Eco Friendly Co-Working Spaces Become The Hot Spot For Eco Minded Entrepreneurs
Photo Credit: Rene Ehrhardt
“This is about a different way of doing business,” said Jennie Nevin, a 31 year old who formerly worked as an investment specialist for Merrill Lynch. “It’s certainly different from Wall Street, where it was all about what you did. This is all about what we can do.”
What Ms. Nevin is referring to is a co-working space called ‘Green Spaces’ that is home to about 20 entrepreneurs (many of whom are in their 20’s) of environmentally centered start-up companies. The office, founded by Ms. Nevin and her partners (who are also very young: 29 and 30) opened in September in TriBeCa, New York and provides the perfect setting for green brainstorming. Another ‘Green Spaces’ was recently opened in Denver, Colorado and a third should be underway in Los Angeles in the near future.
Other similar eco-spaces are beginning to pop up in many locations and some are rapidly expanding. One called ‘Green Desk’ in Brooklyn began with 80 desks on one floor but expanded to 500 desks, which filled the buildings four floors. They have recently opened up a new building and plan on opening two more. Green Desk’s buildings get their electricity solely from wind energy and provide recycled furniture for their occupants. They will soon be installing solar panels, building a rooftop garden, and offering loaner bicycles!
Desks at these different eco-spaces range anywhere from $199 to $550 per month which, from what I understand, is similar to other co-working offices. Enthusiastic ‘ecopreneurs’, as Ms. Nevin calls them, working side by side in eco-friendly office environments…where do I sign up?!
To read the full article go to The New York Times
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