I've mentioned that I'm currently one of the volunteers for Greater Boston Green Drinks, an e-mailing list of about 525 people interested in, or working in the fields of, environmental responsibility. We draw lots of advocates, engineers, builders, policymakers, analysts, students and the just-plain-interested.

I've been going a year, and for much of that time, we met once a month, on the first Tuesday. Beginning last month, we decided to add a second gathering a month, on the third Wednesday.

I raised my hand to help in the fall, when a previous administration of volunteers decided to turn the service over, and I've been working with Elaine Strunk and Hershie Soni since. They are both interested in and committed to a green future; we keep running into each other in all the right places, such as the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Show, and the Down 2 Earth show.

If you think we might be your kind of people, you can subscribe to the pointedly minimal mailings by sending e-mail to bostongreendrinks (at) gmail (dot) com. Our first May gathering is at Skipjack's, 199 Clarendon St., on Tuesday the 6th, beginning at 6:30 p.m.