An Even Greener St. Patty’s

 

It may have been possible for V-Day to quietly skulk by last month, but we’d have to be deaf AND blind in order to miss the fact that that greenest of ho’days, St. Patrick’s, is tomorrow. What with all the parades and the drunk girls with neon antennae lurching up and down the streets… So regardless of the state of your Irishness, here’s a way to celebrate right: green beer. It’s not just a color. Certain breweries–Sierra Nevada, the Great Lakes Brewing Co. in Cleveland (“Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!”), and New Belgium are three that the Sierra Club highlighted recently—are really paying attention and putting their creativity to good use. New Belgium uses wind-powered energy and motion-sensor lights and practices recycling and re-using waste. Sierra Nevada has a reward system for bike-riding employees, uses only about half as much water as an average brewery does, and keeps almost all of their waste out of the landfills. They’ve been recognized by the State of California for the past 7 years with a WRAP award (stands for Waste Reduction Awards Program). GLBC’s beer delivery truck (called”The Fatty Wagon”-get it?) runs on undiluted vegetable oil, and they use low-fill beers that would otherwise have been thrown out in items such as Mitchell’s Edmund Fitzgerald Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream. Dee-licious.

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