I just received my Green Festival Seattle Exhibitor Invitation! Last year, Seattle held its first annual Green Festival and it was a huge success. I remember the weather was incredible that weekend as it was about 80 degrees and clear blue skies. I also remember it being completely packed as more than 30,000 people attended [...]
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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 inside one of these folders.
I [...]
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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 and recyclable materials including batteries, [...]
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Being in “green” shared office space can help keep your companies operating costs down. Yes, it does cost more to go green, but the payback begins right away. thinkspace has the ability to offer shared office space in a class A shared building and keep the lease rates reasonable. One of the big ways we’re able [...]
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Come out and join thinkspace at the EcoCommuting and Sustainable Living Fair at Redmond Town Center on Thursday, August 21st. This event is about celebrating a cleaner, healthier environment. There will be over 20 informational booths showcasing what local businesses and non-profits are doing to support sustainable living. This event is by: Greater Redmond Transportation Management [...]
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I’ve done my analysis for which dry erase marker we’re purchasing for thinkspace and we’re going with the AusPen. Before making a purchasing decision, I try and make sure that I read enough about products to be sure I’m not just buying into the “green” hype. I look at the company, their mission statement, [...]
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We just purchased a “recycled” Baby Planet Unity Sport Stroller. We have outgrown our Snap N Go Infant Carrier and have been shopping around for a new stroller. We first had to choose between tandem or side-by-side. The Snap N Go was a tandem and while I think it is a good product, I think [...]
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A local Seattle company, Walk Score, has just launched a new service to calculate the walkability of your neighborhood. I don’t think I can better state what their service is so here’s a quote from their website: “We help people find houses and apartments in walkable neighborhoods. Walk Score shows you a map of what’s [...]
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There is an article in the Seattle Times that reviews a study done in 2005 which states Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue is ranked number six as lowest carbon emissions per capita. I’m not sure why the study is three years old and just being released now.
The article goes on to state that “Seattle draws its energy primarily from [...]
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Thinkspace offers big business benefits to companies of all sizes and operate their business with a small footprint. To us, a small footprint means operating your business in office space that was designed with sustainability in mind.
Your company name does not have to be “Dell, General Electric, Google, Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble, Ford, Microsoft, or [...]
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The Thinkspace main lobby desk has been built and installed. In addition to having a professional appearance we wanted our lobby to make a statement about sustainability. To gather ideas, we went to Ecohaus and looked at different types of materials and decided we wanted to showcase beautiful sustainable materials.
We used a gorgeous Vetrazzo recycled [...]
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For our commercial tenant improvement project we chose to go with a “green” carpet. The critical things to look for when picking a commercial grade environmentally sustainable carpet is 1) what is the carpet top made of; 2) what is the backing material made of; 3) what type of adhesives will be used.
Carpet Top: The [...]
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This weekend Seattle is hosting Green Festival 2008 at the Washington State Convention Center. According to the Seattle-PI, at least 20,000 and up to 30,000 people will attend this event this weekend. I took my family to the event on Saturday . The weather outside was about 80 degrees and it was probably the best [...]
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Tenant improvements can require a new company moving into an existing building to create a lot of demolition debris. In order to build out our Thinkspace executive office suites, 5.79 tons or 11,580 pounds of demolition debris was removed. The number of tons could have been much greater, but one of our goals was to [...]
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I think businesses like Google are doing an excellent job in raising awareness for energy conservation. The Google home page is “blacked out” as they have “turned out the lights” as symbol to raise awareness for Earth Hour 2008. It’s quite striking to see the normally white background on the Google home page suddenly go [...]
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