Green Drinks NYC Vies to be World’s Biggest
Mar 3rd, 2008 by Jervey
An interesting post on greenbuildingsNYC tells us about how our local Green Drinks NYC is in something of a battle (with Melbourne, of all places) to bill itself as the world’s supreme regularly scheduled eco-suare. A couple highlights:
Last fall, Margaret [Lydecker, organizer of GD-NYC] thought that she could rest on her laurels after hosting the biggest Green Drinks International gathering since the founding of Green Drinks in London in 1989. Almost 1,000 people showed up at her Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party back in December- a record number for the international organization which now has regular gatherings at chapters on every continent and in over 200 cities around the globe.
Sorry, New York. Damien Melotte in Melbourne, Australia recently emailed Margaret to tell her that 1,817 people came to the Green Drinks Melbourne bash that just took place on February 15. Melotte, who chairs an organization called ecoresonance.org, signed off his email to Margaret by asking her to “bring it on.” I recently had brunch with Margaret at a coffee shop in Union Square and wasn’t surprised to find out that she’s planning on putting her party hat back on, fighting back, and showing the folks down under that New York City has no intention of bowing down.
…read the rest of the entry here.
So apparently the gauntlet has been dropped, and we NYers can prove we’re the world’s dominant eco-scene. (Frankly, I don’t care what the numbers reflect, I think the empirical evidence shows that NYC will continue to emerge as the world leader in urban sustainability, through our boundless innovation, creativity, smarts and energy.) The post goes on to hint towards some new plans for the Green Drinks NYC brand. And having known Margaret for a few years now, and having seen how rapidly this whole thing has grown, I’m sure it’ll be some exciting stuff.
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