The fall season is almost here! Get your block reservation or sign up as a sponsor today.
The Roundtable’s goals are simple –NETWORK, INSPIRE, EDUCATE, IMPROVE: Enjoy lunch and network with advocates of sustainability; Improve our voice in the community; Improve our individual and company contributions to sustaining the environment. GBR is non-partisan. For more information, please call Tracy Daniels at 970-259-3583.
Our attendees include main avenue businesses, home office entrepreneurs, city employees, and environmentally oriented businesses. We operate on a strict schedule, with the speaker starting at 12:30 and ending at 12:55 for a question or two. We aspire to end promptly at 1:00.
by phone to Ashleigh Tucker at
(970) 259-3583 or by email to info@sanjuancitizens.org
When: Wednesday, September 15, 12-1 p.m. (Third Wednesday this month only, then back to second Wednesday)
Cost: $15 (see below)
Where: The Henry Strater Theater, 669 Main Ave. Durango, at the Strater Hotel.
The Topic: See details at right.
RSVP by 9 a.m., Monday, Sept. 13. Let us know the number of attendees and choice of meat or vegetarian meal. Guarantee your spot at this lunch, or better yet, secure your block reservation (see details below) for the entire season by contacting Ashleigh Tucker at (970) 259-3583 or info@sanjuancitizens.org.
Reservations Preferred
 The Roundtable has been successful beyond our dreams and the success is a great problem to have! Because attendance naturally fluctuates (low 60, high 102), it is hard to know how many meals to guarantee and have the restaurant prepare. The "best guess" method has sometimes resulted in not enough meals and people turned away or going hungry, and occasionally too many meals prepared resulting in food waste and a financial loss. In response, GBR has converted to a reservation system. Pick one of 3 easy options!
1) Buy the Block Reservation. Highly recommended! This is the best way to support the Roundtable. Pay $15 per meal (plus $6 for a nametag with your name and business/organization name.) This saves you time as no RSVP will be required each month. There are no refunds for missing a meeting. If you can't attend, please consider sending a colleague in your place. Your reservation will be given up at 12:10 if no one attends in your place. View the block reservation form [doc]
2) RSVP: Place a reservation by 9 a.m. on the Monday preceding the Roundtable. Payment commitment is implied with your reservation. Your reservation will be given up at 12:10 if no one attends to take your reservation. No-shows and cancellations with less than 48 hours notice will be invoiced.
3) Take Your Chances: At 12:10 we will release reserved seats not yet claimed by reservations.
The cost for a block reservation is $66 for 4 luncheons ($60 if you already have a name tag). You will receive a Green Business Roundtable nametag with your name and business/organization name. Please make check payable to "San Juan Citizens Alliance" and mail to PO Box 2461, Durango, CO 81302. Block reservations may be purchased throughout the season for remaining meetings.
Help our parent organization, the San Juan Citizens Alliance, offset the GBR costs of a local/organic lunch, photocopying, postage, guaranteeing luncheon attendance, and staff time. Contact Ashleigh Tucker at 259-3583 or info@sanjuancitizens.org.
The Roundtable's goals are simple - NETWORK, INSPIRE, EDUCATE, IMPROVE: Enjoy lunch and network with advocates of sustainability; Improve our voice in the community; and Improve our individual and company contributions to sustaining the environment. GBR is non-partisan. For more information or to secure your block reservation, please contact Ashleigh Tucker at 259-3583 or info@sanjuancitizens.org.
For the 2009-2010 GBR season, most of each meal will be organic and/or include local items! Your sponsorship money will help to offset the increased cost of adding local and organic foods to our menu. As in the past, sponsorship money will continue to help the San Juan Citizens Alliance pay for administrative, printing, and postage costs. Additional funding would also allow us to attract higher-profile speakers through coverage of travel expenses and the provision of small honoraria.
Cost is $275 for 4 months (September - December or January - April). You may sponsor both sessions for $500. Payment for the fall session is due August 28, 2009 and payment for the spring session is due December 10, 2009. Contact Tracy Daniels, 970-259-3583.
To elaborate, the idea is to mimic the systems used by Rotary and other service clubs to influence the community:
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We gather to enjoy lunch and network with other conservation minded business leaders. One can talk about anything of course, but if you can, bring the topic around to environmental issues. Perhaps projects or companies you have heard of or admire for their sustainability efforts.
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We want to improve our own and our companies contributions to sustaining the environment. So hopefully we can exert some good peer pressure on each other to take back to work.
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We want to improve our voice in the community. The environmentally willing, eager, and concerned business people of our community are not networked as well as could be, and as a result our voice is often marginalized compared to the groups that are well networked.
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The rules are simple:
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- Any business leader who is committed to being more environmentally involved is welcome;
- Any attendee does not necessarily endorse the views of any other;
- One-hour monthly luncheons will run on a strict timetable, includes an approximate 20-minute presentation;
- We are a non-partisan group and the group will make no policy statements.
The San Juan Citizens Alliance launched GBR in 2002 as an outreach program, and is already seeing spin off benefits such as renewable energy workshops, Chamber of Commerce awards to Green Leaders, and sales of energy efficiency devices. Help us by inviting business owners and managers to the lunches, which now average 100 attendees. |
