Since this will be our first CBD bar we thought we’d try and attract some of those city types with a bit of a green money and finance theme. So invite the bankers, accountants, venture capitalist, financial advisors, investment managers, and of course your good selves down to this months greenUps to join in the green money conversation.

Please note, Grasshopper is one of the smaller venues we’ve used to date, it has a 100 person capacity, so it will be first in best dressed. So do come early (or come later!) to avoid disappointment.

RSVP: Via Facebook or the MeetUps site, or just come along (and bring your buddies).

Look forward to seeing you there!

The GreenUps Crew,

Jess, Liane, Kate, Dave, Phil, Ben and Alastair.

Image courtesy of Melissa’s 1st Flickr

Launched as part of the first ever Sizzle, Bondi Beach Community Festival. The Garage Sale Trail  was success in terms of bringing the community together and encouraging re-use of ‘junk’ that would have otherwise gone to landfill.

What’s next for the Garage Sale Trail? Well you’ll just have to come along and find out from Daz yourself…

Apart from a quick show-and-tell from Daz, July GreenUps will be pretty informal and give you a great chance to catch-up with old friends and new. The Flinders is also a really new great venue with what look like garage sale treasures strewn all over the place.Cheap bar food will be available and there is no ticketing or entry fee this month.

RSVP: Via Facebook or the MeetUps site, or just come along (and bring your buddies).
Look forward to seeing you there,

The GreenUps Crew,

Jess, Liane, Kate, Dave, Phil, Ben and Alastair.

Check out the pics from the day http://www.flickr.com/photos/republicofeveryone/4597237659/in/pool-sizzlefestival/

Check out the Bondi Garage Sale website: http://sizzlefestival.com.au/garage-sale

The festival runs from June 2 – 14 and will feature a number of interesting new environmentally-focussed films. We’ll be previewing some on the night and giving away tickets to see them (just drop your business card at the door to be in the running).

The venue for our event is the Oxford Art Factory, 42 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst (it’s in the first block up from Hyde Park).

To give you a taste, here’s an intro to the green films in the festival:
Gasland
Colony
Wasteland
Cane Toads: The Conquest
Turtle: An Incredible Journey
The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island

We’re also planning to lay on some simple food on the night, so to cover costs there may be a small door charge (no more than $10).

Looking forward to seeing you on the 1st!

Note that the Sydney Film Festival starts 2 June – the next day! There’s plenty more on in the festival that’s worth checking out by the way.

Big thanks to Clare Stewart, the Festival Director, and the SFF team for supporting Green Drinks.

So as an unofficial addendum to this year’s Rosemount Australia Fashion Week, we’ve decided to celebrate sustainable fashion for the May GreenUps with a Clothing Exchange (for men and women!) and some excellent speakers.

Where (in detail):

• The Courtyard of The Fashion & Textile Gallery
• The Clothing Exchange will happen on Level 1 at The Sewing Room
• The Fashion Gallery is on Level 7

Time:

Arrive between 5.30-6.30:

You’ll check-in four items of quality clothes (we are a discerning bunch so if it’s wrecked, stained or mal-formed use it as a rag instead). You will receive a button for each item, which will be your currency.

The exchange begins at 7pm sharp.

Cost:

$10 per person, this gets you participation in the exchange, a lovely local St. Peters brewed beer or glass of wine, nibbles will be put on by our dear friends at The Falconer.  Sorry, there are no refunds on tickets. The cost of the ticket will cover food and a glass of wine/beer.

Speakers:

• Kirsten Fredericks & Suzi Edmonds from The Clothing Exchange
• Paula Rogers who will be speaking about Fair Trade
• Bronwyn Darlington  on ethical and Sustainable Fashion & Manufacturing
• Samorn Sanixay from Eastern Weft (a Laotian Weaving Cooperative)
• and Penelope Leonard from The Sewing Room who helped organise the event

About the Clothing Exchange

Calling all planet-saving fashionistas, vintage connoisseurs and op-shop junkies – the Clothing Exchange will change your life.

What is it?

A monthly wardrobe update that won’t burn a hole in your pockets! Just rock-up to a monthly Clothing Exchange event be it the Fashionista Designer clothes event; Gentleman’s only event or Fashionable Families event.

You bring along your (quality not grotty) oldies for someone else’s newies. T-shirts, jackets, jeans, skirts, shoes…bring ‘em along, not only will you breathe life into your wardrobe; embark on an adrenalin-filled clothes ‘hunt’, but you’ll also be doing your little bit for Mother Nature by not sending your old threads to landfill.

How does it work?

You drop off your clothes and receive a button – this is your currency in the land of the Exchange.

Our people check out the clothes – we won’t accept poor quality, so you’re better off relegating unwearable items to the rags basket. You go and get yourself a little drink and we sort the clothes – this usually takes about an hour.

Then…You enter the Exchange abyss; with racks full of wonderful vintage gems, perfect pair of jeans, dresses, t-shirts and more. You sift through, pick the ones you like and ‘purchase’ them for a button and a smile – bargain!

Who can take credit for this wonderful idea?

Kate Pears is who! Kate thought that $10 billion worth of wasteful consumption in Australia is too much (we agree). So Kate embarked upon her journey with the Clothing Exchange as a form of environmental activism that is lively, fun and excites people through the simple act of sharing.

“While some people start off coming to these events looking for ‘free stuff’, they are surprised be leaving with a sense of elation in seeing their unwanted clothes getting a new lease of life and doing something practical to solve a sustainability problem together’ says Kate.

To address the question, each of the three speakers will have five minutes atop a milk crate to take the mic and give us something to be excited about.

Speakers include:

Ben Keneally, Better Place.
Louise O’Halloran, Executive Director, Responsible Investment Association Australasia
Anthony Bertini, Owner Thumper One

From 6pm, talks begin at 6.30pm sharp, drinks and socialising till late.

RSVP via Facebook or Meetups or email us

About the speakers

Ben Keneally – Better Place
Ben leads marketing and strategy at Better Place Australia – a company committed to ending Australia’s dependence on oil for transport. His focus is on working with Better Place R&D and with Better Place suppliers to deliver products and services that make electric cars affordable to buy, easy to use and amazing  to own. Ben has spent his career moving across the private and public sectors, focused on delivering large, transformative projects. He thinks this is the most exciting and by far the coolest.

Anthony Bertini – Thumper One
Rated by B&T Marketing Magazine as one of the Top 10 Most Influential People as a Founder and CEO of BMC Media Group, Anthony is a highly respected Australian entrepreneur with extensive experience working with government and business to identify new revenue channels and incubate innovative technologies. Anthony’s company, Thumper One is a corporate advisory practice that incubates innovative technologies, invests in start-ups and raises capital. Thumper One has invested in; established and holds directorships with Wavefront Biometric Technology, Project Genesis Foundation, The Because Group and the Sydney Biennale.

Louise O’Halloran – Responsible Investment Association Australasia
Louise was appointed Executive Director of RIAA in 2002. Prior to this, she worked in senior management roles in the not for profit sector in Sydney, Los Angeles and London including General Manager of Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, and General Manager of the Australian National Playwrights Centre. She has an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management, a BA in journalism from Charles Sturt University and spent three years in postgraduate studies at UNSW in business ethics. Louise is a Governor of WWF and a consulting editor for the world’s first RI journal, the Journal for Sustainable Finance and Investment.

March GreenUps is all about Design so what better place to have it than Object Gallery.

State. Respond explores the role of sustainability in design and features provocative written statements, images and examples of real and speculative works from 5 NSW based designers, including Digital Eskimo, studio one8one7, Lava, Bird Textile and Schamburg + Alvisse.

The GreenUps crowd will also be treated to an inspirational talk from Brian Parkes, curator of the exhibition and Object’s Associate Director.

Look forward to seeing you there!