Category: Green Drinks - PACG - Progressive Action for the Common Good

March Green Drinks - the Birds & Bees Urban Farm

2/23/2021

March Green Drinks via Zoom
Tuesday, March 2nd at 5:00 pm

Environmental Forum

Join us at our February Green Drinks. Kathy Byrnes from the Birds & Bees Urban Farm will talk about how to turn your yard into your dinner table. RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register

You will be sent a link to access the meeting.

Susan Leuthauser

February Green Drinks - PACG Events

1/26/2021

February Green Drinks via Zoom
Tuesday, February 2nd at 5:00 pm

Environmental Forum

Join us at our February Green Drinks. Cate York from the Illinois Citizens Utility Board will tell us about the Illinois Solar For All program.
RSVP: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoduGpqTIsH9fD6ssFCjEteY09ZHZ41w6m

Access information will be sent to you after you register.

Susan Leuthauser

Green Drinks Tuesday, January 5th 2021

12/9/2020

January Green Drinks via Zoom
Tuesday, January 5th at 5:00 pm

Environmental Forum

Green Drinks has continued to meet on Zoom through the fall of 2020.

In October we hosted Sarah Gardner, formerly from the Bistate Regional Planning Commission, who is now working as a sustainability staff member for Iowa City. She filled us in on many of their sustainability projects and their city resolutions and goals on the climate crisis.

In November we heard from Cassie Druhl with Partners of Scott County Watersheds (PSCWS). She informed us about their water sampling program and other projects. PSCWS hosts monthly speakers as well, and we encourage everyone to check them out.

In December we hosted Miles Brainard, a city planner from Rock Island, to learn more about their current sustainability projects and future plans.

We have already set a great line-up for 2021 and will continue with Zoom.

Please join us in January to hear from Ed Fallon of Bold Iowa about their projects and some of Iowa's environmental issues.

In February we will hear from the Illinois Citizens Utility Board about energy issues in Illinois, and in March we are scheduled to learn about urban, sustainable landscaping from Kathy Brynes from Birds and Bees Urban Farm in Des Moines.

We hope you will join us. Links can be found on the WEU and Facebook.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/greendrinks

Lori McCollum

December Green Drinks

11/26/2020

December Green Drinks via Zoom
Tuesday, December 1st at 5:00 pm

Join us at our December Green Drinks on Zoom. Our speaker this month is Miles Brainard, the Planning and Redevelopment Administrator for the city of Rock Island. Miles will share with us sustainability projects he's working on.

Register for the event at: www.us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/. You will be sent a link to join the meeting after you register.

Susan Leuthauser

Green Drinks - After Action Report

10/20/2020

Green Drinks - After Action Report
Tuesday, October 6th at 5:00 pm

Environmental Forum

We have had a series of virtual Green Drinks since the COVID shutdown, meeting on Zoom the 1st Tuesday of each month from 5-7 pm. Since May we have enjoyed 6 excellent speakers, including: Joel Vanderbush/Niabi Zoo; Kurt Liske/Scott County Waste Commission; Pete Vogel/Food Rescue Partnership; Rachel Loomis/Living Lands and Waters; Deb Heitman/ Sustainability Director Davenport School District; and Sarah Gardner/Sustainability Coordinator Iowa City. We look forward to our two final speakers for 2020, with Cassie Druhl from Partners of Scott County Watershed in November, and Myles Brainard from the City of Rock Island in December. Join us!

Lori McCollum

September Green Drinks via Zoom

8/25/2020

September Green Drinks via Zoom
Tuesday, September 8th from 5:00 - 7:00 pm

Update: Due to circumstances beyond our control, the September Green Drinks has to be postponed until next Tuesday, September 8th, 5 -7 pm.

Your zoom sign on link will be the same.

Environmental Forum

Join us on Tuesday, September 1st from 5 to 7 pm via Zoom. Debbie Heitman, Davenport Community Schools Energy & Sustainability Manager, will share with us what they did to be recognized by the US Department of Education as a Green Ribbon School in 2019. Only 2 school districts in Iowa received such an honor. She’ll also update us on how COVID impacted some of their sustainability efforts.

Please register in advance at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register. You will receive a link to attend the meeting after you register.

Hope to see you there - bring a friend!

Susan Leuthauser

Green Drinks for January

1/9/2020

Green Drinks - Tuesday, January 7th at 5:00 pm

2232 18th Street, Rock Island, IL (map)

Environmental Forum

Our first Green Drinks of the year will be on Tuesday, Jan 7th at Huckleberry's in Rock Island from 5 pm to 7 pm. Sarah Gardner from the QC Regional Bi-Sate Commission will share with us information on Electric Vehicles.

Huckleberry's Great Pizza and Calzones will host our monthly meetings at the same time of 5-7 pm on the first Tuesday of every month.

Join with other like-minded people in the area to discuss issues involving the environment. Come to network, socialize, and learn, all while having drinks!

Green Drinks - After Action Report

12/14/2019

Green Drinks - After Action Report
Monday, December 2nd at 5:00 pm

Huckleberry's, Rock Island

Environmental

Green Drinks met in November with a presentation from Lori McCollum about the climate crisis that included a slide presentation from the Climate Reality Training she attended last summer. This presentation is available to any group or organization upon request.

Amy Kay, from the Public Works Department in Davenport discussed their sustainability projects. It was very interesting, and will hopefully lead to collaboration and expansion of their sustainability projects.

The December meeting kicked off our new day and location. We will be meeting in 2020 at Huckleberries in Rock Island on the first Tuesday of each month from 5-7 pm in their overflow room. This allows a quieter and larger space for speakers and networking. Upcoming speakers include: January - Sarah Gardner from BiState Regional Planning on Electric Vehicles; February - Deb Heitman from the Davenport Schools on their Green Ribbon Award; and March - Pete Vogel from QC Food Rescue to discuss their work to reduce food waste and help those who are food insecure. We hope to see you all there.

Lori McCollum

Green Drinks QC - New Location and Day

11/19/2019

Green Drinks QC - New Location and Day
First Tuesdays of the Month from 5:00 to 7:00 pm

Huckleberry's
223 18th ST
Rock Island, IL (map)

Environmental Forum

We are happy to announce that, beginning in December of 2019, Green Drinks - QC will meet at a new location and day of the month.

Huckleberry's Great Pizza and Calzones will host our monthly meetings at the same time of 5-7 pm on the first Tuesday of every month.

Join with other like-minded people in the area to discuss issues involving the environment. Come to network, socialize, and learn, all while having drinks!

August & September Green Drinks - After Action Report

10/17/2019

Green Drinks for August and September - After Action Report

Environmental Forum - Green Drinks!

August

Our August Green Drinks included an excellent presentation on Rain Gardens by Andy Parer, and we learned about how to choose native plants that have more extensive root systems to absorb rain and groundwater. Some of these plants are available each spring from local county conservation programs, as well as local gardening shops or online. In the city of Rock Island, you can receive financial support for putting in a rain garden, and then have your sewer fees reduced quarterly because you will have less run off.

September

Our September Green Drinks included a presentation by Dr. Cheryl True about Plant Based Diets. Dr. True discussed general ways to improve your lifestyle, but focused on plant based diets, which not only decrease health problems but help the environment. Even if you don't want to go completely vegetarian, you can go to meatless Mondays or reduce the size of your meat servings and increasing the vegetables and fruits on your plate.
An additional bonus is that each month a few staff from local presidential campaigns come by. They offer up current information about policies their respective candidates endorse.

Check out www.greendrinks.org/IA/QuadCities for more details about our group. We meet at Fresh Deli from 5-7 pm on the last Thursday of each month. We will take November and December off due to the holidays. We hope to see you on October 31st.

Lori McCollum