I still got there late (it started at 7p.m. and I got off at 7:45 p.m.) but I'm glad I went. The studio space is pretty cool, and we will be reviewing it on your daily thread soon. I also go to try out some new organic vodka that I had never heard of called TRU. Green drinks mixers are pretty cool, we've been advocating them for some time at your daily thread. If you are interested in learning more about L.A.'s green community, it's a great place to get started.
There are usually speakers who have done interesting stuff, and people really making a difference. We got to meet some people once who had taken a boat trip to the Gyre in the Pacific Ocean between L.A. and Hawaii that is a collection of plastics in the water that by some estimates is the size of Texas. It's pretty intense and not what you would imagine. By the time the plastic gets out there it's in such tiny pieces and particles that it just becomes in bedded in the water, in a sense they have bonded. The plastics also look like food to the small fishes, who are food to the big fishes, who are food for us...this is part of the reason why it's not safe to eat ocean fish all that often anymore.
My boyfriend introduced me to a cool video on VBS about a different group that took a tour to the Pacific Gyre. If you are curious you should definitely check it out.
http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?
Last but not least, her is me getting my green organic vodka drink on checking out some cool art work :)
p.s. at Green Drinks the use corn based plastics that biodegrade and will never make it to the Gyre.
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