April 2022

Recultivating the image of landscaping

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“I want not only to grow and cultivate a national landscape and hardscape company, but also to focus the next generation on what a landscape professional does and how it can help the environment as well as offer a profession,” says Valerio “Val” Morano Sagliocco, president and CEO of the Morano Group LLC.

‘Doing good by doing well’

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“Environmental stewardship in business is not just a course. It’s a way of thinking,” says Anthony R. Davidson, Ph.D., dean of the School of Professional and Continuing Studies (PCS) at Fordham University and founder of its Real Estate Institute.

More than a heating company

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Robison is about so much more than supplying natural gas and oil – actually biofuel, a clean, renewable blend of heating oil and biodiesel, which is made with vegetable oil (soybean and palm). “Heating, cooling, humidity controls: What we like to say is that we provide everything to make you comfortable in your home,” says President and CEO Dan Singer.

GoGreen knows clean

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Well-established in Westchester, Putnam and Fairfield counties, as well as Florida, GoGreen Dry Cleaners is about much more than going green and indeed dry cleaning.

The long unwind

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On a recent 33-day Caribbean voyage aboard Regent Seven Seas Cruises, WAG luxury travel and beauty writer Debbi K. Kickham and her husband and sometime writer partner, William D. Kickham, had the time to chillax and appreciate the moment.

Go vintage to save the planet

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A great side benefit of adopting, adapting and reusing beautiful, well-made older objects is a reduction in new stuff, often created from less durable and less sustainable materials and also sometimes made under questionable labor conditions.

Touro becomes a university in New York

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In February, Touro College – the largest Jewish-sponsored educational institution in the United States – kicked off its yearlong 50th anniversary celebration with a special gift: The school was granted university status by the New York State Board of Regents. Overseeing this transformation at a time when geopolitics (Touro has schools in Moscow and Jerusalem) has dovetailed with heath care is Alan Kadish, M.D. – president of the Touro College and University System, a man whose entrepreneurial skills have been as crucial to his personal and professional success as his medical gifts and Jewish faith.

Medical ethics, then and now

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The Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial and the ethical medical guidelines that came out of it have taken on new urgency in the age of Covid and the Ukrainian War, says Boston University health law professor George J. Annas, who will speak at the virtual April 28 Yom Hashoah Symposium by New York Medical College in Valhalla.

Medicine with a personal touch

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“I love a person-centered approach,” says Sherri L. Sandel, DO, FACP, the recently appointed medical director of Northern Westchester Hospital/Northwell Health in Mount Kisco. “It starts with the patient and making the process all about that.”

Fighting inflammation

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Not all inflammation – the body’s way of fighting infection and injury – is bad, writes wellness columnist Giovanni Roselli. But then again, not all of it is good. Here he identifies key foods to help you battle it.