Science Gallery welcomes GREEN DRINKS

Science Gallery is happy to welcome another science themed group to the gallery! If you haven't heard of Green Drinks, come along to check out the group that already inhabits 448 cities around the world. Green Drinks is a simple idea that's gone global- once a month people with an interest in green issues get together to chat, share ideas and raise a glass to a brighter future. Sounds like our kind of people! See below for more details.

Dublin Green Drinks is on the first Tuesday of every month.  You can hear about future events by joining the mailing list on www.leafliving.com or by emailing info@leafliving.com.

Fantastic NEW Venue! Exciting Speakers! Free Soft Drinks! Free Vegetarian & Vegan Snacks! Free Entry and More at the next Green Drinks!

Date:  Tuesday 7th July
Venue: The Science Gallery map, Trinity College, Pearse Street, Dublin 2
Admission: FREE
Time: Come along any time from 18:00 (guest speaker at 19:00 to 19:20)
Free stuff and discounts: The Science Gallery is offering us a discount on all drinks (pints from €3.60!) and is creating a special Green Drink! Rockstar have kindly offered free energy drinks and The Green Drinks team is working on providing some vegetarian and vegan snacks too.
RSVP: RSVP on Facebook here or by email to info@leafliving.com to make sure we have enough for everyone

Science plays a hugely important part in climate change.  It brought us the combustion engine, it proved the link between our actions and global warming and it is also creating the technologies for solutions to the problem (e.g. scientists are investigating plans to reverse global warming by using giant mirrors to reflect the sun and growing algae in the sea to absorb carbon dioxide).

We’re therefore delighted to have been invited to have the next Green Drinks at the stunning Science Gallery  “where ideas meet and opinions collide”.  Those behind the gallery want the public’s opinion about how it wants science to develop.  The gallery is an important means by which the public and science can come together and it’s exactly this sort of environment that will bring forth the ideas and technologies that will shape our future.  It has exhibitions that change on a regular basis and ones coming up have environmental sustainability at the forefront.  We hope to collaborate with these, help make them a huge success and will bring you more details as they unfold.
In the meantime, we’re getting the ball rolling next Tuesday with a wonderful guest speaker, Erik van Lennep.  Erik is co-founder of The Cultivate Centre  and creative director of TEPUI, a social enterprise and collaborative focused on urban greening and climate response. He has over 30 years experience in setting up innovative and effective collaborative projects with high social return in the USA and Ireland.  His consultative expertise has focused upon sustainable development (e.g. multicultural inclusion, cross sectoral collaboration, awareness building and communication, environmental impacts, restoration ecology, innovation, planning and design). He is also a member of the steering group developing The Dublin Hub , a new sustainability focused enterprise space for the creative community and it is about this and the co-working community it is developing, that he will be giving a brief introduction on.