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Levin, Newman and Liebler expect
the David Whitney House project to
be finished by the holidays.

Though he founded Lean &
Green Michigan in 2013 as part
of his Detroit-based Levin Energy
Partners, his quest for a greener
planet goes back further and is
directly linked to his involvement in
the Jewish community here and in
other parts of the country.
In the early 2000s, he protested
oil drilling in the Arctic Circle
with a Reconstructionist temple
in Bethesda, Md. Now serving as
president of Congregation T’chiyah
in Oak Park, he is also founder and
chair of the steering committee of
Detroit Jews for Justice.
“I am enthused about PACE

Ed Chudnow:
Going Green With Used
Office Furniture.

a niche market for itself by outfitting
According to Environmental
special events, starting when Detroit
Protection Agency estimates,
hosted the 1980 Republican
approximately 3 million
National Convention.
tons of office furniture and
“There was a need to
furnishings are discarded
set up pop-up offices for
each year. Statistics for
hundreds of the media
2005 estimated that 8.8 mil-
outlets and politicians in
lion tons of furniture ended
attendance” said Chudnow
up in U.S. landfills. It’s so
of West Bloomfield.
poorly monitored that there
“Eventually, wherever there
is little data.
Ed Chudnow
was a national convention
That’s where Ed
— Atlanta, San Francisco
Chudnow, president of
or New Orleans — it was my fam-
Better Business Systems Group in
ily business that supplied them with
Ferndale, steps in.
the typewriters, file cabinets, desks,
For more than half a century,
Chudnow’s family business has been tables and chairs that they needed to
get their jobs done.”
salvaging desks, file cabinets, chairs
These days, the bulk of his
and other office equipment from the
downsizing of corporate America and merchandise comes from compa-
nies needing to rid themselves of
refurbishing and reselling the stock
desks and cubicles as workplaces
to small businesses and start-ups.
become more fluid and mobile. He
In the 1980s, the company carved

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Green Michigan, and dozens of
energy-efficiency consultants
such as Jim Newman, who led the
Whitney project, have completed
projects in other nearby counties
and say other businesses are start-
ing to take notice. In 2018, Levin
expects to close on more than a
dozen PACE projects to the tune of
$10 million.
He and Newman have collabo-
rated on the Whitney project with
Liebler. Planning was in place this
summer; the physical work begins
this fall; and the project should be
completed by the holiday season.
Although the current White
House administration under
President Donald Trump is roll-
ing back many Environmental
Protection Agency regulations,
Levin said the wheels are already
turning locally as corporations real-
ize the economic benefits of cutting
greenhouse gas emissions.
“Every PACE contract reduces
Michigan’s carbon footprint,” Levin
said by phone as he grabbed lunch
between meetings with potential
contractors and PACE clients.
“Most Fortune 500 companies
have target dates of carbon neutral-
ity. They do things based on sci-
ence and dollars and cents. I don’t
see a reverse course [on sustainabil-
ity practices] based on one man’s
ideology, which are at odds with
science.”

JERRY ZOLYNSKY

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