http://www.thinkspace.com/blog Our view about green office buildings, details about green construction, the LEED process, the cost of going green, business technology solutions, and whatever comes to mind. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:47:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've started our recycling of wine corks program today!  We're allowing businesses inside thinkspace to bring in their wine corks and then we will coordinate the recycling of the wine corks.  We've signed up with TerraCycle to have the wine corks recycled.  They pay for the shipping once we have ... http://www.thinkspace.com/blog/2008/11/13/recycling-wine-corks/ I was at Blazing Bagels in Redmond just a few minutes ago and saw these Obama cookies on the counter. I didn't see any McCain cookies and then Dennis, the owner of Blazing Bagels, tells me that McCain cookies are sold out. "No way!", I said. Amazing, I thought... until ... http://www.thinkspace.com/blog/2008/10/31/presidential-cookie-poll-at-blazing-bagels/ Andrea Becker, Yellowbook & Mary Benz, thinkspace We had a successful event last night and had nearly 70 people inside our space.  I want to say thank you to everyone that attended.  Great tasting food was provided by Grand Peking and splendid wine provided by Hollywood Hill Vineyards.  We had all ... http://www.thinkspace.com/blog/2008/10/30/a-fun-evening-of-art-wine/ I just picked up another gallon of paint today for the coworking space. I decided to compare the VOC content of Sherwin Williams Duration paint versus Sherwin Williams Super Paint. Paint Type     g/l       lb/gal Duration           48          0.40 Super ... http://www.thinkspace.com/blog/2008/10/24/low-voc-paint-versus-traditional-paint/ Last night we had the Blog Bling Mixer. We had a good mix of beginner bloggers as well as some expert bloggers. We wrote down topics on the whiteboard and everyone had a chance to vote for what they wanted to hear and learn about. The first topic was ... http://www.thinkspace.com/blog/2008/10/24/the-blog-bling-mixer/ Companies are making USB Flash drive and housing them in odd materials.  In the span of 24 hours I'm seeing the USB Flash Drives in compressed recycled paper and the strangest is inside sticks. The one's pictured here are made from silver birch which are grown in Berkshire, England.  I haven't ... http://www.thinkspace.com/blog/2008/10/23/usb-flash-drives-made-from-sticks/ Back during the Green Festival Seattle, I found a company called the Sustainable Group.  They sell really cool looking office supplies like the Repocket (shown here in the picture).  All of their stuff is made of recycled cardboard!  It really makes quite a statement when you put your marketing collateral ... http://www.thinkspace.com/blog/2008/10/23/recycled-marketing-collateral/ I've had a few very interesting conversations in the last two weeks. One is with Christine Blumer, CEO of CRB Consulting and the other is with Lisa Hufford, President of Simplicity Consulting. Both of these women are extremely successful people and have had great work experience at Microsoft. ... http://www.thinkspace.com/blog/2008/10/21/ways-to-remain-relevant-powerful-and-influential-in-business-and-still-be-a-great-parent/ Ron Sims is using Twitter and I've been following him for about one month.  I think it's really cool that he's embracing technology as way to communicate with people.  Back when Governor Locke was King County Executive, I volunteered in his campaign office while he ran Governor.  I never really ... http://www.thinkspace.com/blog/2008/10/14/ron-sims-a-politician-that-gets-twitter/ Don’t throw your batteries in the trash, recycle them at thinkspace! We are now offering our clients battery recycling. We will accept rechargeable and non-rechargeable, such as D-cell, C-cell, AA, AAA, 9-volt, and button cells. King County offers local communities Recycling Collection Events for businesses and residents where you can drop off reusable ... http://www.thinkspace.com/blog/2008/10/10/battery-recycling-at-thinkspace/