A house with no furnace? You betcha | StarTribune.com

The finished 2,000-square-foot home could be warmed even in the dead of winter with a pair of small space heaters, Brazelton said, though the family plans to piggyback on their hot water heater and use an in-floor heating system in the basement.

"We're really nervous," said Brazelton, half-joking, "because when it's 20 degrees below and you can feel your house contracting and cracking like it's just trying to resist the cold, it's hard to believe that two space heaters from Target will do the trick for us."

Scientists criticise handling of pilot project to 'geoengineer' climate | Environment | guardian.co.uk

"If the politicians came back from [international climate talks in] Durban with a legally binding agreement on CO₂ emission reduction of some meaning … that would make research projects like Spice much less important," said Watson.

Britain's biggest airlines unite to lobby against air passenger duty | Business | The Guardian

Heads of British Airways, Ryanair, easyjet and Virgin Atlantic launch co-operative media campaign to oppose 'tax on passengers'