The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), with support from Newland Communities, has launched a new Web site, The Green Home Guide, www.greenhomeguide.org, that details the ways green homes can benefit
RLE Technologies has released the Falcon F-Series - the F1000, and F3400 - stand-alone systems that enable remote environmental monitoring of critical operating parameters via embedded firmware that handles all
Reports
from the 12 Federal Reserve Districts suggest that the national economy continued to expand during the survey period of
October through mid-November but at a reduced pace compared with the previous
survey period.
Employment rose 166,000 in October and 1.6 million over 12 months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.7%.
Although there appears to be no let-up to
the current housing downswing, economists participating in the National
Association of Home Builders Fall Construction Forecast Conference Oct. 24 said
they expect the industry to bottom out and to start turning around in 2008.