NBIS Eco-Hour Thursday in White Center

The Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability (NBIS) Eco-Hour is being co-hosted by NBIS members Graphics Plus and Rhizome Design and Images at Graphics Plus, 10007 13th Avenue SW, in White Center.RSVP to this website: http://ecohouraugust.eventbrite.com/

NBIS Eco-Hour is a popular social hour for NBIS members and friends. Each monthly Eco-Hour is hosted by an NBIS member company and provides an opportunity for members to showcase their companies and share a bit about their work. Eco-Hour emphasizes one of the values of NBIS: bringing people together across industries to get acquainted and learn from each other. NBIS Eco-Hours are scheduled throughout the year. Eco-Hours are free to NBIS members and $10 for non-members.

• Rhizome Design and Images <http://www.rhizomdesign.com> is an integrated design and marketing company specializing in work for socially responsible and eco-friendly businesses, including NBIS. Owner, Jen Pennington and Photographer Bob Pennington also donate trees to ReLeaf Funds through AmericanForests.org through purchases of both custom and stock photography from their Rhizome Images <http://www.rhizomeimages.com> Collection. The Collection is a unique image resource for businesses and green technologies that feature the good, the bad, and the alternative in sustainability and industry.
• Graphics Plus <http://www.graphicsplusseattle.com> is an independent, responsible printer offering craftsman quality offset and modern high-end digital printing. Owner David Hell will offer a tour of his shop, (recently retrofitted shop with new lighting through the Seattle City Light program) and talk about some of his newer investments, including chemistry-free plating equipment.

Together this design firm and print shop has been teaming up for over 14 years and employs practices that minimizes harm to the environment and gives back to the community.

Street parking is available and if the weather is nice, we’ll be able to open to open the doors and look out into the greenspace across the street. Delicious organic beer from Elliott Bay Brewing Company <http://www.elliottbaybrewing.com/> and sustainable and organic wine from Left Coast Cellars <http://www.leftcoastcellars.com/> will be served.