The results of our online survey are in and they’re quite illuminating! Thank you to the nearly 1,000 DestinationGreen subscribers who shared their views, experiences and concerns with us. Your FREE class pass to Green Cleaning University is on its way and our 100 early birds will be receiving Unbeatable Tips for Selling Green Products and Services on CD-rom in the near future. Here are a few of the things we learned from you about the state of the Green Cleaning market:
Click here to read more findings from this fascinating piece of research. Please feel free to contact me with any comments or additional thoughts at steveashkin@ashkingroup.com.
- Steve Ashkin
One of the biggest challenges that we have in the cleaning industry is how to tie our “green” programs into Earth Day and environmental improvements in general. Helping your customers celebrate Earth Day is a great way to show how you are contributing.
Myrna Coronado is General Manager of 77 West Wacker Drive, recent winner of BOMA’s North Central Regional TOBY (The Office Building of the Year) Award for excellence in office building management and operations in the 500,000 to 1 Million Square Feet category. In an interview with The Ashkin Group, she described how her team surpasses the baseline of good commercial property management by implementing greener practices and displaying civic concern and responsibility for wildlife, energy and environmental conservation.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), creator of the LEED Green Building Rating System, "walks its talk" by earning LEED Platinum Commercial Interiors certification for its new Washington , DC headquarters office suite.
As research mounts about the link between indoor air quality and health, and as more children enter school with respiratory problems, schools, districts, and even whole states are switching to more environmentally-friendly cleaning agents.
Compounds found in air in the home could pose more of a health risk to breast-fed babies than chemicals they are exposed to through their mother's milk, researchers in the United States said recently.
Even the Oscars have gone green this year – encouraging other environmentally responsible organizations to “walk the talk” by greening their special events, conferences and trade shows.
Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN) is a consortium of institutional investors, representing $22 billion in shareholder assets, which are using their combined financial muscle to ensure the companies they invest in are taking appropriate steps to reduce risks associated with the toxic chemicals used in their products.
"My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started with the possible will to act. That's a renewable resource. Let's renew it."
- Vice President Al Gore, in an acceptance speech for the Academy Award for the documentary, "An Inconvenitent Truth"
