We hope you like the small changes we’ve made to the design of DestinationGreen. In an effort to make this publication an even better reading experience, we have increased the size of our text and reorganized the content from three to two columns. What we have NOT changed is our top quality content. You will continue to find all your favorite articles, including our regular “Green Selling Tip” and our new popular column, “Expert Insights,” as well as a selection of news stories you don’t want to miss.
Some standouts this month include a new article from our ongoing series about selling green products and news reports about the mainstreaming of green buildings and sustainable business practices. Also, I highly recommend you take a close look at our July “Green Group of the Month.” The featured organization is an excellent source of facts and reports on activities vital to successfully managing—and purchasing products for—a green facility. As always, we welcome your emails about the newsletter and hope you will recommend both DestinationGreen and our other publication, ManagingGreen, to others. All the best and happy selling! -- Steve Ashkin
This month we complete our selling tips for janitorial paper items—part of our ongoing series about selling green products. We share useful insights you can share with your customers about source reduction strategies and dispensers, paper bleaching and electric dryers versus paper hand towels.
Sheila Sheridan, former chair of IFMA and retired from Harvard University as Director of Facilities and Services at the John F. Kennedy School of Government shares her experience and insights on Global Facilities Management and the key issues facing facilities managers around the world today.
Green is rapidly becoming a necessity as companies as diverse as Bank of America, Genzyme, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and Toyota are now pushing green buildings fully into the mainstream.
Green Cleaning has gone through a transformation in recent years. Better technology and understanding has made the Green Cleaning market easy and cost effective.
A new study reveals that U.S. teens on both the East and West Coasts face similar cancer risks from indoor air pollution.
Increasing health problems caused by toxic indoor air pollutants are spurring the healthcare industry to expand green building strategies while eliminating medical facilities’ waste and use of toxic chemicals.
INFORM Inc. is an independent, nonprofit group that conducts research designed to find solutions to complex global environmental and health-related problems. It is a high-value source of practical information about a wide variety of green facilities management issues.
Topping The Ashkin Group news headlines this month are the announcement of new members joining The Ashkin Group Team and the upcoming launch of Green Cleaning University.
"Given that we spend most of our time indoors, we're really affected by indoor sources. We use a lot of cleaners and we're exposed to off-gassing from furnishings."
-- Sonja Sax, Gradient Corp. lead researcher of study on teenage cancer risks from indoor air pollution.
