story by Alex Ho and pictures by Julie Blaustein
The organizers of SF Beta, Room Full of People Inc. and Steve Newcomb (Powerset founder and blogger) brought to Minna Gallery a SF Beta spinoff called SF Green to appeal to the recent Green movement. SF Green is also supported by the California Clean Tech Open. Being the first event, it drew a very successful crowd of 300+ in attendance. It is a great way to bring together people who are interested in learning more about being green and it never hurts to have another Green Mixer. This is definitely not the first Green mixer in the bay area as there are already quite a few. There are several Green Drinks monthly mixers all over the bay area as well as my favorite, EcoTuesdays. (blog coverage of the most recent EcoTuesday event).
Unfortunately, the demos were not too exciting as there were only two booths from Syncromatics and Enverity. Syncromatics is a company that provides real-time bus tracking systems and is currently providing service to several Universities and demoed the current UCSD service. Enverity provides web-enabled business-management software as well as health and safety solutions for corporations. There was also an electric ATV from Barefoot Motors on display. Hopefully, future SF Green mixers will have more demos and presentations.
Organizers of SF Green, Christina Perry, Cassie Philipps, and Steve Newcomb
Organizers of EcoTuesday, Oren Jaffe and Nikki Martinez
Futureworks’ Rebecca Reeve and friend.
More pics from Julie’s Flickr set here.