Author: Eco Green Chemicals
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When cleaning, many choose to use a number of various cleaning chemicals. Unfortunately, many of these cleaners contain toxic chemicals that can harm not only the user, but the environment as well. This is why many cleaning professionals today are choosing to use green chemicals to avoid exposure to harmful toxins.

As a plant based cleaner, green chemicals from Daimer®’s Eco-Green® line are safe for use on almost all surfaces. The nano-based molecules in green chemicals effectively penetrate into dirt particles and dissolve them quickly. For this reason, many industries such as auto detailing, hospitality services, fleet maintenance, odor control services, aircraft maintenance and carpet cleaning companies are now using green cleaners. Since they are non-corrosive, chlorine-free and non-toxic, they can be safely used around kids, pets, or plants.

Here is a look at a few green chemicals available from Daimer®:

* Eco-Green® Heavy-Duty Car Wash: This natural, auto detailing…

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Author: Rich
Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2010/02/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-su…

According to CNN and other sources, nine European countries have signed an agreement to form a “supergrid” of green power sources to supply power in their area.

The idea is to have a diverse set of sources: wind, tidal, solar, all interconnected so that when wind is lighter than average, sun or tides take up the slack, and so on.

Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland and the UK — hope to have the grid working within the next decade. It is seen as an essential step towards the European Union’s pledge to source 20 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020.

Estimates for the cost for building such a grid connecting countries across this region including the Baltic Sea, Irish Sea and English Channel would cost in the about $40 billion, and as you might imagine, Mr. and Mrs. Project Manager, will involve the hiring of a significant number of you.

The head of the Danish national power infrastructure, Hans Erik…

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Author: Rich
Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2010/02/go-with-the-flow/

Once in a while we will take the opportunity to send you to a meaningful and/or content-rich website or blog with intriguing resources for project managers.

Such is the case with the blog Green Flow.

The blog is part of Common Current, and is authored by Warren Karlenzig.

Karlenzig, Common Current founder and president, has worked with the federal government; the nation of South Korea (”New Cities Green Metrics”); The European Union (”Green and Connected Cities Initiative”); the State of California (”Comprehensive Recycling Communities” and “Sustainable Community Plans”); major cities; and the world’s largest corporations developing policy, strategy, financing and critical operational capacities for 20 years.

Since the focus of the blog is new trends and economic news related to sustainability, project managers can go here to help predict where the ‘action’ will be in terms of new programs and projects.  You can see this in the most recent posting about the US Green Economy.

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Author: Rich
Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2010/02/clean-or-dirty/

On a recent visit to Hartsfield (Atlanta’s airport) I noticed that there were no recycling bins.  On closer inspection, and a little research, I realized that these were absent due to a new program they’ve introduced starting in November 2009 which lets customers dump whatever they want into the trash bins and the “sorting out” is done by the airport (actually a partner – read more below).  This got me wondering as to whether or not this was effective.  Sure enough I now know that although this has some advantages (see the press release by Hartsfield), it does have some problems.

ATL (the familiar three-letter-code for Hartsfield) generates nearly 70 tons of paper, plastic, food and other trash daily.

70 tons.  Daily! That’s a lot of Nathan’s hot dog wrappers.  So indeed, steps taken to improve how much of this ends up in landfills are important steps.

Here from the press release is some of the benefit from this step:

“All waste generated by passengers, employees and…

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Author: Dave
Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2010/02/green-car-green-police/

I was watching the Super Bowl and of course, the advertisements are always a source of entertainment.  Some years, they are the only entertainment.  Not so this year, on the average, they were pretty average, but the game was good.  A couple of the ads did stand out, and one in particular, the Audi ad for their clean diesel car.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq58zS4_jvM For me, however, while the “point” of the advertisement may have been the Audi A3 TDI®,  the “message,” while tongue-in-cheek, was a little disturbing.  It has always been our assertion that “green intent is the right thing to do.”  The way to get people to “green-up” is to show that, while it is the right thing to do, by doing it there is a tangible benefit.  In most cases, that benefit is saving resources (money).  One of the benefits is not doing it because it is mandated and enforced by a bunch of armed thugs invading homes, and spotting “composting crimes” from a helicopter, and by doing it will…

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Author: Rich
Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2010/02/nissans-leaf-no-sticky-gas-pe…

See the photo below.

Are you looking at the future of automobiles – and the end of gas/petrol stations?

Nissan is betting on it, and 38,000 people are on a waiting list to buy into this future.

This is a fully-electric car.  No hybrid anything.  No gas.  And not a toy.  It has a top speed not of 40 mph, but of about 90 mph, and can run 100 miles on a charge.  Nissan is introducing it slowly and carefully into the US, making sure that there is infrastructure for charging the car available.  The car can charge on your home power, but will be able to charge much faster (30 minutes versus overnight) at special charging stations based on 440Volts DC.

A couple of odd facts about the Leaf: it has a solar panel for daytime trickle-charging, and – get this – you buy the car, but you lease the batteries from Nissan.  Yes, you do not own the batteries, Nissan does, which they claim is good for you because they will be working on new technology batteries and this will facilitate a…

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Author: Rich
Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2010/02/office-paper-meets-its-end-an…

Just a light little note and a pointer to a video about an amazing machine.

Talk about recycling…

I will say no more.  A picture is worth a thousand words.  And a moving picture, well, figuring inflation, the ratio of the Euro to the Yen to the Yuan to the Dollar….that would be about 1.8 million words.

Click here to figure out exactly what you can do with that copy of a bad performance review (for example).

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Author: Diane Nudelman
Website: http://ecoswag.typepad.com/my-blog/2010/02/new-ecoswag-idea-…

Promotional hand sanitizers have been THE hottest swag item of 2009, helped in no small part by the H1N1 flu scare that was all over the world media. Whether packaged in gel or spray pen forms, almost all custom-label promotional hand sanitizers have one thing in common - they are made with ingredients derived from petroleum. That's why I was so excited to find this 100% plant based formula!

I recently discovered gelFAST 2GO's custom label products at a promotional industry tradeshow. This is a line of plant-based sanitizing gels developed and manufactured in Canada. Until recently, this company's products were only sold through hospital and healthcare channels, and are used by doctors and healthcare workers worldwide. Clinical studies are available regarding the effectiveness of this formulation. Now it's available in the US on Ecoswag.com with custom labeling for your company's promotional marketing.

First off, the packaging is unique, functional and 100%…

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Author: Kevin Maddaford
Website: http://www.renewablechoice.com/blog-renewable-electricity-st…

A strong national renewable electricity standard would add 274,000 U.S. jobs by 2025.

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Author: Matt Wood
Website: http://www.renewablechoice.com/blog-Carbon-Disclosure-to-be-…

A new publication puts a spotlight on carbon disclosure and its importance.

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