Archive for June, 2008

People of power at Wattle Flat - Courier

Sunday, June 29th, 2008
People of power at Wattle Flat
Courier, Australia - 58 minutes ago
They use a wood stove for cooking and heating, and source two-thirds of their wood needs from their property and have planted a wood lot from which they


People of power at Wattle Flat - Ballarat Courier

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

POWER blackouts are a distant memory for Lisa Kendal and her family. Eight years ago they moved from Melbourne to a solar-powered house at Wattle Flat. Ms Kendal, an environmental consultant, said she and her partner, osteopath Anthony Rogan, had …


Firm leads in clean wood burning in Vt. - Times-Argus

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

A Pacific Northwest company is the only wood boiler manufacturer to get both its indoor and outdoor units certified under the first fine particulate air standard enacted specifically for the boilers in Vermont this spring. Anticipation of the need …


Group looks to chop fuel prices United Way, RSVP plan to cut wood … - Barre Montpelier Times Argus

Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Group looks to chop fuel prices United Way, RSVP plan to cut wood
Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - 52 minutes ago
every family can heat with wood, and that his small organization probably won’t be able to chop enough of it to fill every wood stove for the winter.


Firm leads in clean wood burning in Vt. - Barre Montpelier Times Argus

Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Firm leads in clean wood burning in Vt.
Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - 1 hour ago
“It’s the people downwind constantly bathed in smoke,” that the got the ball rolling for rules on the boilers, said Darryl Thomas, a wood stove dealer in


Firm leads in clean wood burning in Vt. - Rutland Herald

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

A Pacific Northwest company is the only wood boiler manufacturer to get both its indoor and outdoor units certified under the first fine particulate air standard enacted specifically for the boilers in Vermont this spring. Anticipation of the need …


Structure fire - Eureka Reporter

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

The Humboldt Fire District and the Eureka Fire Department responded the report of a roof on fire at 1960 Stradbrook Court late Saturday afternoon in Cutten. Firefighters for the HFD and the EFD began fire-suppression efforts in the attic of the …


Jonathan Kay: A carbon tax might work in principle, but it won’t work … - Nationalpost.com

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Add northerners to the list of Canadians suspicious of Stéphane Dion’s proposed carbon tax. Over the weekend, Northwest Territories Premier Floyd Roland, Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie and Nunavut Premier Paul Okalik came out of two days of meetings …


Plans for St. Catherine Creek will go to Washington - Natchez Democrat

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

NATCHEZ — When the Mississippi River flooded in April, it gave the visionaries involved in the St. Catherine Creek Project an opportunity to see what the completed project would actually look like. They used the opportunity to record footage via …


Local ladies pen Halifax history book - Brattleboro Reformer

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

HALIFAX — Bernice Barnett and Elaine Fairbanks have known each other since they were born and were connected long before they worked on the newly published history of the town with the Halifax Historical Society. Barnett was born in the home of …