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TFM Editor’s Letter and Upcoming Elections

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

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Keeping things in perspective…

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?

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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