News Archive: environment

10, 2012 April:

Video - DIY treehouses create Ewok world in Oregon

In 1974, fresh out of the army, Michael Garnier went to rural Oregon to try to make a living off the woods. He tried making furniture, fences, pole barns and selling organic, psychedelic picture propellers (to see Fantasy Flakes), but finally it was a treehouse that got him all the attention.

16, 2012 February:

Video - Unusual Homes: Selling a house made of subway cars

Architect Adam Kushner gives a tour of his for-sale apartment, which is made entirely out of recycled subway car parts.

30, 2011 September:

Green homes set to generate price premiums, it is suggested

Innovative new properties, such as those built with integrated solar panels to heat water or generate electricity, are beginning to generate a price premium for investors and home owners over conventionally built existing ones, it is claimed.

09, 2011 September:

Weather disasters keep costing U.S. billions this year

From the blizzard in Chicago, to killer tornadoes in the south, to wildfires that have burned more than 1,000 homes in Texas,weather disasters keep costing U.S. billions this year.

05, 2010 August:

Big Apple plagued with pests

Holidaymakers be warned, the friendliest inhabitants of New York may not be the people, but the bedbugs that have taken to lurking in the city's mattresses...

30, 2010 June:

Florida prices bracing for ‘another hit'

Florida property prices could take another hit if the hurricane season pushes oil from the BP Gulf of Mexico spill ashore, it is claimed...

21, 2010 June:

Florida injects cash into tourism

Unlike some holiday destinations, Florida has never had to work too hard to attract tourists. But, even with a powerful mix of natural splendour and man-made attractions on offer, the dollars spent by visitors are the Sunshine State's lifeblood...

18, 2010 June:

Florida hoteliers urged to use BP

As the first clumps of tar from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill began washing up on Florida's beaches, the state's governor, Charlie Crist, this week encouraged affected hoteliers to claim compensation from BP...

25, 2010 May:

Florida Keys: oil threat

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has threatened to become one of the world's worst environmental catastrophes as experts predict that oil from the leaking undersea well could be carried as far afield as the Florida Keys, Miami and Cuba by strong currents in the gulf...

07, 2010 May:

Oil leak affects US homes

Millions of property owners along the southern coast of the US are hoping that attempts by oil giant BP to cap the leak in the Gulf of Mexico will work as it is feared that the sludge threatening the shores could wreak long term damage on real estate that borders the shore...

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