Work in Progress

We though you might be interested in an update on the Dynamic Green Home. We've got much, but not all, of the planting and landscaping done. The contractor's obviously making progress on the exterior. (Interior shots come next month.) For a construction site, despite some litter, it's pretty clean and organized. No, the fact that the building is now red doesn't mean it's not a green project. Our green is more than skin deep. 

Credit Board

New siding

Over house wrap

Mulch awaiting installation

East side yard serviceberries

Hydrangia

Retaining wall and patio to be

DGH Paint Partner

Dynamic Green Homes (DGH) is delighted to have Hirshfield’s as a Community and Education Partner and a material donor. Through their partnering in the DGH, Hirshfield’s is broadening their corporate engagement with the neighborhood. More about Hirshfield’s role can be found in this video. If you join us on December 7, you’ll get a “hands-on” opportunity to learn more about how Hirshfield’s products can help you green both the DGH and your own home.

Throughout its history, Hirshfield’s Paint Manufacturing (HPM) has been committed to delivering quality products, formulated with the selection of raw materials that are safe for the environment, safe for their customers, and safe for their employees. Being environmental stewards has always been important to Hirshfield’s operational objectives, as demonstrated in the following:

• Hirshfield’s manufacturing facility operates a closed loop reprocessed water system. All wash water used in clean-up process and in the purging of manufacturing equipment is re-used.

• Their facility is designated and in compliance with being a very small quantity generator of hazardous waste (solvents). HPM is committed to a program where less than 200 gallons of waste solvent is generated annually.

• Recycling of all cardboard and paper products generated in manufacturing process.

• Refitting of facility lighting system that conserves 76,000 kwh of power annually. (That’s equivalent to the total electricity consumed each year by about 100 Minnesota homes.)

• Hirshfield’s products can help meet green building criteria such as the United States Green Building Council’s LEED® certification.

• Hirshfield’s collects all dust-like particles generated in the manufacturing process with dust collectors and recycles all filtered dust particles, preventing airborne contaminant from entering into the environment.

• They have converted all forklifts used within the manufacturing facility to battery packs, eliminating all trucks which ran on fossil fuels.

• The utilization of non-toxic raw materials throughout all of Hirshfield’s Paint Manufacturing’s formulation base. As examples, Hirshfield’s avoids using carcinogenic chemicals such as crystalline silica, and Ethylene Glycols.

• They manage a container return program and recycle totes and recycle drums.

For additional environmental preservation please look for Hirshfield’s “green choice”