Environmental Home Center/Environmental Building Supplies Becomes ecohaus and Opens a Newly Designed Showroom at Its ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

FIRE destroyed the home of an Indian watchman yesterday after he reportedly left a pan on a gas stove while cooking his breakfast. However, he escaped unhurt because he was talking to colleagues outside the building, when the blaze broke out.

Residents moved, building closed at Minnesota Veterans Home (KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul)

When contractors recently began a simple brick re-facing project on building number nine on the Minnesota Veterans Home campus in Minneapolis, they uncovered
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Fire at unsafe home for elderly kills 30 (The Herald)

A fire in a nursing home in Russia has killed at least 30 people. The fire broke out on Sunday in the two-storey wooden building. It is the latest disaster in a series of deadly blazes that have exposed negligence and other problems plaguing state-run institutions.

Green Home Building Blossoms in Chicago (Environment News Service)

CHICAGO, Illinois , November 5, 2007 (ENS) - The U.S. Green Building Council is set to launch its LEED-for-Homes program at the organization's annual Greenbuild conference in Chicago this week.