Globally Local LLP
Fostering cooperative regional self sufficiency
Green Drinks
HEART OF ENGLAND FINE FOODS
MEETING PLACE:
LOCANTA RESTAURANT
31, LUDGATE HILL
ST PAUL’S SQUARE
B3 1EH
food and drinks from 6.00p.m. - guests and/or main topic introduced at 7.15p.m.
DATE: 1st Tuesday each month
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1st NOVEMBER;
4th DECEMBER
Brum Green Drinks is now on FACEBOOK where you can initiate a discussion on the latest topic
You don't have to be signed on to Facebook to participate in this "fans" page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Green-Drinks-Birmingham-UK/233173821089
"Business as usual" is only for those content to go down with the ship!
1st November "Who's EASING what and for whose benefit?" Why not call it "MONEY CREATION"?
Our guest Dick Rodgers considers this ONE OF THE KEY ISSUES sabotaging hopes for a more sustainable economic system in harmony with our environment. Just who does control money creation and does it matter?
"Two economists in the room means three economic theories." So why isn't one of these a version of steady state economics? How does established economic theory explain the apparent conflict between continuous growth and a finite world?
Are blinkered environmentalists missing a trick here? Join us on 1st November to explore this conundrum and to hear from Dick Rogers why he is heading up a petition to Downing Street.
Malcolm Currie Globally Local at the Changing Lifestyles Eco Centre 45-46 Loveday Street B4 6NR Tel: 0121 448 7611
email: info@globallylocal.net
*************** BRUM GREEN DRINKS - GENERAL GUIDELINES Of course, you don't have to have a meal in order to join in, although it helps us to have an idea of meal numbers in advance. Erkan, our host, provides an excellent special menu, plenty of choice, including vegan and vegetarian dishes - "I've produced a 'green menu' printed of course on green paper", he informs us! You can arrive early, straight from work or other activities. Meals and/or drinks can be ordered anytime from 6.00p.m.; and any "guest" for the evening is introduced at about 7.00p.m. There's no closing time; people stay for as long or as short a time as they wish. (As a guide, the main discussion usually lasts about an hour and a half; and after the guest's initial 10 minutes [maximum], people are free to join in or go back to doing their own thing.) Green Drinks provides an excellent meeting place, as it's more of a club atmosphere than an ordinary restaurant. THERE'S ALWAYS TABLES FOR THOSE WISHING TO HOLD THEIR OWN DISCUSSIONS ********* GREEN DRINKS WEB PAGE See also our own web page www.globallylocal.net for further details. Malcolm Currie Globally Local at the Changing Lifestyles Eco Centre 45-46 Loveday Street B4 6NR Tel: 0121 448 7611 “A NEW VERSION OF AN OLD IDEA” "...a place where anybody can come, alone or with friends, to enjoy a meal... a place to air and share opinions, in a friendly and convivial atmosphere... - about the issues facing us all; On [GREEN DRINKS] nights the local restaurant becomes a focal point where people can go for a satisfying evening out, knowing that they will meet others who wish to talk about any of the issues - social, economic, cultural or whatever - they feel concerned about.” “Who knows whom you might meet! They’ll listen - they’ll answer back - and together we’ll create a new kind of society..."