Printer Friendly Version Email This Story Mixing new construction with old resources Eco-friendly homes a moneymaker for local 'green' material firms By Brian McNeill /bmcneill@dailyprogress.com . 978-7266 May 21, 2007 As her family s new Albemarle County home was being built over the past two years, retired U. Printer Friendly Version Email This Story Mixing new construction with old resources Eco-friendly homes a moneymaker for local 'green' material firms By Brian McNeill...

The pillaging by Peng Chea and other destitute peasants worries researchers trying to preserve a historical record of the Khmer Rouge, blamed for the death of 1.7 million people through hunger, illnesses, overwork and execution. The spirit of the victim of the Khmer Rouge regime showed a gold necklace to the 29-year-old peasant, and told him to dig it out from her grave. At a recent Buddhist ceremony, he offered a bowl of rice noodles to the ghost of his lucky dream and asked for her...

Although the fire was still burning within the containment lines, officials began allowing property owners into an evacuation area on the Gunflint Trail to get a jumpstart on assessing the damage. side of the border Saturday afternoon, but efforts were continuing to contain the blaze on the Canadian side. The fire started May 5 near Ham Lake and quickly expanded through the dry forest, forcing the evacuation of the upper half of the Gunflint Trail, a scenic dead-end highway that leads from...

Many of these residents also need the wood from trees surrounding the dam for fuel and construction projects, however, and the loss of vegetation has caused erosion that has contaminated the water supply and filled the dam with silt. Subscribe . Contact Us . Calendar . Obituaries . Archives . Business Directory . Blogs . Multimedia . Podcasts. Badege Bishaw, assistant professor of forest science and director of International Programs for the College of Forestry at Oregon State University,...

It's a race for Krause, a mission to document Earth's nonhuman sounds before they're compromised or lost forever as timber companies cut old-growth forests and pave over wildlands. Krause has captured a stereophonic symphony of wolf packs in northern Ontario, Darwin finches in the Galapagos, snapping shrimp on Maui coral reefs, and a distant storm in Belize. For almost 40 years, Bernie Krause has been hearing and recording the sounds of nature, quiet moments interrupted only by grunts of...