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SPOTLIGHT: TAIWAN GREEN COLLAR ASSOCIATION

Green Collar Association was founded to combine industry, government and academic resources to develop professionals focused in the ‘green industry’. By creating an educational platform for these professionals, Taiwan’s Green Collar Association facilitates job placements and stimulates growth and development of green industries in the country.

With Taiwan’s persistent water shortage problem, the retrofit and installation of water efficient devices such as waterless urinals, has become a vital change.

Thank you, Green Collar Association for letting us help you save water and provide a clean and safe environment for your employees and students alike.

WHAT WE’RE READING: LET MY PEOPLE GO SURFING

In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard – legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc. – shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth. In Let My Poeple go Surfing, Chouinard tells the story of how the success of his company has forced him to invent a whole and balanced way of doing business. He takes a longer term view focused on real sustainability and in doing so he does away with conventional business paradigms where the goal is growth at any cost.

Patagonia, a fellow B Corp, is an example for the rest of the world with a dedication to the highest level of quality and the lowest amount of side-effects, environmentally and socially. The principles that drive Chouinard’s company are really his own. He focuses on quality, durability and doing more with less. He is a committed environmentalist and believes businesses should be responsible for the damage they do to the Earth.

Our favorite quote: How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.

Have a great weekend!

WEEKEND LINKS AROUND THE WEB

Hooray for the Friday! We are sure to expect another hot summer weekend ahead of us, so if you catch yourself in the mood to run inside in search of the A.C here are a few links that will keep you occupied.

The L.A Times is hitting it out of the ballpark with the drought coverage. See what happens when two journalists and one dog take a road trip through California.

#DroughtShamming takes a whole new level.

Still on the drought topic, here are 11 things you should know about it.

Have you considered taking the B Corp assessment? If you haven’t heard of it or the idea just hasn’t crossed your mind, this will clarify a few things.

Until Monday, folks!

WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE

It is with pleasure that we announce we have closed a deal to acquire Enswico Group’s global operations, an industry leader in water conservation products. This acquisition continues our strategic goal to be the leader in providing the most comprehensive water conservation technologies. Falcon’s existing technology has saved an estimated total of 20 billion gallons / 75 billion liters of water over the last ten years.

“The Enswico team is world class and is passionate about the same thing we are—creating the highest caliber water conservation technologies for the commercial restroom,” stated Simon A. Davis, our President and CEO. “By leveraging the strengths of a combined team, we are now able to offer the most comprehensive water technology solutions globally. “We found the perfect match with this deal. The power of Falcon combined with Swiss Environmental Technology (SET) will create many innovative synergies,” said Dr. Michael Wächter, General Manager of Falcon Europe.

We are happy to be taking this step forward and will be sharing more updates in the future. Read more about the acquisition here.

STORY OF A RETROFIT: TOROKO METRO STATION

Welcome back to our series of post where we will be showing before and after pictures of some of our installations. Have you ever wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes of a bathroom renovation? Well you have come to the right place. Today we are taking you all the way across the Pacific to Taiwan.

California is not alone when in facing a serious water shortage. Taiwan has been facing one of its worst droughts it has ever experienced as well, and water resource agencies are having ton quickly adapt to this reality. Leaving businesses no choice but to follow along. Retrofitting restrooms is just one of the water-saving choices that are being made in Taiwan.

The Toroko Metro Station is a two-story platform structure that houses both passenger and freight stations. They have chosen to retrofit their restooms to our F4000 waterfree urinals in order to help do their part and cut back on water usage at their facility.

We are always excited to feature what our customers are doing around the world, and this is just one of the examples.

Read the original post from the folks in Falcon Asia here.

#DROUGHTDAY TWITTER PARTY

We are co-hosting a Twitter Party with DIG DEEP this Wednesday at 11 am PST. This one hour online engagement will be focused on celebrating the United Nations’ World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, and will give us an opportunity to connect and discuss the urgent need to protect water and fight the drought! The Twitter Party presents a unique opportunity to create a conversation surrounding the drought and how it affects the lives of people here in California and worldwide, on a daily basis.

If you care about the future, you care about the drought! So join us, DIG DEEP and other twitter friends on June 17th by using the #DroughtDay. Visit DIG DEEP’s twitter account and join the fun!

Tweet you later.

URINAL PROTOCOL ACCORDING TO DRE

H O O R A Y for Friday. To ring in the long weekend, we wanted to share our favorite urinal protocol video. Click on the image to redirect to hulu.com

Trust us, it’s well worth the click!! Wishing you a fantastic holiday weekend.

WE’RE HOSTING A TWITTER PARTY!

We are so excited for Earth Day next week and I am sure you are as well! In order to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the event, we decided to organize a party. Even better, a twitter party. This way people from different parts of the world can participate. A Twitter party is a brief and engaging virtual conversation that uses a hashtag (ours is #OurEarthDay) to bring people together to discuss a specific topic. Our party will last one hour and will be a great way for like-minded people to connect and create community.

As mentioned above, the theme for this party is Earth Day’s 45th anniversary.This could be the most exciting year in environmental history. The year in which economic growth and sustainability join hands.The year in which world leaders finally pass a binding climate change treaty.This is our time to come together and take action in regards to climate change. Our intentions for this twitter party is to engage with our friends and followers in a conversation around environmental issues and how businesses can come together to ‘do good FOR the world.’ And of course to have fun!

The party will begin at 11 am PST with a brief introduction. Then Falcon will pose 10 questions (one every six minutes) designated with Q1, Q2… to prompt responses from participants (you and your followers) using A1, A2…

If you are on twitter follow us @shuttheflushup and come join the party! Send us an email at mhodges@falconwaterfree.com to get the details. Don’t forget to use the #OurEarthDay to be apart of the fun.

Tweet you there!

FALCON MEDIA COVERAGE: SPORTS TECHIE

Three months ago, we announced Jason Gore as our new Falcon ambassador. Just like us, Jason is a California native and has grown up experiencing first hand conservation and the California way of life. In the article below, Sports Techie blog does a great job at illustrating our local water conservation campaign (CA Shut the Flush Up) and why Jason is a perfect fit.

ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY SPORTS TECHIE BLOG:

Falcon Water Technologies sponsored PGA Tour golf professional Jason Gore to evangelize water savings rebate programs implemented by local utilities throughout California in order to help overcome the possibility that the state has one year of stored H20 left after four years of drought. The Sports Techie community blog spoke to Gore about his social media efforts to spread awareness about this global epidemic that has led to unprecedented glacier melting in Greenland, the Article Circle and Antarctica, the largest land mass of ice on the planet resulting is ocean levels rising with the potential to displace millions of human and animals that live on the many coast lines around the world. The time is now for all golf courses to meet this dilemma head on with conservation efforts much like Scott Heyn, General Manager at Oakmont Country Club in Southern California has persuaded his private equity course members to initially fund. Steve Nuskiewicz, Falcon Senior VP North American Sales, also shared with us why the rebate program is in place and how their tech eliminates the need for flush or low flush urinals.

Falcon Waterfree Technologies, LLC promotes conservation of fresh water and supports sustainable resource management by providing the #waterfree urinal system. Golf course restrooms are the focus of their “CA Shut The Flush Up” campaign because by installing water-efficient or waterfree urinals, up to 40,000 gallons of water per year/per urinal is saved a year. In order to save 88,000,000 gallons of water a year, each one of the 1,100 golf courses in California would need to install two waterfree urinals in their bathrooms. Gore said, “Making the switch to waterfree urinals is a very small undertaking with unlimited savings potential.”

The Los Angeles and San Francisco water utilities are doing their part to conserve water by incentivizing golf courses with rebate programs designed to pay for the total purchase and installation price of the waterless urinal. Los Angeles Department of Water & Power has a $20 million rebate program that allows L.A. area golf courses to subsidize out of pocket costs on the $500 fixture purchase and installation in most cases. An added bonus is there are no limits on redeemable rebates per location. Installation takes a mere one hour in many cases.

“Golf courses get a bad reputation, sometimes deservedly so, when it comes to water usage and while they’ve come a long way in the last 10 years, there are still important steps for them to take to finish the job,” emphasized Gore.

Riviera Country Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Hillcrest Country Club and Bel-Air Country Club are already saving money on water bills and cutting back on usage due to Falcon Waterfree urinals installed in their clubhouses, locker rooms, restaurants and pool areas.

Gore is a CA native that lives in Valencia. He has known Tiger Woods since he was 11. Jason graduated from Pepperdine where he helped lead the Waves to the NCAA Championship in 1997. Before transferring there, he won the Pac-10 individual championship as a freshman and sophomore at the University of Arizona. Besides holding the record for most wins in Web.com Tour history, Gore once shot an impressive 59 on the PGA Tour.

“As a global company with California roots, we jumped at the chance to work with Jason to help raise awareness for our efforts,” said Falcon Waterfree CEO Simon Davis. “We are always looking at new, fun ways to reach important market segments and Jason will help to ensure we get our message out there. We look forward to a long relationship and we are convinced he will win on the course and we will win off the course.”

Jason wears the Falcon logo on his polo shirt sleeve during tournaments and after play. The business relationship began at Valencia CC because Davis and Gore are fellow members. PGA golfers have asked him about the logo and placement. Gore mentioned that Rory McIIroy and Phil Mickelson both liked it. Gore’s caddy loves the sponsorship and thinks it is great. His social media content was met by PGA Tour characters with jokes such as, “that’s why we use trees,” but some have retweeted his noble efforts.

Shut The Flush Up
Steve Nuskiewicz spoke to me about the severe California drought and the need for more awareness which is why the Shut The Flush Up campaign was created. He is eager to watch the ROI Gore provides on social media via targeted marketing.

Waterfree technology developed by Falcon is the marketplace leader and more advanced than any other urinal. They constantly bring new concepts to market and are innovators in the janitorial and maintenance space saving hundreds and thousands of gallons of water for customers and the environment. The cartridges take three minutes to change, either you do it or sign up for the Falcon maintenance program. Day to day operation is simple, spray and wipe down the urinal, no engineering staff is needed for installation.

The rebate program in Southern California has been around since 2002/2003. The first facility to install Waterfree was the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. The initial 300 urinals will be added to the extras recent stadium renovations called for. Staples Center installed Waterfree back in 2007 and saves millions of gallons of water spread across their 330 events a year.

Phillips Arena here in Atlanta is not a present client. Throughout Georgia, some school districts and office spaces are using Waterfree but not The Masters at Augusta National. Even though water rates are not as high here or in other states compared to CA, sewage rates and waste water elimination is.

They offer a “Greener Restroom” for facilities that comes with waterless urinals, high efficiency toilets and solar powered faucets. The Sloan Valve Company produces the solar facets that actually are a Falcon private label relationship for Sloan water free, solar facets, sinks and flush valves.

I learned a new term from him, Zeroscape. It basically means a desert like ecosystem that requires no water, something golf courses and resorts around the globe are beginning to embrace.

Read the article here and more about our California campaign here.

WORLD WATER DAY CELEBRATION

After attending a B Corp event with the Do Good Bus last month, we decided to have them take the whole Falcon gang out to celebrate World Water Day yesterday.

Being a B Corp means more than just striving for environmental savings. Water savings is the core of our products, however we also want to work towards a better world where people commit their time to help others. That is when the Do Good Bus comes in. They are a non-profit organization that promises altruistic adventurism by bringing people together to help local causes in a fun and social environment. They round up a group of people and drive them to an unknown location where the goal is to get to know and help a cause. It made perfect sense to hire them for the day!

Thursday started as a mystery. All we knew was that our volunteering opportunity was related to water. Since our HQ is in Los Angeles, the first thing that came to mind was: B E A C H. It was a hot 80 degrees day in Southern California, so we put on hats, sunglasses and a ton of sunscreen, and went out to have some fun! As soon as we pulled into the notorious Venice Beach neighborhood, it was clear what our goal for the day was. Tyler, from the Do Good Bus handed out black trash bags and gloves to all the team and we set out on a beach cleaning spree.

Check out the Do Good Bus‘ website and maybe you too will be interested in going for a ride!