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Guardian: Gardens: the changing of the gourd
[The Guardian] - As long as the heaps are in sun – gourds are from the Americas and like the summer heat – they make a fine complement to these often back-of-the-house areas. The heap provides warmth and nutrition and the foliage offers a weed-proof hat while the
A Christmas bloomer with no sense of timing
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[Isle of Wight County Press] - But it is too big for Margaret to move from her Wootton High Street porch so there it stays, happily, sheltered from the worst of the summer heat and cold of winter. Judging by the flourishing result, Margaret is obviously doing much right.
2011 Holcim Award Winners Announced
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[Cogeneration & On-Site Power Production Magazine] - The building's orientation serves optimal passive solar gain that is reinforced with electro-chromic glass to shade from unwanted summer heat gain and a solid north wall to resist unwanted winter winds. * An environmental center and bird-watching
Artificial urban glacier to cool Mongolian capital
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[Wired.co.uk] by geologist Robin Grayson -- suggest that most naleds will survive and that they could be used to strengthen permafrost, protect biodiversity from climate change and create "cool parks" to combat urban heat islands of cities in summer heat-waves.
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