Top 8 Ways to Beat the Heat.
Hot summer days don’t have to mean greater energy consumption and expense. In addition to the ideas below, if we acclimate our bodies to the summer heat by avoiding big temperature swings, we can rely less on AC to cool us down.
Turn up the Dial. Each degree above 78 [...]
Leaders at Andersen Corporation launched an internal effort in 2008 to reduce, reuse and recycle everything possible in the office area of the business. Andersen Corporation Vice President of Corporate Sustainability and Quality, J Glasnapp, dubbed the program ECO3 and launched an employee communications initiative around it.
The company carefully measures these activities and, since the [...]
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Minnesota Green Communities are hosting the seventh annual Greening the Heartland conference featuring Green by Design on May 19-21. Organizers say this year’s theme, Bridging, “seeks to draw valuable connections between people, places and ideas to help create a sustainable heartland region and beyond.”
Professionals from design, planning, [...]
How does a community weave sustainability into everyday life? It starts with the person you see in the mirror.
Andersen is partnering with The Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, Wis., to bring the traveling art display “What We Need is Here” to two Andersen facilities in the coming weeks. The mirror display, created by [...]
In celebration of Earth Day and its worldwide focus on the environment, Andersen Corporation employees near the company’s headquarters in Bayport, Minn. commemorated the day by planting trees for the occasion.
J Glasnapp, vice president of corporate sustainability and quality, was joined by special guest Cory Brinkema, president of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), a nonprofit organization [...]
Jim Humphrey, chairman and chief executive officer of Andersen Corporation, shares his thoughts about the federal Home Star program in a segment on the FOX Business channel. President Obama announced today a series of rebates for people making energy-efficient improvements to their homes.
“Not only is the Home Star program creating jobs for manufacturers, but the [...]
Andersen Windows employee Dale Brathol has explored the land around the Hammond, Wis., area since he was a kid. It’s not surprising then, that he now calls the area home, living in his own 87-acre forest.
Dale and his wife have owned the property since the mid-1980s. “I just wanted some privacy,” said Dale, a production [...]
