Sustainability
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- Continued growth confirms need for verification of environmental claims.
- The book, The Nature Principle, highlights the importance of what it calls "Vitamin N" (for Nature) to make indoor environments healthier.
- Her past strategic involvement with the Green Guide for Health Care (GGHC) will help environmental services staff and other facility professionals understand how to make significant progress on the healthy and greener environments continuum.
- The Cleaning Industry Research Institute International (CIRI) is pleased to announce its “Save the Dates” for its innovative fall science and technology symposium, “The Science and Efficacy of Antimicrobials, Disinfectants and Their Impact on Cleaning Technologies.”
- Carpet systems that meet or exceed CRI’s Green Label Plus standard can contribute one full Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) Credit to the LEED ratings of the U.S. Green Building Council.
- Evaluating and adjusting your facility's green cleaning program with a simple "green gap audit" can result in substantial cost and performance benefits.
- Ms. Gilmore Hall, RN, MS, CAE is the Executive Director of Practice Greenhealth, the nation’s leading membership organization for institutions in the healthcare community that have made a commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly practices.
- There is a growing recognition that facility management contributes to the health and well being of building occupants, thereby benefiting efficiency, productivity and profitability — key pillars of an organization’s bottom line.
- To help meet the growing demand for green and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, the Cleaning Industry Management Standard and Certification Program (CIMS) has been expanded to include Green Building (GB) criteria and an optional GB designation.
- Cleaning, by its very nature and definition, is, or should be, green.
- Without a long-term commitment to comprehensive environmental management, not even the best high performance school can hope to stay high performing for very long.
- The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program has been one of the most significant developments in the Green Cleaning movement over the past decade, but additional positive changes may now be afoot.
- Getting commercial cleaning product manufacturers to come clean and disclose their products' ingredients is important.
- The U.S. sustainable business market—referring to the development, manufacture, and sale of products that help us to conserve fuel, electricity, water, and natural resources and to reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gases—will increase dramatically in 2011, making the past two years look like “baby steps.”