Green Drinks SD, this Thursday June 28th, Downtown

Make sure to mark the date! Green Drinks is coming to Hotel Solamar this Thursday, June 28th. Salomar is a cool green hotel in downtown SD...I look forward to checking it out.

Jbar, Hotel Solamar, 435 6th Ave., San Diego, CA 92101, (619) 531-8740

Every month, people all over the world working, studying or just interested in the environment are meeting up at informal gatherings known as GreenDrinks – it’s a chance to mix with other like-minded folks, to network, share info, enjoy an ice cold beer and make new friends. Now GreenDrinks has come to San Diego, and you’re invited!

Green Drinks in Encinitas!!!! Migrate Home, April 25th

We are totally thrilled to see that Green Drinks will be held in our home town of Encinitas this month!!!! Come join us at Migrate Home on April 25th, 6-9pm!

Spring is in the air! I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Eastre. No, that's not a mis-spelling, but a shout out to the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, from whose name the word "Easter" is derived from. (gotta love that wikipedia)

GreenDrinks celebrates spring by migrating to North County. Lindy at Migrate Home has been gracious enough to invite Greendrinks into her new eco-boutique in the Lumberyard in Encinitas on Highway 101. It's a great new place and has an outdoor area for us all to enjoy what I hope will be another textbook evening. Last month was great, overwhelming the folks at the La Jolla Brew House, and I'd like to thank everyone for making it. We're pretty much a flash mob, showing up en masse and taking over.

I look forward to seeing everyone. This is not a bar, so anyone who wishes to bring a bottle of wine, some beer (great organic wines and beers out there) or their favorite libation will not be turned away. We'll be supplying some refreshments, but we'll have an empty ice chest as well. (any web-type folks out there who would like to help, I'd like to set up a GreenDrinks carpooling bulletin board. Let me know if you have any ideas. - JS)

Keep living (and drinking) green, and see you on the 25th. (Note the move to Wednesday)

John


Migrate Home, 937 S. Coast Highway 101, suite C103, Encinitas, CA 92024

Green Drinks: Simple, Unstructured...a talk with founder Edwin Datschefski

LiveGreen recently had a chance to sit down for a pint and a chat with Green Drinks founder Edwin Datschefski. Actually, it was virtual...Edwin being in the UK, LiveGreen from San Diego. ;)

Communication is key...we are very grateful to Edwin for allowing us an interview with one of the visionaries behind the fastest-growing environmentally aware communities in the world. In more than 200 cities around the world, Green Drinks is an unstructured, informal and random networking idea that brings people together every month to talk about all things green. I think the logo for Green Drinks Chattanooga encompasses the philosophy behind Green Drinks best.

The beginnings of Green Drinks is unlike any I’ve ever heard of. In 1989, Edwin found himself in a northern London pub called The Slug and Lettuce. While sharing a pint with several of his green design colleagues, Edwin noticed an enviro-minded acquaintance at a table nearby. As it turned out Edwin said, the friend was sitting with a few of his eco-conscious mates, so we pulled some tables together…and so a movement was born.

The original founders of Green Drinks are Edwin Datschefski, Yorick Benjamin and Paul Scott. A few years after starting Green Drinks, Edwin focused on setting up the greendrinks.org website in order to spread this great idea to other cities. Such a simple idea has brought like-minded people together in places like New York, London, and Amsterdam…all the way to places like Buenos Aires, Malta and San Juan.

What does Edwin see for Green Drinks in the next five years? More cities! Apart from that, we've toyed a lot with the format, but the basic theme of unstructured, informal random networking seems very stable and I don't see it evolving much though we give it every opportunity to do so.

Visit the greendrinks.org websites to find a local meeting near you. All you have to do is show up, grab a drink, and start talking. Cheers!