Newtown Creek Alliance historian and Green Drinks Queens steering committee member Mitch Waxman hams it up while John Choe of the Flushing Chamber of Commerce speaks. 

Green Drinks Queens came to bustling downtown Flushing last night for a fun night of networking, sharing ideas, and gathering support to help make our borough more sustainable. Huge thanks to the Flushing Chamber of Commerce for partnering to organize the event and Leaf Lounge for providing an awesome rooftop venue and drink specials!

Guardians of Flushing Bay, Transportation Alternatives, and Green Earth Urban Gardens spoke of activism needed for clean water and soil and safe bicycling. Queens historian Jack Eichenbaum was a surprise speaker who highlighted threats to street trees and Flushing’s role as home the first colonial tree nurseries in the Americas. Dan Miner of the NYC Chapter of 350.org and a Green Drinks Queens steering committee member reminded us of the bigger picture problem of climate change that our local efforts must help resolve.

Participants had a blast playing a local environmental trivia game for material and experiential prizes ranging from special theme tours to bicycle lights and local dumplings.

Sunset over Manhattan as seen from Leaf Lounge.