Care to help us with a testimonial?
Hi everyone! We’re currently looking for people to write us testimonials for Green Drinks Singapore. Our mission is to connect people to the Green Space in Singapore, and we’d like to know all about how you’ve benefited from what we have been striving to do over the last 5 years, so that we can build … Read more
We’re back for May! – Pop-Up Green Drinks: Networking Tuesday
Sponsored by Veolia, and in collaboration with the good folks at Waste Management & Recycling Association Of Singapore (WMRAS), we’re happy to announce Pop-Up Green Drinks: Networking Tuesday! Our aim is to connect the Singapore green community, to encourage collaboration and to get to know each other a little bit better. Expect networking activities, opportunities to … Read more
Julian Wong Systems Thinking Presentation Slides
As requested, here are Julian Wong’s slides from his presentation at the October Green Drinks Session. Enjoy!
Just launched: The SaferSkin campaign
We are proud to announce that we have just launched the SaferSkin campaign, which raises awareness on toxins in personal care products and cosmetics in Singapore. We have been working on this for the past year and our aim for this campaign is to educate women and men alike not just about the harmful effects … Read more
Green Drinks: Singapore’s National Climate Change Strategy 2012
Last month, the National Climate Change Secretariat released the National Climate Change Strategy (NCCS-2012) document titled ‘Climate Change and Singapore: Challenges. Opportunities. Partnerships’, outlining Singapore’s plans to address climate change through a whole-of-nation approach. At this special session, Director of the 3P Network at the National Climate Change Secretariat, Mr Yuen Sai Kuan will give … Read more
Green Drinks: Shared value partnerships – a business force for good
For the month of July, we have three sessions of Green Drinks! Kicking off this month, we have with us Tania Ellis, prize-winning author of The New Pioneers, a book looking at sustainability through social innovation and social entrepreneurship. The new business revolution is being driven both top-down from some of the world’s largest companies … Read more
The Straits Times: Singapore’s first ‘green’ sale offers deals, discounts
The Straits Times reports that Singapore is to host its first ‘green’ sale, with environmentally friendly shopping in mind. Singapore’s first ‘green’ sale offers deals, discounts Over 50 retailers are taking part in Singapore’s first ‘green’ sale. The month-long event aims to tap into the growth in environmentally-friendly shopping. It will offer deals on products … Read more
Green Drinks @ The Hub: The Jungle School
Here is our other event. We have a special guest from Indonesia, Butet Manurung. Butet has spent most of her life living and educating the “Jungle People” (Orang Rimba) in the jungles of Indonesia. An Ashoka Fellow, TIME Magazine ‘Hero of Asia’, World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader”, and a holder of other accolades, she … Read more
Green Drinks @ Luminance 2012: Urban Farming – A Possibility in Singapore?
We have two sessions of Green Drinks next week! This is a special session that is held at the Luminance! Festival 2012, and looks at urban farming: As the world faces increasing food and environmental issues, urban farming is gaining traction in many global cities in an attempt for city dwellers to access to fresh … Read more
The Business Times: Local Access
The Business Times also carried this interesting article on local farmers and locavorism, Green Drinks has a mild mention. Local Access It’s been a few years since the locavore movement – which advocates eating as close to the food source as possible to reduce one’s carbon footprint – took root in Singapore. In time for … Read more
The Business Times: Posh for a Cause
The Business Times published this article over the weekend, and Green Drinks has been mentioned. Posh for a Cause In celebration of Earth Day tomorrow, fashionistas can now tog out in high style and not worry about the environment, as eco designs go upmarket and uber-chic. THE one question posed to every celebrity on the … Read more
Green Drinks: A Sustainable Future for Orangutans and Forests
This is a special session for April, and an extremely timely one, seeing that there has been lots of international media coverage of late on the future of orang utans in Sumatra.We are stoked to have Michelle Desilets, Executive Director of Orangutan Land Trust and Founder of Borneo Orangutan Survival UK as our next speaker. … Read more
