San Francisco Bar Goes Green
Elixir, located in the Mission District, is the first bar to be certified by the city as a green business. In addition to serving local beers and wines, Elixir specializes in environmentally friendly cocktails like the Country Thyme, a sort of blueberry lemonade made with fresh thyme and Square One vodka.
Square One is Ehrmann’s vodka of choice because of the company’s ultra-green approach. “It’s a vodka made from organic rye that’s farmed from North Dakota,” Ehrmann says. “The distillery is in Idaho, and the distillery uses water from the Snake River that runs just below the distillery.” Labels made from tree-free paper and soy ink are applied to the bottles after they’re filled with vodka.
In California alone, transporting wine imported from France creates more than 10 million pounds of pollution each year, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. Putting wine in something lighter than glass bottles is a greener alternative, but most oenophiles aren’t quite ready to order their favorite pinot out of a box or bag. That may change in the future, Ehrmann says, as the popularity of green bars grows.
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Angelica Jones on April 26th, 2008 10:53 pm
This green bar really helps the environment. I hope people can find more ways to do their in protecting the environment.
Bill Potter on April 26th, 2008 11:27 pm
I was thinking of how i can do my share in protecting the env. This post gave me an excellent idea since i got a bar in frisco as well.
Rina Phillips on April 26th, 2008 11:51 pm
“In California alone, transporting wine imported from France creates more than 10 million pounds of pollution each year, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.”
I wasn’t aware of this. Seems to me almost every job nowadays contributes to pollution. I’m glad though that businessmen are trying to revolutionize their ways so that the environment wouldn’t be- at least- compromised or abused.
curt on April 27th, 2008 11:12 am
That’s really very new approach in catering business. What about the pricing of this new environmentally friendly products?
Even though, there is not really possible to find a proper substitutes for some very special French vintage wines, involved companies could properly offset their carbon footprint, including transport to desired destination.
Melanie D. on April 28th, 2008 7:05 am
I find it annoying when people use the grave issue of climate change to gain profit.
I hope this ‘green bar’ has genuine intentions to live in agreement with nature compared to the rest who like to think they are helping when obviously they are not.
It took humanity centuries before they could realize that pollution is nothing but the ‘resources’ they are not harvesting.
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