GP Dinner #199 | Ecocivilization w/Jeremy Lent
About this Event
WHAT: GP Dinner #199 | Ecocivilization w/Jeremy Lent
WHERE: TinkerTendo 1025 Tennessee Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
WHEN: 6:00 to 10:00pm on September 9th, 2026
PLEASE NOTE: ATTENDANCE LIMITED TO FIRST 40 PEOPLE WHO SECURE A TICKET HERE. YOU'RE WELCOME TO GIFT OR TRANSFER YOUR SPOT TO A FRIEND IF YOUR PLANS CHANGE. JUST LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE.
Please join us for our 199th dinner on September 9th in San Francisco.
Expect cocktails at 6:00 and our speaker around 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef. Wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.
All attendees will receive a signed copy of Jeremy's new book . A portion of proceeds from tonight's dinner will benefit the
ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.
About Good People Dinners: GP Dinners is a community built around meaningful conversations and delicious feasts, a moveable social club for those who value authenticity, a better way to connect with each other. We are also an event production business and regularly create tailored dinner series for a wide range of companies and organizations.
Our dinners are hosted at a variety of venues in the Bay Area, at Camp Earnest near Yosemite NP and around the country and the world. Every dinner includes a speaker on a topic of wide ranging interest and a chef prepared feast.
Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.
OUR SPEAKER:
Our friend was described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age." He is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future.
His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, examines the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day.
His more recent award-winning The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe offers a solid foundation for an integrative worldview that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future.
Tonight we will focus on Jeremy's newest and perhaps most compelling book, Ecocivilization is the result of five years of research and writing. It lays out the potential for a fundamentally different world system—an ecocivilization based on life-affirming principles rather than principles of extraction, exploitation, and wealth accumulation.
The book illustrates an alternative, positive future that's available for humanity to pursue right now, illustrating how every aspect of our world system could be redesigned as a coherent whole, setting the conditions for all people to flourish on a regenerated Earth.
What are humanity's first best steps in establishing the root causes of such a transformation?
Where are the shoots of our Ecocivilization already present and how is the Ecociv Coalition working to augment these systems changes and network this growing movement into an archipelago in service to all life?
Tonight we'll discuss these and many other vital questions.
A portion of tonight's proceeds will be donated to support the Ecociv Coalition.
OUR CHEF:
Chef Azalina Eusope is a Malaysian born chef and the founder of Azalina’s in San Francisco.
Raised in Penang, she grew up cooking alongside her mother, father and grandmother, learning recipes shaped by Malaysia’s Malay, Indian, and Chinese influences. She began her career through catering and farmers markets before opening restaurants on Market Street and in Noe Valley.
Today, Azalina’s continues as an intimate Malaysian tasting menu restaurant in the Tenderloin, alongside a growing retail sauce line carried in specialty grocery stores across the Bay Area. Her food focuses on layered spice, balance, and the preservation of Malaysian culinary traditions through a contemporary lens.
Azalina has been recognized by the Michelin Guide, named an Eater SF Chef of the Year, and was a James Beard semifinalist. Beyond the restaurant, she is passionate about storytelling through food and building spaces that bring people together around shared meals and conversation.
OUR MENU:
To be announced soon.
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Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.
Drinks at 6:00, dinner at 7:00. Though a cocktail and some wine will be provided, guests are welcome to bring a bottle of wine to share.
Menu update will come soon to help you choose your bottles. We always make sure vegetarian friends will have plenty to eat. Please contact Raman or Karin in advance if you have any other dietary restrictions.
If you are wondering how you were included in this invitation, or would like to be removed, please contact [email protected]
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To learn more about the former summer camp we've purchased and refurbished near Yosemite, please visit us here. Camp Earnest is available for a campus buyout for groups from 15 to 75 guests at a time.
www.campearnest.com
Agenda
🕑: 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Happy Hour and Mingling
🕑: 07:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Speaker's story
🕑: 07:30 PM - 08:30 AM
Family style dinner is served
🕑: 08:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Dessert is served, Q&A with speaker
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 135.23 to USD 161.90
