Meet Your Greens – January

Our first Green Drinks of 2019 will be held at Perk on Main, 386 Main St. Middletown. Maria Madsen Holzberg will be joining Perk on Main owner, Katie Hughes-Nelson, to talk about single use plastic bags. Locally, the Middletown Garden Club is supporting an ordinance to ban the use of plastic bags and Maria will update us on the initiative and how we can help support it. The effort to encourage the use of consumers’ own bags by reducing or eliminating plastic bags is an initiative of Zone II of the Garden Club of America.  Katie will also talk about Perk’s mission to be an environmentally sustainable business.

Maria is an attorney, a past Mayor of the City of Middletown, the past president of the Middletown Garden Club and is currently the Club’s National Affairs Legislation Delegate and a member of its conservation committee.

Join us for socializing and to hear the guest speakers, January 17th, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

And for those of you not familiar with Meet Your Greens: Middletown Green Drinks, this monthly event provides networking opportunities for anyone who is interested in making connections and exchanging news about emerging environmental issues to help keep Lower Connecticut River Valley communities green and growing. An official location of Green Drinks International, this informal monthly gathering of people drawn from the community, nonprofit groups and the business world offers time to brainstorm ideas and plant seeds for collaboration. All are welcome and there is no admission fee, unless otherwise noted.