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Just finished an article by Michael Tennesen in the May 2010 Discover magazine. It's titled "Dust", and concerns how drought, population growth, and poor agricultural and ranching practices cause worldwide desertification, the replacement of grasslands with shrub lands or desert. One result...
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Just had a nice surprise. The Phoenix Metro Chamber of Commerce features my firm, CBN Building Maintenance, in the cover article, titled "Sustainable Profits", in its monthly magazine "Impact". It details what we've long preached: the benefits of " Cleaning for Health "...
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Quoted a large auto rental firm the other day; in the preliminary conversation, I mentioned the advantages of a "green" cleaning program, but the prospect replied, with pride, that his current service had already converted to green. In touring the facility, I got a look in the janitor's...
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03-04-2010
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I get a look in a lot of my competitors' janitor closets, and at the kit carried from building to building by the occasional crew doing route work. Lots of unsafe chemicals ; lots of unnecessary chemicals; lots of opportunity for confusion and injury . We find that most buildings can be cleaned,...
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02-08-2010
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02/03/2010 Just published an e-mail newsletter on the economic benefits of Green Cleaning; it summarizes a number of posts to this blog. We cover cleaning products, recycling, health and Indoor Air Quality, measuring indoor air quality and touch-point sanitation in addition to the tangible benefits of...
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02-03-2010
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Filed under: microfiber, touchpoints, janitor phoenix, environmental, touch points, sanitation, Microfiber mop, janitorial phoenix, touch point sanitation, disinfecton, indoor air quality, green building, Recycled restroom paper, touch point, Green Seal, disinfectant
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Pertinent article in today's (1/27/2010) Wall Street Journal (p.D1) on America's overuse of laundry detergent; by one reckoning, 53% of American consumers either guess, or fill the measuring cup up to the top. Result: dingy clothing, wasted product, color fading, detergent build-up in the machine...
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Just had a compliment from a client; we'd introduced her to Scott restroom paper products featuring 100% recycled material; her previous service had either not known about the products, or not cared enough to tell their customers. Our client had expected an inferior product (less absorbent, rougher...
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Green (?) trash liners... Just finished an article, in today's on-line "Contracting Profits" magazine, by environmental guru Stephen Ashkin (of The Ashkin Group), on the related topics of environmentally responsible restroom paper products , and trash can liners. We already use a Scott...
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Caught an article on CleanLink (also on SchoolFacilities.com) quoting Dr. Marilyn Black, founder of Greenguard Environmental Institute (GEI) titled "A Green Building is Different Than a Healthy Building". Dr. Black points out that building components and finishes, and office equipment, may...
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10-05-2009
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Filed under: microfiber, janitor phoenix, janitorial phoenix, Marilyn Black, Greenguard, GEI, indoor air quality, airborn particles, off gas, green building, HEPA