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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Breaking The “Sound Barrier” For Enhanced Classroom Learning

In this Web Exclusive, Christopher Lawton explains how one HVAC product is helping children in today’s classrooms improve their understanding by overcoming excessive ambient background noise.

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Herman Miller Earns MBDC Certification

The company has been awarded McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) Silver certification for its filing and storage product portfolio.

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CertainTeed Invests In Venture To Promote Eco-Friendly Foundation Materials

Agreement with ARXX to help encourage use of cement foam building materials.

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Atlas Paper Mills, LLC Appoints Chairman

The Florida-based supplier of paper towels and tissues made the announcement earlier this month.

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LEED Gold for Pollution Leaders?

Olympic athletes were prepared to don respirators and China was forced to seed clouds, idle factories and ban vehicles to temporarily lift a pollution fog that enveloped Beijing as recently as last month.

Very interesting (albeit ironic) for USGBC to award their “gold medal” for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design to a country recognized as one of the planet’s top polluters.  

Thus proving that the politics of “green” have circled the globe and that lucrative consulting proposals can be generated in multiple languages and paid in a variety of currencies…

Poor Richard

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Beijing Air Improves, Olympic Village Earns LEED Gold

BEIJING, China, August 13, 2008 – Beijing’s air quality has improved, with the sky clearly visible today

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