Join us next Tuesday for this spring's first Green Business Networking event. We will meet January 27th from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm on the second floor of the Tate Center (enter through the Beatty Center, 5 Liberty Street). For this event we're going to continue what we started last fall. While we're networking I'll have brainstorming sheets available around the Tate Center for collecting ideas on how businesses can be more green. This of course fits with our hope for the monthly event to bring together a variety of knowledge, skills, motivation, and expertise to share ideas about helping businesses be more environmentally-friendly, starting new sustainable businesses, finding employees/employment and generating general networking contacts here in Charleston and the Lowcountry. With the wide range of people that attend, we should be able to come up with a ton of ideas.
Additionally, the deadline for the logo contest is just a few days away. Please submit your entry by January 23rd. The logo should try to incorporate the three basic themes: green/environment/sustainability/eco-friendly; business/entrepreneurship/innovation; and networking/socializing/sharing ideas. The winner will receive a lunch downtown and will be revealed at the January event.
Come out and meet like-minded representatives from local businesses and organizations plus CofC students, alumni, staff and faculty and add your thoughts for improving business. If you know anyone that might be interested, please feel free to pass this along to them, or just bring them with you.
6 comments:
I just stumbled across this page and I am sorry that I missed the event. I have just become the newest distritbutor of lighting solutions from a company based in the U.K. Their products are in all the Royal Air Force Bases and all the Hilton Hotels there. As for ways businesses can greenerize... these lights can reduce utility costs up to 90% and electrical waste being that they are 20 year bulbs. They are motion sensored and adjust output levels according to movement in the area.I'm open to show anyone who is interested just how they work and what they do and how much they can help. Email me talia.caraballo@gmail.com!
Forgot to mention also that the feds give a $0.60 / square foot tax credit for having the lights!
David, you might find a StoryMap from outside.in quite useful. It'll map all the places you mention in your post, helping your readers find events and green businesses near where they live. To pick up your map just go to: http://outside.in/geotoolkit.
It's free, so why not try it?
DavidI'd love to connect with you. Our business, Money with a Mission, is 17 years old and does green / 'socially responsible' financial planning. I grew up in SC, have family in Charleston and my wife and I are moving down for a year starting in late July. I have been connecting with Suzie Webster, sandy Anderson and others and would love to talk. my work email is greg@moneywithamission.com; web is sriinvesting.com. Let's connect. Greg
Thanks Jared. I signed up for the StoryMap. We'll see how it goes.
I couldn't think of a better networking event than getting those in the environmental and green areas to all use their might and pull together. I've recently come back from a Business Networking Event South Yorkshire and it's amazing the comradery that exists within industrys and sectors and locally also.
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