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...midday in Phoenix Park, Dublin, site of the President's house, or Aras an Uachtarain, as the Irish call it. A group of 40 people, most of them fit, elderly, dressed in practical tweeds, have gathered in a gracious 19th century drawing room filled with pale sunlight. They are members of the National Association of Tenants' Organizations, a volunteer group, and have been invited by Robinson for a tour and tea. After a few minutes, a tall, handsome woman, dressed in a bright suit that could be described as benign dress for success, enters and, without fanfare, begins her talk...
...eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines last June -- probably the largest volcanic explosion of the 20th century -- are starting to be felt this year. The volcano heaved 20 million tons of gas and ash into the stratosphere, where they formed a global haze that will scatter sunlight and could lower temperatures -- by half a degree Fahrenheit -- for the next three or four years. Smoke from the gulf-war fires, by contrast, never reached the stratosphere and had no measurable effect on the world's weather...
...Romans deforested much of Italy to fire their public baths, which consumed whole trunks at a time. They eventually built their homes to take full advantage of the sun's rays, and, being Romans, made laws to protect access to sunlight. Builders could not raise a structure that would cast shade on their neighbor without a special permit and a dispensation from the courts...
...sewage treatment plant that forgoes modern technology for more traditional means. "People aren't the only ones with sewage to treat," he told us. "Every animal out there makes some, and Nature takes care of it." Modeled on a wetlands, his plant is a series of tanks open to sunlight. The sewage flows through so slowly you can't see it move. At the front end, there are only bacteria. Farther down you can find worms, shrimp, and then fish. "When we wanted to start the plant running, we needed all the little beasties you find in nature...
...right triangle with the legs, 15 feet long, pointing south-east and south-west. In the winter, when the sun is low in the sky, the greenhouse receives light throughout the day. In summer, the house walls shade the greenhouse in the morning and evening so that sunlight enters for only four or five hours...