Check out the Foth website for information on all of the presentations that were given. Very intersting stuff.
http://www.foth.com/fothweb/infrastructure++environment/sustainability+conference/default.asp
Sunday, June 22, 2008
June 19 - Green Drinks Report
Green Drinks this month was great, yet again! Excellent conversation, we discussed the Foth Sustainability Conference that was held earlier in the day in Appleton, as well as what the Mayor's Sustainable Greater Green Bay Task Force has been working on. We were visited by 88th Assembly Representative Jim Soletski too. It is always a treat to be able to sit down and talk with our representatives about the environment, sustainability and anything else that may come up. Shameless plug - Rep. Soletski is running for reelection this year, and just want to say he has been a great advocate of the environment.
One of our frequent Green Drinkers, Frank Ingram, has begun a Yahoo group for Green Bay Green Drinks online. If anyone is interested simply check out yahoo.com and search under "greenbaygreendrinks" and it will take you right there. There are a few steps to sign up, but it's quick and easy.
On a similar note, if anyone is interested in contributing environmental news to this blog we would love to have additional posters, simply email Rich and he will send you an invite. You can respond to this post too, and we will check back and get you signed up.
We see this blog as a great way to get additional information out there about what is going on in Green Bay because even though the perception out there is not much, there is a TON!
This has molded into more than just a Green Drinks update, but that's ok. Hope to see some new faces at Green Drinks next month! It will be held July 17th, always at Kavarna, always from 6-10 pm.
One of our frequent Green Drinkers, Frank Ingram, has begun a Yahoo group for Green Bay Green Drinks online. If anyone is interested simply check out yahoo.com and search under "greenbaygreendrinks" and it will take you right there. There are a few steps to sign up, but it's quick and easy.
On a similar note, if anyone is interested in contributing environmental news to this blog we would love to have additional posters, simply email Rich and he will send you an invite. You can respond to this post too, and we will check back and get you signed up.
We see this blog as a great way to get additional information out there about what is going on in Green Bay because even though the perception out there is not much, there is a TON!
This has molded into more than just a Green Drinks update, but that's ok. Hope to see some new faces at Green Drinks next month! It will be held July 17th, always at Kavarna, always from 6-10 pm.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Green Bay Green Drinks! Thursday, June 19th
Green Bay Green Drinks is a monthly 'social gathering' of environmentalists. We meet every third Thursday of the month at Kavarna Coffeehouse, on Broadway.If some people suggest that "green" is your middle name, you'll probably find value in Green Drinks Green Bay. At this monthly event, people who have a passion for anything "environmental" meet for friendly conversation. Since we started in April 2005, we've been visited by folks with a wide variety of interests: science, art, politics, music, film, health, psychology, nutrition to name a few. Many work in an environmental field as professionals, educators, entrepreneurs or neighborhood activists. You never know who will be there! If you look elsewhere on the website http://www.greendrinks.org/ , you'll see that "Green Drinks" is an international movement.
We start to gather shortly after 6pm, but don't worry if you can't show up until much later. Peak attendance has been 7:30-8:30pm so far. The hours you attend will influence who you may meet, however. People come and go all evening until Kavarna closes at 10pm. Kavarna is a smokefree vegetarian coffeehouse/restaurant that sells bottled beers and wine. Soups, salads, chai and juices are among the many other offerings. All ages welcome. Feel free to bring your kids.
See http://www.kavarna.com/ for directions to Kavarna at 112 S. Broadway, located on downtown Green Bay's near west side.Look for the group with a pile of books on the table. First-timers get a free book! Also, please let Crystal (email below) know that you would like to be added to the email reiminder list.
Hosting committee includes Rich Krieg; Crystal Osman, 920-562-2550, crystalosman20[at]gmail[dot]com; Kim Biederman 920.429.9008, Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters Institute
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
UPass for UW-Green Bay!
This post is a little late, but UW-Green Bay has partnered with the Green Bay Metro to give students, faculty and staff access to any bus, on any route, for free - by simply showing their University ID card.
This is a huge step in the right direction for the University and they should be proud that they are taking the responsibility and the initiative to deal with their carbon footprint. By offering this for students, faculty and staff, so many opportunities are now available that might not have been before. It is incredibly exciting!
http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-138.htm
This is a huge step in the right direction for the University and they should be proud that they are taking the responsibility and the initiative to deal with their carbon footprint. By offering this for students, faculty and staff, so many opportunities are now available that might not have been before. It is incredibly exciting!
http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-138.htm
Green Bay's bikeshare program
from today's Press-Gazette:
Green Bay gets greener with bike program
Mayor Schmitt really supports this and wants it to be successful. Anything that gets more bikes out there is worth a chance. I think the six stations were well selected. What really makes for some "interesting" reading is the comments people are posting about the article!
Green Bay gets greener with bike program
Mayor Schmitt really supports this and wants it to be successful. Anything that gets more bikes out there is worth a chance. I think the six stations were well selected. What really makes for some "interesting" reading is the comments people are posting about the article!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
local food summer
The Urban Frog is organizing a "Local Food Summer." They are encouraging everyone to eat locally this summer and pledge to eat one meal per week made from ingredients grown or produced (excluding spices) not farther than 100 miles from home.
By signing the pledge you are making a commitment to eat one local meal a week until August 31, 2008. They hope that this challenge will spark some lively conversations about food and equally important, act as a means of promoting conscious consuming. Now more than ever we need to recognize local agriculture and the food dollars it brings into our local economy. With both farmers markets up and running there's no better time than now to make this commitment. Take the pledge at The Urban Frog and get a free sample of homemade dishwasher detergent along with the recipe so you can make your own. They hope to do a big celebration event come this September (think block party with Howard Lyman a.k.a. Mad Cowboy).
Thanks Urban Frog!!!!!
By signing the pledge you are making a commitment to eat one local meal a week until August 31, 2008. They hope that this challenge will spark some lively conversations about food and equally important, act as a means of promoting conscious consuming. Now more than ever we need to recognize local agriculture and the food dollars it brings into our local economy. With both farmers markets up and running there's no better time than now to make this commitment. Take the pledge at The Urban Frog and get a free sample of homemade dishwasher detergent along with the recipe so you can make your own. They hope to do a big celebration event come this September (think block party with Howard Lyman a.k.a. Mad Cowboy).
Thanks Urban Frog!!!!!
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Join Us For "Green Drinks" - May 15
Green Bay, WI Green Drinks
Green Bay Green Drinks is a monthly 'social gathering' of environmentalists. We meet every third Thursday of the month at Kavarna Coffeehouse, on Broadway.
If some people suggest that "green" is your middle name, you'll probably find value in Green Drinks Green Bay. At this monthly event, people who have a passion for anything "environmental" meet for friendly conversation. Since we started in April 2005, we've been visited by folks with a wide variety of interests: science, art, politics, music, film, health, psychology, nutrition to name a few. Many work in an environmental field as professionals, educators, entrepreneurs or neighborhood activists. You never know who will be there! If you look elsewhere on the website http://www.greendrinks.org/ , you'll see that "Green Drinks" is an international movement.
We start to gather shortly after 6pm, but don't worry if you can't show up until much later. Peak attendance has been 7:30-8:30pm so far. The hours you attend will influence who you may meet, however. People come and go all evening until Kavarna closes at 10pm. Kavarna is a smokefree vegetarian coffeehouse/restaurant that sells bottled beers and wine. Soups, salads, chai and juices are among the many other offerings. All ages welcome. Feel free to bring your kids.
See http://www.kavarna.com/ for directions to Kavarna at 112 S. Broadway, located on downtown Green Bay's near west side.
Look for the group with a pile of books on the table. First-timers get a free book! Also, please let Crystal know that you would like to be added to the email reiminder list.
Hosting committee includes Crystal Osman, Rich Krieg, and Kim Biederman.
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