As many as 100 environmentalists gathered in Midtown Thursday night for a mixer known as Green Drinks. They all had one thing in common: an interest in sustainable living and other green issues. A Sacramento chapter of this international networking group has been meeting monthly since July 2008. The chapter was founded by Rick Noss and Sarah Piper. The first meeting was attended by three people. Now, nearly 200 people are on the e-mail list, Noss said. While many participants work in the environmental field, that's not a requirement for this chapter. "What I like about this is it's really a place where people in the environmental field can meet up and have camaraderie, not hard network

When Levi and Jessie Benkert from local development firm LJ Urban decided to leave their Midtown business and pack up their families to start an orphanage in Ethiopia, something had to be done with their workspace until 2010. When Brandon Weber, marketing consultant to LJ Urban, found out about the company's hiatus and downsizing, he wanted to make the warehouse building into a co-working space, and he posted the idea on his blog. Meanwhile, James Pierini and his friend Janna Santoro, who had been working on bringing co-working to Sacramento, were looking for other work-at-home professionals who would be interested in sharing a physical office space, when they came across Weber's blog. Ro