I think I first met Mark and Samantha a couple of months after they opened their shop (while I was doing early research for a book). I’ve been a big fan and loyal customer ever since (even after leaving the ‘hood). So happy to see them reach this milestone.
On April 16th, 2004, Samantha and Mark […]
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So the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce now has a Green Business Committee. This is a very good thing. Not only because it’s crucial for a city’s commercial base to understand that a more sustainable city is a better city to do business, but also because they’re lining some events that sound awfully good. Here’s the […]
I’ve been meaning to post something about Hall Street Self Storage (the first truly “green” self-storage facility in the country) for awhile. But now I don’t have to, since Ethan at Green Brooklyn did such a good job:
Hall Street Self Storage, which in May 2008 opened as the first green self-storage space in the country, […]
Financing Climate Disaster
Posted in Business, Energy, Events, finance on Jan 9th, 2009
From the NYC Sierra Club Meetup:
Financing Climate Disaster:
How NYC’s financial institutions are making the next round of bad loans, underwriting global warming, and gambling against President-elect Obama by financing new coal plants
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 6:30 pm
15th Street Friends Meeting House, 15 Rutherford Place, Manhattan
(between 15th & 16th Streets, 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
suggested donation $10
After […]
There’s a ton of potential for small bizzes to save themselves boatloads of cash through some pretty simple and cheap actions around NYC. It sounds like this EcoBizNYC initiative of the Lower East Side Ecology Center is going to show how it’s done. They’ve got a Weathering for the Winter workshop–first of many, I’m guessing–coming up.
Full […]
Grameen America celebrates microlending milestone in Queens
Posted in Business, Efficiently on Nov 28th, 2008
Grameen America has now given out $1 million in microloans to Queens customers. Average loan $2000. Payback rate 99.5%. Congrats! [Times’ City Room]
Lower East Side as Green Commerce Eden
Posted in Business, Lifestyle, Stuff We Like on Apr 18th, 2008
[Photo: leslieannprice on flickr]
Of course we can’t buy our way out of ecological catastrophe. But, as it goes, eco-commerce has become a formidable plank of this broader green platform. And we’d be in denial if we didn’t admit that the burgeoning eco-fashion movement has brought awareness of the issues to plenty of people who might’ve […]
Local Ad Agency Rides the Green Wave
Posted in Business on Mar 28th, 2008
We’re not going to spend a lot of our time (or yours) talking about marketing, but there is this pretty big ad agency here in NYC that is launching a “green” offshoot, and they seem to be taking a pretty progressive approach to the whole endeavor. In other words–they’re going well beyond tacking “green” on […]
Just Not Enough Green To Go Green for Bronx Buisness
Posted in Business, Energy, Green Building on Feb 13th, 2008
An owner of a Bronx business called New York Beverage decided that he was going to take his warehouse off the electric grid. At first he was reasoning with wind power but opted for solar instead. He is in a low-rise zoning area where it would be perfect for maximum exposure to sunlight.
NYC: America’s 20th Greenest City?
Posted in Business, Climate Change, Community, Design, Energy, Environmental Justice, Food, Green Building, Health, Lifestyle, Livable Streets, Parks and Open Space, Politics, Technology, Transportation, Waste, Water on Feb 13th, 2008
Popular Science ranks the country’s 50 Greenest Cities in its latest issue and New York comes in at a respectable #20, despite being beaten out by Boston and Chicago. The magazine used raw data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Geographic Society’s Green Guide, which collected government statics and survey data across 30 different sustainability categories. Pop Sci then distributed these statistics across four broad categories: electricity, transportation, green living, and recycling and green perspective. Cities earned points for items such as their number of LEED-certified buildings, how much energy they draw from renewable sources, how many commuters use public transportation or carpool, and how much land they devote to public green space.