Green Drinks – Mingle, Network and Connect with Like-Minded People

If you’d like to meet more environmentally conscious people in your area, Green Drinks is a great way to do it. Green Drinks is a monthly informal meeting over drinks, and there are chapters all over the world, including all over the U.S. and Canada, the UK, Germany, Sweden, Japan and much more.  The number of Green Drinks chapters doubled during 2007, from 170 to 304, and has since grown to 350.

Green Drinks is a great opportunity to make new friends and business contacts, get referrals, commiserate on new ideas and get inspired.  Here are a few of the Green Drinks events going on in September in various cities:

London – Tuesday, Sept. 2nd starting at 6:15pm downstairs at The Glasshouse Stores, 55 Brewer St, Soho.  A range of bottled and draught beers, including organic brews, are available as well as a full menu with organic and vegetarian options.

San Francisco – Wednesday, Sept. 3rd 5:30-8pm at Varnish Fine Arts, 77 Natoma St. near 2nd.  For more info or to be added to the email list, contact sfgreendrinks@gmail.com.  Get updates on San Francisco Green Drinks events at the SFGreenDrinks blog.

NYC – Tuesday, Sept. 9th from 6-10pm at Pier 66 – Enjoy organic signature cocktails with complimentary snack foods and sample chocolate bars.  The first 125 people to sign up will receive a free drink ticket. Guest speakers include actor and environmentalist Matthew Modine and geographer and conservationist Robert Rose.  Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door – buy them here.

Vancouver – Wednesday, September 17th 5:45pm at Steamworks Pub, 375 Water St. on the edge of Gastown near Waterfront Station.

Find your local chapter of Green Drinks at GreenDrinks.org.

Gorgeous Ecostore Installation for Green Drinks

Ecostore created this lovely art installation from real lawn, flowers and oil drums for the inaugural Auckland ‘Green Drinks’ event on April 3rd. Green Drinks is an informal networking event for thousands of environmentally minded people to get together over drinks. To learn more about Green Drinks and help organize an event in your area, see the GreenDrinks.org website.

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