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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.
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