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From Poor Richard: Open Letter to Big Media — Thanks for Nothing!

Heidi Schwartz — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:56:56 +0000

Pick your favorite crisis and decide which of these REALLY justified sounding the global panic alarm: Pending Ice Age? Killer Bees? Y2K Meltdown? SARS? EBOLA? AIDS? Ozone Layer? Global Warming? Avian Flu? CO2? Polar Bears?

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FRIDAY FUNNY: The Employee Happiness Kit

Heidi Schwartz — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:56:14 +0000

With jobless rates topping 8% around the country, employers are scrambling to find options to pacify staff members left to do the work left behind. Here is a low cost option for facility managers to consider.

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WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Can Something Be TOO Green?

Heidi Schwartz — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:55:01 +0000

From Poor Richard: Do you know any environmentally responsible facility managers deploying reusable toilet wipes in their restrooms? This is not a misprint!

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From Poor Richard: NBI Study Illustrates Actual Performance of LEED-NC Buildings

Heidi Schwartz — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:22:40 +0000

Poor Richard shares his thoughts about a March 2008 study quantifying the actual performance of all 552 LEED-NC v.2 certified buildings.

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Poor Richard: USGBC – LEED Gambling?

Heidi Schwartz — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:30:34 +0000

Poor Richard asks, "With the recent introduction of LEED 2009 and with major revisions to LEED EB (now EB-OM) and serious structural changes to the LEED Accredited Professional requirements—one must wonder if USGBC is killing the goose that lays their golden eggs."

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TFM Editor’s Letter and Upcoming Elections

Heidi Schwartz — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:06:14 +0000

So what does this political diatribe have to do with facility management? One word—EMPLOYMENT!

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Keeping things in perspective…

Heidi Schwartz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:30:58 +0000

Markets rise and crash like the waves. Financial giants melt like ice cream on hot asphalt. But cherishing and loving friends and family and keeping their memories alive - THOSE are eternal gifts that can't be bought or sold.

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LEED Gold for Pollution Leaders?

Heidi Schwartz — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:56:42 +0000

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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