The old songs are rooted in local earth and feeling, and so, too, were his: not in England, properly speaking, but in Cornwall, that misty Celtic promontory running out into the Atlantic.
In suburban Tongcheng, local villagers were building earth-filled dams with shovels in preparation for forecast rains this weekend, China Daily reported on Saturday.
For a more authentic experience, steer clear of the popular ports and head for the hills, where smaller villages host down-to-earth festivals with local flavour.
For why on earth has a local council bureaucracy had to issue a press release about a 9 year old pupil not being allowed to photograph her lunch?
Jones, chief technologist of Google Earth, Maps and Local, says the company never considered buying Navteq.
Another highlight: the Polaria Centre, an aquarium and theater featuring educational programs about the Northern Lights (greatest show not on earth), and local polar bears and seals.
It's surprisingly complicated, though, to convert raw photos into the kind of seamless tableau now available through Google Earth or Microsoft's Local Live website.
The US wants to reduce its dependency on China, which produces more than 95% of the world's rare earth elements, and address local shortages.
We were operating in a near perfect vacuum with the temperature well above 200 degrees Fahrenheit with the local gravity only one sixth that of Earth.
Evidence was also given to the committee by representatives from the Coastal Monitoring Centre, Cardiff School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and the Local Government Association.
Mr Williams denied the delay had anything to do with opposition posed by local people, who are also concerned about potential earth tremors.
"As a practice, we are used to designing for extreme climates on Earth and exploiting the environmental benefits of using local, sustainable materials, " said Xavier De Kestelier, a partner in the firm's specialist modelling group.
In southern Greenland, back in July 2004, a local man - Ferdinand Egede - dug into the soft earth of a field to show me something he'd never expected to see in his lifetime: potatoes.
Taught by local chefs in local venues, you can find cooking classes in almost any city on earth.
Kepler-22b is quite a bit larger than the biggest rocky planet in this Solar System (which happens to be Earth), but much smaller than the smallest of our local gaseous worlds (Neptune).
It is very innovative and requires several different scientific cooking techniques, but it also reflects his underlying obsession with and loyalty to the very best local ingredients from what may well be the single best food producing region on earth.
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Fiona Tavner, from Oxford Friends of the Earth, said the meadow would help to create "vital food for threatened local pollinating insects".
Every summer, local and foreign volunteers converge on Lake Baikal, the oldest, deepest and largest lake on Earth, to signpost and improve the hiking trails that skirt the water.
With other rainforest regions such as the Amazon also being depleted rapidly -- the percentage of the earth's land surface covered by rainforest is estimated to have slipped from 14 percent to around six percent -- the sudden disappearance of millions of hectares of the earth's natural defenses against climate change is likely to have consequences far beyond local communities and wildlife.
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