Improved Cement Is Worth Posting About

By Evan Ackerman Did you know that 5% of all carbon dioxide emissions come from cement? Me neither. That’s more than the entire aviation industry ... , and an engineering firm called Novacem has developed a more eco-friendly type of cement. Novacem’s new cement mix uses magnesium silicates that absorb, rather than emit, CO2. As the cement hardens [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 04:01:15

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Facts About Water Storage

Although it is difficult and impractical to store water in large quantities, experts recommend that a two-week emergency water supply be kept ... , as the green or black garden hoses tend to have lead in them. (d) Do not store directly on cement ... like a car tire. (b) Do not store water bottles directly on cement, as the lye from the cement could eat [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 13:09:32

Health Risks at Schools

Last summer I stood in a school yard next to the huge cement kiln in the town of Oro Grande, California. It was hard not to be impressed ... structures -- all courtesy of the cement company. Looming over the town was a dusty behemoth that was a source of annoyance to the townspeople because of the alkaline cement dust that ate the finish off [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 19:23:02

Nike Air Force 1 High Supreme - Grey Cement - Summer 2009

This Air Force 1 showed up on Flight club a couple months ago but no information about them appeared until now. Thanks to marsblackmon22 and TSG, we can shed a little more light about these Grey cement Highs. They are part of a series of cement print Air Force 1s to release in 2009. They feature a grey suede [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 08:28:51

Air Jordan 2.5 Team - White - Varsity Red - Cement Grey

The Air Jordan 2.5 Team model has seen some nice colorways as of late, ... this month we featured a black cement colorway, and here we have a few pictures of a new white cement color palette. They sport a white leather upper along with black and red accents, as well [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 22:47:20

Canadian Court: OK to Sue Smelly (Yet Legal) Polluters

The Quebec Supreme Court decided Thursday to allow for lawsuits against companies emitting particularly odorous pollution can be sued even if the ... 2,000 people near Quebec City who complained about the dust and smell of a local cement plant ... by the cement plant, they still must “based on the annoyances suffered by the victim being excessive, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 02:02:22

Homemade underground fortress for sale…

This fellow in Blaine WA spent 20 years making a bomb shelter under his house (which is now for sale...) ... hand cement mixer. There are 3 ft concrete walls, using 5-bag cement (20% denser than regular cement [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 16:00:52

Question: Which will give me the most R-value?

Joe writes from Athens, Ontario: "I want to insulate my cement floor in the basement to be used as a rec room/entertaining room/family room. The walls are already completed. I'm planning on laying sleepers on the cement and using either ... ?” Answer: Unless there is a vapor retarder and/or rigid foam insulation under the slab, a concrete [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:51:55

What products are environmentally friendly?

More people are now getting more concerned and mindful about the hazardous effects that cement rust removal ... it would be like to clean rust stains of your porches or your garden floors? How can you make sure ... scrubbing. You wouldn't even need to deal with cement rust removal or any form of rust removal. As long [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 00:03:56

Carbon-Eating Cement - Hard and Hungry 'Novacem' Eco-Building Materials Absorb CO2 (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) British engineers are hopeful that a new environmentally friendly formula for cement will not only eliminate the 5% of the world’s carbon emissions that come from cement, but actually help to absorb CO2… [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:39:55

Mais Non: Europe Dials Back Climate Goals Amid Job Worries

Today’s brutal jobs report doesn’t bode well for the Obama administration’s plans to push through some sort of climate-change bill—just ask Europe ... , cement, and chemicals. But didn’t the International Energy Agency conclude that Europe’s cap-and-trade ... ? Special exemptions for European industries like “cement makers, car manufacturers, steel [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 18:08:15

People Planting!

What A Crew!This past Saturday, with the winter temperatures dipping into single digits, ... flooring, which was also rotted and seriously deteriorating. We brought the floor down to its original cement base with the plan of putting a new floor, either wood or poured cement, at some point [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 21:32:00

Air Jordan 2.5 - White / Black / Cement

Jordan Brand is going back to what it knows best–making stylish basketball sneakers that look good on and off the court. This pair of Air Jordan 2 ... / Cement Gray which has become one of the most sought after pairs of Jordan retros ever. The colorway seen above features a white leather upper with bright red accents and Jordan Brand’s infamous ceme [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 21:39:54

Mexico Announces Limits on Global Warming Pollution

Mexican Environment Minister Juan Rafael Elvira announced his country's plan to cut global warming pollution 50 percent below 2002 levels in 2050 ( ... sectors, such as cement and oil refining, which account for the vast majority of its emissions ... to reduce their emissions in oil refining, cement, and other sectors (as discussed here). While [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 01:36:07

Inside a Giant Ant Colony

Today’s crazy science video: a Science Channel documentary in which scientists pour 10 tons of cement down a massive anthill, let it harden for a month, then carefully excavate it to demonstrate the internal structure of the colony. It took three days of pumping to fill the colony with cement. The sad thing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 02:48:00

“[N]o broad recovery until at least 2010″

From the WSJ: Builders Predict More Housing Pain REAL ESTATE JANUARY 21, 2009 By JIM CARLTON The worst U.S ... . and the Portland Cement Association trade group also predicted this year would be worse than 2008 in terms ... to encourage builders to begin building again, said Ed Sullivan, chief economist for the cement group [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 10:57:47

EXCLUSIVE: MANHATTAN'S NEW NUKE PROOF BUILDING

The federal government, it seems, is building a new United Nations structure in New York City that, some believe, ... has been going on for several years and here's why. Construction crews tell the blog that the cement ... fortified. The cement is more than twice the thickness required on most buildings and contractors [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 09:29:00

Letter from Downtown: Tough talk about a soft condo market

The Daniels Corp., one of Toronto’s premier condominium and home developers, was talking tough about the future on Friday, ... of Harbour and Bay streets, across from the Westin Harbour Castle: a one-storey, cast cement stump. Round columns support a cement pad roof. But the untouched pure white snow around the base tells [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 23:53:16

Classic Car Sand Blasting in Malaysia

Click for hi-res image Sand blasting is process where a certain media is blasted onto metal parts, ... of paint, primer and body cement is removed as a result of the specified media cutting its way through ... entrepreneurs Ramesh Subrayan and Paramjit Singh, you can kiss removing paint, primer and cement by hand [more...]

Date: 2008-08-13 08:09:39

Building or Decorating Your Home Requires House Plans

There are some things to consider when creating plans for your home ... to determine what material you will want to use. Brick, wood, and cement are popular. In the southern ... and cement are used because they absorb and retain heat. In the south wood frame houses are built [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 12:40:09

RENOVATION: A Sustainable Addition to an Old Victorian

January 23, 2009Evelyn Lee Increasing densification of urban areas is not a new problem, ... and decrease labor: fiber cement and polycarbonate panels. The site, which is located by a parking garage and an alley, made it preferable to hide the view from the inside. While the fiber cement panels [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 16:00:32

Before and After: A Patio Facelift

The crafty lady behind the blog Handmade by Alissa is a pretty sweet sister. When her sib Cate moved into a new house with a very unfinished cement blocked patio, she decided ... cushion to run along the cement block bench, two arm rests, and a handful of throw pillows [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 15:30:40

Daily Sprout

Brits Develop Carbon-Eating Cement: A new kind of cement based on magnesium silicates requires much less heating than the conventional stuff (which accounts for 5 percent of global carbon emissions [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 20:00:33

Cenocell Will Turn Coal Ash Into Cement Without Concrete

Each year, coal-burning power plants, steel factories and similar facilities in the United States produce more than 125 million tons of waste, ... of cement, an essential ingredient of conventional concrete.  read more [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 06:00:00

Cement Banks - 'Bunker' by Dino Salvatico (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Dino Salvatico wants to be sure your efforts to save money are successful; to recover your cash, his ‘Bunker’ bank made of cement and glass fiber must be shattered with a hammer. I’m all for piggy banks… [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 17:39:53

National Association of Home Builders: Prices to Fall 29% in 2009

The building industry trade show started today in Las Vegas ... , the government-backed lending agency, mortgage insurer PMI Group Inc. and the Portland Cement Association ... will jump to 8.7% by the fourth quarter of 2009 from 7.2% as of December. ... The Portland Cement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 03:29:12

Green Construction

There are a lot of builders that are jumping on the band wagon proclaiming their conversions to “Green” that are using the same products they used ... , as the saying goes “you can’t make up for loss with volume”.Products like brick, concrete, steel ... but concrete does not. How about polystyrene? NOT, I suppose you can grind it up and mix it with cement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 03:33:20

They assembled it where?

As subscribers to my Crisis Manager newsletter may know, I am none too fond of Best Buy due to their consistently poor customer service. Unfortunately this post from consumer information blog The Consumerist only serves to cement my opinion.Properly training and preparing all levels of employees, from top CEO's to truck drivers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 16:56:00

EPA to regulate mercury from cement plants

Associated Press - January 17, 2009 3:15 AM ET TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Federal regulators have agreed to set standards for mercury emissions from cement plants under a legal settlement with... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 09:22:28

Vision

Received some good news today! A mixed media project that I participated in is going to be published in an upcoming book ... years ago. Meaning it has a poured cement floor and the walls and roof framed out. Since it is so cold ... ) with watered down paint coloring it. Stickles glitter in a copper color was used to accent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:51:00

How to ruin your neighbor's home office

I had a perfect home office. It holds all my stuff. I have the computer set up next to a large window, arranged so there's no glare problem ... ). Our neighbor was busy with a project in his driveway all morning, and this afternoon we saw the result ... about it, you ask? Well, he didn't talk to us before he did it--and he anchored the thing in cement. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:57:57

Getting Organized - The Beginning

There's nothing like a long weekend to take advantage of those projects that manage to add up during the week ... - carpeting to cover up the cold cement floor. The guys at Lowe's asked if we were thinking ... you include installation. However, it turns out we have a full can of paint leftover from the previous [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 20:05:00

Actual Progress

I'm going to do something I don't like to do. I'm going to tell you what I'm about to do  instead of waiting until I've finished ... or so the cement truck came and poured two inches all over the floor. I forgot to make sure there was a slope ... that up when we tile. Anyway, we have a smooth, flat floor. The boards on the floor in the picture are so the c [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 21:25:00

Better Hate Than Never

The poor bastard at the top of this blog is me, dealing with the city of Cleveland's ingenious way of clearing the streets of snow--by piling a ton of it in front of my driveway. Of course, they do it at night so the snow turns to clumps of ice ... me closer toward spontaneous combustion. My sonic equivalent of a lead pipe filled with cement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 19:38:56

The Fading Light

Adolescence seems in retrospect a series of conflicts and avoidances that punctuated long periods of anxiety ... on. The crowd was standing on a cement retainer looking down at some moccasins. There were two. I walked ... from the Boy's Club and used to fight with boxing gloves every day in his driveway. He and another [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 13:37:46

I grind my teeth again

First, a little background.I have a nice staircase.Non-Beijing residents will probably fail to appreciate the significance of that ... the only one I've ever seen.Most Chinese staircases are grim affairs of bare grey cement. Any plaster or paint that may have been applied, was applied long ago, and in the most desultory possible [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 07:22:00

Stale

I walk into the cinder block building that housed our movie theater when I was in high school. The place closed down years ago ... , not one shred of personality remains. The cement floor has been polished to a glossy, colorless sheen ... . The ruby-red carpeting has been peeled from the floor like a dirty scab, and the light fixtures [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 14:58:00

Five incredible eco-shelter designs

Housing is a huge source of carbon dioxide emissions, thanks both to its common dependence on high-polluting (to manufacture) materials like cement and to its all-too-often energy inefficiency. However, designers around the globe are continually creating new plans for green and sustainable residences. Following are five [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 16:01:32

Reading "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle"

"Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive ... he was thrifty because he filled the basement walls with rocks to save on the cost of cement, and every ... overhung the driveway like a little hay hood, charming but useless. The buildings looked squat [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 13:25:00

January

I haven't posted very much lately. Getting back into work sort of consumes me but I had a very nice, serene holiday ... cement so it doesn't look that great. Maybe I should paint them anyway... we'll see. ... the floor "Johnny Carino" style. No boogy men reside in this room. I moved a dresser from a bedroom [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 13:31:00

Fabric bookmarks

Inspired by a bookmark a friend sent from Japan, I made these little guys out of light-weight fabric scraps. Here's the super easy how-to. (It's so easy I'm kind of embarrassed to write it as a tutorial. And I stole somebody else's idea, to boot. Sorry, Japanese company somewhere.)1. Brush rubber cement onto a piece of cardstock [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 04:11:00

Greenhouse Planning Tips

There are a number of things to consider before you go ahead with buying or building a greenhouse ... of the same issues to address. First of all, consider the foundation. Will it be gravel, wood, cement ... compatible flooring material, as well. The location of the greenhouse is important. Depending on where [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 09:04:31

Anatomy of a medical office

Today was the opening day for my new office. There is so much to say, I don't even know where to start! ... structurally.Unfortunately the foundation was cement so the plumber had to trench out concrete ... in the exam rooms, more paint and pictures in the waiting room. I am looking for a fun, bright area [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 03:55:00

London, Ontario: The Future Innovator of Non-Bullshit Politics?

We have no limits to what is possible, if we work together with a common goal and strengthened sense of purpose ...  with no cementing element to make the vision coherent and concrete. Concerning the parts dealing with London’ ... , Auburn Homes and Suncor are just a few introducing corporate social responsibility principles [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 09:06:38

Stone care and you

Out of all the questions we get asked, I would say the one we hear most often is how to care for stone, not only slate, ... grout is recommended. Due to grout being made of fine particles of cement, polymers, and color ... them from possible grout staining. The application of a good quality sealer should be used and left [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 19:27:16

The Return of Jonah Brown's Curse

For a moment after Glenrothes it seemed Gordon's personal reverse midas touch had been lifted, ... today's conference will cement this. I hope in the coming days we can move further and faster towards ... . The Dear Leader visited our Birmingham offices in October to discuss the Credit Crunch. Two floors [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 09:12:00

Indian Markets Tuesday Wrap-Up: Cement Stocks Firm Up Gains

Markets witnessed a volatile trading session today ... marginally in the red. While stocks from the cement, auto and banking space led the pack of gainers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 12:20:16

Novacem

Wilkommen! New here, eh? Me, too. A word of advice. Pay No Attention to the Troll ... noted, a significant portion of carbon emissions comes from the manufacture of concrete. More recently ... with all construction materials. According to green technology correspondent Alok Jha, cement accounts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:47:49

last days

I have one last week living in the loft I love so much. It's still unbelievable to me that I have to leave this space behind. I'll miss having full sun on me while it snows outside; laying in bed and gazing over row after row of brownstone rooftop; watching the dogs resting on the cool cement floors; the feeling [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 16:37:00

Rave Nature

Rave Nature by Maarten Vanden Eynde. Rave Nature was build for the Festival Cement (=concrete) ... of the ‘Cement Festival’. Their 20 years lasting digging contract causes a lot of problems [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 01:03:15

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