We’ve all experienced it. Certain times of the year, someone in the office gets sick and everyone in the office eventually gets it. That’s usually due to poor indoor air quality. When training to be a Certified Green Building Professional from Build It Green, we spent a lot of time talking about a core curriculum [...]

We all have many firsts. Today was my daughters first day of Kindergarten. My wife and I thought a lot about it. We discussed how she would feel, whether or not she would make friends or if her teacher would be nice or not. We just want her to be happy and not scared. Today [...]

I launched WesChyrchel.com a year ago today. It was a big deal for me. It’s a site where I can share ideas and interesting opinions about green products, services and about being green. A “green” lifestyle is something more personal for me and has more meaning than purchasing “green” stuff. Over the last couple of [...]

I love to see this kind of attention from the top. Wednesday, the White House hosted a forum on Workplace Flexibility. This is really good news. I have long been an advocate of providing flexible schedules for workers. Besides, taking care of children, the workforce of today needs to be able to care for ailing [...]

Something is going on. You can see it in peoples faces. People are struggling. A few times a week I get told by clients, friends and neighbors that their lives are harder than they’ve ever been. Their relationships are suffering, significant others are complaining that they never see each other anymore and their chidren are [...]

I thought this was really cool.  We are already “greening” our site in different ways, but this is a great article about 10 Easy Ways to Green Your Web Site.  Here is what we have done in response to each one of those 10 items. 1.  Environmentally Friendly Web Hosting We use Dreamhost.  They offset [...]

Are you a green business?  Do you want to make your business green?  Do you want to start a green business?  A large part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, $60 Billion to be exact, is earmarked to environmental projects.  These projects range from building retrofitting, to renewable energy infrastructure to research [...]

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