Please join us Tuesday, August 3rd at 7pm for the next Green Drinks event featuring a panel discussion on Community Energy, including panelist from Clean Energy Works and N2e.
Time: Doors open at 6:30pm, the speakers starts promptly at 7:00. Announcements will follow the speakers and networking will continue until 8:45.
Donation: We ask that you donate $5 to help us cover our costs. All attendees will be entered into a raffle.
Please join us Tuesday, July 6th at 7pm for the next Green Drinks event - on the Ecotrust Terrace.
Robin Everett of the Sierra Club will discuss Oregon's energy mix and the 41% of our energy that still comes from coal. She will also discuss the PGE-owned Boardman coal-fired power plant and whether PGE will invest $500 million into this aging coal plant or to transition to a clean energy future.
Time: Doors open at 6:30pm, the speakers starts promptly at 7:00. Announcements will follow the speakers and networking will continue until 8:45.
Please join us Tuesday, June 1st at 7pm for the next Green Drinks event featuring Viriginia Young & Janie Lowe, founders of YOLO Colorhouse will speak to the challenges of growing a sustainable business: transportation choices, packaging decisions, whether to sell to "big box" stores and a thousand other decisions that need to balance sustainability with survival.
Time: Doors open at 6:30pm, the speakers starts promptly at 7:00. Announcements will follow the speakers and networking will continue until 8:45.
This May we are taking Green Drinks across the river for a party at Green Drop Garage.
Think music (provided by DJ Hot Biology), drinks (provided by Sierra Nevada, Hip Chicks Do Wine, and Guayaki) and fun (provided by you) sprinkled with a dose of entertaining education.
Our theme is Art and Sustainability. We will have a smattering of pieces on display by local art and fashion folks for your enjoyment! Lindsey Newkirk will speak for a few minutes about Sustainable Art. Lindsey is the founder of the Junk to Funk Recycled Fashion Contest.
Please join us Tuesday, April 6th at 7pm for the next Green Drinks event featuring Marcelo Bonta from the Center for Diversity and the Environment.
Marcelo will briefly discuss the need and the opportunity to begin comprehensively diversifying environmental institutions (as well as what is at stake if we do not), and how the Center for Diversity & the Environment is working to create an inclusive, successful, and relevant environmental movement that is truly for all.
Please join us Tuesday, March 2nd at 7pm for the next Green Drinks event featuring Dan Serres discussion of Columbia River Keeper discussing Liquefied Natural Gas. Energy developers have proposed to build LNG terminals along Oregon's coast and pipelines inland.
Time: Doors open at 6:30pm, the speakers starts promptly at 7:00. Announcements will follow the speakers and networking will continue upstairs until 8:45.
Donation: We ask that you donate $5 to help us cover our costs. All attendees will be entered into a raffle to win a signed children's book from local author Lauren Davis.
Please join us Tuesday, February 2nd at 7pm for the next Green Drinks event featuring Alison Dennis of Burgerville. Find out how burgers, fries and milkshakes are saving the planet as Burgerville shares the behind-the-scenes challenges and opportunities of bringing sustainable food to scale in a fast food environment.
REMINDER! Time: Doors open at 6:30pm, the speakers starts promptly at 7:00. Announcements will follow the speakers and networking will continue upstairs until 8:45.
Donation: We ask that you donate $5 to help us cover our costs. All attendees will be entered into a raffle to win a knife course in your home from A Muse Bouche.
REMINDER! Food / Drinks: Hot Lips will be selling beer and wine upstairs so you can more easily experience the "drinks" portion of "Green Drinks." You'll still need to go downstairs for any food but are welcome to bring it upstairs.
REMINDER! Discussion Groups: During the networking after the speaker, we will have 4 topics for discussion in the four corners of the room.
Please join us Tuesday, January 5th at 7pm for the next Green Drinks event featuring Rob Bennett of the Portland Sustainability Institute (PoSI).
Rob will discuss the genesis of PoSI, a new NGO created to promote next generation sustainability innovation for the Portland metro region and key projects the organization is helping to lead: the Oregon Sustainability Center, EcoDistricts, and Climate Prosperity Project.
REMINDER! Time: Doors open at 6:30pm, the speakers starts promptly at 7:00. Announcements will follow the speakers and networking will continue upstairs until 8:45.
Donation: We ask that you donate $5 to help us cover our costs. All attendees will be entered into a raffle to win a full day pass worth $195.00 to The Green Professionals Conference (www.green-professional.com) on January 26th.
REMINDER! Food / Drinks: Hot Lips will be selling beer and wine upstairs so you can more easily experience the "drinks" portion of "Green Drinks." You'll still need to go downstairs for any food but are welcome to bring it upstairs.
REMINDER! Discussion Groups: During the networking after the speaker, we will have 4 topics for discussion (Green Building, Energy, Food and Non-Profits) in the four corners of the room.
