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Greening Your Senior Living Communities - Helpful Tips and Information


 
5/16/2012
Community Acting to Reduce Energy (CARE), Green Living
Today, ALFA will also recognize 265 senior living communities with the Communities Acting to Reduce Energy (C.A.R.E.) Achievement Award.
 
3/15/2012
Community Acting to Reduce Energy (CARE), Green Living, Property Management
Brookdale Senior Living has partnered with ENERGY STAR, formalizing their commitment to energy management. Recently, Brookdale acquired Horizon Bay, w...
 
1/31/2012
Green Living, Property Management
Cogenra Solar highlights the costs and benefits of implementing a solar energy program through a case study of an assisted living community undergoing...
 
1/12/2012
Green Living
If you are thinking about putting together an internal team of experts to save energy but don’t know where to start, look no further. The ENERGY STAR ...
 
1/10/2012
Green Living
Check out the most relevant trends affecting energy usage and energy costs in the United States.
 
1/4/2012
Green Living
Looking for a New Year’s Resolution? Resolve to save money and help the environment with ENERGY STAR and ALFA’s new Communities Acting to Reduce Energ...
 
12/27/2011
Green Living, Property Management
Learn how the energy market works and how to save money on energy costs for your community.
 
9/13/2011
Best of the Best Awards, Green Living
A Best of the Best Program to Spotlight, Pathway Senior Living’s Microfiber Cleaning System has made the company’s communities more ecologically frien...
 
9/13/2011
Green Living
Learn about the new standards for energy management systems published by the International Organization for Standardization and how they relate to ENE...
 
8/16/2011
Award Programs, Best of the Best Awards, Dining, Green Living
Age Song’s revolutionary green dining program earned itself a Best of the Best Program to Spotlight recognition in the Resident Dining Experience cate...
 
8/9/2011
ALFA Conference & Expo, Green Living
ENERGY STAR rated communities reduce pollution and cut costs. Earn your community an ENERGY STAR rating with some insightful tips from John Sattelmaye...
 
4/7/2011
Green Living
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- April 7, 2011 – The Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA) today joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in honoring ...
 
3/14/2011
Green Living
An ENERGY STAR® Energy Management Networking Web Conference, Building and Benefiting From Real-Time Energy Tracking Systems, will be held Wednesday, M...
 
3/7/2011
Green Living
ALFA has teamed up with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to recognize the first senior care communities to earn the ENERGY STAR, a certi...
 
11/30/2010
Green Living
Need an easy, free way to track benchmark your energy performance? Listen in to ENERGY STAR’s latest free Webinar this Thursday (Dec. 2) at 1 p.m. EST...
 
11/16/2010
Green Living
You can now benchmark your energy consumption under ENERGY STAR’s new senior care space type and earn a 1-100 rating. Ratings of 75 or higher earn the...
 
10/19/2010
Green Living
Mark your calendar for a Nov. 10 webinar on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 Senior Care Survey results, when the EPA discusses a new b...
 
8/31/2010
Green Living
If your company – or even your part of the company – can tackle the four critical factors needed to implement a successful business strategy focused o...
 
4/8/2010
Green Living
Thank you for completing and submitting the Senior Care Energy Survey. Due to your hard work in collecting the data required, we received nearly 800 r...
 
3/1/2010
Furnishings, Green Living, Property Management
CEO Felicia Donahue was recently visiting communities operated by her company, Bluebird Assisted Living, when she noticed that some upholstery and fur...
 
2/22/2010
Green Living, Science and Technology, Space Planning and Design
A three-part Webinar series called “Creating Home – Access to Nature” will present research-based outdoor design solutions for senior-serving resident...
 
1/17/2010
Green Living
A larger set of data is needed before EPA scientists can effectively expand the Energy Star rating system to senior living communities. Your help is n...
 
1/5/2010
Competitive Positioning, Green Living, Investment To Grow
The social and environmental – in addition to the financial – bottom line should all be targets of innovation for forward-thinking and strategic busin...

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BEST of the Best

ALFA 2011 Best of the Best Awards

The ALFA Best of the Best Awards recognize those products, services or programs that make significant contributions advancing operational excellence in senior living. Award categories recognize both senior living providers and companies that serve senior living.

Learn more about the ALFA 2011 Best of the Best Award winners.

ALFA's 2012 Best of the Best Award Winners will be recognized at COMMUNITY 2012, the ALFA 2012 conference & expo, May 16-18 in Dallas, Texas.