Archive for April, 2009

Grandmother, mother and daughter enjoy cooking together - Abilene Reflector-Chronicle

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Maxine Perkins learned to cook when she was growing up on a farm north of Abilene. She was one of eleven children so that meant there was a lot of food to prepare. The family was relatively self sufficient and she explained, “We had plenty of eggs …


Pellet stove co. declares bankruptcy - Rutland Herald

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Luis Algarin, who held out the promise of creating hundreds of jobs with his wood stove pellet business, has filed for bankruptcy, owing more than $4 million. Vermont Wood Energy Corp. filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy last week listing debts of $4,341,327 …


Pellet stove co. declares bankruptcy - Times-Argus

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Luis Algarin, who held out the promise of creating hundreds of jobs with his wood stove pellet business, has filed for bankruptcy, owing more than $4 million. Vermont Wood Energy Corp. filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy last week listing debts of $4,341,327 …


King County gets an “F” for dirty air - Seattle Post Intelligencer

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Boston Globe
King County gets an “F” for dirty air
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Officials said a wood-stove replacement program is expected to reduce the pollutants in those areas by more than 26000 pounds a year. “While the air continues to get cleaner every year in the region, we do know we have more work to do to have clean and
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King County gets an ‘F’ for dirty air - Seattle Post Intelligencer

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
King County gets an ‘F’ for dirty air
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Officials said a wood-stove replacement program is expected to reduce the pollutants in those areas by more than 26000 pounds a year. “While the air continues to get cleaner every year in the region, we do know we have more work to do to have clean and


Stove & lantern: The next big thing for Philips - Rediff

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Stove & lantern: The next big thing for Philips
Rediff, India
And some time in May, it will launch a pilot to try out in the rural markets a wood stove (chullah). The quest for fortune at the bottom of the value pyramid has driven Philips to markets no multinational lifestyle company has seriously served so far.


Kelp: something different from the sea - Boston Globe

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

CASCO BAY, Maine - Kelp noodles are exactly what they sound like: seaweed in long, green strips cut to the rough dimensions of linguine. “Ingredients: Kelp,” reads the package. “It’s very versatile,” says Tollef Olson, CEO of Ocean Approved, the …


something different from the sea - Boston Globe

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Boston Globe
something different from the sea
Boston Globe, United States
It’s chilly, and Olson has just lit a fire in the boat’s tiny wood stove below deck. “We’re really just making it up as we go along,” he says. So far, that has entailed the fledgling company’s chief executive slipping over the side of a boat several


Man loses job, then roof in house fire outside of OC - Oregon City News

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Oregon City News
Man loses job, then roof in house fire outside of OC
Oregon City News, OR
Firefighters are investigating what started the blaze, but suspect it could have been embers coming out of the chimney of the home’s wood stove. The home also had cedar shake shingles with some debris from nearby trees on top. Gonzalez said he started


Carla Gugino Extraordinary In ‘Desire Under The Elms’ - Hartford Courant

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

NEW YORK - — “Stones atop o’ stones,” groans Peter Cabot near the start of “Desire Under the Elms,” which opened Monday at the St. James Theatre. Clearly, Walt Spangler, the scene designer, has taken the words to heart, as the stage is piled with …