Archive for the ‘Green Products’ Category
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Green Legislation is coming to New Jersey Schools. If you are involved with schools in New Jersey you will be affected. In 2007, Acting Governor Richard Codey signed an executive order directing all state agencies to purchase environmentally friendly cleaning products. However, legislative regulations have not been adopted to clearly ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
The Missouri State Board of Education formally approved the Missouri Green Cleaning Guidelines and Specifications for schools at a meeting conducted on January 15th 2009. Although I commend Missouri for its' efforts in pushing through green school legislation, after reading their guidelines/specifications document, I am troubled by its' voluntary approach.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Americo is a family owned business that has followed the environment friendly practices for a long time now. Being in business for more than forty years, Americo has made using environment friendly practices a policy much before they actually came to the forefront. Some of the efforts that Americo has ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, soon to be AIG Insurance and Washington Mutual, the housing market, price of gas - there are a lot of things to worry about lately. Our economy is on the decline and costs are on the rise. How can we in the ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Whether it be huge conglomerates or your run of the mill Mom & Pop operations who decide to "go green", it may seem like just another stint at a great marketing ploy and joining the competition on the green fanaticism. And in some instances, that might be just exactly the ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
You would think that in 2008, in the era of progression and evolution onto the next biggest and best things that people would not regress back into the 1950’s. Well lo and behold, a group of women who call themselves, Women’s Voices for the Earth, have done just that. Now ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Today I received a copy of the 2008 LEED-EB revision. LEED which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is a certification that provides independent, third-party verification that a building project is environmentally responsible, profitable and a healthy place to live and work. Currently they have three ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
I had a very interesting meeting today with one of my manufacturer reps. He was introducing us to the new EchoMop line from O'Dell Corporation. They created an entire line of mops from PET plastics. What is PET? PET stands for Polyethylene terephthalate. Right, so what is PET? PET plastics ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Recently I uploaded a blog entry titled: Clorox® GreenWorks™: Natural Cleaners.
Throughout my written words I discussed the insights and exclusives I was privy to as a result of getting a sneak preview of this product line last year. Well Clorox's GreenWorks™, an environmentally friendly product line, is no longer ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
The Clorox Company announced today the introduction of Green Works™ Cleaners. A line of natural cleaning products that are as effective as conventional cleaners but made from plant-based ingredients. This past October at the ISSA show, I had a sneak peek ...
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