The City of Austin can now be considered the best green cleaning team in the US. This commercial cleaning team has been honored as the first municipal government to have its janitorial program recognized under the Green Seal Standard for Commercial and Institutional Cleaning Services.

Dust mites are the invisible culprits keeping millions sick and from coming to work. The American Academy of Asthma and Immunology estimates that up to thirty percent of people in the US suffer from allergic rhinitis, and that allergies are one of the top three reasons people miss work.

Essentially, it was luck that got me started in the professional cleaning industry. By this I mean that some janitorial accounts simply fell into my lap. In my early twenties, I met the manager of a shipping company that was looking for someone to clean its new offices…and hired me.

The Museum of Clean was founded by Don Aslett, founder of Varsity Facility Services, nationally recognized motivational speaker, and bestselling author of forty books on the multiple aspects of clean and clean living. Housed in a reclaimed block of now connected buildings in the warehouse district of Pocatello, Idaho’s old town, the seventy-five thousand square foot complex of the Museum Of Clean is a green, LEED Certified building.

More than thirty years ago, a well-respected scientist and professor, Dr. Irv Konigsberg, was one of the first cell biologists to master the art of cloning stem cells.