News from Wes:

“Our Kick-off event went pretty well. Had around 25-30 people, with a mix of students, professionals, and a few senior level people. We’re taking a break in February due to the holiday, then we’ll get working on our second event in March. Hopefully we can keep the group growing here in Hangzhou.”

If you’re in HZ, know people in HZ, or can offer some support to Wes then go for it. Together we can make a difference.

If you’re in another city and there is no GD or people are not meeting then view this as a great opportunity to start your own.

When: December 10th from 6:30-8:30 PM12月10日 晚6:30-8:30

Where: BAU International Lounge (4th Floor) Lane 1252, Fuxing Mid Road (near Xiangyang Road), No.17. Tel. 5466 6969国际四楼休息室 复兴中路1252弄17号 近襄阳路 电话. 5466 6969

Who: Everyone is welcome and it is FREE. 所有人皆可免费参与

Why: Those interested in making the world a better and Greener place.      想要让世界变得更好更环保的人

How: walk, bike, take a bus, or take the subway (line 1 ShanXi South Road Exit).      步行，单车，乘公车或地铁 （一号线陕西南路站）

Presentation by:

陶康华教授

Tao Kanghua

长期从事城市生态信息的研究与应用开发工作，率先开展热红外技术在城市环境研究中的应用，帮助哈尔滨、上海、济南、沈阳等城市开展城市生态热场研究，组织了浙江全省３５个城市的绿化遥感调查。

He has been engaged in urban ecological research and application of information development work since his graduation. He carried out the initial thermal infrared technology application in urban environment studies and helps many cities, like Harbin, Shanghai, Jinan, Shenyang, to carry out urban ecological thermal field research. Meanwhile, he organizes green remote sensing survey of more than 35 cities in Zhejiang province.

http://www.greendrinks.org/index.php?country=China&city=Shanghai
Drinks and light snacks will be provided thanks to our sponsors The Quiddity Partners and Arc8X Design. If you or your company is interested in a more active role with Green Drinks please contact us.

感谢我们的赞助商The Quiddity Partners and Arc8X Design，我们届时提供饮料和小点心。如果你或是你的公司希望可以在Green Drinks中扮演更多的角色，请联系我们。www.arc8x.com

LiveGreen will pass out 10 environmentally sound products! 本次活动中我们将抽取十位幸运者，并赠送由向绿环保友情提供的环保筷产品。www.livegreen.com.cn
Next Action: Green Ideas Green Action (GIGA). www.gigafoundation.org

下一个活动： Green Ideas Green Action (GIGA)。 www.gigafoundation.org

to GIGA (www.gigafoundation.org), the Eco Design Fair recently hosted at URBN’s fabulous carbon neutral hotel (http://www.ecodesignfair.cn/), and an International event with Shanghai presence, International 350 Awareness Day (www.350.org).

Some of these are off to a great start and have seen stronger support and the snowball is rolling. The next Green Drinks Shanghai will be December 10 from 6:30-8:30 PM at Lane 1252, Fuxing Mid Road (near Xiangyang Road), No.17.

Come for free drinks, free food, and Green discussions. I am always looking for future speakers or ways to improve the event. If you have ideas please email me at greendrinkssh@gmail.com I firmly believe that if we come together—no matter your background or current position—we can make a positive difference.

Being in China also puts some obstacles in the quickening Green movement. Shanghai’s 350 event was canceled after spending nearly 9 weeks organizing with a group of tremendous volunteers.

The bad news? The event I was organizing and other Shanghai events were shut down by the Shanghai government.

The good news? 181 countries and 5200 events took place. Check out www.350.org for some truly moving photos. My favorite is a picture of a woman bungee jumping towards 350 on the ground in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa.

You can still do your part to make a difference and take your own leap of faith. Tell your family, friends, colleagues, and anyone else what 350 means and how it’s the most important number

The short: 350 (parts per million) is the widely accepted level of CO2 that is needed in the environment for our world to maintain itself at current conditions. Currently the numbers are quickly approaching 400 and a change needs to occur. And quickly.

Is the whole 350 situation an enormous problem? You could look at it like that or you could view it as an immense opportunity where we can come together on this special day and push our governments, businesses, organizations, families, and ourselves to reduce the carbon in our atmosphere.

An easy way to start the change is to have your organization start offsetting your carbon. Just as guests and staff have begun doing at URBN Hotel, you can purchase trees from Roots & Shoots and help them in their goal of planting a million trees in China by 2014 http://mtpchina.org/ . I would be happy to send you a data sheet to keep track of how much carbon you are using and how many trees you should purchase.

Shanghai and the rest of the world are coming together but these will hopefully shape our leaders’ decisions this upcoming December at Copenhagen when leaders from all over the world are meeting to create an agreement on the future of the planet. http://en.cop15.dk/

If you have any connections to leaders or those attending COP15 then please reach out to them and tell them how important this is to you.

You can make a difference! Start by purchasing a few trees at http://www.jgi-shanghai.org/Content.aspx?ItemID=164 and staying up to date on the latest with 350 around the world at http://twitter.com/350 and http://www.youtube.com/user/350org

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