Appearance, performance and sustainability are our fundamental principles. We strive to create a natural equilibrium among these principles, while always considering the life cycle of the product.
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“We don’t need to fix people, we need to develop people.”
Marj tells how her Strength Building philosophy caught on and how it benefits us in both personal growth and life design.
Meet Marj Barlow, Ph.D.
We are proud to kick-off our “Marj Monday” series here today, delivering valuable weekly insights into personal growth, team development and life design.
“Marj Monday” posts feature the lessons of Marj Barlow, Ph.D., who has more than 40 years of experience as a mentor, counselor and therapist. She currently works as a development advisor to corporate management teams. Marj promotes personal growth through realization of personal strengths and talents. To find out more, visit her website, http://www.marjbarlow.com
Check this afternoon for the first piece from Marj on the fundamentals of strength building.
Morality over money: Dayna Baumeister, Keystone at Biomimicry Guild, suggests that we as a society change our mindset so that money is not the highest tier of our decision-making.
“ReEntry is our bet on labor vs. oil” - Chief Innovations Officer John Bradford explains our ReEntry process and how it aligns with our efforts to get Off Oil by 2020.
Why EPDs Matter & How You Can Incorporate Them Into Your Business
While Life Cycle Assesments (LCAs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) have become increasingly important, they are often portrayed as complex programs that are difficult to understand. In turn, the Global Products Alliance is taking steps to make these processes more user friendly. As we become more sophisticated in our understanding of environmental sustainability, the need for transparency becomes more important than ever. Environmental impacts are complex and LCAs that measure those impacts are necessarily complex too. EPD is a tool that takes the complex results of an LCA and creates an easy to understand and transparent summary. The Global Products Alliance is taking steps to make EPDs more accessible to the manufacturers and purchasers.
InterfaceFLOR wants people to know about the impacts of their products and EPDs have given us a credible way to share this information. We want purchasers to be aware of the effect their decisions have on the environment and to use this information to make good product management and purchasing decisions.
Who is the Global Products Alliance?
The Green Standard President and CEO Deborah Dunning formed the Global Products Alliance at a recent forum on The New Way to Define Green co-hosted by TGS with the Institute for Construction & the Environment in Germany. The forum included leaders from education, government and industry and was held at the headquarters of the American Institute of Architects in Washington D.C.
The primary goals of The Green Standard Global Products Alliance are threefold:
1. Create a special website providing the best available information on resources available to manufacturers and purchasers of products on LCAs and EPDs
2. Develop monthly webinars for Alliance members featuring core principles and their practical application in diverse types of building projects
3. Plan an annual forum on The New Way to Define Green to bring together diverse shareholders to learn about new and profitable resources
Want to learn more? Attend Our Free Webinar
The Green Standard’s Global Products Alliance is providing a webinar “Developing and Using LCA-based Environmental Product Declarations to Increase Brand Value”. It is a great opportunity to learn more about EPDs and how they are defining best practices in the green building sector. Register here.
The webinar will include a discussion of the types of ecolabels currently in the market and explain how EPDs are unique, how they’re created and their key characteristics and value.
To learn more about InterfaceFLOR’s EPD initiative read the case study by Five Winds International or join the webinar on July 20, 2010.
The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.
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| — | Janine Benyus, president of the Biomimicry Institute, speaking on the importance of imitating natural design. |
We’re proud to show our recap from NeoCon 2010 including words from Ray Anderson, David Oakey and Andries Botha.
Click above: Interface, Inc. President Dan Hendrix with GreenBiz.com on what he’s learned from making sustainability a core value.
Article courtesy of GreenBiz.com
