Moving on from recycled paper and carpooling to the workplace, Heather, one of our summer interns found a well put-together resource for greening just about everything in your life, and we thought we’d share it: Treehugger.com, a program of Discovery (as in the Discovery Channel). Check out their green guides on weddings, snowboarding, holidays, dinner parties and more.
These guides help you think of the mutiple ways to be more conscious within each aspect of your life. For example, just with drinking beer, you’ll find 10 tips. Here are a few:
1) Choose organic beer
2) Support local breweries/prewbubs to reduce the carbon footprint from transportation (the product not being shipped, and hopefully you walking). (Like Linden Street and Pacific Coast breweries here in Oakland - both are having Oktoberfest events this month.)
3) Ask for these locally-brewed beers when you’re at a restaurant
4) Drink draught instead of of cans or bottles
5) Support sustainably-run breweries (aka solar powered, green certified operations)
See the other green beer tips and all of their green guides for more fun ideas.
Pacific Coast Brewing is finally legal! The company is celebrating 21 years in Oakland this October and wants you to join in the festivities! They will kick off their two day celebration on Friday, October 16, with live music, food, birthday cake, and, of course, beer, including their special 21st Anniversary Imperial IPA. The celebration will continue on Saturday night, October 17, with more live music and beer. Come on down! For more info, check out the party’s website.