Hasta La Ideas

Writes Andrew Personette, Executive Director of EcoSystems, a consultancy that creates “products, systems, and services for a healthy planet:

If you’ve never thought of Downtown Brooklyn as an epicenter for creative industries, its time to change your mind. There is a high concentration of designers, eco-entreprenuers, architects and urban planners getting cozy in a coworking environment at 33 Flatbush Ave, about a block from BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music). The building itself is probably “the only building in NYC that has a negative Carbon Footprint. We only sequester, nothing goes out,” says owner Al Atarra.

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