LA Green Drinks: Now with free snacks at smart® house in Venice

Suddenly, the West Side LA Green Drinks is moving around each month. Last month, the eco-social event moved to Beechwood Restaurant in Venice because the usual spot at the Culver Hotel was getting renovated.

This month, West Side LA Green Drinks is happening at the new smart® house, the brand new gallery for the fuel-efficient smart® fortwo. Apparently, tomorrow's event's cohosted by Eco Gift Expo, the holiday shopping fair happening later this month.

Unlike other Green Drinks events, you have to RSVP. However, also unlike other Green Drinks events, you'll get free food, receive your drinks in a real glass instead of disposable plastic cups, have dj braden spinning in the background, and see a preview of the smart® fortwo. Barent Roth, Green Drinks organizer, says "we are trying to get the drinks/food green too, but I don't know if that will happen." Fingers crossed.

When: Thursday, December 6, 7 pm – 10 pm
Where: smart® house, 1319 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice
RSVP: Email smartLAGreenDrinks@laforce-stevens.com

Find out more about Green Drinks and what it is here. I still haven't decided whether I'm going here or to the Santa Monica community transportation workshop. The latter I can bike to, but the former has drinks --

Photo by Siel

Comments

[Drew]

Siel--did you go to this thing? I didn't RSVP in time and it was CLOSED. I walked by and there was hardly anyone there. Remember when greendrinks was fun? Remember when it wasn't held at CAR COMPANIES? (remember this about the "smart" car: it only gets 40mpg, BFD! and it still runs on GAS). Now the green movement is all about "eco gifts" and selling shit. so disappointing. What happened to REDUCING CONSUMPTION and BICYCLING and that whole aspect of the green movement.

Sorry. Just feeling a little disenfranchised from a movement that being corporatized.

[Siel]

Hey Drew -- I actually didn't know that people were TURNED AWAY until I got there and heard about it from my friend Jeff (who complained and subsequently got on the list). I'd thought they were just going for a headcount and/or didn't want people coming in from off the street randomly.

But I talked to Barent, the organizer, about it. More on that in another post, but he said that in the future green drinks shouldn't have an access / capacity issue. Good point about the irony of having green drinks in a car showcase building --