Green Drinks

Leeds Green Drinks

Think Green? Drink Green!

Green Drinks Leeds is on the 4th Tuesday of every month at The Lounge on Merrion Street, with monthly events including talks, panel discussions, workshops and visits

INTRO

Green Drinks Leeds is for everyone working in and around the environment in Leeds and the surrounding area.

Whatever your perspective - business, community or government, academic, student or activist - Green Drinks is a great way to make new contacts, catch up with friends or just hang out with people who share your values.

We're a lively and growing group, so pop down for a quick drink after work or stick around for the evening and enjoy the conversation. The formal discussion usually begins around 7 to 7.30pm

EVENTS

Tuesday 22 May - How do you make green milk?

Our event on “Politics and the Environment” was well attended, and very well received by all concerned.

For our May event, we welcome Green Drinks Leeds regular Robin Dearden from Arla Foods.

Robin is Group Environmental, Health and Safety Manager for Arla, who are a large dairy conglomerate best known for brands such as Lurpak, Anchor and Cravendale.

Arla’s UK headquarters are in Leeds, together with a massive dairy operation, and have a considerable environmental impact, which they are doing their best to reduce. Robin will be talking about Arla’s environmental journey over the last few years, and what their plans are for the future.

Arla Environmental Targets:

To be ‘Closer to Nature’, and move to be the No1 UK dairy company
By 2020 to reduce CO2 by 34% and use 30% renewable energy
By 2015 to reduce water usage by 20%
To send zero waste to landfill

Arla Fast Facts

Co-operative owned by Danish, Swedish & German farmers
Employs 2,800 people in UK (over 1,000 in Leeds)
Process approximately two billion litres of milk a year
2,500 daily deliveries made directly to stores
Arla’s UK carbon footprint was 273,000 tonnes of CO₂;
In 2011 Arla used over 2 billion litres of water

Robin Dearden has lived in Leeds for the last 4 years, worked for Arla for 3 years, and previously spent 12 years with a major European logistics company. His passion for the environment extends to his personal life, and he also enjoys trekking round the Dales at weekends. Robin will be well known to many regular Green Drinkers.

Don’t forget to sign up!

Please click here to sign up via Eventbrite

As per usual, we’re open for mingling and drinks from 6pm, with the speaker starting around 7.15pm, followed by our famous “go around” and open networking until about 10. Drop in or out at any time as you feel able, it’d be great to see you even if you’re just passing through!

As ever, it’s free and open – all we ask is that you sign up via Eventbrite

WHAT HAPPENS AT GREEN DRINKS LEEDS?

Green Drinks Leeds is part of a global network of over 800 monthly events worldwide, but all have their own "local flavour"

At Green Drinks Leeds you can expect

from 6pm Open Networking - at the start of the evening the floor is open to meet and greet other Green Drinkers
from around 7 - 7.30pm A talk, workshop or other activity - Adam and Anzir will introduce a speaker or panel who will talk about their work or a topic of interest, followed by questions and answers
The Talk Around - a chance to introduce yourself to everyone, and discover interesting and relevant people to talk to for the rest of the evening
Informal Chat etc. until home time...

Feel free to drop in or out - whether you're over for a cheeky quick drink after work or here to chat and network for the whole evening, you're welcome.

GET CONNECTED

For all the latest on Green Drinks Leeds, join our mailing list

Our website also has information on past and upcoming events

LinkedIn users can connect with us on the Green Drinks Leeds Group

We're also on Meetup and Facebook, and if you tweet, tag your posts with #greendrinksleeds

CO-ORDINATORS

Green Drinks Leeds has two co-ordinators:

Anzir Boodoo is a PhD student at The Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds. He also works with Transition City Leeds, Carfree UK and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK) on transport and environmental issues.

Adam Woodhall is the founder of PeopleProfitPlanet, an organisation which works with businesses to improve their environmental practices.

(last updated 1 May 2012)

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