Man tells the story of how he built his own hobbit hole — a cheap, low-impact, woodland home … and he spent less than a tenth of what he would had he bought an ugly, toxic modern box.
Main tools used: chainsaw, hammer and 1 inch chisel, little else really. Oh and by the way I am not a builder or carpenter, my experience is only having a go at one similar house 2yrs before and a bit of mucking around inbetween. This kind of…
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The 165 acre park in Virginia was actually built by converting a local abandoned landfill into the pristine recreational area it is today.It looks great and attracts more than 1 million visitors a year .
- Travelling Light - Orchestrating Famine: A Backgrounder on the Food Crisis - Investigating Interference at the EPA - The Failures of Genetically Modified Crops Continue - Food Futures Now - Feeding People and Place,…
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Recently, the E-Fuel Corporation, introduced the first ethanol refinery system designed for home use. The Micro Fueler, a backyard fueling station, can create pure E100 ethanol from sugar feed stock.
• HOW IT WORKS: Coskata’s $1/Gallon Tech Starts Ethanol 2.0
After announcing huge multi-billion oil profit earned in last 3 months, Shell blatantly canceled big project of off-shore wind farms in Britain. They use their huge influence and financial power to stop renewable energy sources all over the world. Just another trick of dirty oil lobby.
In the same week oil corporation Shell announced their truly fantastic $7.8 billion profit earned just in last 3 months!!!, due to historically record oil prices, Shell also canceled its involvement in London Array wind farm project, which should…
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From CD-R spindles to corks, twist-ties to tissue boxes, lots of supposedly one-use items can save you money, free up space, and be seriously handy when the need arises. After the jump, a roundup of our readers’ waste-reducing reuses.
Remember, do NOT reuse cleaning bottles! by glater at 10:48 AM Reply by Email * taybay: if you're at all electronically inclined, you can build a little toy called a “joule thief”, which is a very, very simple circuit that will run…
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Chalk up another environmental problem that could be stemming from global warming: New research shows that oxygen is vanishing from ever-larger swaths of the oceans. If the trend continues, it could disrupt marine ecosystems.
Warm water can't hold as much oxygen as cold water. So ever since scientists began to worry about the impact of rising ocean temperatures, they have been gathering data on oceanic oxygen levels. Up to now, however, most of the research has…
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Life for lab flies just got more interesting, thanks to an interactive virtual-reality system developed by Swiss and US researchers. They have built a wind tunnel for flies with changing scenes or images projected onto its walls. A camera tracks the fly in 3D, making the images move in response to it flying around inside.
Previous setups have presented flies with changing images but involved tethering the fly and could not change the images in response to its movements. “That is very unnatural and it becomes very difficult to interpret the data because of the…
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A city outside California has for the first time been named the sootiest in the nation, one of the categories the American Lung Association uses to determine the most polluted cities in the country.
Pittsburgh overtook Los Angeles in the category that measures short-term particle pollution or soot. Los Angeles, the country's longtime soot and smog leader, has enacted aggressive measures to tackle sources of pollution, resulting in a…
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Photos from space of our cities at night
In late 2002 and early 2003, astronaut Don Pettit, part of International Space Station Expedition 6, spent some time accumulating spare parts from around the space station, and constructed a device called a barn-door tracker. A barn-door…
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The substance at issue was dioxin, a pollutant that infests the site of a former lumber mill in this town 130 miles north of San Francisco. And the method of cleanup being proposed was a novel one: mushrooms.
The mill, owned by Georgia-Pacific, took up 420 acres, a space roughly half the size of Central Park, between downtown Fort Bragg and the Pacific Ocean. Among several toxic hot spots discovered here were five plots of soil with high levels of…
