Thursday, August 27, 2009
Green Tip Of The Week - 8/26/3009
Save eight to 18 gallons of water per minute by using a broom to clean sidewalks, patios, and driveways.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Green Tip Of The Week - 8/20/2009
Save 30 to 60 gallons of water each time you water per 1,000 square feet by planting drought-resistant trees and plants. Visit www.saveourH2O.org for more water-saving tips.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Green Tips For August - Conserving Water
1. Repair leaks. According to the American Water Works Association, leaks account for 5.5% of residential water use. This amounts to approximately 21.9 gallons per household, per day.
2. Replace older toilets with high efficiency toilets. Toilets use the largest amount of water inside the home. This makes them a great target for water savings.
3. Replace your old clothes washer with a high efficiency clothes washer. Clothes washers use the second largest amount of water inside the home.
4. Water only when your plants need it. According to landscape professionals, over-watering is the most common problem associated with home landscape.
5. Plant the right plants for our arid climate. With increasing demand for water and reduced supply (due to both climatological and regulatory constraints), southern California landscapes need to transition from traditional turf-intensive landscapes to California Friendly landscapes.
2. Replace older toilets with high efficiency toilets. Toilets use the largest amount of water inside the home. This makes them a great target for water savings.
3. Replace your old clothes washer with a high efficiency clothes washer. Clothes washers use the second largest amount of water inside the home.
4. Water only when your plants need it. According to landscape professionals, over-watering is the most common problem associated with home landscape.
5. Plant the right plants for our arid climate. With increasing demand for water and reduced supply (due to both climatological and regulatory constraints), southern California landscapes need to transition from traditional turf-intensive landscapes to California Friendly landscapes.
Monday, August 3, 2009
In The News - August 1, 2009
Sales of new, single-family homes in June reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 384,000, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. June’s sales are an encouraging 11 percent higher than the revised May rate of 346,000, but are still 21.3 percent below June 2008’s estimate of 488,000.
The median sales price for new homes sold in June was $206,200 and the average sales price was $276,900. The seasonally adjusted estimate of new homes for sale at the end of June was 281,000, which represents a supply of 8.8 months at the current sales rate.
Where durable goods are concerned, new orders for manufactured durable goods in June decreased by $4.1 billion (2.5 percent) to $158.6 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The sobering drop followed two consecutive months of increases, including a favorable 1.3 percent jump in May. Transportation orders were a main factor in June’s drop, according to the bureau. Without them, new orders would have increased 1.1 percent.
The drops in orders were in line with news that the nation’s real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by U.S. labor and property — dropped at an annual rate of 5.5 percent in the first quarter of 2009, according to the of Bureau of Economic Analysis. This followed a fourth-quarter drop in real GDP of 6.3 percent.
The bureau chalked up the Q1 decrease to negative contributions from exports, equipment and software, private inventory investment, nonresidential structures, and residential fixed investment that were partly offset by a positive contribution from personal consumption expenditures.
This week, keep an eye out for news on construction spending (Aug. 3) and factory orders (Aug. 5) from the Census Bureau; auto and truck sales (Aug. 3), as reported by the various manufacturers; personal income (Aug. 4) from the Bureau of Economic Analysis; the average workweek (Aug. 7) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; and consumer credit (Aug. 7) from the Federal Reserve.
The median sales price for new homes sold in June was $206,200 and the average sales price was $276,900. The seasonally adjusted estimate of new homes for sale at the end of June was 281,000, which represents a supply of 8.8 months at the current sales rate.
Where durable goods are concerned, new orders for manufactured durable goods in June decreased by $4.1 billion (2.5 percent) to $158.6 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The sobering drop followed two consecutive months of increases, including a favorable 1.3 percent jump in May. Transportation orders were a main factor in June’s drop, according to the bureau. Without them, new orders would have increased 1.1 percent.
The drops in orders were in line with news that the nation’s real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by U.S. labor and property — dropped at an annual rate of 5.5 percent in the first quarter of 2009, according to the of Bureau of Economic Analysis. This followed a fourth-quarter drop in real GDP of 6.3 percent.
The bureau chalked up the Q1 decrease to negative contributions from exports, equipment and software, private inventory investment, nonresidential structures, and residential fixed investment that were partly offset by a positive contribution from personal consumption expenditures.
This week, keep an eye out for news on construction spending (Aug. 3) and factory orders (Aug. 5) from the Census Bureau; auto and truck sales (Aug. 3), as reported by the various manufacturers; personal income (Aug. 4) from the Bureau of Economic Analysis; the average workweek (Aug. 7) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; and consumer credit (Aug. 7) from the Federal Reserve.
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