September 29, 2005

Uncovering History
Daily Vanguard - Portland,OR,USA
... sustainability. Driven by gravity, surface and rainwater percolate down through the grasses on their way to the wetland pond. Once ...

£3m 'green' plan to bring tourism to Botanics
Scotsman - United Kingdom
A new visitor centre and restaurant with a "green roof" - plants and shrubs growing in place of traditional tiles - will be built next to the world-famous ...

Earthquake Boom? New Orleans has post-disaster real estate lessons ...
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
For all of you waiting for a major quake to bring the cost of housing down to a tolerable level -- to democratize this city of real estate haves and have-nots .

Constantine woman witnesses Katrina destruction, aftermath
Sturgis Journal - Sturgis,MI,USA
By Audora Burg. CONSTANTINE -- Seventy-nine year old Jean Fisher nearly had a front-row seat for Hurricane Katrina. The Constantine ...

Fair delves into sustainable energy
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... They shared information on compact fluorescent bulbs, solar screens, native plants, electric vehicles, rainwater collection and more. ...

7-degree earthquake shakes Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil
Granma International - La Habana,Cuba
AN earthquake measuring 7 degrees on the Richter open scale, with its epicenter in the Peruvian selva and which was felt in Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador ...

Portland Building will get a 'green roof'
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... A team led by Macdonald Environmental Planning has just finished designing an environmentally friendly, cutting-edge "green roof." It's essentially a living ...

POW recalls Bataan death march, Nagasaki
Desert Dispatch - Barstow,CA,USA
... past him. He escaped to Corregidor in a canoe. Martin's escape ... He was stationed at Monkey Point in Corregidor. Again Martin soon found ...

Ceremony honors the missing, captured
Jacksonville Daily News - Jacksonville,NC,USA
... and commandeered a boat ("took it, confiscated it, stole it, whatever you want to say we done," said Craigg) and made their way to Corregidor where they fought ...

Review of solar system may leave Pluto out in the cold
Times Online - UK
... club as Earth, Mars and Jupiter, while others believe that the category should be extended to include small icy worlds in the outer reaches of the solar system ...

Indian authorities fight disease in storm aftermath
ABC Online - Australia
Helicopters and boats are distributing food, water, and medicine to hundreds of people stranded on their rooftops in the flooded Indian state of Andhra Pradesh ..

September 23, 2005

Major developments on Hurricane Rita, aftermath of Katrina
KLFY - Lafayette,LA,USA
_ Rita's Category Five winds increased to 175 miles-an-hour yesterday as the storm headed across the Gulf of Mexico. Forecasters ...

Cities' new job 1: disaster plans
Christian Science Monitor - USA
... in advance," says Eric Holdeman, director of emergency planning for Washington State's King County, which includes Seattle and could be prone to an earthquake. .

Call for papers for the 2006 Fourth Annual International Greening ...
Canadian Architect - Toronto,Canada
... It is a great opportunity to broaden networks and develop new business contacts while building more sustainable cities through green roof implementation.

Students drink only rainwater
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia The death of a student at Ummul Quro Al Islami Boarding School in Banyusuci kampong, Leuwiliang, Bogor, from severe diarrhea last Sunday revealed a shocking ...

Adaptive Reuse
Nashville Scene - TN, USA
... hybrid. It'sa proven technology that deserves more respect in the States, and now Jeep has given diesel the Liberty to earn it.

The Car That Runs on Water-The electro hydrogen generator
Fuel Cell Works - USA ... The generator is spun using the engine's recycled exhaust gases ... successful, production vehicles will use water as the main fuel and need only a small amount of .

Map of The Gardens
One and a half acres of spectacular rooftop gardens. Tropical plants and flamingos blend with traditional stone and wrought iron to create a haven from the ...

Small company chases big holographic storage
Register - London,England,UK Tiny, privately funded, InPhase Technology is on the brink of replacing film tape with holographic storage in the broadcasting industries, offering densities ...

Simulation Shows Potential Devastation In Galveston WLWT - Cincinnati,OH,USA A computer simulation shows the devastation that could happen in Galveston, Texas, if Hurricane Rita hit there. Rita became a Category ...

Mount Weather: Primed for Martial Law
An overview of FEMA's secret underground facility for controlling the United
States during a declaration of martial law.

South Dakota proposes underground lab
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul,MN,USA... Even then, turning it into a national underground laboratory to study physics and earth ... the Homestake mine and the Henderson mine in Colorado as home for a ...

Katrina: Broadcasters contributed to deaths
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... on the track and strength of the tornado. Broadcasters gave advice about exactly what to do. They told people to stop watching TV and get to safe shelter -- now ...

POW recalls Bataan death march, Nagasaki
Desert Dispatch - Barstow,CA,USA ... past him. He escaped to Corregidor in a canoe. Martin's escape ... He was stationed at Monkey Point in Corregidor. Again Martin soon found ...

Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of plankton Institute of Physics (press release) - London,UK A revolutionary camera that can take 3-D pictures in the form of holograms could soon be making waves for a wide range of marine related professions. ...

It Doesn't Just Look Real--It Is Real
Newsweek - USA ... It's those holograms that the characters use for Jedi videoconferencing, like the one R2-D2 projects of Princess Leia's pleading for help. ...

September 20, 2005

Green roof for a green museum San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... were brought Wednesday to the site of their future home: The new California Academy of Sciences, where they will make up the nation's largest living roof. ..

Ask Glenn No need to brush off roof mold in process DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... If the mold was not totally cleaned off the roof, repeat the procedure. ... to keep the insulation from blocking the soffit vents and to direct the air to the ...

Lewes beachcomber finds 1626 coin The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA ... coin Clark said he has ever found, and its discovery came years before an Army Corps of Engineers dredge dug into a shipwreck and pumped artifacts onto Lewes ...

Earthquake devastation more fierce The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA
That's not the latest estimate of Hurricane Katrina's toll on the Gulf Coast. That's a worst-case scenario if a major earthquake were to hit Los Angeles.

Giant Earthquake Predictions Aided by Historical Data
National Geographic - Washington,D.C.,USA
Predicting when the next giant earthquake will occur is a shaky proposition. But new analysis of an unusual seismic fault in Chile ...

Pimp my dome Detroit Metro Times - Detroit,MI,USA ... And they're automatically a hurricane and tornado shelter. We've built them in 48 states and 40 countries. But they're still a secret.". ...

áKomrom's underworld
Budapest Sun - Budapest,Hungary ... fascinating complex of sometimes narrow corridors, spacious halls, underground passages and ... walls, instead they were covered in earth, had bunker-type bastions ...

Fuel Shortage in Sudan Cripples Food Deliveries
Voice of America - USA
A fuel shortage in Sudan has caused the UN World Food Program (WFP) to cut emergency deliveries of food to more than a million people in the south of the ...

Gas Prices Help Drive Down SUV Resale Value Washington Post - United States ... They said, 'We've never had this many,' " Rynn said. She looked at buying a hybrid SUV but decided that the wait was too long and that it was too expensive. ...

US sees more hybrid models than ever
MSNBC - USA ... New for 2006 are Mercury's first hybrid, the Mariner Hybrid SUV, and the first Toyota-branded SUV hybrid, the Highlander Hybrid.

CHINESE CHRISTIAN HAS REQUEST FOR ASYLUM DENIED
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA ... religion.". According to CFI, like most Christians in Communist China, Li worshiped in the "illegal" underground house church movement. ...

New Madrid Fault getting attention in wake of Hurricake Katrina
WKYT - Lexington,KY,USA
... electricity. But there is a problem. The town, with its tens of millions of pounds of deadly chemicals, sits in an earthquake zone. Calvert ...

How to survive the first 100 hours of a major disaster Vancouver Sun (subscription) - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... If an earthquake shakes the ground beneath Manson's Rabbit Lane house in the British Properties, she's hoping there won't be too much broken glass littering ...

Jordanians panic, anticipate earthquake
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK AMMAN, Jordan (UPI) -- Jordanian schools held earthquake drills Sunday amid strong rumors of an expected powerful quake that left many families outside their ..

Company takes top down approach to energy savings KARE - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... "With a green roof or a white roof, you can save up to 20 per cent just based off the air temperature being pulled into the (cooling) unit," he says. ...

September 15, 2005

Linguine and Clam Sauce
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... olive oil. Saute over medium heat for about 2 minutes, until onion softens and begins to turn translucent, then add garlic. Saute ...

A FLATLANDER'S ROOT CELLAR
Mother Earth News - Topeka,Kansas,USA Of course, one of the best places to store the "keeper crops" is a root cellar (one that's freeze proof, watertight, and able to maintain a cool year-round ...

Linda Hall Library grows 600 feet down
University News (subscription) - Kansas City,MO,USA
... The sophisticated geothermal heating and cooling system below will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while also saving green in the library's budget ...

Dry winter raises threat of an early drought
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
The threat of drought is looming for Wairarapa and the Kapiti Coast after some of the warmest and driest winter months on record. ...

Recycling buff makes solar heat portable
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
HUDSON -- Mixing a passion for recycling and environmentally friendly technology, Duane Sanborn is putting solar heat in a portable window space heater. ...

Pimp my dome
Detroit Metro Times - Detroit,MI,USA
... They're cheap to maintain too. According to the Monolithic Dome Institute, domes use 50 percent less energy per square foot than regular houses. ...

Making a fruitful decision
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USA
... small quantity of fruit. An old-fashioned root cellar provides almost ideal low temperature and high humidity storage. In late fall ...

September 14, 2005

Fuel shortage hits Sudan aid ops
BBC News - UK
Efforts to feed 1.3m people in southern Sudan have been badly hit by a shortage of jet fuel, the UN food agency says. The World ...

Creative strategists say you must strike twice -- at least -- to ...
Small Times - USA
... one. The LED lighting market -- or markets, as the case may be -- provides an illustrative example. LEDs are hardly new. They ...

SunTrust gets a 'green roof'
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... foot) grow to maturity. At 11,800 square feet, it is thought to be the largest green roof in Virginia. SunTrust participated in ...

ESF embraces technology with eco-roof
The Daily Orange (subscription) - Syracuse,NY,USA
... Nursery of Johnstown, Pa. have been working on top of Walter's Hall on the SUNY-ESF campus to create a green roof. Green roofs, also ...

Improve energy efficiency by restructuring your vacuum generators
Plant Services - Itasca,IL,USA
... service as an air compressor/vacuum generator system using only a fraction of the energy. If a central vacuum system is impractical, small regional systems can ...

Storm resurgence
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... a small hill, the hotel made it through the winds and had little interior damage from seawater and rain. But there was no electricity, so a huge generator was .

Dengue outbreak plague in Singapore
Viet Nam News Agency - Hanoi,Vietnam
Kuala Lumpur (VNA) - A dengue fever outbreak has plunged Singapore into its worst health crisis since the 2003 SARS epidemic, forcing officials to speed up a ...

Strong earthquake in region could cause Katrina-like destruction
The Southern - Carbondale,IL,USA
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 or greater would cause Katrina-like mass destruction in Southern Illinois - at least in the opinion of some. ...

The next small thing
The Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... It will spin at phenomenal speed because of its strength and very small radius ... Used as a generator, the new gas micro-turbine could also power electric vehicles ...

Who's in chargeof disaster planningin your community?
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
... a huge flood, none of this would help if the stove and generator are under ... In cities, it's usually a combination of safety officials but small towns may not

Water everywhere, and fish die in their tanks
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
... later. With a diesel-fuel generator the size of a small moving truck, they even survived the power outage - for a while. What creatures ...

SGI Solutions Used to Discover Oil Deposits by Energy Companies to ...PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... AZ, to develop promising technology that is expected to significantly enhance the US military's abilities to locate and identify underground structures. ...

September 11, 2005

POWs who don't forget
Kingston Daily Freeman - Kingston,NY,USA
... Veterans of the Philippines battles of Bataan and Corregidor, the men were used as a source of forced labor and for medical experiments. ...

Ophelia near Fla., Maria now a hurricane
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Hurricane Irene well off US East Coast (August 15, 2005) -- Newly formed Hurricane Irene had strengthening 85 mph winds early Monday, but was unlikely to pose ...

YOUR VIEWS for Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005
LaCrosse Tribune - LaCrosse,WI,USA
... lives in? Could his home withstand a tornado? Maybe it is an underground bunker. Or, maybe a fallout shelter from the 1950s. If he ...

Paying the Price for Katrina and America's Shadow Government
Rutherford Institute - Charlottesville,VA,USA
... Another aspect of FEMA is Mount Weather near Bluemont, Va., an underground bunker the size of a small city. This facility is one ...

US: Greenhouse grows produce for local stores
FreshPlaza - Netherlands
... This is the hydroponics greenhouse. And when operating at maximum capacity they can harvest more than 1 ,200 heads of lettuce in a single day. ..

Google Maps reveals Katrina devastation
Register - London,England,UK
... a post-hurricane image. This is how New Orleans used to look: Zooming in, we can see the devastation close-up. This is a snap of ...

Tiny signs of survival amid storm's deaths
Baltimore Sun - United States
By Abigail Tucker. BATON ROUGE, La. - Their translucent eyelids are rarely open, but these babies have already seen much of the world. ...

New Solar Underwater Robot Technology
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
Image: Solar-powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (SAUV). Photo: RPI/Sanderson in collaboration with Autonomous Undersea Systems ...

Storage, serving
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
... If you have a particularly cool corner in your basement, sort of a makeshift root cellar, you might be able to hold tomatoes there for a week or more. ...

Cook: Spirit of the berry speaks to us still
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
... It is no wonder that the wild strawberry plant is dug up whole from the field in the fall, stored in a root cellar or other dry, dark place, and utilized by ...

Consumer Reports: Fudging Fuel Efficiency
WNBC - New York,NY,USA
... For example, EPA tests indicate that the Jeep Liberty Diesel gets 22 mpg, but Consumer Reports found that you'll get half that at 11 mpg. ...

Shoe Leather As A Renewable Resource: Penn Biologists Invent Power ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... It is the vertical movement of the backpack contents that provides the mechanical energy to drive a small generator mounted on the frame. ...

The (eco-friendly) house that Jon built
The Observer - UK
... Set in a mature garden, the grass-topped roof of the five-bedroom house is supported by tree trunks sourced from Wales. Natural ...

September 9, 2005

Working Through the Storm
Newsweek - USA
... They decided to bring their three boys to a cousin's small house in Baton Rouge, the ... They moved into one room of their house with a generator and fridge. ...

Exhaust has left Cat Island workers "sick"
Nassau Guardian - Nassau,Bahamas
By MINDELL SMALL,Guardian Staff Reporter mindell@nasguard.comA faulty exhaust system in a generator at The Bahamas Electricity Corporation's power station in ...

Amid despair, a question: Could this be America?
Houston Chronicle - United States
... The backup generator lasted only an hour or so, she said ... Men from the neighborhood would come by in small boats and occasionally take a person or two to dry land ...

Japan to assist US in fuel shortage crisis
MaldivesInfo (press release) - Male,Maldives
Japan says to help US relieve fuel shortage crisis triggered by hurricane Katrina. Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Ira's fire hall roof going 'green'
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron,MI,USA
... A project to reduce the quantity - and improve the quality - of runoff water from the Ira Township hall campus will include a "green" roof for the fire station ...

Amid urban surroundings, Chicago opens 'green' school with living ...
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
By Don Babwin. CHICAGO -- Youngsters at Tarkington elementary started their first day of classes Tuesday at a school where flowering plants grow on the roof. ...

Hurricane Katrina
Times Online - UK
... Later helicopters were deployed in the Garden District to drop water on the blaze ... sweat-stained M*A*S*H T-shirt, was painting red crosses on the roof and bonnet ...

Huge Underground Aquifer Dropping Faster Than Expected
TheDenverChannel.com - Denver,CO,USA
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The High Plains Aquifer, an underground water supply that underlies parts of eight states, including Colorado, could be depleted faster than ...

Magnetic energy? Perhaps
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... On top of that, Goldes said he'll have a prototype next year for a small generator using his magnetic technology that can produce enough power to run kitchen ...

Riding Katrina Out
Useless-Knowledge.com - USA
... He was aboard the only other boat with generator power and told me that the storm ... When I walked Abu at 7am I noticed that a small dinghy was wedged between my ...

Kentucky National Guard To Help Relieve Fuel Shortage In Gulf
WKYT - Lexington,KY,USA
The troops' first stop will be Camp Shelby, Mississippi, where they will fuel and maintain military vehicles that are part of the ongoing rescue of hurricane ...

Kamchatka volcano starts erupting
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
... at Mt. Shiveluch because a February eruption of the volcano destroyed a research base and a monitoring station. The last eruption ...

Retrospect on the Role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...
Center for Research on Globalization - Canada
... spent about 6 percent of its budget on national emergencies, the bulk of their funding has been used for the construction of secret underground facilities to ...

Long lines and waits plague local gas stations
University of South Alabama News - USA In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, gas stations across Mobile fell into a state of pandemonium as fears of shortages and rising prices forced some drivers to

Minor earthquake hits eastern Israel Ynetnews - Israel
A minor earthquake measuring 3.7 on the Richter Sacle hit the Jordan Rift Valley in eastern Israel Wednesday. No injuries or damage ...

[FOUNTAIN]No earthquake is as bad as getting old
International Herald Tribune - France
... has become a popular topic of conversation after leaving tremendous scars across the southern United States, the worst natural disaster of all is an earthquake ...

Major earthquake exercise under way in Russian Far East
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
... 7 (RIA Novosti, Oksana Guseva) - A major exercise conducted by Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry to practice dealing with a major earthquake is under way ...

Waves Of Destruction
Coast Weekly - Monterey,CA,USA
... Cruz, the most likely scenario involving a dangerous tsunami would be a seismic event similar to the Indian Ocean tragedy, a distant earthquake generated far ...

Gangs in the garden
Budapest Sun - Budapest,Hungary
... Botanical Gardens enjoyed its greatest development, with its arboretum, lake, rock garden, and large ... were moved to the gardens to hold up the roof and sustain ...

Don't Tear Down the Superdome
SportsFan Magazine - Bethesda,MD,USA
... be no power to the building and there may be two huge holes in the roof, but there ... up with that, and I'm sure those who camped out in Boston Garden during the ...

Changes in store for Seattle Aquarium
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... to a flying saucer. It would be topped with a rooftop garden and watery pools with raised walking paths. A new display would take ...

Refugees swarm into Texas
Economic Times - India
DALLAS: It'sa fight for shelter in neighbouring Texas, which is fast-becoming a refuge for those blown away by Katrina. After ...

When camping skills are needed to survive
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... the past 100 years. But those who camp, especially those who trek offtrail in wilderness, survival is adventure. When faced with a ...

Historical/natural attractions make Kurdestan a tourist hub
Islamic Republic News Agency - Tehran,Iran
... According to the available articles, the cave has been named after the Greek ... the area known for its exclusive architecture, which is now called "Kurd House". ...

CULINARY PIONEERS
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... Wente, John Ash, Maria Helm-Sinskey; chocolatier Alice Medrich, food science writer ... chocolate and encasing rich vanilla ice cream -- was the invention of an ...

September 6, 2005

Cause Of Last Month's PG&E Explosion Pinpointed
KGO - San Francisco,CA,USA
Sept. 4 (BCN) - Investigators report that an explosion in an underground Pacific Gas & Electric Co. vault in San Francisco last ...

Beloved icons still standing
Seattle Times - United States
... Much wind damage; many trees splintered. . Commander's Palace: A restaurant built in 1880 in the stately Garden District, frequented ... The roof was torn off. ...

A reporter recalls searing images from walking the streets of New ...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Trees were down in her neighborhood. Her garden was destroyed. ... I look for him every morning when I wake up. He is alone on the roof of a Cadillac dealership. ...

Energy crunch blows wind to forefront
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Net metering allows him to use his generator to offset electrical consumption over ... For more information on the small wind system at the Donohoe Center, stop in ...

Cree Lighting Announces LED Brightness Levels Two Years Ahead of ...
Azom.com - USA
... "Cree is focused on rapidly advancing LED performance to accelerate the adoption of the LED as a cost-effective replacement for traditional lighting in all ...

"Underground reservoir" discovered in Lop Nor
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... & Space Information School of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), a more-than-10-kilometers-long and 4-kilometers-wide "underground reservoir" or an ...

On the river to Hades
Vancouver Courier - British Columbia,Canada
... An underground vault, thought to be the dark palace of Persephone and Hades ... real." After this discovery, the Necromanteion was destroyed and lay hidden until it ...

Oregon scientists monitor bulging ground
USA Today - USA
... Other causes could be anything from the birth of a new volcano -- a fourth Sister ... The good news is that such an eruption likely would not seriously affect any ...

Duck and Cover-Up
Seattle Weekly - Seattle,WA,USA
... ATOP a major fault and in the shadow of an active volcano, Seattle should ... An eruption or cone collapse of Mount Rainier could blanket the suburbs with a flow ...

September 4, 2005

Concerns of a gas shortage
WVLT - Knoxville,TN,USA
... How do you lessen the fuel shortage? Take the bus and plan your trips and errands. But the best advice from AAA, they say whatever ...

Fuel shortage bites in Isles
IPPMEDIA - Guardian - Dar es Salaam,United Republic of Tanzania
... roof. The shortage of fuel has given rise to a thriving black market in which petrol and diesel are sold at sky-high prices.

Create a garden where children can grow
Seattle Times - United States
... A playhouse on the ground with a ladder to a flat roof can also be an imaginative ... You may want to give a portion of the garden over to a miniature woodland, or ...

MY MOTHER'S HOUSE PART III
Mother Earth News - Topeka,Kansas,USA
... built-up roofing applications for quite some time, and several rubber manufacturers have elected to market the products as earth-shelter waterproofing solutions ...

2005 Jeep Gladiator Concept
Automobile.com - USA
... gasoline engines, under the hood is the Italian-built 2.8-liter inline four-cylinder turbodiesel that currently motivates the diesel-powered Jeep Liberty CDI.

Mississippi Power Rebuilding After Katrina
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... Most small gasoline powered ... at home improvement stores are designed for appliances to be plugged directly into them rather than plugging the generator into the ...

Small town in eye of storm wiped out
Houston Chronicle - United States
... On several small houses, search and rescue crews had left black marks to signal that ... sedan and loaded it up along the way with supplies: a generator, a propane ...

Region struggles to regain control from Katrina
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA
... An emergency generator failed early today at Forrest General Hospital, forcing the evacuation of ... Page shot his sister in the head with a small caliber handgun ...

The Peak Oil Crisis: Pulse & Glide
Falls Church News Press - Falls Church,VA,USA
... the gentle acceleration does not require any electricity so allowing the generator to cut ... At those prices, it would cost $200 to fill up a small tank, $400 to ...

The Peaceable Kingdom
Mother Earth News - Topeka,Kansas,USA
... "There's corn, peas, beans, broccoli and green soybeans in the freezer and the old dirt-floored root cellar in the basement holds six bushels of potatoes ..

~~~~Can't beat the beet
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks,AK,USA
... into it. Trimmed beets will keep for three to four months if kept in a cool, humid area such as a root cellar or basement. Many

It's electric: Cows show promise as powerplants
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
... methane into electricity requires costly equipment -- one California farmer reportedly spent $280 ,000 to convert his operation to a methane digester system. ...

September 1, 2005

A SURVIVAL KIT YOU CAN LIVE WITH: THE EXPERTS" CHOICES Mother Earth News - Topeka,Kansas,USA... Those two stories represent the extremes of wilderness survival preparedness: Mountain man Jim Bridget, though he might at times have wandered the wilderness ..

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