by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2007 | News
Facility managers, maintenance staff, accountants, and other building owners and operators are being drawn into the reemerging “green” industry to help solve some of their health and cash-flow issues. This is a good step for building and occupant health, for as a...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2007 | News
Not long ago I had the severe displeasure of reading a book called The Edge of Disaster by one Stephen Flynn (Random House, New York, 2007). Mr. Flynn is billed in the author blurb as being “among the world’s most widely cited experts in homeland security and...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2007 | Trends
The Center for Health Design is pleased to be associated with Clean Design and Operations and its publisher, Vendome Group, LLC. Environmental sustainability has long been of interest to us and is one of the core values that we support and promote in all the work we...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2007 | News
Metro Health Corporation (MHC) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, received Hospitals for a Healthy Environment’s (H2E) Partner for Change Award in 2006. MHC is building a LEED-certified replacement facility scheduled to open in fall 2007 for its Metro Health Hospital...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2007 | News
Sustainability seems to be the hot topic in the design and construction industry. But what does “sustainable design” really mean? And, knowing that, how easy is it to be sustainable? Sustainability covers more than environmentally conscious aspects, although that is a...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2007 | News
ANNA GILMORE HALL Green is going mainstream. Everywhere you look these days, the media seem to be reporting on, as a recent cover of Newsweek called it, “the new greening of America.” Green building is the fastest growing segment of the building construction sector;...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2007 | News
Golfer Arnold Palmer has been a champion to his many fans for more than 40 years. Another champion was his late wife, Winnie, when it came to providing safe, welcoming, totally supportive care to newborns and their mothers, particularly in the Orlando, Florida area....
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2007 | News
Mention the name Nancy Gummer in sustainable food circles and you’re likely to get a nod of recognition. The avid bicyclist and North Dakota native has been getting national attention of late for her revamped food service operation at Good Shepherd Healthcare in...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2007 | Trends
In January, Debra Levin and I keynoted the opening of the Facilities and Design segment of the Arab Health Congress in Dubai, UAE. It was the first time either one of us had traveled to the Middle East and we were not sure how we would be accepted, along with our...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2007 | News
For me, art is a spiritual path, a transformational process, a way of being. I define an artist as one who must make art. I have always loved nature and my artwork reflects this love. Plaine aire painting (painting in nature) imbues nature’s color, scale, and...
