Posts Tagged ‘eco’

Croquet and a Bike-in Movie!

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Along with our Summer Cinema Series, we will also be hosting croquet in the garden and combination scavenger hunt. This Friday our croquet game starts at 6pm  in the community garden at Cyan/Pdx! Bring something to use as a mallet and a ball! We will be giving prizes for the  best costume, outfit and most stamps collected in the hunt.  So get out that purple wig from two Halloween’s ago and let’s get this party started! We’ re located at 1720 SW 4TH Ave. so grab your friends and your wig and come down for an evening of  community living!

Students run bar to reforest Kilimanjaro

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

How cool is this idea? Students taking the initiative to start a bar in order to raise money for reforestation of Mt. Kilimanjaro! Every time you buy a drink, they buy a sapling from an NGO.

student-eco-barPeople come up with all sorts of ways to raise funds for the environment. In the case of two university students at Kwansei Gakuin University, they are doing so by running a bar in the center of the business district in Nishi Ward, Osaka, aiming to raise money for forestation on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

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Tree time: Yasuhiro Mano (left) and Kyohei Yoshikawa (right), operators of the Lohas Packers bar in Nishi Ward, Osaka, are raising money for forestation on Mount Kilimanjaro. KYODO PHOTO

At the Lohas Packers cafe-bar on the third floor of a fashionable building, customers do their part by buying a drink. For each drink they order, the bar buys a sapling from a nongovernmental organization that will be planted on the iconic African mountain.

“We call on our customers to think about an eco-friendly life with drinks in their hands here,” said one of the two owners, Yasuhiro Mano, 24, of Suita, Osaka Prefecture.

via Students run bar to reforest Kilimanjaro | The Japan Times Online.