You are invited for the Perth Green Drinks on 12 May 2009.Green Drinks is for anyone involved in the environment and related fields. Green groups / NGOs, Freelancers and consultants, Companies, Students, Academics, Government departments, Local Authorities, Younger as well as older people so please forward this invitation to anyone you think might be interested in meeting other people related to sustainability.
Green Drinks is a self-organizing network of professionals, students and enthusiasts working in sustainability who meet up in cities around the world for drinks once a month, or every second month in Perth. Everyone is invited to come and have fun, make contacts, get ideas, share information, find inspiration, and of course, to drink!
Green Drinks is GLOBAL: active in more than 480 cities worldwide! UK - USA - Canada - Australia -Germany - Sweden - Netherlands - Argentina - Belgium - Brazil - Chile - China - Czech Republic - Denmark - Finland - France - Hong Kong - India - Ireland - Italy - Japan - Malta - Mexico - New Zealand - Poland - Puerto Rico - Singapore - South Africa – Switzerland – Turkey – Russia – Philippines – Norway – Romania – Portugal – Spain – Thailand – China - Botswana
When: Tuesday 12 May 6.00 – 8.00 pm
Where: At the UWA University Club
Case Study Room - 1st floor - 6pm to 7pm for speaker
Club Café - ground floor / outside terrace - 7pm to 8 pm
How: The University Club is providing one voucher per person for a choice of “green cocktail” or “green beer” + nibbles on the table. Following drinks = cash bar.
What: Network, interact, talk, laugh, debate, drink, have fun!
Speaker: Wilma van Boxtel, organiser of Perth Green Drinks but also liaison for o2WA, the global network for sustainable design, industrial designer at Deseos Design and sessional lecturer Product Design at Curtin University as well as relief teacher at Central TAFE design area, is going to talk about Cradle to Cradle Design. Remaking the way we make things!
Instead of designing cradle-to-grave products, dumped in landfills at the end of their ‘life’ it’s better to design cradle-to-cradle products whose materials are perpetually circulated in closed loops. Products can be designed from the outset of food equals waste so that, after their useful lives, they provide nourishment for something new. They can be conceived as “biological nutrients” that will easily reenter the water or soil without depositing synthetic materials and toxins. Or they can be “technical nutrients” that will continually circulate as pure valuable materials within closed-loop industrial cycles.
Introducing the book “Cradle to cradle” by William McDonough and Michael Braungart available from e.g. Bodhi Tree
RSVP: Before Monday 11 May 5pm
email / phone 6488 8770
Hope to see you there!
Wilma van Boxtel
02 liaison Western Australia
o2 global network for sustainable design
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