Tuesday, July 14 2009; 19:00-24:15; Face Bar – Jl. DR. Kusuma Atmaja, Menteng Jakarta 10310.
Welcoming Speech by Marco Kusumawijaya (www.mkusumawijaya.wordpress.com), organised by APCO ( www.apcoworldwide.com).
Free beer and finger food between 19:00 and 21:00
Green Drinks (www.greendrinks.org) is an informal networking event where sustainable business and environmentally minded people meet over drinks. Started in London in 1989, by Edwin Datschefski and friends, it has spread to 51 cities in the United Kingdom, 223 in the U.S. and many more in Canada, Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Chile and Puerto Rico. As of March 2009, there are over 450 Green Drink Chapters worldwide.
Green drinks have a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, government and business. People with green minded should come along and will be made welcome. Just say, “are you green?” and they will looked after and introduced to whoever is there. It’s a great way of catching up with people and also for making new contacts. Everyone invites someone else along, so theres always a different crowd, making Green Drinks an organic, self-organising network.
These events are very simple and unstructured, but many people have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity.
The Jakarta Chapter was initiated by APCO Worldwide and the first networking event will be held on July, 14 2009. Greendrinks will be held on a monthly basis.
SUCCESS STORY
The New York City Green Drinks Chapter was founded by Margaret Lydecker in July 2002 and is the largest global chapter with 10,000 members. The December 2007 Holiday Party, marked the largest Green Drinks event in New York City to date with a 900+ person record attendance, which was covered by CNN. Green Drinks NYC has an average attendance of 400 people held at different venues around Manhattan and has been a big cataylst for connectivity, community, collaboration and change in the environmental sector in New York and beyond. Margaret has made significant contributions to the growth and expansion of Green Drinks chapters around the world personally helping to start or influence 100+ chapters including a chapter in Kabul Afganistan and is the USA point person for Green Drinks.
As of 15 February 2007, Melbourne, Australia holds the record for the world’s biggest Green Drinks. Over 1700 people attended an event held on the first evening of the city’s 2008 Sustainable Living Festival.
GOALS
Greendrinks first launch is aimed at gathering people (professionals, NGO activists, government officials, journalists, etc) who are interested in sustainable business and environmental issues to network and exchange thoughts or ideas in a very informal setting.
GREEN DRINKS FIRST LAUNCH TIME AND PLACE
Day : Tuesday, July 14 2009
Place : Face Bar – Jl. DR. Kusuma Atmaja, Menteng Jakarta 10310
RUNDOWN
07:00 07.05 Welcoming Speech by Marco Kusumawijaya
07:15 – 12.15 Drinks and networking
12.15 Closing
REFERENCES
I want to be there. I’m not sure wether I’m ‘green’ enough since I’m still coping with my automobile dependency syndrome 🙂 Hope green people can tolerate me 🙂
You are most welcome! No one is green enough! We just have to try to get greener all the time.