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  • The building will also have a grass roof covering and a reed-bed system to filter grey water and shade the windows. digg this digg this email this email this tweet this tweet this facebook this facebook this

    Crazy Pixel Building to Be Australia’s First Carbon Neutral Office Pixel Building – Inhabitat 2010

  • The bittern – a relative of the grey heron – was classed as extinct in the UK in the late 19th century and as recently as 1997 there were thought to be only 11 males left but following efforts to restore its reed-bed habitat, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds RSPB and Natural England now believes 104 booming males have been at large this year.

    Booming bitterns become a big noise again 2011

  • There's a lengthy bit about reed-bed filtration and riparian buffer-strips.

    From toxic sewer to natural haven, the river Wear's return from the dead 2011

  • In addition to the PV panels, wind turbines, and carbon offsetting, the Pixel Building will feature an ozone-free absorption heat pump chiller, a grass roof covering, and a reed-bed system to filter grey water and shade the windows.

    Crazy Pixel Building to Be Australia's First Carbon Neutral Office | Inhabitat 2010

  • But the son of Abas was passing along the raised banks of the muddy river, and the boar from some unseen lair leapt out of the reed-bed, and charging gashed his thigh and severed in twain the sinews and the bone.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Mountainous areas are inhabited by Ovis ammon and Capra sibirica, reed-bed around Khar-Us lake by Sus scrofa, and lower steppe by Procapra guttorosa and Gazella subgutturosa.

    Great Lakes Basin desert steppe 2007

  • Here was the double-tongued, whose words move to their meaning like a serpent in a reed-bed, coil and countercoil; how can a man tell all his mind to children, or a god to men?

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

  • Or some frore [14] Caspian reed-bed, southward bound

    Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson

  • Abas was passing along the raised banks of the muddy river, and the boar from some unseen lair leapt out of the reed-bed, and charging gashed his thigh and severed in twain the sinews and the bone.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • Abas was passing along the raised banks of the muddy river, and the boar from some unseen lair leapt out of the reed-bed, and charging gashed his thigh and severed in twain the sinews and the bone.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

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