Boston Green Drinks - November 2019 Happy Hour

Boston Green Drinks

Thanksgiving. That perennial affair when you gather around an overloaded feast with your beloved family, and beat your head against the bricks as you try to talk climate change and sustainability with your Stubborn Uncle Ray. It's a joyous time. Yet, it is an awesome opportunity to speak to those not in the sustainability choir. Because, Stubborn Uncle Ray expects you to be direct. You expect him to be. Because maybe, just maybe, there's a chance you could break through, and get somewhere useful. 
In that spirit: This month's Boston Green Drinks falls on the Tuesday leading up to Thanksgiving. We propose a challenge. We will, as always, gather for some great conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists. But we can learn to do better, be more effective, and be better prepared for a productive conversation with your diversely opinioned family. 
Challenge: Bring a friend or colleague to Green Drinks, who does not necessarily see eye-to-eye with you on matters of sustainability. The differences may be nuanced, or they may be fundamental. We challenge them to engage in the conversation, and we must challenge ourselves to faithfully and respectfully return the favor. Let's engage. 
Basic ground rules for all of us will be:
1. Be respectful. We know these conversations can be emotionally charged. But anyone willing to faithfully engage in dialgoue, deserves respect. Deserves dignity. Dignity will be maintained.
2. That's it. 
If no one of a different mind shows, we'll still have a good time and build up reserves of commaraderie as we venture to those loaded familial feasts.
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Want some resources for how to approach some of these challenging conversations, productively? Here are but a couple of starting points. <A STYLE="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" HREF="https://climateinterpreter.org/content/scientists-take-lessons-learned-communications-training" TARGET="_blank" DATA-SAFEREDIRECTURL="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://climateinterpreter.org/content/scientists-take-lessons-learned-communications-training&source=gmail&ust=1573917431557000&usg=AFQjCNGZIKIJUvJqboR0mL53Ub117UVNYA" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> https://climateinterpreter.org/content/scientists-take-lessons-learned-communications-training </A><A STYLE="color: #1155cc; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small;" HREF="https://climateinterpreter.org/training" TARGET="_blank" DATA-SAFEREDIRECTURL="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://climateinterpreter.org/training&source=gmail&ust=1573917431557000&usg=AFQjCNE9KSJ6QlSQVr8QIIfZ4Q5qEbpIHA" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://climateinterpreter.org/training</A>
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