The BuildingGreen Email News Bulletin For BuildingGreen Suite members The Email News Bulletin brings you a heads-up about new articles and products available to you in BuildingGreen Suite. BuildingGreen.com LIVE Happy Holidays from BuildingGreen Who's Gonna Change the World? Shipping Container Housing Alex Wilson's Notes from Sweden #4: CHP and District Heating Announcements Energy Bill Containing the 2030 Challenge Targets is Signed by the President The Energy Independence and Security Act became law yesterday with the President's signature. Section 433 of this bill requires that all federal buildings meet the energy performance standards of The 2030 Challenge. Architecture 2030 news BuildingGreen Suite Green Building Calendar January 17, 2008 Natick, Massachusetts Geothermal Design 101: Design Overview January 25 - 28, 2008 Eugene, Oregon 3rd Annual Good Earth Home, Garden & Living Show January 31 - February 01, 2008 Indianapolis, Indiana Indiana Building Green Symposium 2008	December 2007 New listings in the BuildingGreen GreenSpec® Product Directory are available online. Featured New GreenSpec Listing Oasis QT Improves Speech Privacy in Office Environments Cambridge Sound Management's Oasis QT is a plug-and-play technology that uses a narrow range of frequencies to mask human speech. The Oasis QT is about as loud as an office HVAC system and its emitters can be installed in ceiling tiles or directly on beams, furniture, or fixtures. The Oasis QT meets ASTM E1130 for speech privacy and allows for an open office layout that uses resource-efficient lighting and fewer materials. Select New GreenSpec Listings Roseburg Offers its SkyPly Veneer-Core Hardwood Plywood with Urea Formaldehde-Free Adhesive EcoDomo's Recycled Leather Tiles Use Binder From Acacia Tree Bark    iBeam Construction Cameras Allow Builders to Monitor and Track Jobsite Progress Certainteed Offers Ecophon Fiberglass Acoustic Ceilings with 70% Recycled Content Coming up in the January 2008 Environmental Building News The number of environmental product standards and certifications is exploding, creating numerous different "green" logos appearing on products. Which ones are meaningful and trustworthy? EBN will review the key programs out there and help you navigate them.               EBN reviews a product that converts flushing urinals to waterless operation, without the usual pitfalls of waterless urinals, and our BackPage Primer explores what makes a roof "cool." Case Study Highlight 30 Hudson Street Goldman Sachs' 30 Hudson Sreet, built directly on the shore of the Hudson River and overlooking lower Manhattan, is the tallest building in New Jersey. Located on a brownfield site on the southern end of the Colgate Redevelopment Area, 30 Hudson is accessible by the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail as well as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Read more... Copyright 2007 - BuildingGreen, Inc.