In this issue, DestinationGreen highlights the new revisions to LEED-EB and the call out for public comment on the revisions. While the revisions are not perfect, they do accomplish some important things. All of you wanting to comment may do so by sending those comments to the USGBC by the end of August. We would also like to express our heartfelt congratulations to the Healthy Schools Campaign and all of the children and teachers of the Illinois School System on the passage of the new Green Clean Schools Act legislation.
Sales professionals take note as we begin a new series of Green Cleaning Tips - walking you through the process of Conducting Green Cleaning Educational, Customer-focused Seminars.
Finally, this busy month wraps up with our spotlight on the Green Group of the Month - Green Cleaning Network - and our launch of their website - located at www.greencleaningnetwork.org. We are confident in this dynamic Internet portal's ability to help building owners, facility managers, contract administrators, policy makers and others gather, share and discuss current green cleaning issues, standards and legislation.
As always, we encourage you to share your personal and professional strategies for “Going Green” with us for future columns. Submit them to editor@destinationgreen.com.
This begins the first of a 3 part series of articles on marketing your company (and yourself) by conducting an educational seminar on Green Cleaning. In this series we’ll cover the key topics for a successful event including developing invitee lists (which include the real decision-makers), selecting speakers, co-sponsorships, supplier participation, greening the event, and more. To read Part I, click here.
After several years of work, the US Green Building Council has just opened its proposed revisions of LEED for Existing Buildings for public comment. This is especially important for a few reasons. First, LEED is without a doubt becoming the de facto national standard and interestingly enough, the revision comes as the Council just announced that its membership passed 10,000 organizations. And secondly, LEED will not be revised again for a couple of years. Thus this is our big chance and cleaning has clearly come out as one of the “winners”.
The Green Clean Schools Act became a law in Illinois law on Aug. 13, making Illinois the second state in the nation, along with New York, to require green cleaning in schools.
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House Passes Mayor-proposed Energy Efficiency Block Grant for Cities: $10 Billion to help fight Global Warming.America's Mayors are gaining more and more momentum as stewards of the environment and taking on the sublime issues of global warming - showing how we can all really think globally and act locally - and the Senate and now the House have embraced their proposals for legislation. Read Press Release |
Following up on news from last month's issue - Dell continues to make good on its promise to attempt to become the Greenest Tech Company on Earth. In early August, Dell and Ask.com, a leading search engine announced "collaborative efforts to help protect the environment with custom, energy-efficient servers and the planting of thousands of trees to offset carbon emissions." Read more. |
"Warming Draws Evangelicals Into Environmentalist Fold" - Washington Post An interesting article about a movement of "conversions" to envrionmentalism as a result of the overwhelming evidence in global warming. The efforts of a few are at least creating interesting debate and discussions between belief, political ideology and national borders. At DestinationGreen, we are all for anything that creates more dialog on climate change. Read more. |
Professional cleaners are 71% more likely to suffer from occupational asthma than the rest of the population according to a July article in Lancet. Read the entire Medical News Today article here. |
This month, Destination Green spotlights the Green Cleaning Network, our new clearinghouse dedicated to sharing information, stimulating discussion and educating the marketplace in order to accelerate the adoption of Green Cleaning for the benefit of human health and the environment.
Q: I have a customer that one of their member suggested that they use a alcohol base disinfectant vs. a Quat based disinfectant. Because, he said it was a safer product for humans and it did not create super bugs. What do you think about his analogy?
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