US unemployment surges to 9.8 percent
People look for employment at a career training center operated by the New York Department of Labor in Harlem. The US jobless rate surged to 9.8 percent in November, a hammer blow to the economic recovery …
Will the global economic recovery spur 3D laser scanning?
GIS/CAD Divide, Perspectives, development, planningSeptember 4th, 2009 While it may be a bit premature to pronounce the recovery of the global economy, it’s not too early to start thinking about the technologies that will benefit once things start looking up. 3D laser scanning is one of the brightest spots in the geospatial technology arena, because it’s a relatively new technology without a great deal of installed base, it introduces some impressive efficiencies in the surveying process, an
Rebuilding America: A Policy Framework for Investment in Energy Efficiency Retrofits
This post by By Bracken Hendricks , Benjamin Goldstein , Reid Detchon, and Kurt Shickman was first published here . Investments in building efficiency retrofits can simultaneously address the challenges of economic recovery, energy insecurity, and global warming by laying the foundation for sustained economic growth, driving demand in the construction and manufacturing sectors, and creating hundreds of thousands of good jobs across the country. Retrofit
