By Jeanna Bryner
updated 8:41 a.m. PT, Thurs., Aug. 28, 2008

Tolkien's hobbits would feel right at home in new dwellings made out of living tree roots and designed to protect inhabitants from earthquakes. The homegrown architecture is just one of many eco-structures a new company hopes to roll out worldwide.

The concept of coaxing living trees into useful objects, sometimes called tree shaping, arborsculpture, living art or eco-architecture, isn’t new. But now engineers and plant scientists from Tel Aviv University have taken their leafy designs to the next, and more practical and playful, level.

Pilot projects under way in the United States, Australia and Israel include streetlamps, gates and playground structures made entirely from trees, as well as hospital park benches that grow their own foliage for shade.

More at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26438939/

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Event

Title:
Summerfector II
When:
08/29/08 - 09/01/08
Where:
Satyricon - Portland
Category:
Festivals

Description
August 29th:
Backspace <== NOT FIRST DAY + LAST DAY AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS
115 NW 5th
6pm all ages $5
Criminal Damage
Defect Defect
Dogsholylife (Los Angeles)
Warcola (Dallas)
Vorvadoss (Dallas)
The Estranged
Leather Casket
Death A.D.

August 30th:
Satyricon
125 NW 6th
4pm all ages $7
Resist
Hellshock
Nux Vomica
Against Empire (Los Angeles)
Wartorn (Appleton, WI)
Appalachian Terror Unit (Huntington, WV)
Germ Attak! (Ontario, Canada)
Dead By Dawn
Squalora

August 31st:
Satyricon
125 NW 6th
4pm all ages $7
Tragedy
Cop On Fire (Spain)
Deathraid (Seattle)
Blackout (Minneapolis, MN)
Order of the Vulture
Mala Sangre (Los Angeles)
The Makai (Chico, CA)
Happy Bastards (Eugene, OR)
Deterrorformed

September 1st:
Overlook park
1301 N Fremont St
2pm all ages FREE
PUNX PIKNIK
Drunken Boat vs. Snuggle
Autistic Youth vs. Neckties Make Me Nervous
Slam Dunk vs. Order of the Gash

After show
Haightergate House
336 N. Alberta
6pm all ages
Warcorpse
No Survivors (Los Angeles)
Kudzu
Machine Gun Congress

We here at Defector want to keep Summerfector an afforable punk fest. All money made from the shows go to pay for the venues and to pay all the touring the bands, to get a better idea of what we are working towards check out this column written by Defector Zach about our first fest here.
Questions about Summerfector? email: summerfector @ thedefector.com - Riot of the Blood

Any submissions or reviews? email: thedefector @ hotmail.com or submissions @ thedefector.com
Label/Distro info? email: orders @ thedefector.com

The Defector
P.O. Box #3921
Portland,Or
97208-3921