Ecologic CEO Anselm Doering penned the following essay for Elephant Journal: “It’s a tale of two labels. One side features giddy bubbles, pristine pine trees or smiling bald men like me. But flip the cleaning product around and you’ll see entirely different symbols. Skulls, do-not-touch signs,caution, warning, danger. There are more than 80,000 synthetic chemicals registered for…
Do you ever walk by the Brooklyn Navy Yard and think, “What do people do in there?” Well, thanks to BLDG 92, now locals get a chance to see what’s inside the place that more than 200 businesses call home. The former shipyard will host a slew of factory tours around the navy yard, all open to the public,…
Brooklyn-based EcoLogic Solutions and CEO Anselm Doering were featured in a two-minute film produced by NYCEDC.
Coke and Pop Rocks can kill. Elvis is coming back. And green cleaning a restaurant is burdensome, expensive and less effective than the traditional toxic approach. I cringe each time I hear this. The green cleaning myth, that is. Elvis, I’m not so sure. He may indeed be alive and well and living in Las…
It sounds too good to be true – technology that can produce highly effective, non-toxic cleaners and disinfectants using only tap water, salt, and electricity? For less than a penny per gallon? Technology based on science that is hundreds of years old? Since ECA technology uses only salt, water, and 120 volts of electricity, the…
Every entrepreneur has that “aha!” moment—an instant when a single, riveting business vision crystalizes. For Anselm Doering, the magical moment came in 2001, in a rest-stop bathroom off I-87. The fluorescent glare illuminated a sign that read “Proud to be cleaned by Lysol.” Anselm, who had run a pioneering green products store called Earth General…
After the rain had stopped and the winds had died down, IceStone president and CEO Dal LaMagna thought his countertop manufacturing company had escaped the worst of Hurricane Sandy. And at first glance, the road leading to the IceStone manufacturing facility in the Brooklyn Navy Yard didn’t appear to have suffered major flooding. Mr. LaMagna’s hope faded when…
The six contestants in Yahoo’s “Plugged In” show, an environmentally-oriented competition program hosted by actor Adrien Grenier, deliver bags of salt to the EcoLogic Solutions office in the Brooklyn Navy Yard as part of a sustainability challenge. See if you can spot Anselm explaining to the contestants how our technology can turn salt into natural…
Juice spills, paint drips and knocked-over snacks are part of the day for every preschool teacher. Teachers at Greenwich Country Day School were no exception, routinely wiping down children’s desks with Clorox disinfecting wipes multiple times a day. But the school this past year discarded its disinfecting wipes, as well as its all-purpose cleansers and dish detergent,…
Living walls made out of plants. Desks fashioned from reclaimed doors. Our “greener than green” headquarters in the Brooklyn Navy Yard gets a close-up in this segment on the Urban Gardener show. Bravo!