Tennessee coal ash slide, Day 3
UPDATE: Greenpeace sent a photographer to the area, and while the photographer was prevented from getting close, he got some good shots here ... Spill Revives Issue of Its Hazards. The Kingston Steam Plant ashslide is already being called ... said. “We’re very concerned about how long it’s going to take” to clean the spill, she told CNN [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 17:56:00
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Date: 2009-01-19 16:41:53
Supermom Series: THE WORKING MOM
This is my good friend Ali. We went to graduate school together. We are fellow graphic designers. I was in her wedding, she was in my wedding ... what she had to say:*****AROUND THE HOUSEThe biggest helper to keeping my house clean, shopping done, kids cared for, is a daily and weekly schedule: Meals, naps, shopping, cleaning, trips to the dump, play [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 23:45:00
Green College Spotlight: Cornell University
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York officially set a goal this year to integrate sustainability into all major operations, ... sources from contamination. Keeping the air and water clean is no small task given the university’ ... from its schools of medicine. But, they’re working hard on new innovations like clean “non-burn” [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 11:00:15
Party Favors: Ring A Ding Ding
VIRGINIA CITY - Not every woman working at the Bunny Ranch is an HBO star. You’ll recognize Bunny Love, Air Force Amy and Audrey in the line up, but there’s plenty of fresh faces ready to introduce themselves. These are women who don’t want to bask in the limelight or even have their pics posted on brothel’s website [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 05:55:17
BRING IT ON PEEPS - DETROIT COVERAGE
PHOTOS: SET LIST (will be updated with Youtube videos) Openers: KSM & Honor Society - Don’t Close The Book -That’s Just the Way We Roll -A Little Bit Longer -Goodnight & Goodbye -Hello Beautiful -SOS -Burnin Up -Love Bug and Joe & Frankie dancing -Pushin Me Away -Still In Love -Shelf -Can’t Have You -BB Good -Year 3000 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 03:31:30
Good Morning Hoops Nation: January 15
INDIANAPOLIS -- It is so cold, so unstoppably frigid, that the view outside the window is completely frozen in place like a badly composed painting: the skyline, the cars on the roads, the birds in the sky, the smokestack steam. All perfectly still. Also suspended in invisible amber is our weekly Bally contest, which yielded many correct [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:53:13
J.Lo, Marc Anthony to announce divorce after Valentine’s Day?
Date: 2008-12-29 11:36:04
Mexico City's Valiant Fight Against Gum Proves Sweet, Fruitful
Mexican officials are sick and tired of seeing gum all over their capital's sidewalks and are implementing different methods of ... steam-cleaning sidewalks, urging the consumption of natural gum which breaks down more quickly ... -- breaks down easily and pulverizes somewhat when dried, making it easier to clean. But, officials [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 23:30:08
Date: 2008-12-28 04:00:00
No Shoes, For A Big Cause
Ron Hunter isn’t a hero. What Ron Hunter is, is a basketball coach, and a smart one, who knows that he can use his role as a public figure, and as a leader, to create change. Which is why, when friend Todd Melloh, now Director of Marketing for Samaritan’s Feet- an organization which collects shoes for the approximately 300 million children [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 04:40:36
Date: 2009-01-14 15:27:38
Better Than Attila
This week, Fiction Friday is at Lynn's blog, Faith, Fiction, Fun and Fanciful. Be sure to join us there for links to more fun fiction! ... you run me to school?”Today I planned on cleaning and organizing the living room and dining room since ... , and my patience with them had run out a week ago. My schedule was painstakingly kept clear for today [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 13:50:00
Food in Morocco
1 GEOGRAPHIC SETTING AND ENVIRONMENTMorocco is located in the northwestern corner of Africa. Morocco is slightly larger in area than California, and its territory has three different regions. The northern coast along the Mediterranean Sea is made up of fertile land that rises to elevations of about 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 07:25:00
Make Climate Justice History - Mass civil disobedience March 2nd, 2009 in DC
Dear Friends and Allies- We’re in the process of organizing a mass non-violent civil disobedience to coincide with Power Shift 2009 ... focusing generally on making climate change, clean energy, and green jobs a priority for the new ... Plant is a mixed-burning facility that provides heat/steam/refrigeration to the entire Capitol [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 16:01:35
Some pre-Christmas Nashville Niceness
SELLERS: Benjamin Sohr and Genifer Goodman SohrLOCATION: Stanford Drive, Nashville, TNPRICE: $899,000SIZE: 4,100 square feet (approx.) ... Hills, this log home has been re-imagined with a modern twist. Clean lines & traditional craftsmanship ... ..."Boutique" master suite features his and her baths, separate walk-in closets and large shower/steam [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 20:50:00
Will Google Track the Stomach Bug Like It Did the Flu?
If you missed my posts on Monday, it's because I was up at 3am blowing chunks into the porcelain throne the night before ... eating or preparing food.Carefully wash fruits and vegetables, and steam oysters before eating them.Thoroughly clean and disinfect contaminated surfaces immediately after an episode of illness by using [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 16:16:24
Tips To Maintaining Your Garment Steamer
by Martha Serensford The cleaning procedure below is recommended as a regular maintenance measure to help your steamer maintain its maximum steaming ... it to be disassembled to properly clean and prolong the life span of the unit. It is recommended ... by sediment build up. This will remove any build up that occurred inside the hose. 3. Clean the [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 02:46:21
Best, fast, from-scratch meal recipes - updated
This is a fast, from-scratch recipe collection created by the Down to Earth community. There are a lot of great ideas here. Thanks to everyone who took the time to add their ideas and information. You've helped create a very useful collection of quick, frugal recipes.Rachel from NZ said...I had one such dinner myself last night [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 17:54:00
Cleaning Your Air Ducts - Not
From some of the emails we have been getting it is sounding like many of you are doing a great job of getting up and getting busy cleaning and ... about cleaning your air ducts. Sometimes they can make things worse too because of the moisture left behind ... to have our air ducts cleaned hoping that will help with our families allergies but it doesn’t [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:12:40
Heavenly Overload
Last month I wrote about how the weather dashed plans to make a day trip to Tacoma to visit the famous Korean spa. I'm on doctor's orders to sauna regularly (love my doc!) so the change in plans forced me to sweat locally and necessity led me to Loyly, a sweet and simple bit of heaven in SE Portland [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 19:55:00
Low cost living and keeping a low profile in HK
Fabio sent me an e-mail which I received this morning about a civil servant who boasted he spent $46K on his 5 week Le Cordon Bleu cooking course in Paris. In the current economic situation, this obviously invited criticism as the government has been telling us to eat frozen meat and tighten our belt [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 03:11:00
Notorious: Episode Two…”Plus One”
Date: 2009-01-18 10:53:05
Your skin and how they may affect the Dry What
More and more people are now becoming conscious beauty, whether men or women. A cool glowing skin is what people want and most admires ... in water mixed with lime, bath salts and oils, which help to steam, open the pores and preventing ... a mild face wash to clean your face twice a day - one in the morning and one at night. Toning [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 10:36:16
Energy and transportation developments to Watch in 2009 and a little beyond
The technological and other developments to watch is expanding to four parts: 1. Computers, robots, electronics and communication 2 ... start-up in late 2009. THAI oil process could replace the current SAGD (steam assisted gravity drainage) and CSS (cyclic steam stimulation) systems used to extract bitumen that is too deep to mine [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 08:05:48
I have a TIP
Ok , I was so excited to go on a little outing with a girlfriend today , ... the aftermath , one blanket is fit for the trash , there is no hope .Funny how I was up and steam cleaning ... , that will always shock me, I mean my steam cleaner is LOUD.OK here comes my tip:I was doing a little dusting [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 16:17:00
Desert Power: The Economics of Solar Thermal Electricity for Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East
http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1417884 North Africa Solar Power MapA climate crisis is inevitable unless developing countries ... sunlight and mirrors to boil water and drive conventional steam turbines. Solar thermal power production ... will be operational in time to prevent catastrophic climate change. For such programs to spur the cl [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 02:27:35
First Hybrid Solar and Gas Power Plant Under Construction
The sunshine state is in the spotlight for a groundbreaking solar plant that will add solar thermal collectors to an existing gas ... the plant run on clean, emissions-free, solar power," said FPL Group CEO, Lew Hay. Fossil fuel use is suspended when the heat from the sun is available to power the steam turbines. Approximately [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 13:39:17
Food, Grief, and American Myths
My life of late has become a blur of cooking and September 11th. While I'm trying to sort out my professional life, I have been a madwoman in the kitchen and, because we only have one computer that my boyfriend has to take to work (hence, no surfing internet during the day), reading books instead of reading news and blogs [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 22:05:00
Permanent Link to this article
February 17-19, at Eilat’s Herod’s Palace, Israel, an International Renewable Energy Hightech Conference. Posted on Sustainabilitank ... international conference on renewable energy planned for February is going ‘full steam ahead,’ according ... , and hundreds of clean technology leaders, entrepreneurs, VCs, companies and government representatives [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 14:58:48
Radio Controlled Boats: Understanding The Vast Selection
Radio Controlled Boats: Understanding The Vast Selection By Andy West on Jan 15, 2009 in Gadgets and Gizmos | comments(0) ... for longer periods of time and when they run out of steam, they simply need to be refueled for extended ... entanglement issues, it is advised to use them only in water that is clear and clean. Depending on a system’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:19:58
Clean Coal (UPDATED)
Still doesn’t exist: Workers face “several weeks’ worth of work” to clean up 3.1 million cubic feet of fly ash dumped across hundreds of acres after a retention pond collapsed early Monday morning at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston steam plant. No injuries [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 09:12:30
I've Had It with No-Show Realtors
Once again today I fell victim to an inconsiderate realtor who claimed that he or she was going to show my house and didn't. Once again I wasted half a day that I can never get back. I spent half the day Saturday cleaning ... on some clothes, dried my hair halfway, and went to work. I think that I worked up more of a sweat cleaning [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 22:51:29
What's Wrong with Leftovers?
Not a damn thing!Whenever I hear people say they don't like leftovers, I wonder just how much food they throw out ... Stone soup) tonight. After cooking the rice last night, we put clean water in the rice cooker to soak ... to steam the spinach. I've already got a tasty mini [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 21:11:00
Tapping the Earth for home heating and cooling
Date: 2009-01-19 16:29:22
As Europe fiddles, US may take lead on climate change
Is global climate leadership about to pass from Europe to the United States? It seems so. And Barack Obama’s plans to rejoin international climate negotiations, green American energy policy, and build an electricity super-grid to bring renewable energy out of the West could be a planet-saver [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 16:00:28
Walmart Deals - Updated 1/11
Here's the deal-io at Wal-mart.... just remember it may vary a little from store to store. The prices aren't the same nationwide! And of course... if you see a mistake, or know of another great deal LET ME KNOW!! :) I'll even give you credit! :) You may find it helpful to print out and carry a copy of the Walmart corporate coupon policy with you [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 02:52:20
Walmart Deals -Updated 1/18
Here's the deal-io at Wal-mart.... just remember it may vary a little from store to store. The prices aren't the same nationwide! And of course... if you see a mistake, or know of another great deal LET ME KNOW!! :) I'll even give you credit! :) You may find it helpful to print out and carry a copy of the Walmart corporate coupon policy with you [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 18:15:00
All The Basics On Humidifiers
Date: 2009-01-16 11:02:04
Lurking and Shirking...
Well not so much shirking, actually. The year is off to a start well and truly, so it's full steam ahead into 2009! ... completely strip it down, clean and regrease/oil everything, as well as cobble together a pawl spring ... to see that apart from needing to clean and grease the freehub assembly the wheel was as good [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 07:42:00
Clean Coal Power
Steam turbines can run on a variety of fuels but coal continues to remain a popular choice ... conversion efficiency levels have led to the development of clean coal technologies. The most ... performance of steam turbines for thermal power plants can be brought about largely through two kinds [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 06:19:08
Carpet Cleaning Monroe NJ
All Natural Carpet Cleaning Monroe NJ When you have your carpet cleaned, it is important for your home to be left in a healthy condition ... the traditional use of toxic chemical protectors, hazardous cleaning ... , or fumes in their home and office. We are a reputable carpet cleaning company which takes great [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 22:53:58
Of star, light and houses
Of firesides and cease fires… As the time of light draws nearer; I find myself once more star-gazing in the Christmas cupboard. Being of secular bent, I should, I’m sure, think of it as the solstice store, yule cabinet or midwinter walk-in, but there are two reasons that I do not. 1) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 01:29:39
Steps to cleaning coal
Clean coal is an umbrella term and public relations term used to promote the use of coal as an energy source by emphasizing methods being developed ... and impurities from the coal, gasification (see also IGCC), treating the flue gases with steam to remove sulfur ... . These methods and the technology used are described as clean coal technology. Major [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 07:59:48
Day Two: Southwest Circuit
I couldn't hack it. I was weak. At 4:30 a.m., I dressed in the dark since Hey-There, Paul, ... it. The cold of the morning made the steam more dramatic. In the afternoon, all the geysers looked ... steam vents and peering over the edges, ignoring the "Danger" sign. One of our women nearly slipped [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:24:00
Who Knows What Happened to the Phantom Gamestore? John Landino Knows.
When the world at large believes your product is vaporware, your company has never made a cent and your former chairman has been indicted by the Securities and Exchange Commission for promulgating a pump and dump scheme, it’s going to be difficult to convince them that you’re on the level [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 04:32:10
How to Cut Down Your Home Cooling Cost
Air conditioner may be the most costly appliance in your house. Save a little bit on the monthly energy cost by applying a few of the following ideas: Turn up the thermostat a little bit. If you usually have it set to seventy-two degrees during the summertime, switch to seventy-eight degrees [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 23:00:07
Year in Review 2008
I thought it would be fun to do a quick Year in Review, showcasing some of my favorite projects from 2008 ... that are clean, crisp and fresh. I love sharply contrasting colors and simple designs ... and the steam. I hand drew in the saucer, counter and tiles and colored it with Copics. Details here [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 01:59:59
Gore: Recornd Cold Snap Is Actually Global Warming
Gore: Record Cold Snap Is Actually Global WarmingCopyright © 2009 William Kevin Stoos Just back from a world tour to promote his new book, No, Really, It Is Global Warming! Internet inventor Al Gore talked to Stoos Views in an effort to address mounting world skepticism about global warming and whether Gore is indeed the savior of the planet [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 18:59:00
LG Steam Cloud with Steam Heat
LG is promoting the LG Steam Washer with “Steam Cloud”, a television commercial filmed in San Francisco. The washing machine provides an extra cycle using steam heat, designed to make it possible ... pouring through the streets of New York City on September 11, 2001. LG Steam Cloud cleans bronze [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 06:00:14
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