Leigh Stringer. Green Workplace Maven. HOK Board of Directors Member. Loving Wife and Mother. All Around Great Person. If you don’t know Leigh Stringer, you are missing out. A rising star in HOK’s Advance Strategies practice, Leigh has focused her career on green design and workplace behavior in facility planning projects all over the world. She is author and creator of the The Green Workplace blog and she has also recently published a book of the same name. Even more impressive is that between clients, book signings and star-studded weddings in NYC, she still made time to answer my 5 questions so all of you could get to know her too….
Not to be outdone by Chicago, HOK WDC hosted a book-launch party for our own Leigh Stringer and her fabulous book The Green Workplace on Tuesday, October 6.
The event was held on the green roof of 700 Sixth Street, one of DC’s first LEED C&S Platinum buildings (designed by HOK, of course). The building’s developer, Akridge, gracefully allowed HOK to use the roof deck (and downstairs lobby when the fall wind and a few sprinkles picked up), as well as providing tours of the space on the fourth floor (currently tracking LEED CI Gold!). Food was …
From The Green Workplace blog:
The second part of the Dell green IT/ green workplace with Roberson Homes was to implement a few green workplace strategies that would save energy and make their office greener. Here are some of the things they did a plus few more ideas that any small company can do for little or no cost:
1. Use flat screen LCD monitors over CRT monitors. Looking at some of the before and after energy stats from Dell really drove it home for me. Robertson Homes saved 50-60% energy consumption by using CRTs vs. LCD monitors. I’ve seen numbers much higher than that.
2. Use power strips wisely. Most people use power strips …
From The Green Workplace blog:
Last week I had the pleasure of joining Dell in a green IT/ green workplace makeover of one of its small business customers. Roberson Homes is a family run business in St. Cloud, Florida that specializes in designing and building sustainable homes in the area. Meeting the family was great – they are clearly passionate about their business and about the environment. A company after my own heart! If you’re looking for a great green homebuilder in the Orlando area, give these guys a call!
As part of the makeover, Dell generously donated eight new Optiplex 960 desktops, eight …
It finally happened. After a almost year of writing away on The Green Workplace, I got my first blogging gig! Apparently a PR firm started reading the blog a while back and thought I would be perfect to give a ”Green Workplace Makeover” to one of their customer’s customers. I’ll reveal more later… I have to keep the details confidential until October 28 due to a product launch. Yesterday, I was filmed interviewing employees of a small family business and I did a walk through of the workplace sharing ”tips to green your business.” I felt like a blonde Bob Vila on This Old House. And boy do I have more respect for the hosts of those TV shows! The camera guys were great, but …
Tell me this isn’t cool? Another blog for which I write (The Green Workplace) is bringing in the business! The blog’s editor (HOK Advance Strategies’ Leigh Stringer, AKA Greenette) was recently contacted by Enfatico, Dell Computers’ PR firm, for help greening a small business in Orlando.
Dell plans to provide green technology solutions and is looking to Greenette for help on other workplace greening ideas. She’ll be blogging and twittering about it next week. Be sure to check out The Green Workplace for more information.
