Raise a glass of organic wine and make a toast at Live Green’s First Year Anniversary Party on Wednesday June 17th. The fun takes place at Local 16 (1602 U Street) starting at 6:30. For just $15, you’ll enjoy music from SEE-I (featuring talent from Thievery Corp), food from Java Green, and more. Last year there was a HUGE crowd, so get there early to avoid the line.
RSVPs are required–email contactlivegreen@gmail.com and tell ’em that Sacha sent you!
City dwellers who want to experience “farm to table” up close and personal should head to Common Good City Farm, a green oasis in LeDroit Park that supplies freshly picked fruits and veggies to DC’s low-income residents*.
Volunteers are needed to work on the farm and help with weeding, planting seeds, painting, and building. Before you can get your hands dirty, you’ll have to attend a 45-minute volunteer training session, which takes place at the farm on the first Saturday of each month at 9:30am. Plants, produce and herbs from the farm are sold at the Bloomingdale Farmers Market (1st and R Street, NW) from 10am – 2pm on Sundays.
In addition to being an urban farm, CGCF is also an education center offering workshops on everything from from composting and pickling veggies to how to cook a healthy meal for the whole family for less than $5.
*Since January 2007, CGCF has provided more than 150 bags of fresh produce to low-income DC families, taught more than 200 DC residents in workshops, engaged more than 250 DC school children, and hosted more than 400 volunteers.
I’ve been slightly obsessed with bath and beauty products from a young age, so when I heard about a class that teaches you how to make delicious organic soaps and other goodies, I was intrigued. Kristina Libby, owner of For the Love of, a local luxury body product company will come to your home and teach a class on how to make organic skin care products.
The class includes a short talk about organic skin care followed by the opportunity to make your very own scented perfume and bath bomb. The class costs a mere $12, and half of the proceeds are donated to the Susan G. Koman Foundation.
Libby started For the Love of when she left corporate work to follow her passion of creating beautiful feminine bath products. “I make these product because I truly believe that we shouldn’t put anything on our skin that we wouldn’t put in our mouth.”
Products, such as homemade soap scented with Black Amber honey and Cherry Blossom scrub are made using locally sourced and organic ingredients, and are packaged in recyclable or re-useable containers whenever possible. Five percent of the proceeds from sales go to a variety of women’s causes.
Canapes and hors d’oeuvres can now be had without the guilt. Well, sort of. Main Event will cater your wedding, Bar Mitzvah and more while having the rather lofty goal of a zero waste kitchen.
“The reality that our industry consumes an incredible amount of energy and creates an amazing amount of waste has forced us to investigate ways to mitigate the effect on our world,” says owner Nancy Goodman. “Our team searches for new and innovative ways to move toward our goal of zero waste every day. We are proud to be able to offer to our clients green events while still providing a first class experience.”
The kitchen at Main Event is carbon neutral, 100% wind powered, and uses alternative disposables from recycled materials (Corn, Palm, Balsa and Bagasse). Main Event’s owners estimate that they have reduced landfill waste by 70% since the beginning of 2008.
Main Event also recycles everything possible, including their food wastes through composting, which they give out for free, first-come, first-serve “Black Gold” fertilizer for the garden. They also give away their used cooking oil — which can then be converted to bio-Diesel fuel.
Clients can use the carbon calculator on their web site to calculate their carbon footprint (including travel of guests) so they can purchase the appropriate offsets. Now that’s something to celebrate!
Here’s another opportunity to mix and mingle with green minded DC folks. May’s Green Drinks event will be held on Tuesday May 12 at Left Bank (2424 18th Street) from 6:30-9.
This month’s speaker is Steve Ma, President and GEO of Live Green, an organization that helps make living green in the DC area more affordable by providing discounts to local green business and services.
ZipCars, Tranquil Space Yoga, HoleCo Medi Spa, Sticky Fingers Bakery, and Flow Yoga are just a few of the businesses that have signed up as “Green Spots,” and offer all sorts of discounts to Live Green members. Little Devils from Sticky Fingers…here I come!
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