My wife and I had the opportunity to stay at the Elan Hotel in Santa Monica CA. The hotel has begun the process of going GREEN and it was truly a great thing to experience. Even the bar soap had a hole in the middle to reduce waste. We give it a 5 star experience.
From time to time I like to post testimonials from our many loyal customers. LOYAL is an understatement. Our customers are known to drive over 20 to 30 miles just to buy our Water Stain Remover. Here is a testimonial from Mark in Colbert, WA.
“Thank goodness I tried your product. I had made a big mistake by washing my wife’s car with water straight from a well and had water spots on the windshield. I tried several cleaners and a special glass polish with an orbital buffer with no success. Then I stumbled across your product at a glass shop. I thought I was going to have to replace the windshield but it worked. It took several applications because it was so bad but it got the job done. Thanks so much.”
Mark Colbert, WA
Most of us don’t think about keeping our toilet clean and safe until it starts to look like a bad accident on the freeway. Using the A-MAZ Water Stain Remover and Sealant will clean your toilet and keep it looking great for the life time of the toilet.
The majority of people and housekeepers use a pumice stone or products with pumice to clean their toilets, which can actually harm and ruin a beautiful porcelain toilet. Pumice is an abrasive and will scratch glass, porcelain and most hard surfaces. So why would you clean a toilet with a pumice stone? Because you can’t see the scratches…but they are there, and a great place for bacteria to grow.
The best “environmental” and practical method to clean your toilet is with A-MAZ Water Stain Remover.
Recommendation: Empty your toilet bowl and scrub thoroughly with the Water Stain Remover, using the A-MAZ Non-scratch nylon pad (Gripper). Rinse the bowl and wipe clean and dry. Apply the A-MAZ Sealant as directed and you will put a protective layer of Silicon and Carnuba Wax, that will last for months. The results are AMAZING! PS: Don’t forget to turn the water back on.
A-MAZ Cleaning Products took another step in improving the “Green” ingredients in the Water Stain Remover by eliminating the dyes and added fragrances. Production on the new formual begain several weeks ago and will be available in retail stores and on-line by January 2010. In addition to the Water Stain Remover, the All Purpose Cleaner and Glass and Mirror Cleaner will also be produced without dyes or fragrances.
By: Justin DeGree – Buckeye Territory Manager
Buckeye International is the innovative leader in the cleaning / maintenance products industry with a heritage marked by a history of quality products. Buckeye International was established in 1844 and continues to be the standard in the industry.
Valley Sanitary Supply, along with Buckeye International, will now be operating together in the central valley area focusing on providing unparalleled customer service, support, and quality products to the many businesses and organizations. Valley Sanitary Supply will now be carrying the nationally branded Buckeye line of quality cleaning and floor care products, award winning Green Seal Certified products, and the Reflections wood floor program. Buckeye International, Inc. has also teamed up with Valley Sanitary Supply to offer butyl-free custodial products to the central valley area. As Buckeye celebrates more than 165 years in the cleaning products industry, we invite the central valley area to experience the Buckeye tradition of offering quality products and services.
Buckeye International is excited to now be involved with the central valley community. Valley Sanitary Supply looks forward to continuing Buckeye’s dedication to quality and service by assisting their community in the completion of all their custodial needs.
For more information about Buckeye International, Inc., check out our website at:
www.buckeyeinternational.com
www.buckeyereflections.com
The Triple Bottom Line by Andrew W. Savitz is a great book and a must read for those interested in truly transforming their business. A “green” winner…I highly recommend. Here’s a little more about the book:
The Triple Bottom Line: How Today’s Best-Run Companies are Achieving Economic, Social, and Environmental Success — And How You Can Too (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2006) is a blueprint for executives and companies to find their way to a sustainable, profitable future in today’s daunting era of environmental and social accountability. It does that partly through hard-headed case studies — some success stories, other abject failures — including:
■Hershey Foods, the legendary candy maker that blew a $12 billion dollar deal because it failed to heed social and economic concerns of its employees and of the town that gave it its name;
■PPL, the reviled electricity behemoth that achieved a love fest with environmentalists and Native Americans by agreeing to remove its hydro-electric dam from the Penobscot River in exchange for a sizable cash payout;
■Toyota and GE, which are turning social responsibility into financial opportunity at the same time that Wal-Mart, McDonalds and Exxon are paying a price for thumbing their noses at it.
Keep Hawaii Green LLC, a Hawaiian-based distributor of green products, has become the latest distributor of A-MAZ cleaning products. The female-owned company, run by Beth Mancuso and Joy Allison, currently serves businesses in the greater Maui area with products that are exclusively eco-friendly.
In one of its early successes, Keep Hawaii Green is including samples of A-MAZ cleaning products to homebuilder D.R. Horton for its start-up packets that are given to new home owners. With more than 2,000 homes scheduled for construction in Hawaii, D.R Horton plans to include A-MAZ is all of its start-up packets.
“People really love to the A-MAZ products and we’ve already started to see a great level on interest from consumers and businesses in our area,” said Mancuso. “The A-MAZ line of cleaning products is such a natural fit for the Islands and completely in line with our goal of keeping Hawaii green.”
Keep Hawaii Green is one of over ten A-MAZ distributors in the United States. Other companies includes: Pilkington Glass Company and CR Laurence Company, which have been selling A-MAZ for over ten years. ACE Hardware is the single largest retailer of A-MAZ Cleaning Products.
I highly recommend the following book for any business person committed to managing a carbon neutral business. Ray Anderson the Founder and Chairman of Interface Inc. a carpet manufacture pours his guts out and provides a recipe to run a business with the utmost ethical objective…profitable, modern, environmentally sustainable. Giving back and not extracting from the earth. Nature is the golden goose that lays the eggs. Learn more about “mission zero” and Mid-Course Correction. This book should be mandatory for every Business student and a model case study for every MBA program.
There were so many new green businesses at the convention, it was literally impossible to have a dialog with each company representative. But the ones I had the priviledge to speak to really impressed me with their positive attitude and determination to be successful. One company that stuck out was Green Horizon Manufacturing LLC. Green Horizon manufactures Green structures on-demand for emergency/temporary situations. The example Darren Krolewski shared with me was the Katrina disaster in Louisianna. Many of the portable units utilized in the rebuilding of New Orleans were extremely toxic and caused more issues than they solved. Green Horizon can supply units that are self-sustaining and do not have the environmental hazards existing in conventional construction (off gases and toxic fumes). To learn more about Green Horizon you can visit them at www.greenhorizonmfg.com.
Shifing away from business to education, I met two delightful representatives from Dominican University in San Rafael, CA. Dominican offers a Green MBA. I was impressed with their program and curriculum. You can visit them at www.dominican.edu/greenmba. They are offering an Immersion Day on Sunday, October 25, 2009 from 9:00am to 2:00pm on the Dominican Campus (50 Acacia Ave. San Rafael, CA 94901).
These are just two of the high quality exhibitors at West Coast Green. Next year at this same time, West Coast Green will be held again at the Ft. Mason center in San Francisco, CA. I highly recommend for anyone interested in learning more about the emerging Green industry, Cleantech Economy, and a number of socially responsible organizations transforming the way we see our world and live our lives. Until then, live Green!
Ray Anderson, the Chairman and Founder of Interface, Inc. and Author, Confessions of a Radical Industrialist gave his patiented motivational speech to a packed house. As keynote speakers go for the Green movement, Ray is one of the best. Ray insists that capitalism will set the frame work for the companies of the future. At the same time Ray feels “unbridaled” capitalism is not the answer to our environmental issues. A good portion of his talk focused on the corporations of the future and the societial paradigm change which needs to take place if we are to survive and thrive in the future. Ray points out that “business makes a profit to exist versus business exist to make a profit”. If we do not take care of the “golden goose” (nature) their will be no “golden egg”. Achieving balance between the biosphere and the technosphere will be critical to insuring the future resources will be available for future generations. As of today, the earth cannot support future population growth. There are four key elements to the equation: Environmental Impact, Population, Affluence, and Technology. Today, technology is fossil fuel driven and extracts from the environment and is “waste abusive.” In order to survive Technology must have a paradigm shift that focuses on Renewability, Solar/Hydrogen Driven, Benign, No Waste, and Resource Productivity.
Andrew Winston is the Founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and Author of the Green Recovery and Green to Gold. Andrew insists that the issue of the environment has gotten lost due to politics. Additionally, the biggest myth in business is that green = cost. The business of the future will see things through an environmental lense. The four keys to a GREEN recovery are:
1. Get Lean 2. Get Smart 3. Get Creative 4. Engage People
Andrew gave us an example (Wal Mart) of the “greening” of the supply chain. Wal-Mart executives met with their 20 largest suppliers in Brazil and made it manditory that they supply product that is lead free. Additionally, they were required to sign an pact that not to sell Wal-Mart a type of beef which is contributing to the distruction of the Amazon. This is an example of the paradigm shift.
Conway Trucking company now tracks the speed of their trucks and there average speed went from 65 mph to 62 mph and it saved the company over $10 million dollars.
A large hotel chain retrofitted the lights in their hotels (250,000 lights) at a cost of $400,000 and saved $1.2 million with a 2 month ROI.
Tennet a manufacturer of commercial cleaning equipment designed a floor scrubber that no longer uses chemicals to clean the floors. It is now using only tap water.
Drivers for UPS no longer turn left and it has saved the company $30 million dollars annually.
One company simply managed the Air Conditioning in their computer room…begging the question…Does a Data Center need A/C?
Do we need to fly to meet?
These examples along with other questions are going to fuel the change necessary for business to become more socially responsible and excelerate eco-balance necessary for future growth and existence. China is in the process of building 31 “Manhattans” as in NY. Where are the resources going to come from? A supply and demand “mismatch” is coming…get his point?