So you think it is too expensive to set up shop for your small business or start-up in New York. And you are overwhelmed at the thought of three months of security deposit, moving expenses, equipment rentals, renovation costs and monthly utility costs, Think again! A new dawn of affordable office space has been born in New York City!
From that corner of sustainable innovation, the SF Bay Area, comes another amazing start-up crowd funding platform: Mosaic. This company supports solar energy for organizations and collaboratives that would otherwise find the cost of renewable energy prohibitive. Think Renewable Energy Coops! The model for Mosaic is innovative and promising and could be adapted to all sorts of industries including finance and banking.
It’s imperative for kids to grow up seeing nuanced and inspiring role models – both male and female – in their media. The days of male characters taking action and being fully-formed, rounded protagonists, while female characters are relegated to the role of girlfriend, the princess to be rescued, or the token, generic “girl” among a group of individualized boys, should be well behind us, but unfortunately they’re not.
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!
May 2013: Curated by Tamara Garvey and Monika Mitchell New York in May offers Everything From Sustainable & Locally Sourced Markets, Handmade Craft Fairs, How-To Workshops for Small Business, Socially Conscious Festivals and Fairs! May 3-31 Mad. Sq. Eats Locally sourced, sustainable, gluten-free food trucks from NYC restaurants. Outdoor market near Madison Square Park (25 St [...]
On Thursday May 9th, 2013, join six of New York’s favorite eco-friendly fashion designers in honoring 10 individuals committed to increasing awareness of and the accessibility to the benefits of eco-friendly design and production within the global fashion community
My initial impression of the 2013 NYC Green Festival at the Javits Center was delightful sensory overload! From the smell of organic truffle butter popcorn to the impressive colorful tower of reclaimed soda lids, I felt like a kid in a candy store and did not know where to dash first (the gourmet buttered popcorn won).
It’s no secret that Bushwick, Brooklyn is exploding with new art galleries, but one of the newest ones will expand the opportunities for artists who live even further east than most. Married artist couple Lori Kirkbride and Nao Matsumoto are opening lorimoto Gallery in between the Myrtle/Wyckoff L/M and the Halsey L stops. The gallery will largely focus on group shows of artists from “Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond.”
America is hooked on eggs. We use a lot of them in our favorite foods from pancakes to bagels, to cupcakes and cookies. Many of our egg-happy foods are borrowed from the French: soufflés, quiches, omelettes, remoulades, mayonnaise – just to name a few! Yet increasingly, reports of the egg distributing industry reveal the ghastly treatment of mother hens, toxic chemicals in the processing, and generally unhealthy care and feeding of the chickens that lay these ungolden eggs! The entire eggy mess makes the egg one of the more unhealthy foods we can eat, not just for our hearts, but for our souls too!
So you thought that the Big Apple was just a lean mean fighting machine of big business loving, Wall Street hugging, corporate kissing, money hungry anti-Occupy capitalistic greed and power? Well, okay you might be right! But small biz is making a comeback!
Etsy (Italian for “oh, yes!”): That wonderful, whimsical online marketplace for crafty sole entrepreneurs is branching out. My recent experience attending an innovative and uniquely structured conference: “Hello Etsy: Reimagine the Marketplace” showed me that Etsy is nothing less than a market force.
Philanthropy is popping up on menus across the country as restaurateurs opt to turn profits into charity. Yet, how will an already risky business endeavor fare among varying economic climates and public tastes? If these socially conscious entrepreneurs have anything to say about it, pretty well.
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