GP Dinner #199 | Ecocivilization w/Jeremy Lent

Good People Dinners creates memorable dining events for corporate groups and communities. We design each event using our proven recipe for people and teams to form lasting, meaningful bonds: chef-prepared farm-to-table meals, thought-provoking speakers, facilitated discussions and an inspiring venue.If you’re looking for new interesting friends or collaborators, grab a ticket and come spend the evening with Good People Dinners in the Bay Area or at our retreat centerCamp Earnest, near Yosemite. The name speaks for itself, the people who come are incredible!Our typical participants are curious, creative intellectuals with a growth mindset, a passion for innovation, and a burning desire to make the world a better place.You’ll also enjoy appetizers and drinks, a family style farm-to-table meal prepared by a professional chef, a fascinating speaker, and a facilitated discussion.If this sounds like an experience where you would feel at home, please check out our upcoming events and join us!

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WHAT: GP Dinner #199 | Ecocivilization w/Jeremy LentWHERE: TinkerTendo 1025 Tennessee Street, San Francisco, CA 94107WHEN: 6:00 to 10:00pm on September 9th, 2026PLEASE NOTE: ATTENDANCE LIMITED TO FIRST 40 PEOPLE WHO SECURE A TICKET HERE. YOU'RE WELCOME TO GIFT OR TRANSFER YOUR SPOT TO A FRIEND IF YOUR PLANS CHANGE. JUST LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE.Please join us for our 199th dinner on September 9th in San Francisco.Expect cocktails at 6:00 and our speaker around 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef. Wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu. All attendees will receive a signed copy of Jeremy's new book <a href="https://book.ecocivilization.net" title="https://book.ecocivilization.net" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ecocivilization</a>. A portion of proceeds from tonight's dinner will benefit the <a href="https://www.ecociv.org" title="https://www.ecociv.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ecociv Coalition.</a> ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal. About Good People Dinners: GP Dinners is a community built around meaningful ​conversations and delicious feasts, a moveable social club for those who value authenticity, a better way to connect with each other. We are also an event production business and regularly create tailored dinner series for a wide range of companies and organizations.Our dinners are hosted at a variety of venues in the Bay Area, at Camp Earnest near Yosemite NP and around the country and the world. Every dinner includes a speaker on a topic of wide ranging interest and a chef prepared feast. <a href="https://www.gpdinners.com/founding-principles.html" title="https://www.gpdinners.com/founding-principles.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">To learn more about us, please visit our Founding Principles page.</a>Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

OUR SPEAKER:Our friend <a href="https://www.jeremylent.com/about" title="https://www.jeremylent.com/about" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jeremy Lent</a> was described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age." He is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future.His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, examines the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day.His more recent award-winning The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe offers a solid foundation for an integrative worldview that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future.Tonight we will focus on Jeremy's newest and perhaps most compelling book, <a href="https://book.ecocivilization.net" title="https://book.ecocivilization.net" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All.</a> Ecocivilization is the result of five years of research and writing. It lays out the potential for a fundamentally different world system—an ecocivilization based on life-affirming principles rather than principles of extraction, exploitation, and wealth accumulation. The book illustrates an alternative, positive future that's available for humanity to pursue right now, illustrating how every aspect of our world system could be redesigned as a coherent whole, setting the conditions for all people to flourish on a regenerated Earth. What are humanity's first best steps in establishing the root causes of such a transformation? Where are the shoots of our Ecocivilization already present and how is the Ecociv Coalition working to augment these systems changes and network this growing movement into an archipelago in service to all life?How can each of us play our part in catalyzing this transformation?Tonight we'll discuss these and many other vital questions.A portion of tonight's proceeds will be donated to support the<a href="https://www.ecociv.org" title="https://www.ecociv.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Ecociv Coalition</a>.

OUR CHEF:Chef Azalina Eusope is a Malaysian born chef and the founder of Azalina’s in San Francisco.Raised in Penang, she grew up cooking alongside her mother, father and grandmother, learning recipes shaped by Malaysia’s Malay, Indian, and Chinese influences. She began her career through catering and farmers markets before opening restaurants on Market Street and in Noe Valley.Today, Azalina’s continues as an intimate Malaysian tasting menu restaurant in the Tenderloin, alongside a growing retail sauce line carried in specialty grocery stores across the Bay Area. Her food focuses on layered spice, balance, and the preservation of Malaysian culinary traditions through a contemporary lens.Azalina has been recognized by the Michelin Guide, named an Eater SF Chef of the Year, and was a James Beard semifinalist. Beyond the restaurant, she is passionate about storytelling through food and building spaces that bring people together around shared meals and conversation.

OUR MENU:HAPPY HOUR:Pie Tee Cup Crisp pastry cup made from rice flour and roasted beets, filled with jicama, long bean, turmeric, and lemon basilMini Gluten-Free Curry Puff Gluten-free curry puff made from arrowroot flour and coconut oil, filled with russet potato, carrots, roasted butternut squash, and Maui onionsSoon Kueh Chinese-Malay style dumpling made with tapioca starch, filled with red chili, New Zealand spinach, organic egg omelette, hoisin sauce, and pickled turnipTO START:NYONYACucur Jagung - Brentwood corn fritters made with rice flour and turmeric, served with sweet chili sambal, black sesame, allspice, cotija, and seaweedCHINESE Hokkien Mee - Wok-fried noodles made from rice flour and all-purpose flour, with shiitake mushrooms, choy sum, green chili, green onion, soy sauce, and black garlicMAINS:MALAY Chicken Brochette - Organic lemongrass-marinated chicken skewers with peanut, ginger, purple sweet potato, mustard greens, and curry leafINDIAN Ikan Sumbat - Locally caught black cod with soybean, red chili, coriander, keluak, coconut milk, black-eyed peas, tatsoi, green mango, red onion, cumin, and fennel, served with coconut rice cooked with ginger and pandan leafTO FINISHEURASIAN Pineapple Cake - Pineapple cake made with organic all-purpose flour, pink pineapple, clove, aquafaba, pistachio cream, pandan, longan---------------------Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

Drinks at 6:00, dinner at 7:00. Though a cocktail and some wine will be provided, guests are welcome to bring a bottle of wine to share.Menu update will come soon to help you choose your bottles. We always make sure vegetarian friends will have plenty to eat. Please contact Raman or Karin in advance if you have any other dietary restrictions.If you are wondering how you were included in this invitation, or would like to be removed, please contact ramanfrey@gmail.comTo sign up for future events, please register atwww.gpdinners.comTo learn more about the former summer camp we've purchased and refurbished near Yosemite, please visit us here. Camp Earnest is available for a campus buyout for groups from 15 to 75 guests at a time.www.campearnest.com

GP Dinner #199 | Ecocivilization w/Jeremy Lent

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1025 Tennessee St

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Happy Hour and Mingling

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Family style dinner is served

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GP Dinner #199 | Ecocivilization w/Jeremy Lent

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1025 Tennessee St

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Happy Hour and Mingling

Speaker's story

Family style dinner is served

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