Electric and manual roof blinds can soften sunlight, help to control temperature and protect furniture and shade-loving plants. ...
Recreation heads underground in Missouri
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Rather than head outside for a recreational adventure, athletes in Missouri can head underground--to scuba dive, play tennis and, if one man has his way, ...
THE CONCRETE HOUSE: How green is concrete?
By Ali
... the designers call a "commitment to living sustainably". With renewable energy systems, a green roof, rainwater harvesting and waste minimization, the design tries to prove that concrete is an environmentally appropriate choice. (more...)
Wood floors are back
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
Wood flooring already is proving to be a popular choice in the more modestly priced houses that Rammed Earth Development Inc. is building in the Mercado ...
Mashup Google Map of Homes Built With Sustainable Materials like ...
This is a cool way to learn about alternative building techniques like strawbale, rammed earth, cob, earth ships... There are currently 155 homes on the map with links to the homeowners' websites.
September 11, 2007 Tuesday
Couple selling cave home carved in Bisbee mountains
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Cathy Wertz and Randy Clark were camped outside Bisbee, trying to figure out how to build a home without altering the natural beauty of the ...
MONEY: Couple selling cave home in Bisbee mountainside
Sierra Vista Herald - Sierra Vista,AZ,USA
Randy Clark, left, and Cathy Wertz are pictured in the living room of their cave home in Bisbee, Ariz., Tuesday Aug. 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Star
Marine Team Finds Surprising Evidence Supporting A Great Biblical ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Was the Roman city of Caesarea destroyed by an ancient tsunami? Will pollution levels in our deep seas remain forever a mystery? The Mediterranean Explorer. ...
Gimme Shelter: Helsinki Rocks
Wired News - USA
The public shelters can house 110000 people in total. New structures are combined with shelters where possible: for example, in Helsinki underground car ...
* Shoo, fly: Wet, wind bring brief affliction
MLive.com - MI,USA
By John S. Hausman A plague of flies over the weekend may have made parts of Muskegon County seem like they were suffering an invasion from the depths of ...
Sign up for a tour of green buildings
Norwich Evening News - Norwich,England,UK
Other buildings which are included in the tour programme are the Honingham Earth Sheltered Social Housing Scheme; Hill House, Gimingham; and The Church of ...
Garage sale adventures: The treadmill
Earlier this year my wife asked me to look for a treadmill. So I started keeping an eye out. A month or two ago I spotted one at an estate sale, but everything was wrong about that deal. Today, I pulled the trigger.
Homeowners using alternate energy sources
Prince George Citizen - Prince George,British Columbia,Canada
"There's quite a few around here that are using systems off grid. We're just offsetting our energy use with the solar and wind. We're still using BC Hydro ...
New home for historic films and broadcasts
Boston Globe - United States
The Federal Reserve built its underground shelter there in 1969 to house $3 billion in coin and currency, to pump into the economy in case of nuclear attack ...
'Green' buildings are hot - and cool
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
Made on site: rammed-earth patio walls. Concrete and asphalt on site was ground and recycled for new paving. Recycled fly ash in new concrete. ...
For this nature lover, the time is ripe for something wild
Boston Globe - United States
Right now, even during a dog days foraging lull in Eastern Massachusetts, Cohen still expects to find a dozen or more species. A few yards from his parked ...
The tide's out and dinner's on: Harvesting seaweed on the shore
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
For three days, I fall into the easy rhythms of this foraging tribe. We are, Sherwood reminds us, participants in the landscape, not just admirers. Nature
Fallingwater, Built on Brave Choices and Still Unconventional
Washington Post - United States
Combining such a spare aesthetic with a flat roof and the prominent horizontal bands that edge Fallingwater's terraces, another architect at that time might ...
Attic Ladders provides you more living space for less. Attic ...
Ferret - Australia
... creating innovative storage areas. - The specialists in converting wasted roof spaces into innovative living areas for a fraction of normal building costs.
Mother Nature's Secret Weapon
Wired News - USA
But, as usual with rare and unexplained phenomena, other scientists don't necessarily agree. Footnote: if the fuel and air are mixed poorly, the result is a ...
Central School to get generator, become town shelter
Cabinet.com - Milford,NH,USA
Brown said the plan is for a company called Dig Safe to survey the site and determine where the underground utilities are located and mark them.
Fumes difficult to stop
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
It might be impossible to halt through chemical injection the reaction behind smoldering underground fires at a Stark County landfill. Preliminary research ...
September 4, 2007 Tuesday
Sinkhole eats Apopka home from inside out
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
Sinkholes open unannounced and have been known to wipe out homes and businesses. It was 7:30 pm Wednesday when the sound rocked Coronado's home, ...
Report: 3000 Chinese Christians "Murdered" Since 2000
BosNewsLife - Budapest,Hungary
... camps and prisons across the country, in many cases because of their involvement in evangelism, Bible distribution and 'underground' house churches. ...
Easy Living in a mountain cave
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
Try finding a foothills home with a stream and three natural pools, let alone a cave house. "There are cave homes all over the world," she said, ...
National Command bunker being built
Ynetnews - Israel
The $240 million underground bunker is designed to withstand a nuclear bomb and will house the Prime Minister's Office, military commands centers and the ...
NUCLEAR MESSAGE OR SNAFU
IsraCast - Jerusalem,Israel
Israel is now building an underground nuclear bunker that could survive a nuclear attack, presumably from Iran. The story, complete with verifying photos,
Death and destruction in Med's ring of fire
ABC Online - Australia
The sirocco, a strong wind that blows dust off the Sahara across north Africa and as far as southern Europe, has made the work of firefighters more ...
Living off the grid; A pair of world travellers have planted their ...
The North Bay Nugget - North Bay,Ontario,Canada
"When you're living off the grid, it all drains energy," Demille says. They plan to use their home as a demonstration model for living off the grid, ...
Living Life 'Off The Grid' With Solar Energy
abc7news.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
This house is basically energy independent" His father built the house 15 years ago - at the time, totally off the grid. That means that his solar energy ...
Panama begins 5.25 billion dollar canal expansion
Source: [b]AFP[/b] Panama begins 5.25 billion dollar canal expansion 4 hours ago PANAMA CITY (AFP) -- Construction got underway Monday on a 5.25 billion dollar project to modernize and expand the Panama Canal, considered one of the ...
Best floor plans flow with the way we live
Seattle Times - United States
I thought the trade-off of walking up 27 steps from the driveway to the front door was worth the feeling of living in a tree house. ...
Cold War bunker now shelters archive
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The Federal Reserve built its underground shelter in Culpeper in 1969 to house $3 billion in coin and currency, to pump into the economy if the US underwent
Eskom toys with burning issue
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Eskom is looking at ways of burning sub-grade coal underground in its search for clean coal technology. The country is at the forefront of research into ...
Food never looked so bad
Now Toronto - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Then we bag the perfect spinach in see-through plastic bags, and, good undertakers that we are, take them to the root cellar where they'll be preserved ...
Southeastern Minnesota area digest
Post-Bulletin - Rochester,MN,USA
The event will be from 5 pm to 6:30 pm Erickson will speak briefly about his farm and then show the greenhouse, root cellar and hazelnut orchard.
Dumped: Reality TV Contestants Live on Landfill
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Of all that waste, just 27 per cent is recycled, with most of the remainder ending up buried underground. "We like to say we throw things away,
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