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?

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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.

March Sponsors: Pacific Environment & Earth Island Institute

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

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

Click for more GRID volunteering photos

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!

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?

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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.

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

* Twenty (20) Green Drinkers participated in a GRID Alternatives solar training on January 13th in preparation for a 2-day installation on a low-income home here in San Francisco.  Stay tuned next month for more highlights and photos from their volunteering efforts.

* 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

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.

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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

Because of you and our community’s amazing generosity, our final event for the year was a HUGE success!  At our December 1st Green Drinks Holiday Bash and Benefit we exceeded our $5,000 fundraising goal for Grid Alternatives and signed up 38 volunteers to help install solar panels on a low-income home!

Our Top Ten Donors and recipients of a free Green Zebra guide are:

If you would like to join us for the solar training session on Wednesday, January 13th please email us at info[at]sfgreendrinks.org by Friday, January 8th for more information.

Special thanks go out our SFGD Officers who helped put on an amazing event and contributed to the success of our fundraising efforts.

Happy Holidays!

- The Green Drinks Team

Ho Ho Ho Green Drinkers!

Please join us next Tuesday, December 1st for San Francisco Green Drinks. Celebrate the spirit of the holidays with your environmental community!

This holiday season we will be supporting GRID Alternatives’ mission to outfit low-income families with solar electric systems. Our goal is to raise $5,000 and group of inspired volunteers so we can purchase AND install a set of solar panels on a local low-income home in San Francisco!

This holiday party and fundraiser is a chance for the extensive Bay Area Green community to come together, celebrate our community, and support environmentally responsible technologies to create an environmentally, socially and economically sustainable future.

Come show your support and party with a purpose!

December Sponsors Institute at the Golden Gate and Green Zebra

Institute at the Golden Gate

The Institute at the Golden Gate advances environmental preservation and global sustainability by facilitating cross-sector dialogue and collaboration, encouraging new partnerships, and promoting action. The Institute helps forge environmental solutions by gathering policy makers, scientists, youth activists, and business leaders in an exceptional and inspirational setting.

The Institute is a program of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, the nonprofit partner for the Golden Gate National Parks, in partnership with the National Park Service. In keeping with the conservation ethic that guided Fort Baker’s environmentally conscious revitalization, a new environmental institute was founded on site. Working alongside Cavallo Point – the Lodge at the Golden Gate, the Institute convenes and collaborates with nonprofit, for-profit and government groups to broker long-term relationships, focused on driving environmental change in an exceptional and inspirational setting at Fort Baker. A special Institute rate is available to qualifying organizations for meeting space and overnight accommodations.

Green Zebra

Green Zebra makes it fun and easy to explore the best of sustainable living in San Francisco. The 2010 Green Zebra guide is an award-winning annual publication that acts as a directory of environmentally conscious and community oriented local businesses. The guide includes more than 300 exclusive offers worth thousands of dollars in savings at organic restaurants and markets, eco-friendly retailers, spas, Yoga and Pilates studios, bookstores, bike shops, museums and more. Green Zebra passes present over $7,500 in total savings valid through December 2010, and it’s easy to earn back the guide’s $25 purchase price by redeeming just one or two offers. The 2010 Green Zebra guide also serves as a handy reference tool with articles that present practical tips for embracing a more healthy and sustainable lifestyle– simple action steps you can take today to ensure a greener tomorrow. It makes an affordable corporate gift and easy no-risk fundraising tool that is aligned with your green values.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, December 1st
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 admission OR donate $10+ and receive 1 free drink with all proceeds going towards Grid Alternatives! Top ten donors receive a free 2010 Green Zebra Guide!

Food
The food for holiday party is being donated by Chef Alex Marsh who travels and cooks wherever he can, searching out new foods and learning about sustainable agriculture all over the world. You can find out more about him at www.TheJetsetchef.com or follow his twitter account for information about underground dining here in San Francisco.

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

• Organic Vinters Mulled Wine - $5
• Adam and VeeV - $5
• Christmas in Rio - $5

Community

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

* SF Green Drinks has a Flickr page!

* 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 1st!

- The Green Drinks Team

Come show your support and party with a purpose!

Gobble Gobble Green Drinkers!

Please join us next Tuesday, November 3rd for San Francisco Green Drinks.

The “story of impact” takes many turns. This December, we look to our leaders meeting in Copenhagen to write a new story of impact in the form of legislation and history. Our November sponsors, Earthjustice and WorldofGood, have written their own chapters in the story of impact. These two socially conscious organizations are heading up two raffles during our November event! Prices include t-shirts, copies of the award-winning book Justice on Earth, and personal interview with an Earthjustice lawyer!

Be sure to check out SFGD’s Calendar! Come by and post an event on November 3rd!

November Sponsors Earthjustice and WorldofGood

Earthjustice

Earthjustice is the nation’s leading nonprofit environmental law firm, dedicated to preserving our natural heritage, safeguarding our health, and promoting a clean energy future. Earthjustice represents - free of charge - more than a thousand nonprofits and organizations in court, from national organizations like the Sierra Club, NRDC and the American Lung Association to local community groups like the Oakland-based Asian Pacific Environmental Network. Their cases have made a big impact on people’s lives, from protecting the national parks that they visit to cleaning up the air and water in our communities.

WorldofGood

WorldofGood.com by eBay is the world’s first online multi-seller marketplace to convene thousands of socially and environmentally responsible products all in one place, empowering you to shop in ways that align with your personal values. Respected, independent organizations verify the positive impact every product has on people and the planet.

For the first time, WorldofGood.com will also hold its own in-person event on November 18th, giving interested consumers the chance to mingle with local sellers and trust providers from the marketplace. The event will feature food, drinks, and product giveaways.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, November 3rd
Time: 5:30-8:30 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.

Food
Sour Flour - Enjoy Life!
Provided by Danny Paz Gabriner

Special Drink of the Month
Sagatiba! Choose from a Bikini Martini, Bay Cooler, or Classic Caipirinha with delicious Sagatiba ingredients.

Entertainment:
7:00 - 9:00 DJ Rump
DJ Rump (a.k.a Patrick Rump) has dedicated his life to environmental causes and policies. He now works for Literacy for Environmental Justice, and is actively recruiting volunteers to help with LEJ’s Environmental Youth Program. This long time DJ will be spinning earthy, organic, soulful, down tempo tunes that will set the mood and provide us with a “world of good music”.

Volunteer Opportunity
Bay Youth for the Environment Program (BYE), launched by Patrick Rump, and with the help of volunteers, have restored a neglected Community garden to a thriving and beautiful state, built and operates a youth led Native Plant Nursery and stewardship program that grows over 10,000 native plants for the restoration of Candlestick Point. BYE coordinates hundreds of volunteers each year at Candlestick Point State Recreation Area. LEJ will be at the event actively recruiting volunteers for this program for an upcoming volunteer day. To get involved please visit lejyouth.org or call LEJ at 415-282-6840.

Other News

Waldeck’s Office Supplies For A Small Planet is pleased to extend you a very special offer. Mention “Greendrinks” and receive 50% off all individual and boxed Sierra Club holiday cards in stock. While you’re there, peruse their large selection of eco-friendly products.  They also offer free recycling of household batteries, laser/inkjet cartridges and cell phones.  Waldeck’s has been a wonderful Community Partner with SFGD, donating supplies and spreading holiday cheer. Happy Holidays from Clifford Waldeck.

Community

* SF Green Drinks has a Calendar to help the Green community connect!

* SF Green Drinks has a Flickr page!

* 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!

We hope to see you on the 3rd!

- The Green Drinks Team

Happy Fall Green Drinkers!

Please join us next Tuesday, October 6th for the next San Francisco Green Drinks.

The youth of the green movement are the focus of our October theme: “Next Generation of Activits.” Join Earth Island Institute Tuesday, October 20th for their 10th Annual Brower Youth Awards.  BYA is the premier awards honoring bold young environmental leaders. The Awards ceremony reservations are free and open to the public and there is a VIP Opening Reception fundraiser before the free awards ceremony.

We are raffling off two passes to the VIP Opening Reception Pre-BYA celebration, 5:30-7:15pm, in the Herbst Theatre Green Room. There you can meet this year’s Brower Youth Award honorees, past winners, sponsors, donors, and other honored guests and visit with many of Earth Island Institute’s projects (100$ value per ticket).

Be sure to check out SFGD’s new Calendar! Come by and post an event on September 1st!

September Sponsor is Earth Island Institute

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.

EarthIsland’s Project Support program is an incubator for start-up environmental projects, giving crucial assistance to groups and individuals with new ideas for promoting ecological sustainability. Since 1982, they have been an organizational home to more than 100 projects around the globe. Come to the October Green Drinks and meet three of their local projects: Bay Area Wilderness Training,  Nature in the City, and Bay Localize. All three of these Bay Area groups have fantastic volunteer opportunities. BAWT, who was recently featured at our Green Generations event, will host a volunteer day for the SF Green Drinks Community on Wednesday October 21, 6-9pm at 2301 Broadway Suite B, Oakland. Sign up at the event or contact Clifford Agocs at cliff@bawt.org.

Also, we will feature their New Leaders Initiative, which will present their 10th Annual Brower Youth Awards on 10/20/09 in San Francisco.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, September 1st
Time: 5:30-8:30 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.

Entertainment
7:00 - DJ Freya
By night DJ Freya spins warm danceflooor drum & bass and funky breaks. She’s known for her Hemisphere event, called the “Best Chill Drum & Bass Night on the West Coast” by Nightvibe.com, and URB magazine described her first mix tape as “flawless.” By day she helps Alameda County businesses work towards zero waste! Become a Fan on Facebook for upcoming shows.

8:00 - DJ Delon
DJ Delon spins a delicious selection of downtempo, funky breaks, nu-jazz, drum & bass, and house. Whether manning the sounds 2nd Thursdays @ Berkeley’s Jupiter, or behind the DJ bar 1st Saturdays @ Laszlo here in The City, DJ Delon’s grooves are top shelf. With over a decade behind the decks, his mix collection is enviable.

Food
That Takes the Cake
Local Cupcakes!

Special Drink of the Month

-3 tea bags Numi Mate Lemon Green (Rainforest Green)
-3 tea bags Numi Ginger Sun
-2 oz. Square One Organic Vodka
-1.5 oz. unsweetened fresh lime juice
-1/2 oz. agave nectar
-1/4 oz. Cointreau
-Lim zest garnish

Rainforest Green Tea-ni. Tea donated by Numi Tea

Other News

Project Wrecking Ball launches at Varnish Fine Art and continues until the wrecking ball swings. A group of over 25 artists as they transform Varnish Fine Art in the coming months, during Project Wrecking Ball. This long-term art project and exhibit is Varnish’s response to the pending eminent domain demolition of their current location at 77 Natoma Street in downtown San Francisco.  The varied artwork will be created in paint, encaustic and photo-emulsion directly on the brick walls and on panels in addition to metal sculpture and kinetic art installations. Project Wrecking Ball launches with a party on Friday September 25, 7-11pm, and PWB will continue until the wrecking ball swings on Varnish Fine Art—whenever that will be!  This gallery and wine bar will soon have to vacate 77 Natoma Street, but the business’ owners hope to re-establish Varnish Fine Art at a new location soon.

Community

* SF Green Drinks has a Calendar to help the Green community connect!

* SF Green Drinks has a Flickr page!

* 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!

We hope to see you on the 6th!

- The Green Drinks Team