Posted by Ken Gardner in Company News on 05 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Ahead of the Bell: Housing Starts...

Source: Business Week New home construction is expected to rise for the fourth consecutive month in April. If the report comes in as expected, it’s likely to raise hopes that the building industry will help sustain the economic rebound. Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters expect housing construction to rise by 3.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 650,000 in April. The Commerce Department will release the report at 8:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday. The housing industry in good times is a major generator of jobs and economic growth. But builders have had to...

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Posted by Ken Gardner in Company News on 12 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Low-Tech is high tech in Energy...

LOW-TECH IS HIGH-TECH IN ENERGY SAVING BUILDING MATERIALS. by Bruce Mulliken, Green Energy News It could be that some high-tech wizardry will provide an endless source of clean energy for the future. Maybe electric cars will wean us off of oil. Maybe solar panels will let us walk away from coal. I don’t know. But I do know that when we’re looking for energy solutions we shouldn’t ignore the low-tech basic solutions like incorporating passive sources of energy into our new homes and insulating the dickens out of all of them, new and old. We may also find that...

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