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Michael G. Smith Writes about the Value of Cob

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I attended my first natural building workshop in Oregon in 1993. For the next five years, Ianto and I and other members of the CCC traveled all over North America and beyond, training groups in how to build their own homes from the ground under their feet. He farms with his partner, Cathy, at Spreadwing Farm.

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Lovely lakes, brilliant beaches and crystal-clear coves: Lonely Planet reveals the world’s most sublime water features

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Here MailOnline Travel reveals a few of the locations in the , which handily, given that most of the planet is in lockdown, serves also as a visual cornucopia for armchair voyagers. The book says that the waters in this lake in Oregon are so clear and deep it ‘resembles a blue mirror’ What’s in a name?

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Kengo Kuma, the architect behind Tokyo’s new and controversial Olympic National Stadium

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Kengo Kuma is Japan’s architect of the moment and his building housing SunnyHills – the Tokyo home of a revered Taiwanese tropical fruit cake – could easily be mistaken for the headquarters of the Japanese chapter of the Pick Up Sticks Society. THE BAMBOO WALL HOUSE, COMMUNE BY THE GREAT WALL, CHINA. TRIP NOTES.

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Ministry of Information

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Ron Wyden of Oregon—a leading proponent of protecting consumer privacy, including through encryption of data on devices—disclosed that the FBI is asking Congress to greatly expand its ability to monitor just about everything private citizens are doing in cyberspace. In a recent interview with The New York Times , Sen.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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The sites include the Greene and Sumter Renewal Community, made up of both counties, the Mobile Renewal Community, which includes Prichard and a section of east Mobile, and the Southern Alabama Renewal Community, which includes Wilcox County and parts of Butler, Conecuh, Dallas, Hale, Lowndes, Marengo, Monroe and Perry Counties.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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The wind turbines operating at Buffalo’s green energy complex on Lake Erie generate enough electricity to power roughly 15,000 homes; the turbines are under contract to a local utility, Constellation Energy Resources. 3 Texas all exceeded 75 on the Index, followed by Maryland, Delaware, DC, Oregon, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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USDA Rural Development in Alabama: A variety of loan, grant, and loan guarantee programs, plus technical assistance in the areas of business and industry, cooperative development, rural housing, community facilities, water and waste disposal, and telecommunications, including distance learning and telemedicine. TAX INCENTIVES.

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