Two Very Special Events are happening this week for sustainable food lovers! NYC’s Sustainable Seafood Week features restaurants, events and special meals at some of the city’s most popular and socially conscious venues!
Also “Hester Nights” opens Thursday near the Eventi Hotel in Upper Chelsea and features many of the city’s coolest sustainable food startups. So check it out, but only if you are hungry!
Gazillionaire Mayor Bloomberg doesn’t just support his deep-pocketed Wall Street clients. The Mayor has been on track to create New York City as one of the premier centers for new business innovation in the world. Recognizing that office space in New York was prohibitive, our Mayor has created a phenomenal incubator community with city resources and subsidies for dirt cheap work space, professional services and high-tech access. The latest hub is set to open on West 118 Street and will serve the area’s upcoming entrepreneurs and small business start-ups.
Donna Distefano is a New York City jewelry designer who uses her artistic talent to support fair trade gemstones and sustainability. Part of this Month’s “Women Who Do Good” Series featuring New York area women who are making a difference through what they do for a living.
Is the business of Love helping your enterprise? For retailers, restaurants and dating sites, Valentine’s Day is big business. But all the wrapping paper, un-recycled cards, and general consumption can also lead to an ecological wasteland! As we celebrate our love for each other, don’t forget to love the planet too!
How do you strengthen the local economy through small business and community investment. How would a fund dedicated to supporting small businesses and local jobs work? The authors Greg Wendt, senior wealth advisor from “StakeHolders Capital” and Ron Schultz author of a new book, “Creating Good Work” discuss their ideas on how to bring good capital home by creating a “local living economy fund.”
The H(app)athon Project is an Initiative that is crowdsourcing a digitally focused Happiness Indicator and is creating an app/methodology that lets people measure and improve their well-being. Happiness Indicators or Indexes like Gross National Happiness from Bhutan reflect a fuller picture of value for a country beyond the GDP. We (our Committee) want the value of people reflected by technologies/groups like Quantified Self and the Internet of Things to be a part of our metrics so we can ‘give Big Data a direction.’
How Music Can Change the World! This is a wonderfully inspiring 3 minute video sent to us by bestselling author and Good-b friend Martin Rutte. It tells the story of a broken violin part found on a trash heap in a poor community in Paraguay. The discovery yielded a miracle and birthed a local children’s [...]
New York is a book lovers’ paradise; the city has many great independent bookstores. While most of us shop from time to time at Barnes & Noble and everyone has ordered a book or tw0 (or 3) from Amazon- who knows where your money goes when you order from these Goliaths. Amazon has been called the most predatory competitor in the world – putting mom & pops and small b’s everywhere out of business.
Sustainable Chocolate and Baked Goods Made in New York with natural ingredients. The Chocolate Bar by local artisans and five star chocolatiers like top New York pastry chef, Jean-Francois Bonnet. The handmade only-in-New York chocolate bars, hot cocoa, spicy brownies, and truffles are wrapped in labels created by local Big Apple artists and designers.
One of the world’s largest corporations, ranked #49 among Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” and No. 34 by Forbes in terms of size and influence, American Express wants to be your small business’ BFF.
According to Forbes, the financial services giant has a market cap of over $65B, that’s B for billions. With over 65,000 employees worldwide, more than 26,000 in the U.S. alone, American Express is the biggest buddy that small business ever had. That must be why they sponsor “Small Business Saturday” on Thanksgiving Weekend, giving reward perks to anyone who supports Small-b’s with an Amex card purchase.
The impact of Hurricane Sandy on New York Metro area residents and businesses has been overwhelming for all of us who live or work here, and operate businesses here. While midtown and uptown New York escaped with little damage, downtown New York City from 39 Street to Wall Street was plunged into darkness for five and half days.
There really isn’t much to do when you are a small business and have to shut the doors due to Hurricane weather conditions. For the first time in thirty years, the New York Stock Exchange is closed. Even if your business is not physically damaged, the loss of sales and revenues for both owners and [...]
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