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Sustainability Guide for Gyms and Fitness Centers: Getting Started

Green Business Bureau

Eco-Friendly Gyms: Prioritizing Human and Planet Health. Eco-friendly gyms provide people with a way to improve their fitness and health while simultaneously helping the environment. These gyms find unique ways to reduce energy and water usage and focus on using products safe for human and planet health.

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Improve the Air Quality in Your Office With These 5 Plants

Green Business Bureau

The quality of your working environment can have an effect on your productivity, health, and happiness. Change your filters regularly and have your HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems) regularly maintained. You’ll have peace of mind that you’re taking care of your health as you work hard towards your career.

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5 Reasons to Switch to Green HVAC Technology

Energy Refuge

Fortunately, there are green HVAC technologies available that can make a difference. Right now, you can claim a tax break when you have a new HVAC system installed. Enhance Your Existing HVAC Systems. Improving the quality of the air and water around you obviously won’t hurt your health. Tax Breaks.

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Guide to Making Your Building Eco-Friendly

Green Business Bureau

On the positive side, global green building trends indicate a dramatic increase in eco-friendly building activity worldwide, not only for environmental and health reasons but also because of the strong business benefits. Buildings generate all kinds of waste, and frequently discharge harmful emissions. Creation of a sense of community.

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Sustainable Event Planning: Getting Started Guide for Small Businesses

Green Business Bureau

If you’re running an event inside a building, then 44% of that building’s energy consumption is attributed to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment, and 28% to lighting equipment. Some of these chemicals can then persist in nature, entering food chains, and ultimately harming human health.

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Want Your Brand In Bright Lights? Build From The Bottom

Michael Grossman

There are also building email lists to communicate directly with your audience, social media presence to build brand loyalty, blogging and content marketing to assert your authority, video marketing (because Americans don’t read anymore, silly), online advertising to target specific keywords, etc.

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Threatened by wildfire smoke, West Coast cities are piloting clean-air centers

Grist

San Francisco has made similar efforts to Seattle’s, upgrading HVAC systems in its public buildings to offer both air conditioning and air filtration. But the center at the Bayview library is different. It is the first launched as part of a statewide program that aims to create clean-air centers for vulnerable populations. .”

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