When Lara Honrado helped organize an event in March to bring minorities into the environmental conversation, one discussion topic kept coming up.

“?”˜Why is green so white?’?” Honrado, recently hired as Mayor Gregor Robertson’s executive assistant, told the Straight at a Mount Pleasant coffee shop. “We found that was too offensive, so then it became, ”˜Green is more than just white.’?”

With help from local activist Ajay Puri, Honrado is organizing a second event on Tuesday (June 22) in Kitsilano, under the name RangiChangi Roots.

“It seemed like a good idea at the time,” Honrado said of the name RangiChangi. “It’s a South Asian word. It just means ”˜wildly colourful’, and we thought it captured the spirit of the group. We’ll see if the name sticks.”

RangiChangi sounds more “fun and vibrant” than the Intercultural Alliance for Climate Action, Puri explained during the same interview, referring to the name the group used for the March 30 event in Gastown. The Tuesday event starts at 6 p.m. at the Maple Grill (1967 West Broadway). The evening includes presentations, facilitated dialogue, and networking.

“We have so much diversity in terms of cultures here, and also ecodiversity,” Puri said. “So we’re trying to mash the two together and say we need to embrace that. That’s when change happens. We have that diversity of views to evolve and have that innovation to move things forward.”

Speakers at the upcoming event will include Richmond high-school student Cherrie Lam, Costa Rican honorary consul Antonio Arreaga, Squamish Nation artist and filmmaker Cease Wyss, Green Club founder Joseph Lin, and Linda Rubuliak, manager of YMCA Connections.