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About Auggie V’s Green Blog
“Welcome to the greenest blog in Connecticut. Here you’ll read about a person, place or thing that has a connection to green building and green business. Every now and then I might stray and discuss something outside our 500 mile sustainable region and it might just be about green business or green lifestyles but it will leave you with something to think about and hopefully make your day a little greener.”
-Augustus “Auggie” Victorious
Being and Building Green
Let’s face it, the world’s natural resources are beginning to run out and our atmosphere and air quality have been impacted in such a way that global warming has become a global concern and has left us questioning the future availability of the earth’s resources.
At 41%, the U.S. building industry accounts for the largest portion of our energy consumption. Building green and sustainable design help create “cleaner” living and working spaces while not impacting the environment as negatively as we have in the past. More and more, developers, architects, engineering firms and manufacturers are embracing principles of sustainability in project designs. Manufactures have caught the sustainability bug by producing eco-friendly products to feed the growing green building market. Architects and engineers have introduced these products to developers and builders and together they are using more energy efficient and eco-friendly building products and instituting better lighting and air quality designs. In addition, landscape and interior designers are also promoting plans that incorporate sustainable solutions.
Auctor | Verno developed the buildingctgreen.com web site to provide Connecticut’s commercial and residential building owners/managers, homeowners and professionals in the building industry, a central resource for green building products and services. Here you will find explanations and answers to how you can save money and become more sustainable and preserve the earth’s resources for future generations. The buildingctgreen.com site hopes to give visitors a sense of what’s possible when being and building green. Enjoy.
About Auctor | Verno
auctor -oris m. [one who gives increase]. Hence (1) [an originator, causer, doer; founder of a family; architect of a building; author of a book; originator of or leader in an enterprise; source of or warrant for a piece of information]. (2) [a backer, supporter, approver, surety].verno -are [to flourish, grow green]……Green building in Latin.
AuctorVerno, LLC, the producer of buildingctgreen.com with offices in Bloomfield and Bethany, is a green building/green business marketing services firm that assists customers in developing strategies and setting goals that green their operation, supply chain, culture and mission. Our clients include small and mid-sized businesses, non-profits, NGOs and government agencies.
Services include:
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Greenstorming…..Green idea generation.
- Green building event coordination and promotion.
- Strategic Communications
- Image enhancement and integrated outreach campaigns.
- Green Building Speakers’ Bureau
- Media Relations
P.S. We also happen to be passionate about what we do and think this stuff is fun and if we’re having fun, our clients are having fun.
Hey Auggie, I love your site– it’s great seeing a site dedicated to green building on a local level — thinking globally and acting locally as they say, will be key to getting on track with our buildings and designs. Of course a lot of this info is useful and relevant to all of us (not just Connecticutans), so thank you. Maxmsf
I do PR for Earth Class Mail (ECM), our service provides people with their postal mail online, and I thought it might be of interest to your readers.
This is what we do in a nutshell:
We receive your paper mail (ECM is certified by the USPS as a Commercial Mail Receiving Agency), scan it (unopened front and back), log it, and then present it to the user online, sending them an email alert that they have mail. At that point, users can view the envelope and decide whether to: recycle, shred, forward, or open and scan the contents; if the latter, the process is repeated. We take enormous security precautions at our facility in Beaverton, OR. Many of our mail handling employees are veterans, all have DoD or civilian equivalent clearance. They wear pocketless uniforms, are forbidden from bringing recording devices of any kind (not even a pencil), and they are filmed when opening mail.
Right now we have more than 4,000 customers in 130 different countries. It’s proven its worth to travelers, ex-pats, remote workers, and anyone looking to end clutter and increase recycling – 93% of customer mail is recycled, four times the national average.
Enterprises are interested in cost savings (virtualizing the mail room), greater efficiency, and storage capabilities (aiding business continuity and regulatory compliance efforts). We have a major pilot program entering its third phase with a Fortune 100 enterprise scaling to include 16,000 of their employees at sites across the country. And, we’re in negotiations with privatized European posts who want to implement the service as a way of improving mail service and increasing their revenues.
Without (much) exaggeration, ECM is revolutionizing the way people manage their mail, the last form of analog communication.
Anyway, I thought I’d shoot this information your way to see what you thought.
Thanks for your time.
Best,
Jeff Wenker
PR Director
Earth Class Mail
206-778-5940 mobile
206-905-2428 office