1. Get out and drink. Take advantage of St. Patty’s deals at your local green watering hole. A few to try:

>> Pizza Fusion Hollywood will offer $1 off all drafts and bottles off their organic and sustainable beers — alongside the restaurant’s usual yummy organic eats. Plus, get $4 Fat Tire and Paulaner Hefe from 4 pm-7 pm.

>> Eco-wine bar Pourtal will have $5 glasses of Vinho Verde (Portuguese “green wine”) all night.That wine’s not organic, but many others at Pourtal are.

>> Library Alehouse will serve Guinness and corned beef alongside farmers market cabbage with potatoes and carrots from Weiser Family Farms.

Know of other green beer deals? Share them in the comments.

2. Or drink at home. Stephanie Rogers at Earth First has a list of organic brews to pick from. Or throw a party and get some local keg beer, which Slate’s Green Lantern is the greenest beer container — as long as you drink from reusable glasses.

3. If you want to drink home all year on the cheap, brew your own organic beer. Sierra Club’s Climate Crossroads shows you how to get started.

4. Become a beer activist. Drink to change the world! Chris O’Brien’s book Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World will turn you into a purposeful beer drinker. Follow up that read by watching Beer Wars, to find out why you shouldn’t be drinking Bud Light.

5. Reeling and ready to take eco-action? Ride, don’t drive, to the Community Meeting about the Metro Westside Subway Extension’s Optional Crenshaw Station. Should the purple line have a stop at Crenshaw or not? Weigh in while the Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Report’s underway. The meeting happens on St. Patrick’s Day, Wed., March 17 from 6 pm – 8 pm at Wilshire United Methodist Church, 4350 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles.

6. Or fight the threat of offshore oil drilling with Surfrider Foundation and Environment California. Get to an educational meeting where staff from Surfrider Foundation and Environment California, as well as environmental activists and local community members, will come together to discuss what the threats associated with drilling are, and how communities can fight them. The meeting happens on St. Patrick’s Day, Wed., March 17 from 7 pm – 8 pm at Santa Monica Library – Fairview Branch, 2101 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica.

7. Or stick strictly to St. Patrick’s Day-themed events, and use Google Transit to ride safely to the St. Patrick’s Day festival at L.A. Live.

8. Dine green. Robin Shreeves at MNN has a recipe for Irish brown bread, and Blogher’s own Alanna Kellogg put together a roundup of green food recipes.

9. Eat green cookies. Bake your own — or get organic shamrock sugar cookies from Organic Bouquet. Two dozen cost $59.95.

10. Get crafty. Can’t drink or go out because you’re stuck at home with the kids? Jenn Savadge at MNN has some ideas for eco-friendly St. Patty’s craft projects, like making a coffee filter shamrock, handprint rainbow, or paper mache pot of gold.

11. Appreciate green beauty. Check out these gorgeous photos of Irish landscapes — limestone bluffs, swamp woodlands, pastures for peaceful grass-fed cows — from National Geographic. Enjoy them now, because according to Della Watson at The Sierra Club’s blog, The Green Life, “a report from the Irish American Climate Project predicts that global warming will endanger the Emerald Isle’s verdant fields, cause a drought-induced reduction in the the country’s famous potato crop, and lead to more “bog bursts” (think mudslides).” Even worse, climate change is worsening the quality of Saaz hops used to make pilsner lager!

Earlier: Happy hour with green-tinted glasses

[crossposted on Blogher]

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