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03/02/2010 – Monthly Green Drinks 5:30pm at 111 Minna – “Creating Community”
04/06/2010 – Monthly Green Drinks 5:30pm at 111 Minna – “40th Anniversary of Earth Day”
05/04/2010 – Monthly Green Drinks 5:30pm at 111 Minna.

Newsletter – March 2010

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San Francisco Green Drinks
March 2nd
“Creating Community”

Hello Green Drinkers!

Please join us next Tuesday, March 2nd for San Francisco Green Drinks!

This month at Green Drinks we ask the question: What communities do you belong to?

As a Green Drinker and member of our community, we’ll ask you to fill out a survey.  Help us learn more about our community and receive a drink ticket (while supplies last).

Starting this month we will offer a Green Drink’s Community Board.  On our Community Board you can pin up:

  • SFGD Event Information (Sponsors, Community Partners, Event activities, Drink Menu, Volunteer sign-up lists etc.)
  • Bay Area Green Community Calendar of Events (post your Green event on our website for posting)
  • Post your own Green flyers, announcements, etc.

Click for more GRID volunteering photos

March Sponsors: Pacific Environment & Earth Island Journal

Pacific Environment protects the living environment of the Pacific Rim by promoting grassroots activism, strengthening communities, and reforming international policies. Our successes over the past 20 years stem from a deep and abiding trust that local people, armed with the right tools and solid support, are the world’s best hope for the environment. As such, we support the development of grassroots organizations, prioritize network-based advocacy, and use international leverage points in service of our local partners.  www.pacificenvironment.org

Earth Island Institute was founded 27 years ago in SF by the visionary environmentalist David Brower. They grow environmental leadership through education and activism. As a fiscal sponsor of fifty solutions focused projects, and with their Earth Island Journal, public programming at their new green offices in the Brower Center in Berkeley and their core programs: Restoration Initiatives, and the New Leaders Initiative/Brower Youth Awards, Earth Island supports the cultural and biological diversity that sustain the environment.  www.earthisland.org

March Partners: Macchu Pisco & Sustainable Brands 2010

Macchu Pisco is clear Peruvian brandy and sometimes also described as a white cognac, it is an artisanal Peruvian pisco.

Without extra additives like sugars, yeasts, or enzymes, Macchu Pisco is a single distill 80 proof spirit made from freshly fermented grape juice, not leftover pomace from winemaking like other grape based spirits. Pisco grape varietals grow in unique Peruvian desert climates where the sun shines 365 days a year and by law are grown organically without chemicals or pesticides. Peruvian pisco production standards are strict in order to ensure an all natural spirit. Pisco has been produced in Peru since 1540 and is named after the trading port city of Pisco, located in the department of Ica, the heart of Peru’s pisco production. Pisco is so pure and natural that it should never produce a hangover. Enjoy the purity!  www.macchupisco.com

Sustainable Brands 2010 Presents The Power of And Where the Brand & Design & Sustainability Communities Come Together.  Monterey Conference Center, Monterey CA, June 7-10, 2010.  Widely reputed to be the most compelling sustainability conference of the year, Sustainable Brands 2010 will convene over 700 brand leaders, top executives from the global brands leading sustainable innovation today, all types of designers participating in this global shift, and an unprecedented list of others. 

Speakers and sessions will provide inspiration, techniques and best practices as economic realities, corporate responsibility and the environment come together to create a new strategic business imperative. Registration is now open and seating is limited: Early bird pricing available until March 28th.  Use discount code sfgrnsb to save 20% off! www.sustainablebrands10.com

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, March 2nd
Time: 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Location: 111 Minna Gallery
Bring: Please bring your business cards!
Safety: Please be safe when coming to/from SFGD. If you would like someone to walk you to your bus/train stop or car, please let a greeter know. As always, please designate a driver if driving.
Cost: FREE!

Music:

5:30 – 7:30
DJ Delon
 (Selector, FreeFlo) spinning a delicious selection of downtempo, funky breaks, nu-jazz, drum & bass, and house.

7 :30- 9:30
DJ Robynn
 (BEATZ, FreeFlo) droping tunes of the house, speed garage, ragga jungle and dubby styles.

Special Drinks of the Month: $5 while they last!

  • MÁS Merlot 2006 – $5 + free tastings
    Rich aromas and flavors of rose, black currant, plum and clove with a toasty oak finish.
  • MÁS Chardonnay 2007 – $5 + free tastings
    Lightly oaked and medium bodied with aromas and flavors of ripe pear, green apple, lemon meringue, pineapple and banana.
  • Pisco Mule – $5
    Pisco, Ginger Beer, Lemon, Bitters
  • Pisco Daisy – $5
    Pisco, Tripple Sec, Lime
  • Pisco Sour – $5
    Pisco, Lime Juice, Simple Syrup, Egg Whites, Bitters

Community

  • Green Drinkers Volunteer with GRID Alternatives – On January 30th and 31st, volunteers from SFGD came out to work alongside the homeowners to install a GRID Alternatives solar system.
  • Green Drinks connections work for 111 Minna – Aion LED and MÁS Wine Company bring their sustainable products to Minna.
  • Post your green event on the Bay Area Green Calendar for free!
  • SF Green Drinks is on Facebook. Please join the group ‘San Francisco Green Drinks’ for additional resources and information.
  • SF Green Drinks is booking out Sponsors and Community Partners for 2010. If you or someone you know is interested in connecting with our community, please get in touch!

See you on the 2nd!

  • The Green Drinks Team

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Green Drinks connections work for 111 Minna

In the past few months San Francisco Green Drinks has connected two new organizations, Aion LED and MÁS Wine Company, to our environmental community and to our monthly host, 111 Minna. Both companies made such a positive impression with their sustainable products that Minna has brought them in-house. Aion LED was our February 2010 “Eco-Love” sponsor who set the mood with eight energy-efficient LED stage lights. By the end of the night, Minna decided to purchase the whole set! MÁS is a small, eco-friendly winery who discovered Green Drinks over the holidays and met with Minna shortly after in January. After a short meeting and wine tasting with Minna, their wine is now being served from environmentally friendly, air tight mini tanks as 111 Minna’s new house wine! Come by the March 2010 Green Drinks for a free wine tasting of their Merlot and Chardonnay.

Here are some comments from these two great companies:

“Thanks to SF Green Drinks for having us as sponsor for February’s successful event!  Aion LED is committed to helping the entertainment sector “go green” with our highly efficient Theatrical LED lighting line .  This can result in venues saving 10 times the energy usage while virtually eliminating the need to change lamps.  At Green Drinks we demonstrated that an energy saving alternative light could look great while minimizing the venue’s carbon footprint at the same time.” — Christine

“Since conception in 2006 MÁS has not used over 80,000 glass bottles corks and labels. This has saved our business over $70,000 in money we would have spent on trash and instead we have invested it a renewable technology. Without these expenses we are able to produce small lots of wine at competitive priced wines passing along these savings to restaurants and consumers, like 111 Minna. We hope our passion for great wines and renewable technology is shared by all.” — Andy


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Green Drinkers Volunteer with GRID Alternatives

At the December 2009 Green Drinks Holiday Bash and Benefit SFGD held a fundraiser for GRID Alternatives, a local non-profit dedicated to empowering communities in need by providing renewable energy and energy efficiency services, equipment and training. The donations raised at the December event went to sponsor and install a solar electric systems for a low income homeowner in San Francisco. On January 30th and 31st, volunteers from SFGD came out to work alongside the homeowners to install the solar system. Special thanks go out all the organizers at Grid Alternatives and to those Green Drinkers who volunteered!

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Newsletter – February 2010

San Francisco Green Drinks
February 2nd
“Eco-Love”

Calling all Green Drinkers –

Please join us next Tuesday, February 2nd for San Francisco Green Drinks!

This month at Green Drinks we ask the question: What is your Eco-Love?

Our sponsor, AION LED, will be setting the mood with glowing, environmentally-friendly lights while passionate cocktails, tasty chocolate and soothing sounds of two fabulous DJs fill the room.

In keeping with our environmental Valentines Day theme we will also offer Green Speed Dating” for 40 lucky participants.  This is a great opportunity to meet fellow Green Drinkers and it’s sure to be a lot of fun!!  Who knows, maybe this Green Drinks you will even make a special connection.

Click for more 2010 Green Resolutions

Last but not least, Green Drinks is happy to announce that we have arranged free wine tastings for the event as part of our 2010 emphasis in building out our Community Partnership program. If you know of any friends particularly in the organic food, wine or beverage industries who would like to participate in a future Green Drinks – please put them in touch!

February Sponsor: AION LED

Forget about changing light bulbs while cutting energy consumption by 80 percent!

AION LED is proud to offer high quality Green Compliant LED lighting products for your home and business. With a lamp life at least forty times that of a standard light bulb and a fraction of the energy used, LED lights will reduce your carbon footprint as well as your energy bill. AION LED specializes in cutting-edge linear lighting solutions. Designers, architects, and electricians alike love the streamlined package, flexibility, high output, and longevity of our

LED Strips and LED Light Bars. Popularly used under cabinets, in coves, soffits, and hallways, our LED strips also create custom effects in cabinetry, signage, displays, curved elevations, and edge-lit glass to name a few. In addition to dimmable white light, AION LED offers RGB color-mixing systems including high power theatrical LED fixtures and custom LED video displays and message boards. Minimize waste and conserve natural resources by switching to highly efficient and sustainable LED lighting with AION LED.  www.aionled.com

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, February 2nd
Time: 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Location: 111 Minna Gallery
Bring: Please bring your business cards!
Safety: Please be safe when coming to/from SFGD. If you would like someone to walk you to your bus/train stop or car, please let a greeter know. As always, please designate a driver if driving.
Cost: FREE!

Music:

  • DJ Brent Galant (a.k.a. Q St.)
    Q St. will be setting the mood for our Eco-Love Green Drinks with music that is sure to stir your heart and soul.  A graphic designer committed to sustainable design and print practices by day, Brent has roots in house and a penchant for playing hidden gems from down tempo, trip hop, and underground hip hop. With ten years behind the decks, his passion for playing quality grooves is purely matched by his love for playing in the moment, providing listeners with a rewarding venture into sound.
  • Unkle Funkl
    He’s the uncle you love but the one you have to keep an eye on. He’ll raid the liquor cabinet and torment the neighbors. Mark Sires, aka Unkle Funkl, has been DJing for 12 years, bringing breaks, midtempo, funk, and hip hop. Recently graduating from the Bainbridge Graduate School with an MBA in Sustainability.

Special Drinks of the Month: $5 while they last!

  • 2008 Tamás Estates Double Decker Red – $5 + free tastings by Wente Vineyards
    An exciting blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Petite Sirah and Barbera creates an adventurously robust yet smooth red wine with mouth-filling flavors of blackberry, black cherry and plum, and a smooth, spicy finish.
  • 2008 Wente Vineyards Morning Fog Chardonnay – $5 + free tastings by Wente Vineyards
    Enjoy aromas and flavors of green apple and tropical fruits, balanced by subtle oak, cinnamon and vanilla from barrel aging.  With a mouth-filling body and balanced acidity, this wine delivers a medium-long, refreshing finish.
  • Passionate Solutionary – $5
    (Sambazon Acai Passionfruit Antioxidant Elixir + Maca Magic Adrenalift + Splash of Guayaki Pure Passion + VeeV Acai Spirit)
    You are a Solutionary.  As a path to creating a revolution in the way we live life, you work hard to provide solutions to environmental and social challenges.  Each ingredient in this cocktail comes from a company that goes beyond Revolutionary to being Solutionary.  Guayaki has their Market Driven Restoration business model.  Sambazon also uses the market to drive restoration of rainforest land and communities with the Sustainable Acai Project.  VeeV Acai Spirit works closely with Sambazon and donates $1 per bottle to the Sustainable Acai Project.  Maca Magic and Amazon Therapeutic Laboratories works to preserve rainforests and uphold the intellectual property rights of native healers and their traditional medicines. And of course, the Peruvian root Maca is an aphrodesiac for both men and women––so raise a glass to all of your passions!

Community

  • Post your green event on the Bay Area Green Calendar for free!
  • SF Green Drinks is on Facebook. Please join the group ‘San Francisco Green Drinks’ for additional resources and information.
  • SF Green Drinks is booking out Sponsors and Community Partners for 2010. If you or someone you know is interested in connecting with our community, please get in touch!

See you on the 2nd!

  • The Green Drinks Team

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Newsletter – January 2010

San Francisco Green Drinks
January 5th
“Kick-Off to 2010″

Happy New Year!

Please join us next Tuesday, January 5th for San Francisco Green Drinks!

This month we’ll be wrapping up the holiday season by making green New Year’s resolutions, recycling holiday gifts, and paying tribute to our host, 111 Minna, for their exemplary contributions in sustainability and in their outstanding efforts for the community.  Don’t miss our kick-off to 2010 – it’s going to be an epic year!

Green New Year’s Resolutions
Come make your green resolutions for 2010 with your fellow Green Drinkers and we’ll take some fun photos to remember them by!  Need inspiration?  Check out the Promise Board photos from Green Generations.

Click for more photos.

Recycle Your Gifts
At our January event, recycle the holiday gifts that weren’t quite for you. Green Drinks is re-gifting goods to Raphael House Shelter, the first homeless shelter in San Francisco. In 2007, they went green by improving energy efficiency and purchasing sustainable products. Support green and those in need by donating gifts!

Tribute to 111 Minna Gallery

Established in 1993, 111 Minna Gallery is in the business of Community, Art, and Leisure. 111 Minna Gallery transforms itself every 6 weeks with rotating exhibitions of contemporary art, providing an ever-changing atmosphere.  For owner Eiming Jung and manager Michelle Pederson, the primary goal is to enrich and entertain. Their support of art, music, good causes, and special

events connect the community.  The dedicated staff, motivated by the same principles, helps ensure that friends and guests of 111 Minna are well taken care of and return again and again

111 Minna is also one of the most sustainable and green-friendly venues in all of the Bay Area. Michelle is at the forefront of these green-friendly practices, which she promotes both at work and at home. Green-friendly products are supported and purchased whenever possible. Almost all of Minna’s waste is diverted from landfill. All straws, cups, lemons, napkins, etc. go into composting bins, while most other waste is recycled appropriately. This is a venue that makes the extra effort it takes, and truly does care about the future of our planet as we do.

A Recap of San Francisco Green Drinks 2009

Statistics

  • 25,727 visits to sfgreendrinks.org since the website went live in May, 2009.
  • 4,930 people attended our monthly Green Drinks in 2009; that’s an average of 410 people per event!
  • 2,548 Green Drinkers signed up for the monthly Newsletter; an 86% increase of our distribution list.
  • 1,487 people are members of SFGD on Facebook.

Special Events in 2009

May 5th: After several wonderful years at Varnish Fine Arts our growing community needed a larger venue to call home and we found it at 111 Minna. In May of 2009 we hosted Green Drinko De Mayo, to a lively spring event that celebrated our new digs, a new SFGD website and a blossoming Green Drinks community.

May 19th: Shortly after moving our festive May event, SFGD hosted Green Career Connections, a unique recruitment opportunity that connected green Bay Area companies with SFGD job seekers.

On May 19th, over 25 employers with 100 actively open positions met with 300 potential employees for a very successful night of professional networking and job seeking.

August 14th: San Francisco Green Drinks invited the Bay Area green community to Green Generations, a SFGD fundraising gala for established organizations that provide environmental education to under-served children.

$2,394 was raised for three local organizations and their inspirational programs; they include: Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) (Youth Wilderness Program), Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ) (Bay Youth for the Environment) and Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society (SCVAS) (Wetlands Discovery Program)

December 1st: For the 2009 holiday season, we threw a very successful Holiday Bash and Benefit which raised $5,108 and signed-up 38 volunteers to support GRID Alternatives’ mission to outfit low-income families with solar electric systems. In 2010, San Francisco Green Drinks will work with GRID Alternatives to purchase and install a set of solar panels on a local low-income home in San Francisco.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, January 5th
Time: 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Location: 111 Minna Gallery
Bring: Please bring your business cards!
Safety: Please be safe when coming to/from SFGD. If you would like someone to walk you to your bus/train stop or car, please let a greeter know. As always, please designate a driver if driving.
Cost: FREE!

Community

Post your green event on the Bay Area Green Calendar for free!

* SF Green Drinks is on Facebook. Please join the group ‘San Francisco Green Drinks’ for additional resources and information.

* SF Green Drinks is looking for Sponsors. If you or someone you know is interested in connecting with our community, please get in touch!

See you on the 5th!

– The Green Drinks Team


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