Future Environment Designs’ Angelo Garcia III Named 2025 HERALD GreenBIZ Award Winner

 October 2025 — Future Environment Designs is proud to announce that Angelo Garcia III, Principal-Industrial Hygienist and Founder, has been selected as a recipient of the HERALD 2025 GreenBIZ Award, presented by HERALD Community Newspapers and RichnerLIVE.

The inaugural GreenBIZ Awards recognize Long Island companies and individuals leading the way in environmental sustainability and community impact. Mr. Garcia was chosen for his more than 30 years of commitment to improving environmental health and safety through education, advocacy, and industry leadership.

Under Mr. Garcia’s direction, Future Environment Designs has become one of Long Island’s premier providers of asbestos, mold, indoor air quality, and OSHA compliance training—empowering professionals to create safer and healthier workplaces across New York State and the tri-state region.

“It’s an honor to be recognized among Long Island’s sustainability leaders. For more than three decades, our mission at Future Environment Designs has been to make workplaces safer and communities healthier through education, training, and advocacy.  This award reinforces our belief that protecting the environment and protecting people go hand in hand.” - Angelo Garcia III, Principal-Industrial Hygienist, Future Environment Designs, Inc.

Award recipients will be honored at the GreenBIZ Awards Gala on October 29, 2025, at The Heritage Club at Bethpage, celebrating sustainability leaders shaping a greener, healthier future for Long Island.

Future Environment Designs, Inc. Celebrates 37 Years in Business With a New Program Called "After The Refresher"

On October 5, 1988, Angelo Garcia, III, founded Future Environment Designs, Inc. (FEDTC) as an indoor air quality consulting and training service to the facility management sector.  Since then, we have transformed the company into a provider of asbestos, mold, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance training.  That has enabled us to continue for 37 years, with plans to continue for at least another 13 years.  

Once we converted the company into a training company, we became completely focused on our Blue Ocean Strategy of separating our company from our competitors by including additional services in our training courses to meet our clients' needs.  Services like:

• supplying personal protective equipment (PPE),
• providing quantitative respirator fit testing,
• providing respirator medical evaluations, 
• our monthly Safety Suzy newsletter with content on asbestos, mold, indoor air quality, and occupational safety and health information, 
• our blog where we post items of interest and discussion, 
• our negative air app, 
• our air sampling charts, 
• our training library, 
• our partnership with SiteDocs, 
• and all of it found on FEDTC's website.

In keeping with our Blue Ocean Strategy, we are starting a program called "After the Refresher".  "After the Refresher" will consist of interviews and recordings with people who attended our refresher classes, where our attendees get to introduce themselves and we discuss some of the topics we covered in the refresher class.  As we develop this program, we hope to interview people at conferences and other events that have an impact on the asbestos, mold, and OSHA compliance business.

In our first episode above, we discussed the different items we are currently discussing in our asbestos refresher courses.  In our second episode below, we interviewed John Paciulli of Insight Environmental, Inc., on the new New York State Department of Labor fact sheet on asbestos surveys and how it would impact the asbestos and mold industries.  We also discuss issues regarding contamination assessments.

As we continue to develop these programs and services, we are looking forward to what the next 13 years have to offer.  When you watch these programs, please don't forget to subscribe to Future Environment Designs Training Center's YouTube Channel and hit the like button.  Thank you!