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WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has awarded twelve programs its inaugural Excellence in Green Building Curriculum Recognition Awards and Incentive Grants.

Talia Leman, 13, of Waukee was named one of America's top ten youth volunteers for 2008 in a ceremony today at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, receiving a national Prudential Spirit of Community Award for her outstanding volunteer community service. Selected from a field of close to 20,000 applicants across the country, she received a personal award of $5,000, an engraved gold medallion, a crystal ...

Museum taps QC native for ‘Smart Home’ exhibit Quad City Times, IA - May 4, 2008 By Alma Gaul | Sunday, May 04, 2008 | 2 comment(s) Michelle Kaufmann oversees the installation in March of her modular Smart Home on the lawn of the Museum ...

Server Farms Becoming a Cash Crop in the Midwest RedOrbit, TX - May 7, 2008 Last year, Sun Microsystems unveiled modular units designed for cloud computing and fitted into 20-foot shipping containers. This month, IBM introduced the ...

Around the Square -- Standardized parts are legacy of Hoover Canton Daily Ledger, IL - May 6, 2008 Standard cuts of lumber and sizes of brick, modular construction and standardized plumbing and electrical fixtures produced better homes at lower cost. ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A new kind of farm is popping up. Tucked away on small plots on America's back roads, it cultivates no soil or seed. Rather, it nurtures curiosities about everything from porn to pinochle expressed in a nearly endless sequence of ...

One of the reasons this country became great was because of its commercial production facilities and the uniformity of its output. Customers the world over could place an order for commercially produced merchandise with the assurance they would know ...