Yey! Yey! green LA girl wins the $200 Vessel gift certificate. Thanks everyone for helping me out!
I haven’t received the actual gift cert yet, but will be buying 2 workplace dish sets to give out as prizes for future Starbucks Challenges, as well as a companion personal light pour moi to use while working on crossword puzzles in dimly lit cafes over fair trade coffee.
In other Siel news: San Francisco — get ready for green LA girl. I’ll be part of an “Environmental Blogging” panel at the Commonwealth Club, January 31st. Other Panelists: Nick Aster of Triple Pundit, Alex Steffan from Worldchanging, and Graham Hill (or Tim McGee) from Treehugger. Eric Corey Freed, aka Organic Architect, is the organizer and Gil Friend will moderate the panel. RSVP at the Commonwealth Club website — Nick says the event’s likely to fill up.
Also planning to visit Coffee to the People while I’m up there, as well as a Starbucks run by a fair trade advocate-manager that brews Cafe Estima every day. Suggestions for my itinerary are welcomed –
Environmental Blogging. 595 Market St., 2nd floor. San Francisco. Jan. 31, 2006. Reception 5:30 pm, Program 6 pm. $8 members, $15 non-members.
What a great news that you’re going to SF :-) esp. to be one of the people in the panel for “environmental blogging.” Ah..I used to live close by the commonwealth club for the last 6 month of my life in SF. Market st. is the financial district, and there are so many things close by that you can visit.
1. MOMA-Museum of Modern Art, sorry for some reasons I can’t remember the exact address :-( Ah..it’s been just a year and half since I lived there..oh no..(all within few blocks from where you’ll be paneling)
2. Buena Vista Park, just in front of MOMA.
3. Small, cheap but very yummy Vietnamese resto, called Tu Lan on 6th St. between Market and Mission st.
4. Plenty of Starbucks within financial district you can do your challenge on ;-)
5. Embarcadero plaza of course, at the end of Market st. by the bay of SF. Farmer’s Market there and local producers businesses: bread, cheeses, wines, restaurants, etc. etc.
6. Sorry I can’t suggest the green resto :-( but another vietnamese resto in the embarcadero called Slanted Door is very yummy. It’s pricey but special for sure. Reservation is recommended.
7. I’m trying to think…it’s all fading away from me :-( Gosh, SF is great to find jems everywhere…if you can go to Golden Gate Park, Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito (a little town after the bridge with breath-taking views), Aquatic Park end of Pier (don’t remember the pier number now–I used to swim in the bay there when I got real crazy), North Beach neighborhood (great lively area with restos, bars, small shops etc), North Beach you can go up hill to see the view of SF from Coit Tower, Haight Street of course, Castro (gay neighborhood with its great castro theater, Noe Valley area 24th St. with many shops, resto, local independent coffee shops, etc.
8. Plenty of green people of course…green everything but I can’t specify because I wasn’t a true green :-)
Well..don’t know how long you’d be there..but a few days is not bad at all..Good luck and have a great fun :-)
Comment by Maya — December 29, 2005 @ 11:11 pm
Thanks for letting us know about the panel — I am reserving today! Thanks for linking to my site – found your blog through my webstats.
Comment by jen — December 30, 2005 @ 12:18 pm
Yey! Hope to see you there — Be sure to say hello! And thanks again for the Eating Local post — Tres helpful and informative — and encouraging! :)
Comment by Siel — January 9, 2006 @ 5:53 pm