It may be a hot and lazy August for some, but not at The Ashkin Group or Leonardo Academy. Our commitment to helping facility managers understand the issues surrounding Green Building Management so they can better serve the needs of their customers never wanes. Our August edition presents insightful interviews with no less than two industry specialists, a close look at how renewable energy could change our lives and the top 10 things every facility manager should know about pandemic influenza.
Finally, some BIG NEWS! The Ashkin Group Green Cleaning University (GCU) has just opened its online doors and is now accepting class registrations from Green Cleaning industry professionals worldwide! Learn more by visiting: www.greencleaninguniversity.org and if you live in Northern California, Mike and I hope to see you in early September at our upcoming workshops with local USGBC Chapters.
All the best! – Michael Arny and Stephen Ashkin
Mike Arny, frequently called the father of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings® (LEED-EB), presents the first of a series of ManagingGreen articles about successful LEED-EB projects. He writes about the challenges they faced, how they dealt with those challenges and their experiences with the LEED-EB process.
Christine Ervin, the first president & CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council and former Assistant Secretary of Energy in the Clinton administration, examines the potential that renewable energy markets and climate change offer for transforming our quality of life.
Barry Giles, building services engineer at Moss Landing Marine Laboratory in Monterey, Calif. tells The Ashkin Group how he has integrated his passion for the environment with his life-long career in construction. It turns out that Green Cleaning has played an important role.
Steve Ashkin, president of The Ashkin Group, presents the first of a two-part series of articles about one of the best and least expensive indoor pollution prevention strategies around—and recommends you walk all over it.
Love it or hate it, if you oversee the purchase of green cleaning products to schools in New York State, you’ll want to read this article. And if you oversee the purchase of cleaning products for schools in other states this article also is a “must read.” All indications are it won’t be long before other states adopt similar requirements.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is now warning about a far more lethal kind of flu - a pandemic flu that could kill over a half of a million people in the U.S., hospitalize two million more, and cost our economy an estimated $70-$160 billion. Here’s what you need to know.
After the foiling of the terrorist liquid bomb plot in London this month, have you taken a good look at your bathroom cupboards? Experts have been warning for years that chemicals found in most any bathroom could easily be combined to make a bomb.
What has been a patchwork of green buildings in many cities is expanding to whole communities, whole neighborhoods. Commercial and home real estate developers nationwide report the "green ethic" — energy-efficient, water-stingy buildings full of features that stress the natural over the chemical, the recycled over the new and the renewable over the finite — now is firmly mainstream.
BUYERS ALERT! On September 1st, Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) will launch their green Product and Service Directory online at www.H2E-online.org. It is sure to be an excellent resource.
Each winter, the flu kills approximately 36,000-40,000 Americans, hospitalizes more than 200,000, and costs the U.S. economy over $10 billion in lost productivity and direct medical expenses.
- World Health Organization (WHO)