Multipack Presents: Being Green is the second in the series of Multipack Presents events, happening this coming Saturday back at the sexy offices of One Black Bear.

After the first extremely successful event concentrating on Emerging Standards featuring some interesting insights into HTML5, ARIA and other emerging standards, this time around we focus on how we can use the Web to make the world greener.

We have lined up some great talks from local eco pioneers:

• David Harte has been responsible for a lot of work in the Act On CO2 campaign in Birmingham and will be showing us how he and the team have been using the Internet to gauge CO2 emissions.
• James Robertson will also be talking to us about how he set up the Birmingham Freecycle group using online resources and how he made it one of the most successful groups in the World.
• Paul Lloyd will be lifting the lid on his latest project to make conferences more eco-friendly as well as intentions for other green issues around the Web.

Being Green will commence at nearby watering hole The Old Crown Pub at 2pm, giving all attendees a chance to socialise and mingle before the presentations kick off at One Black Bear’s Fazeley Studios from 4pm.

Campaign Monitor have also come up trumps yet again and kindly contributed towards the event’s refreshments.

Rather than going for the typical pizza and brand name beers, we will practise what we preach and only source local produce. Don’t be alarmed though as there should be some fine local beers available as well as locally farmed munchies.

The kind people at Moo have also offered us an exclusive discount for the event on their eco-friendly MiniCards - only available to attendees.

If you’re interested in attending, be sure to let us know on Upcoming so we know who to expect and, more importantly, how much beer and food we need. It should be a good one and certainly get you thinking more about being green.