helped start upwards of 100 different chapters, including one
in Kabul, Afghanistan—says the events have been a big cata-
lyst for connectivity, community, collaboration and change in
the environmental sector in New York and beyond. IT’S NOT DRY CLEANING!
In the U.S. and Canada, most mid-sized and large cities
It’s called Wet Cleaning and works just as well...plus
already have thriving Green Drinks chapters. You can likely
it’s better for you, your clothing and the environment.
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site, and clicking through until you get a schedule of upcom-
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Heather Burns-DeMelo, who had started a local/green
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com, was inspired by Lydecker in 2007 to start a Green
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nect in person. “The web is great,” she says, “but face-to-face
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According to Burns-DeMelo, setting up the chapter was
$20 or more.
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easy—she just emailed Green Drinks founder Datschefski • Cambridge Cleaners • Please present coupon at drop-off.
from the greendrinks.org website with a request to start a
new chapter—but getting people to come to the initial events
was more challenging. She and friends set up sign-up tables
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sent a press release to local papers, hung fl iers and posted
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day night, and the chapter has been growing by leaps and
bounds ever since.
Editor’s note: The Lansing Green Drinks group meets the
2nd thursday each month and there are Green Drinks groups
in the communities of Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti, Battle Creek,
Berkley, Grand Rapids, Holland, Iron County, Kalamazoo,
and Walker, MI.
To fi nd meeting times and locations for a Green Drinks
group near you in Michigan or other regions, or to create
your own Green Drinks group, visit: GreenDrinks.org.
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