Allow me to break the logical linearity of this blog and jump back a few days. (I promise I'm not aspiring to the creative chronology of the Latin American fictional masters. I'm just disorganized.) Last Wednesday, Kelly Cox of the NRDC and the Sustainable Style Federation threw the second Dinner & Drinks gathering-a monthly get together of "influential" folks from in and around "green" fields here in NYC. Both the evenings thus far have been held at The Plant, a relatively new restaurant in Dumbo that's proving that raw food can be high class. The informal "theme" of this D&D was the use of the internet and online communities to facilitate positive action w/r/t the environment. A night like this is kind of the perfect outlet for me during this Greenest Month. I get to eat some surprising good raw (excuse me, "living") food that-mostly-meets the standards I've set for my restrictive diet. I get to drink great local, biodynamic wine. And I get to rap with a bunch of interesting folks about these pertinent issues.

Kelly does a tremendous job of pushing discussion, and of keeping everyone's wine glass from going dry. I sat next to Graham Hill of Treehugger, the seemingly reluctant poster boy of the moment for the current popularization and stylizing of environmentalism. Treehugger's obviously an important vehicle in this movement-Morgan, rightfully, references it frequently in this blog-and much of the discourse and debate that night danced around the issue of simply "entertaining" people online versus facilitating more action through the organizational power of the web.

Conclusions? Not many. But the dialogue is ongoing, and that it's happening at all seems significant.

Previously: Green Central Station

Next: The Cleansing

Ben Jervey is the author of The Big Green Apple