Edmonton Green Drinks
This listing was last updated by the Edmonton organiser on: 2025-05-23
About Us
Edmonton Green Drinks is a welcoming space for engaging conversations, networking, and building connections within the sustainability community. We host monthly events on the second Monday of the month.
Our 2025 season has been a success so far, with four eventsso far! In April, Katrina Hillier, with Earth Warrior Lifestyle, and Kayleen Falkenstein, with Edmonton Area Land Trust, shared heart felt reflections on our collective ability to support conservation efforts.
Join us for our next event and be part of the conversation!
Next Event
Date: Monday, June 09 2025
Time: 7:00 PM – 10:00PM
Location: EPIC Market, in the Station Park Building, 8115 Gateway Blvd NW #201.
Speakers: Hero Laird and Dylan Toymaker
Presented by Edmonton Climate Hub!
- Hero Laird
Member, Good Note Community Farm Stewardship Team.
Good Note Community Farm - supporting permaculture, regenerative agriculture and community connection.
Hero came to Good Note Community Farm to take pictures and stayed for the cows, the plants, the music, the wild walks, the crafting and most of all, the people. Hero is excited about wild harvesting and potlucks (food, did I mention food?), sharing skills and generally bringing people together here in Treaty 6 and beyond. They are also a parent, a partner, a lawyer, and a poor but passionate ukulele player.
Pronouns: they/them - Dylan Toymaker
Dylan is a light and installation artist based in Edmonton, Alberta. His work explores many technical corners of electronics, photonics, and 3d material fabrication to create magical immersive experiences of saturated light effects.
Dylan is the lead artist at Edmonton’s Flying Canoe Völant, and has developed installations and signature pieces for hundreds of events across western Canada. His work is in the permanent collection of several city parks departments, a reflection of his passion for making public spaces more exciting.
Get your tickets here: Green Drinks June 2025 Tickets
Follow us on Facebook: Green Drinks Facebook Group
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Expanding Our Presence – Monthly Newsletter
We are excited to enhance our communications using the Green Drinks website and our mailing list. Moving forward, this website as the primary platform for event details and past speaker profiles. In addition, we are launching a monthly newsletter to share upcoming community events and initiatives with our mailing list that align with Green Drinks’ values.
How to Submit:
Submissions open: From the first of the month to the third last day of each month
For events & initiatives happening the following month
Email: greendrinksyeg@gmail.com
Submission limit: 150 words
Our newsletter will be sent out on the first day of each month, so make sure to submit your details in time! We’ll also remind you at every Green Drinks gathering that submissions are open.
Past 2025 Event Presenters
- May -
- Mike Medicoff
- Lucas Admononis
- April- Conservation is Humanity Caring for the Future
- Katrina Hillier, Founder of Earth Warrior Lifestyle, asked where are we going and how do we want to get there? Perhaps it can be by slowing down fast fashion and charting sustainability road maps. She is an avid nature lover, trash picker-upper, tree planter, mountain biker, and adventure seeker. When not working on Earth Warrior, she spends every spare moment exploring the outdoors.
- Kayleen Falkenstein shared about the opportunity to manage, steward, and monitor Edmonton Area Land Trust's natural areas within 150 km of Edmonton- including, some that are within or very close to Edmonton's river valley system. Kayleen is excited to share with you, a variety of ways in which you can connect to nature, support conservation in our region, and begin stewarding the land in your backyard and beyond!
- March - Get your hands Dirty!
- Kevin Jones, Director of Prairie Urban Farm shared ways to be involved in community gardening. Prairie Urban Farm is a one-acre, mixed crop, community food system in the University of Alberta's South Campus that believe's that the lack of resilience in our agri-food systems is one of the biggest challenges facing communities today. Their goal is to demonstrate and provide skill-building opportunitie in alternative, regenerative ways of growing food within the city and to grow food security: access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food.
- Mike Johnson, Architect with Solis Architecture talked about doradongos, and sustainable building.
- February-Aspire to be Inspired!
- Melanie Hoffmann, a long-time advocate for environmental sustainability in Edmonton, shared her work with the Alberta Environmental Network, including the Alberta Talks initiative.
- Adrian Beling, the newly appointed Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Transformation at The King’s University, discussed his research on transforming society toward sustainability.
- January-The Chill of Change
- Dustin Bajer, a local tree enthusiast and community builder in the core neighbourhood of McCauley , spoke about his work with the Secret Long Tree Society.
- Catherine Shier, wildlife biologist, spoke about the innovative conservation programs that she is spearheading in her current position at the Edmonton Valley Zoo.
Best regards,
NB and the Green Drinks Team
