Mike Arny: LEED EB Is Roadmap For Success
Mike Arny examines how using LEED for Existing Buildings (EB) provides facility managers with a roadmap for successfully maintaining and operating their properties.
Volume 1 Issue 10 October 2006
Welcome to ManagingGreen
It was good to bump into many of you at the IFMA World Work Place in San Diego and the ISSA Show in Chicago earlier this month and thrilling to see so many new sustainable products, processes, services, training and more displayed in the Shows' exhibit halls.
This month's edition of ManagingGreen reflects the new wave of optimism and energy we both feel about the rapid growth of the Green Cleaning and Green Building movements. Expanding upon this theme, we present an excellent case study of LEED EB success; a series of news articles about the more comprehensive implementation of sustainable business processes as no longer a fad, but a necessity for growth; and an introspective article about the bright future ahead for Green Cleaning.
All the best! – Michael Arny and Stephen Ashkin
Case Study: JohnsonDiversey Headquarters Building
Environmental Leadership is one of JohnsonDiversey’s seven corporate strategic objectives and LEED has helped them to exemplify that at their national headquarters building in Sturtevant, Wis.
Green Cleaning: The Future is Brighter Than Ever
Stephen Ashkin reflects upon all the latest indicators that the green movement has reached a critical tipping point of dominance throughout the cleaning industry.
NEWS: Big Companies Go Green to Ensure Survival
General Electric, Wal-Mart, Fed-Ex and a rapidly expanding number of other big companies have discovered that “going green” has become a mandatory requirement for continuing to grow their businesses.
NEWS: The Greening of the Workplace
More employers are making workplaces environmentally friendly. The result, firms say: energy savings, better morale and even higher productivity. Example: Toyota's office building in Torrance Calif. (pictured left) includes extensive daylighting and an average of 50 percent recycled content in overall building materials.
NEWS: New York Schools Clean & Green
A newly enacted New York state law has propelled the transition from traditional to Green Cleaning programs throughout all of the state’s public schools.
NEWS: Solar Energy is Flaring Up
Incentive programs are helping to raise demand for panels that turn sunlight into electricity.
