Last night the Kansas City
Green Drinks chapter met for a tour of 4 sustainably focused
businesses all located in the Crossroads arts district for a walking tour to learn all about the businesses and what they are doing to green our world. The tour started at Rosemann and Associates to tour their facility with the highlight being their green roof - it was very evident this architecture firm "gets it" they do green and they did their building to prove it. Take a look:
http://www.rosemann.com/. Upon leaving Rosemann we walked to Blooming Lotus to visit with Jen. She educated us all about apothecary, Life: Love and Soap. I must admit the smell in her shop was wonderful, but the soaps are not exactly my style. Forget about that however, because Jen is my style, she is passionate about products her business and living the life she espouses. It would be very difficult to meet Jen on th
e street and not experience the peaceful aura that surrounds her -
http://www.bloominglotus.com/. While the group walked to Planet Reuse I headed to Elements of Green to prepare for the eventual arrival of the group. My apologies go out to Nathan Benjamin and the rest of the Planet Reuse team as we missed taking any pictures during this tour stop. But as Nathan and I share very similar business philosophies and are located only a block away we have both visited each others businesses and collaborated on a few projects too -
http://www.planetreuse.com/ - Planet Reuse is located in the new and wonderful shared office space called Office Port, who actually hosted this tour stop; check them out too -
http://www.officeportkc.com/. It seemed like only a few minutes had passed before we looked up to see the
Green Drinks group headed our away to the evenings final stop, at
Elements of Green - the stop with the beer (Kansas City's own Boulevard Brewery) and food catered by Spice of Life. We had an opportunity to introduce Elements of Green to the 45-50
Green Drinkers and explain about the sustainable building, remodeling and finishing products we represent. Several of the members made announcements, but all the speeches were kept to a minimum. Needles to say a great time was had by all, if you don't believe me just look at these
pictures. So there you are, if you have read this far you understand what a great evening we had as we learned and celebrated the efforts of a few businesses all located in the
Crossroads arts district of Kansas City. As we left last night discussion were already underway to do this again. Yes, there are several more sustainable businesses in the heart of down town, Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District.
businesses all located in the Crossroads arts district for a walking tour to learn all about the businesses and what they are doing to green our world. The tour started at Rosemann and Associates to tour their facility with the highlight being their green roof - it was very evident this architecture firm "gets it" they do green and they did their building to prove it. Take a look: http://www.rosemann.com/. Upon leaving Rosemann we walked to Blooming Lotus to visit with Jen. She educated us all about apothecary, Life: Love and Soap. I must admit the smell in her shop was wonderful, but the soaps are not exactly my style. Forget about that however, because Jen is my style, she is passionate about products her business and living the life she espouses. It would be very difficult to meet Jen on th
e street and not experience the peaceful aura that surrounds her - http://www.bloominglotus.com/. While the group walked to Planet Reuse I headed to Elements of Green to prepare for the eventual arrival of the group. My apologies go out to Nathan Benjamin and the rest of the Planet Reuse team as we missed taking any pictures during this tour stop. But as Nathan and I share very similar business philosophies and are located only a block away we have both visited each others businesses and collaborated on a few projects too - http://www.planetreuse.com/ - Planet Reuse is located in the new and wonderful shared office space called Office Port, who actually hosted this tour stop; check them out too - http://www.officeportkc.com/. It seemed like only a few minutes had passed before we looked up to see the Green Drinks group headed our away to the evenings final stop, at Elements of Green - the stop with the beer (Kansas City's own Boulevard Brewery) and food catered by Spice of Life. We had an opportunity to introduce Elements of Green to the 45-50 Green Drinkers and explain about the sustainable building, remodeling and finishing products we represent. Several of the members made announcements, but all the speeches were kept to a minimum. Needles to say a great time was had by all, if you don't believe me just look at these 
pictures. So there you are, if you have read this far you understand what a great evening we had as we learned and celebrated the efforts of a few businesses all located in the Crossroads arts district of Kansas City. As we left last night discussion were already underway to do this again. Yes, there are several more sustainable businesses in the heart of down town, Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District.
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