Green Cleaning

Mother’s Day is coming up next week.  As cleaning is still widely considered to be the domain of the mother, it occurred to me to take a poll and see what cleaning products are mother approved.  Here is a sample of the answers provided by mothers around the country: Vacuum/Floor Cleaners: DustBuster Invented by Mark Proett in...
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This Sunday is April 22.  Why is that of any significance, you ask?  Since 1970, April 22 has been observed as Earth Day in the United States.  In 1990, Denis Hayes, the original coordinator 20 years prior of the first national Earth Day, brought it to the international community, organizing events in 141 countries. ...
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When you hear the term “going green”, you automatically think of recycling. But “going green” means more than recycling. It means living life in way that is environment friendly. “Going green” means helping the world sustain its natural resources. It’s important to incorporate ‘green’ ways of life into your everyday life, not only at...
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It seems since the documentary, An Inconvenient Truth going green has been all the rage. Many companies are now offering green cleaning products and cleaning companies are offering green cleaning. Green cleaning is important for one’s health and the environment, but before buying environmentally friendly cleaning products it’s important to know that the green cleaning...
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(Image found from http://thegoat.backcountry.com/2010/07/08/fallback-jobs-for-rock-climbers-window-cleaner/) Cleaning windows can be dangerous no matter how many floors the building has. Having workers standing outside of the building on a platform is not very face, but it used to be the only way possible to clean windows—that is the only way until now. Thanks to Sky Pro, cleaning building windows doesn’t have to...
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Procter & Gamble surveyed 1,000 U.S. school teachers showed that 94% of teachers believe that students learn better in a clean classroom. The survey also found that 42% of the teachers clean their own classroom. 51% of teachers admitted to not giving out certain work in class for fear of having to clean up...
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Reports of bed bugs have increased exponentially since the 1990s. Bed bugs are mainly found in hotels, dorm rooms and apartments, but are showing up in other places as well. Bed bugs are showing up in homes, schools and office buildings. There are people who are worried that the bed bugs will destroy their...
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Since the documentary, An Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006, “being green” has become all the rage. There are many companies and people who now try to go green. One wonders why this sudden change occurs. There have been many documentaries made about social problems where no change in human behavior occurred; so why...
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Green buildings increase productivity By MONICA UNHOLD, The Daily Transcript Wednesday, September 23, 2009 SAN DIEGO, CA – Employees working in green buildings phone in sick to work less frequently and are more productive than their counterparts who work in non-green buildings, according to a recent study by University of San Diego’s Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate...
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Recommendations From Yale’s Green Cleaning Committee Today’s “green consciousness” is driving business and institutions to become more environmentally sustainable. One of the easiest ways to do this has been for organizations to retool how they handle office cleaning. A leader in this area turns out to be Yale University’s Office of Sustainability. In 2006,...
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