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Nice News Wanted
Posted: 08/08/2009 10:50pm
Do you have nice news? – 08/08/2009
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We want your nice news. We make it easy, just click on "send us your nice news" on our home page and upload your video, pictures, story... Whatever is on your heart.We can't wait to hear from you....
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Shipping containers converted into homes
Posted: 08/08/2009 10:47pm
Design company turning idle containers into affordable, high quality homes – 04/07/2009
By Eric Bland, Discovery News
With the housing market down and foreclosures way up, building a new home might not be the first thing on people's mind, but a Salt Lake City-based company has a new kind of home in mind.Gorilla designs is working to turn idle shipping containers into affordable, high quality homes to last a lifetime.The company was founded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, said Roi Maufus of Gorilla Designs."After Katrina, we realized that normal houses and traditional materials can't stand up to glob...
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By Eric Bland, Discovery News
With the housing market down and foreclosures way up, building a new home might not be the first thing on people's mind, but a Salt Lake City-based company has a new kind of home in mind.Gorilla designs is working to turn idle shipping containers into affordable, high quality homes to last a lifetime.The company was founded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, said Roi Maufus of Gorilla Designs."After Katrina, we realized that normal houses and traditional materials can't stand up to glob...
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H2-WHOA! Australian town bans bottled water
Posted: 08/08/2009 10:44pm
Residents take drastic step hoping to protect the earth and their wallets – 07/09/2009
By Associated Press
SYDNEY - Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets have voted to ban the sale of bottled water, the first community in the country — and possibly the world — to take such a drastic step in the growing backlash against the industry.Residents of Bundanoon cheered after their near-unanimous approval of the measure at a town meeting Wednesday. It was the second blow to Australia's beverage industry in one day: Hours earlier, the New South Wales st...
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By Associated Press
SYDNEY - Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets have voted to ban the sale of bottled water, the first community in the country — and possibly the world — to take such a drastic step in the growing backlash against the industry.Residents of Bundanoon cheered after their near-unanimous approval of the measure at a town meeting Wednesday. It was the second blow to Australia's beverage industry in one day: Hours earlier, the New South Wales st...
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Florida Town to Start Using Sewage for Fuel
Posted: 08/08/2009 10:41pm
Where some people see poop, others see brown gold. – 06/10/2009
By Orlando Salinas, Fox News
Sanford, Fla., aims to be the first town in America to covert sewage sludge into energy, and has built a new "gasifier" plant to do so.It's a completely closed-loop system made by a Houston company called MaxWest Environmental Systems. Nothing escapes.There's no smokestack, and the heat and smoke that would normally be emitted is forced back into the system and used to keep drying more sludge.Without this new process, the plant had to use expensive natural gas to dry its sewage sludge....
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By Orlando Salinas, Fox News
Sanford, Fla., aims to be the first town in America to covert sewage sludge into energy, and has built a new "gasifier" plant to do so.It's a completely closed-loop system made by a Houston company called MaxWest Environmental Systems. Nothing escapes.There's no smokestack, and the heat and smoke that would normally be emitted is forced back into the system and used to keep drying more sludge.Without this new process, the plant had to use expensive natural gas to dry its sewage sludge....
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The Frog Tunneler
Posted: 08/08/2009 10:36pm
Customizing transportation infrastructure for amphibians – 04/29/2009
By Lindsey Konkel
Hara Woltz's clients don't say much -- mostly just ribbit. A landscape architect and biologist at Columbia University, Woltz has undertaken the daunting task of creating road-crossing tunnels for amphibians and reptiles, based on different animals' preferences for different tunnel attributes. Building herpetological crosswalks might seem absurd, but the stakes are high: nearly one-third of the world's amphibian species and many of its reptiles are spiraling toward extinction due to habitat loss ...
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By Lindsey Konkel
Hara Woltz's clients don't say much -- mostly just ribbit. A landscape architect and biologist at Columbia University, Woltz has undertaken the daunting task of creating road-crossing tunnels for amphibians and reptiles, based on different animals' preferences for different tunnel attributes. Building herpetological crosswalks might seem absurd, but the stakes are high: nearly one-third of the world's amphibian species and many of its reptiles are spiraling toward extinction due to habitat loss ...
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Taiwan woman's small orchard harvests big hope in mainland
Posted: 08/08/2009 10:32pm
Luo Meijuan is welcoming the first harvest season in her 2-hectare mulberry orchard – 05/06/2009
By Xinhua
Luo Meijuan is welcoming the first harvest season in her 2-hectare mulberry orchard where dark purple, juicy fruit bends the branches all over the hill.Her garden produces almost 1 tonne of mulberry fruits every day in the month-long harvest season."When I first arrived, it was a deserted hill covered by wild grass everywhere. No water and electricity," said the 57-year-old woman who runs an agricultural technology firm in Taipei."I am so happy that things move ahead smoothly. Thi...
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By Xinhua
Luo Meijuan is welcoming the first harvest season in her 2-hectare mulberry orchard where dark purple, juicy fruit bends the branches all over the hill.Her garden produces almost 1 tonne of mulberry fruits every day in the month-long harvest season."When I first arrived, it was a deserted hill covered by wild grass everywhere. No water and electricity," said the 57-year-old woman who runs an agricultural technology firm in Taipei."I am so happy that things move ahead smoothly. Thi...
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