What is Green Drinks?
St. Louis Green Drinks
St. Louis Green Drinks has been going strong since the spring of 2005. Green Drinks is an informal networking event for people of all kinds with a personal and/or professional interest in local sustainability.
It's a low-key, accessable way to
- find out what positive things are happening in St. Louis
- share what you know and do
- learn what you can do to green your own lifestyle
- connect with like-minded people
- or even find a job/an employee
Part green chamber of commerce, part happy hour, part support group - our gatherings feature panel discussions, films, or tours of local green places. Green Drinks typically happens monthly at Schlafly Bottleworks. We have new faces every time. Events have drawn an initmate group of 30 to crowds of more than 300 - it just depends on the topic and location.
Can’t wait to meet you there!
Green Drinks International
In 1989, at a pub called the Slug and Lettuce in Northern London, Edwin Datschefski was sitting with his green design colleagues Yorick Benjamin and Paul Scott when he noticed an enviro-minded acquaintance at a nearby table. As it turned out, the friend was sitting with a few of his own eco-conscious mates, so they pulled some tables together. And so a movement was born.
The concept evolved into Green Drinks and now it's global. In 2001, Datschefski created an official Web site, and it has since spread across the world. See www.greendrinks.org for the latest city count and a list of countries. Each city has an organiser who arranges meetings in bars and restaurants (often with organic or vegetarian food), relays information via email, and facilitates discussions.
The spirit of Green Drinks is that anyone can come, and this makes for interesting interactions.
There are lots of benefits to green drinks; they are hard to quantify, but when you have seen people come and make new links and learn and argue and set up new schemes and get new jobs etc, it is a good feeling.