Green Storage? Only in New York (maybe)!
Sep 18, 2009
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Driving in a taxi from one of New York's airports to Manhattan (or in our case, downtown Brooklyn) is always a feast for the eyes. The skyline in the distance, the billboards, the brownstones, the endless stream of taxis . . . it all just adds to the excitement when visiting one of the world's true great cities. As we arrived closer to our hotel, one billboard in particular caught my attention. I took my eyes off the view of Manhattan, only cause I rolled them up to the top of my head. There it was: a billboard advertising green storage. Naturally I was dubious.The company is iStoreGreen, which bills itself as the largest green business in all of NYC (by size!). I guess they are not in President Obama's green jobs vision, as I'm not sure how many people they actually employ--a few security guards here and there, I suppose (I wonder if their uniforms are green or "green" . . . ???).
According to their web site, storing your stuff at iStoreGreen offers enormous benefits:
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Their electricity comes from renewable resources (just like this site--I hope!)
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They have a solar heater that provides hot water (hmm--cool factor!)
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It's a recycled 1908 building, and wood from the remodel was salvaged for benches and desks (that works for me)
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They use soy ink on their marketing materials (what about on that huge billboard?)
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You get a bag of green products in a nifty reusable bag (see the previous post!)
I must say I like the fact that excess heat from the building's machines are used to heat in other areas of the building, though I wonder what exactly those machines do.
There's no information on the site discussing pricing. You have to give this company credit, though, for its entrepreneurial approach to green business. Plus they sure have a lot of chutzpah! You have to read the article claiming they are one of the nation's leading purchasers of renewable energy . . .
Now you can feel less guilty about all that STUFF you've bought over the years . . . because now you have a clean green site at which you can store all of it!
