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Revision as of 16:30, 24 May 2016
The Green Garage is actually three things: a community of people dedicated to Detroit's sustainable future, a business enterprise, and a building located in Midtown Detroit. The building dates back to 1920, when it was a showroom for Model T-based automobiles, and is on the National Registry of Historic Places (see
building history). Co-founders Tom and Peggy Brennan purchased it in 2008 and, with a wonderful community of over 200 individuals, completed a green, historic renovation over the next three years. Since opening in 2011, the Green Garage's principal work has been forming a diverse, supportive, and accountable
coworking community and helping
triple bottom line businesses grow naturally. If you feel inspired by this work and would like to learn more or connect further, please feel free to explore our wiki,
contact us,
visit us, or find us on
facebook or
twitter.
calendar - week of may 23
THIS WEEK:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday: 12:00 Community walk* | 1:00 2 degree meeting with Charlie Nordstrom
Thursday: 12:00 Sustainable small business leadership lunch*
Friday: 12:00 Community lunch (presenter: business-in-residence ProSeeds)*
Meetings marked with an * are open to the public.
Community brown-bag lunch every Friday at noon. Bring a lunch and join us for a review of the week and a tour of our sustainable historic building.
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green business incubator
Our Green Business Incubator helps triple bottom-line (3D) businesses grow naturally. We believe businesses are living organisms...not machines. We help grow businesses three ways: (1) using a community-based natural design process to help triple bottom-line businesses design their "Seed" (i.e. the core identity of the business from which all growth originates); (2) using a community-based continuous improvement process to improve triple bottom-line outcomes in profitability, waste, energy, water, community wellness, etc; and (3) using 1-to-1 sessions with entrepreneurs to help them evolve their businesses and their relationships.
Sustainable Business Conversations
1-to-1 sessions
- Karen Batchelor - Story Mountain
- Audra Carson - De-Tread
- Phyllis Johnson and family of Genesis Tea
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sustainability labs
The Labs group are the Green Garage geeks. They monitor the building's performance and measure various systems within the building, such as water, waste and energy. They meet the first Friday of the month from 2-3:30, and all are welcome to join them. You can view our systems in real time here: Building Control System.
Special Projects:
Composting 2.0 - Updating our composting systems at the Green Garage
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The Green Garage undertook a project to convert an 1898 apartment building, The El Moore, to a near-zero energy building that houses yearly rental apartments in addition to nightly rental space. It's located at 624 W. Alexandrine, bordering Second Avenue, within 2 blocks of the Green Garage. If you'd like to start a conversation about joining the residential community at the El Moore, see our contact page, or if you'd like to rent a room in the lodge, see our Reservations page.
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photos - week of may 23
 We're so proud of Nehe-miah Scarborough, a student at Detroit Cristo Rey High School who's spent this year working one day a week at the Green Garage. In an incredible speech to the school and area work-study partners last week, she described the "secret lessons" she learned from working here, where she encountered the "unprecedented imagination" of our diverse community of businesses. More Photos of the Week
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businesses-in-residence
The Green Garage is home to a sustainable coworking community of more than 50 small, growing, and established businesses. See our businesses-in-residence page for a complete list.
The people who call the Green Garage home have chosen to work in a supportive environment in which they can learn and grow as triple bottom line businesses together. By locating here, they become part of an environmentally and socially accountable community whose ongoing efforts to reduce waste, water, and energy at work result in a remarkably more sustainable office environment.
Interested in joining us? We offer several different workspace options, depending on the size and needs of each business, from shared table space to rent-a-desk to customizable office and workshop space. If you'd like to start a conversation about whether or not the Green Garage is right for you and your business, contact us at greengaragedetroit@gmail.com.
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urban sustainability library
Helping individuals and businesses who seek more sustainable ways to live and work by connecting them to resources that make it easier for them to take that next step.
social media
collection
- Reading Material In-house book collection
- As Built Describing the various systems of the building, such as the HVAC, lighting or materials reuse.
- Measurement Pages Updated pages that report our energy usage, water usage and the waste statistics for our building.
- Water Usage Statistics
- Waste Statistics
- Energy - Electrical Usage Statistics
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