January 2006  
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Welcome to DestinationGreen

Green Selling Tip: 2005 Green Accomplishments

Health & the Environment:Why Green, Why Now?

Health & the Environment:Easy Tips to Make Your Office Greener

Health & the Environment: Concerns about Flame Retardents and Children

Health and the Environment 150,000 Deaths Blamed on Climate Change

Green News: GM To Pump Ethanol Fuel Possibilities

Green Group of the Month: Environmental Choice Program

The Ashkin Group News: Ashkin Group to Help Green Mexico


The Ashkin Group Calendar of Events

Special Notice: Comment on LEED

Quote of the Month
Which Cleaning Product

"Children are disproportionately exposed and affected by traditional cleaning chemicals," says Kathleen Donahue, Vice President of New York State Unified Teachers . "We have to do something to protect our children."

Welcome to DestinationGreen
This month’s issue of DestinationGreen has a number of excellent articles. In addition to our monthly Green Selling Tip covering the top accomplishments of 2005, there is an important news release allowing you to provide your thoughts on modifications to the US Green Building Council’s LEED for Existing Buildings Rating System (LEED-EB), plus much, much more.

Welcome Message

Green Selling Tip: 2005 Green Accomplishments

Salesman
For those like myself who have watched the Green Cleaning movement evolve, with its ups and downs, starts and stalls, it’s almost unbelievable how much has been accomplished. Here are some of the most important Green accomplishments of 2005 that you can share with your customers and prospects.

Health & the Environment:Why Green, Why Now?

Young Family
This article covers some of the reason why 2005 has been a banner year for Green Cleaning and greater environmental consciousness. It provides interesting insights on the changing attitudes of the average “man and woman” on the street, changes in science and how businesses now see tangible financial reasons for going Green.

Health & the Environment:Easy Tips to Make Your Office Greener

Think you can’t make a difference? We all can help make our offices “greener” and protect our environment at the same time. Here are some quick, easy, and even fun tips to make yours a healthier, more productive work place.

Health & the Environment: Concerns about Flame Retardents - and Children

Mother and Daughter
One year ago, Michele Hammond and her husband, Jeremiah Holland, sat together at their dining room table, contemplating some frightening lab results for their two children. Their son, Rowan, a rambunctious toddler, had some of the highest levels of flame retardants in his blood of anyone measured on Earth. And their daughter, 5-year-old Mikaela, was close behind. Why is this and are your children safe?
Health and the Environment 150,000 Deaths Blamed on Climate Change
Mountains
The numbers are no longer theoretical computer projections of the toll of climate change on human health at some far-off time in the future. Instead they're real victims, estimates of the people who died around the world in 2000 because global warming triggered heat waves, floods or droughts, or made worse some infectious disease.
Green News: GM To Pump Ethanol Fuel Possibilities
Corvette
Nothing less than a revolution is occurring in the automobile industry today. Last month we reported how Toyota is moving full-throttle at developing hybrid cars. And they are not alone. Just about every major auto manufacture in the world is developing or now introducing hybrid cars. At the same time, different, more sustainable fuel sources are being explored as well.

Green Group of the Month: Environmental Choice Program

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Environmental Choice is an eco-labeling program based in Canada and is now having a growing impact in the US markets. Learn more about this organization that is sure to make an impact on the Green Cleaning movement
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