This was the first indication that Greener Atlanta‘s launch party (called Your Groove Goes Green) for the City’s Sustainable Atlanta initiative was not going to be the best night of my life:
Look who just learned the 3-D Word Art feature in Microsoft Publisher 2003!
I appreciate the sentiments of Sustainable Atlanta, but the event was a little to Midtown-y, a little too nouveau-green – meaning we got free Whole Foods shopping bags on our way out the door, but while I was cramming as much free food in my mouth and avoiding the roving event photographer I spotted a girl in a tunic dress posing for a picture with her crotch up on the man in the giant panda suit. (What is this, Dragon*Con?) I mean, the panda industry is unsustainable! And hasn’t Atlanta learned its collective lesson regarding the costly dangers of panda suits yet?
The food was organic and locally grown, but almost everything was meat-based. Sweetwater 420 was on tap and served in recyclable plastic cups, but there were bins of bottled water in every corner. BOTTLED DASANI WATER! A conspicuous oversight in sustainability, and one we’ll never get past as long as Coke sponsors everything to ever happen in our city.
Fortunately, the City backtracked on its plan to reduce curbside recycling to biweekly, so maybe when Sustainable Atlanta really gets off the ground they can get relevant with a big citywide recycling push instead of bacon-covered salads at Opera.
Ha! Great post. Way to link a hoochie, a nutcracker panda and dragon*con in one post. Dasani is available in non-bottle form. Turn the right handle on your sink.