Managing Lean and Green - Implementing Integrated Pest Management in Affordable Housing

What is the safest way to keep vermin out of your building? Can it be done without resorting to harmful chemicals?  This workshop brings together leaders in the design and implementation of integrated pest management (IPM) strategies in affordable housing.   IPM is a series of approaches that manage pest damage on households in an economical way, with the least possible hazard to residents, property, and the environment.  IPM aims to utilize common sense strategy without reliance on harmful chemicals and other potentially unhealthy methods.

 The discussion will focus on how affordable housing developers and managers can integrate IPM practices into their developments to meet the mandatory healthy living environment section's IPM criterion of the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria, the first national framework for healthy, efficient, environmentally smart affordable homes. Developed by Enterprise in partnership with some of the nation's leading environmental, public health and green building experts, Green Communities is designed to help developers, investors, builders and residents make the transition to a greener future for affordable housing.

2011 Enterprise Green Communities mandatory criterion 7.14 - "Integrated Pest Management" requires that buildings be built to minimize opportunities for pests to enter the building, and to develop an integrated pest management policy, including resident guidance related to pesticide use, housekeeping, and reporting of pest problems.

Presenters:

Gil Bloom - President, Standard Pest Management 
Mr. Bloom is a certified entomologist, a member of the NYC Bed Bug Advisory Board, a 2004 recipient of the Cornell Community IPM Program “Excellence in IPM" award, and Director of the Pest Management Institute.

Tim Hendricks, A.C.E. - Director of Training, Assured Environments Bio Forthcoming

Register online for the workshop. Payment cannot be accepted online. Instead, payment can be mailed in with the registration form or paid in cash or by check on the day of the session. For information on further workshops, please see the full schedule of events for the 2011-2012 Managing Lean and Green series.

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