Palmerston North Green Drinks
This listing was last updated by the Palmerston North organiser on: 2021-06-07
Photo from our first meeting (10 Sep 2020).
Welcome to Green Drinks Palmerston North!
Green Drinks is a monthly event for socialising and networking with people interested in sustainability and environmental matters. We meet second Thursday of the month at Café Royale.
The idea is to chill out, chat, exchange ideas, get nourished and inspired.
Green Drinks Palmerston North is part of the Green Drinks international movement, establishing an environmentally minded social hub in our community.
This project is non-politically aligned. We are just cool Green Drinkers.
Free entry. All welcome.
If you want to join this green network, please follow us on our Facebook page,flick us an email or complete our mailing form to stay in touch. We promise we won’t spam you.
Thank you for popping in and we look forward to seeing you soon!
Our History
Palmerston North Green Drinks started in June 2020 from a group of friends interested in environmental and sustainability issues. Animated by values such as social commitment and environmental awareness, the group aims to provide for networking opportunities for its members in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
We hope to expand and strengthen this green movement in our beloved Palmy community.
Previous meetings
April 2021
Bron and David, owners of the local low waste grocery store "Be Free Grocer", gave interesting tips on how to reduce our waste when shopping, how to do our groceries low waste and gave us an exclusive tour to their store to see the behind the scenes of their business.
March 2021
Tim from City Slickers Honey explained how he is improving our environment by placing beehives in local gardens and then sell honey with a real local flavour. We learned about his journey to be as sustainable as possible from the care of the beehives to the packaging of the honey and other products.
February 2021
We had a lovely picnic by Manawatu River to talk about our interests and what we would like to learn/achieve/improve in 2021.
December 2020
David from "We Reuse I.T" explained us how his business works with e-waste recycling. We were joined by other 25+ greendrinkers and enjoyed a great evening.
November 2020
Over 30 greendrinkers joined us to lear how the Awapuni Recycling Plant works and what can and can't be recycled in Palmy. Ariadne Santos, PNCC Waste Operations supervisor was our guest speaker.
1st October 2020
Over 25 greendrinkers joined us to listen to our first guest speaker: Toni Grace. Toni prepared an interesting presentation about UN's Sustainable Development Goals followed by group activity and discussion.
10th September 2020
Our first meeting! We had a great response with over 20 greendrinkers joining us to shape the format of the meetings. We brainstormed together and came with topics we would like to discuss and learn about.