Dating Gets the Greenover
Friday, July 18th, 2008
If you and your friends think recycling is better for bottles than boyfriends, then Green Speed Dating might be your ticket. NPR dispatched a ridiculously funny report from one such event in Southern California.
Now that green living is caliente, it was only a matter of time before eco-entrepreneurs started a matchmaker service focused on environmentally conscious singles seeking like-minded mates.
For a $20 entry fee (organizers say profits go to fund solar projects in Nicaragua), participants meet 10-20 people of the opposite sex in a similar age range and talk to each one for three minutes. Organizers ring a bell after three minutes is up, and you move on to the next speed dater. The time limit may seem short, but I’m assured from friends who have participated in other speed dating events that it can be an eternity if you’re stuck with a real dud!
At the end, everyone tells the organizers who they’d like to know better. If there’s a match, they send contact information to the interested parties.
Several events have been held in Southern California, with more on the way. If you’d like to host one in your area, the organizers ask you to contact them on the Green Speed Dating website.
Listen to NPR’s “Finding Carbon Neutral Love”:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92537810
