First off a quick, Green Gurus team update on current events…
Last week while Shena was prepping for her time at the South By Southwest festival, Ryan continued working on one of his new solar flower designs, Elizabeth continued pouring over the latest Plan Check plans for one of our clients, Doug continued work on his thesis draft, Brent worked on the latest fabrication plans, Evonne carried on in Second Life, and I hit up Greg Wendt, Jeff Hayes, Sarah Shewey, Kipp Stroden, and Ferris Kawar’s Green Business Networking monthly night.
This was the first night that I had been able to make it out since hearing about it several months back. I ran into several great people I’ve been talking with recently and many more great faces, all from around the LA startup and sustainable business circles.
Several previous contacts included Michael Moss / Founder Green Nectarine, Jenn “1luv” Breckenridge, and Ben Clayton / Gliving, Watts Up America, etc. I also got to put some names to faces we’ve been hearing more about recently, like Scott Badenoch / Founder Creative Citizen and Melanie StJames / Executive Director of Empowerment Works. Other new faces included Olivia Kuhn-Lloyd / Cause + Capitalism Blog Author, Laura Beatty, Kacy Palmieri / Earth Day LA, Kristofer Youngstrom / Engineer at Digital Housing & Administration, and the Heart Beet Gardening gaia’s.
A few people were asking after more networking nights at this event and the LA Green Drinks was mentioned more than once, which we posted about last year here. Others range from Lunch 2.0 to Dealmaker, to LA’s Largest Mixer to Mashable’s return with “MashMeet LA 2.0“, and many, many others.
Some handy online resources include LA Times “Emerald City” blog, Siel’s “green LA girl“, the Green Group, etc….you just have to keep at it, digging around online, joining various social networking groups, meeting up at the local business mixers in person, and all the rest. Whatever the case may be, we’d love to meet up with you in person at the next LA Green Drinks or other event of your choosing…
Feel free to contact us here if you need help figuring out what to hit up next, carpooling arrangements or any other details.
We look forward to meeting up with you sometime soon!
A few of of us attended the monthly Green Drinks in Culver City last night.
We were joined by a few others including Michael Moss (MossCadora), and some of Ryan and Elizabeth’s friends and colleagues including OneLove, Shiko and Cris Wagner. The gathering was held at the Living Green and ran from 7pm on.
I met several interesting people including Rony Alcalay of Hemptations, who sounds to be doing a great job with his hemp clothing line. Also in attendance were:
- Karen Feinberg, one of Living Green’s sales reps
- Andrew Mannle, senior editor at Arcwire
- Matt Diamond, president of Diamond Lane Entertainment
- Barent Roth, industrial design-principal at Grow-Design
-each and every one was a pleasure to speak with.
We look forward to attending many a Green Drinks in the coming weeks and months. Feel free to drop us a line if you’d like to meet up with any of us sometime.
A little while back we created a tribe on Tribe.net; tonight we’ve resumed work on it.
If you or someone you know is on Tribe and think they might be interested in what
we’re about, have a general interest in the Green movement, or are just an old-school
environmentalist, than this group (known as tribes on Tribe) is a great place to interact
with others who share your interest or passion(s).
We’ll be adding other groups and profiles over the coming weeks and months, on such
sites as: Myspace, Facebook, Flickr, and many others. We’ll keep you posted as we launch
these and any other web-related content.
