July 2012
1 post
Launching a Bicultural Startup -- Carpooling.com...
From Marissa Feinberg’s Forbes blog
Green Spaces is New York City’s sustainable coworking space for startups, entrepreneurs, and others who enjoy working happily while improving the world. Members from diverse and overlapping fields make us NYC’s networking hotspot for the eco-minded. I’m Marissa Feinberg, Green Spaces co-founder, marketing and PR media whisperer, and rapid dot...
March 2012
3 posts
Green Economy Think Tank Day
Just learned of this LA initiative and will work with Greg Wendt with a team to bring the initiative to New York. Stay tuned for more!
Mainstreaming Green Behaviors Demands Massive New...
Ogilvy’s eye-opening study! Click here for the release and here for the full paper. With interesting findings on the male and mainstream approach… We must move green from “niche” to “normal”. The findings enable marketers to understand the “Green Gap”, the discrepancy between stated intention and behavior when it comes to living sustainably, offer solutions on...
Listening to Norma Kamali on Wellness Cafe
“Women purchase products with toxins, more than anyone else on earth…”
April 2011
3 posts
Edit Your Life!
Treehugger Founder Graham Hill recently held a competition to redesign his humble abode. Called “LifeEdited”, the platform is where crowdsourcing meets efficiency and design for living. Case and point, Graham’s NYC apartment. Pictured above, the winning design makes the best of 400 square feet of Graham’s Manhattan real estate. This fall, the winning design will become...
Lucid Dreaming Book Could Help Develop Creativity
FROM PSFK blog: ‘Oneironautics: A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming’ is a featured project currently on Kickstarter, and one driven to provide every sleeping beauty with a manual to further explore ‘the experience of being consciously awake but in a dream.’ Eager to raise funds to produce a 160 page book, the writers, aim to provide all the necessary information to teach you how to control the inner...
BILLION Acts of Green
Check out Earth Day Network’s awesome project act.earthday.org. 77 million pledged so far! Categories range from transportation and energy to advocacy and sustainable development.
The site is designed to prove the idea that real change occurs when millions of people commit to it with their actions. It’s also a wealth of resources for events, offering a forum that converges worldwide...
March 2011
10 posts
Eco Shopping Guide
It’s spring (sortof) and almost summer, so I asked my green fashion expert friend Emma Grady where to shop. She opened my eyes to Ecouterre’s recommendations. From Barney’s to Kaight, and more, I am happy to have an up-to-date list.
Emma says, “There’s Rogan (on Bowery) and Barneys would be the top department store, they sell Loomstate as well as Rogan and other...
World Water Day
Water Changes Everything is charity:’s microsite. Check it out for the essence of how clean water can change the world. Read it today or tomorrow because every day should be World Water Day.
Is Wood Good?
Last week, we held a salon to provide a forum for the tropical hardwoods debate. Read on to learn of our findings…
Presentation and discussion hosted by the Brooklyn Bridge Forest and Green Leaders Global Green Spaces, 394 Broadway, New York NY March 16, 2011
· Introduction - Scott Francisco · EcoMadera - Peter Pinchot · Patagonia Sur - Divya Mankikar · TerraMai,...
Invite from Meryl Streep
Why is Hollywood royalty sending ME snail mail? It looks like Ms. Streep is putting her star power behind the first women’s history museum in Washington, DC.
The National Women’s History Museum ”will create a new home for women’s history in our nation’s capital.” Click here to support NWHM or here to view online exhibits. Headliners for exhibits include Amelia...
VOTE for Cheek'd! Awesome Way to Pickup Strangers...
Click here http://thisorthat.com/t/cheekd-vs-theideastartup
Cheek’d is a savvy online social circuit which draws on the age old custom of networking with business cards. The company designs personal cards with clever catch phrases and unique ID numbers which direct card receivers to a brief online profile and photo to learn more about their admirer, and if the recipient wants, may send a...
Just Bought a Whistle
& got this touching email from the benefiting charity. For those of you not familiar, Falling Whistles is a campaign for peace in the Congo.
Marissa, On behalf of Falling Whistles, I would like to personally thank you for your recent purchase. Your generosity is the lifeblood of our cause and instrumental to the rehabilitation of war-affected children in Congo. You are now a part of our...
HELP JAPAN & DONATE PRODUCT
Special message from Fashion Delivers:
In response to the disaster in Japan, we are currently working closely with national agencies to determine when and how to facilitate product delivery to the affected areas. While relief workers are currently providing water, food and medical needs, it is time to start working on the next phase of this tragedy, procuring heavyweight men’s, women’s, and...
NYU Social Entrepreneurship MBAs @GreenSpacesHome
Dr. Jill Kickul is Director of the NYU Stewart Satter Program in Social Entrepreneurship at the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. This week, she brought 25 students to Green Spaces to meet with companies and learn of internship opportunities.
One of our members, Helen Clarkson of Forum for the Future, is speaking in this photo. She shares how she works with Fortune 500...
A Funny Conversation
FRIEND
“You’re taking the 6 train. Midtown girl! Look at you. You’ve got it written all over you.”
ME
“Don’t label me. I swear I’m so much more than that.”
FRIEND
“I’m going to the Lower East Side, but I swear I’m so much less.”
Green Spaces Makes Top 5 Incubators List of New...
We’re thrilled and honored to be included in this piece.
“Breeding Better Business - How incubators are providing more to local entrepreneurs than just a space to work”
March 1, 2010 by Lindsay Tigar
Amidst the 2009 economic meltdown, New York City Mayor Bloomberg announced his plan to promote business innovation and entrepreneurship to help stimulate the market. One item...
February 2011
2 posts
Get Your Ticket! Meet the Coolest New Social...
Coolest New Social Entrepreneurs & Emerging Leaders 4 Good @StartingBloc celebration THIS Sunday, http://lalaunchparty.eventbrite.com, 7-9:30 PM at Annenberg community Beach House
For more info, check out today’s feature on Treehugger.com:
“This weekend, StartingBloc holds its Institute for Social Innovation, an event in which participants will play a “Long Game” with...
High on Social Media Week
From CarbonOutreach’s “Using Social Media to Engage Stakeholders” to tonight’s launch at NYPL to meeting incredible startups like whosfreeapp.com. And it’s only Monday! If you’re not all over this, join in socialmediaweek.org.
January 2011
2 posts
I Believe in Coworking
In the past two and half years since Green Spaces’ inception, I have never believed more in coworking.
There’s something special in the physics of many people coming together in one, central location. Each of us is moving our own ball forward, and we do it together.
For example, this week, I had a call scheduled about opening a Green Spaces in another east-coast city. Five...
Support Peaks Over Poverty & Groundswell...
On January 23rd, Green Spacer Eric Dalski will climb Cotopaxi, an active glacier 19,388 feet high! He is partnering with Peaks Over Poverty, an organization that promotes healthy living, conservation of mountain resources, and sustainable living to poor and remote third-world mountain communities.
With funds he raises from this climb, Peaks Over Poverty will partner with Groundswell International...
December 2010
1 post
Dating
It requires quite a bit of resilience in this town.
November 2010
2 posts
True or false?
People in cities see less nature, so it’s harder to get them to care about the planet. (Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus notes)
LAWYERS
Tedious. Questions. BS.
Can you bill one for taking too much of YOUR time?
