Law requires state agencies to buy U.S. made American flags

Boston (AP)  -- Bruce Aldrich hangs the American flag outside his home each morning. What the former Marine never wants to see is a "Made in China" tag hanging from the Stars and Stripes. Aldrich led a campaign for a new law, passed this month, that requires state agencies to buy only domestically made American flags. Aldrich began the push after a Fourth of July shopping trip in 2007, when he was surprised to find so many U.S. flags weren't made in this country. "It was a shame that American flags were being made in a foreign country and being sold in our country," said Aldrich, 68. With its new law, Massachusetts joined a handful of other states that have similar measures, including Minnesota, Tennessee and Missouri. Officials are considering similar laws in Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Vermont. Minnesota has the toughest penalty for stores selling foreign-made flags, treating it as misdemeanor offense that carries fines up to $1,000 and 90 days in jail. On the national level, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a nonbinding "sense of Congress" resolution last July that any flag flown on federal property must be made in the United States.

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GreenSource wins best start-up publication; ENR.com is recognized with two website awards from American Business Media

NEW YORK, NY – McGraw-Hill Construction’s GreenSource, a publication devoted to sustainable design and construction, won the Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Start-Up Publication at the American Business Media’s annual Neal Awards event. McGraw-Hill Construction, a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), also received two awards for ENR.com, the website of Engineering News-Record. The website received the “Best Online Article or Series” award for its package of stories and slideshows about Dubai. It also received the Best Website award in the category for sites with fewer than 100,000 unique visitors per month. Called “the Pulitzer Prize of the business media,” the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Awards recognize editorial excellence in business-to-business publications. The awards were presented March 22 at a lunch hosted by American Business Media at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.

GreenSource magazine was created in 2006 in response to the needs and demands of the profession and is the source for noteworthy trends in sustainable design, projects and case studies of best practices. GreenSource is produced by the editors of McGraw-Hill Construction, in partnership with editors at BuildingGreen, Inc. GreenSource magazine is supported by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), and its circulation of 42,000 consists of the key specifiers and buyers involved in green design and construction including 30,000 members of the USGBC. The magazine will be published quarterly this year, following two issues in 2006 (May and November).

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Valley Forge Fabrics to introduce new line of environmentally friendly fabrics
Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Valley Forge Fabrics, Inc. announces FRESH: Fabrics Redefining Environmental Standards (for) Hospitality. As the Acronym implies, FRESH represents the first environmentally friendly comprehensive fabric program designed specifically for the hospitality industry. With more than two hundred beautiful fabrics spanning three opening volumes, FRESH creates a new benchmark for selection and diversity in environmentally friendly fabrics for the hospitality design community and the nation's 3 million hotel guest rooms.
http://www.hotelmotel.com/hotelmotel/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=411289
March 2007


Green Thoughts
Are "eco-friendly" materials user friendly for the sign industry?
http://www.signweb.com/management/cont/greenthoughts.html
January 2006