>> Green Drinks and Bloblive have teamed up! A green mix-and-mingle plus open mic night for eco-entrepreneurs happens at this Thurs., June 4 from 6 pm – 10 pm at the V Lounge, 2020 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica. I’ll be there, especially since that bar’s in walking distance from me.

The teamup means freebies: First 40 people get a stainless steel water bottle and 4 DVDs of eco-docus.  Inside, you’ll get appetizers from V Lounge and Whole Foods, Coconut Bliss ice cream, and organic non-alkie drinks. For the harder stuff, you’ll need to pay — but there’ll be $5 organic wine and beer available. Aside from the 8 pm – 9 pm hour when the open mic happens, you’ll be free to mingle and / or zone out to the Lakers’ game. Cost: $5.

>> A free screening of Food, Inc. — followed by a panel discussion about strengthening SoCal’s local food system — also happens Thurs., June 4, at 7 pm at Whittier Village Cinemas, 7038 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier. RSVPs are required to 323.341.5091.

>> Westside bicycling enthusiasts — or even eastsiders with lots of pedal power — are invited to BikeroPARTY 2.0, featuring FREE stand time to fix your bike, games (Barrio Kart, bike karaoke rides, jump rope, four square, tube exploding contest), and a raffle (52CM single speed bike and Toms Shoes. The party happens Sat., June 6 from 1 pm – 11:55 pm at Bikerowave, 1816 A Berkeley Ave., Santa Monica.

>> Don’t miss the free  screening of The End of the Line – as there’ll be free drinks and hors d’oeuvres! Just make sure you RSVP to events@ioe.ucla.edu for the June 8 event, happening from 6 pm – 9 pm at UCLA (Bridges Theater in Melnitz Hall). If you can’t make it to a screening, The End of the Line opens at Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills June 19.

>> The California Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities is putting on Green Jobs, Healthy Communities: Building a Green-Collar Economy. Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO of Green for All, will lead a discussion “to find out if we can create pathways out of poverty through a green-collar economy.” (I’m guessing the answer here will be yes, we can) Stay around after the event for a coffee and dessert networking reception. That happens Tues., June 9 at 6 pm at Yosemite Hall, 1000 N. Alameda St., Los Angeles. Free admission and parking. RSVP online.

>> Get your eco family on TV. Rockhopper TV’s producing films on climate change for BBC — and wants to film an L.A. nuclear family with green aspirations over a week in early August “in order to see how one’s day to day life works alongside being green.” Email mike@rockhopper.tv if you think your family’d be a good fit.

>> Other upcoming eco opportunities not to miss: Green Living Workshops and LA River Tour.

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