Post Haste Climate Week runs September 23 through 27 in Fishtown, timed to the same week as New York’s own Climate Week, which aligns with the UN General Assembly. Rather than send a delegation north, Post Haste is keeping the conversation local: two drink-in-hand gatherings, a full week of themed cocktails, and a real sustainability credential to back it up.
Post Haste Climate Week Traces a Glass From Trash to Table
Thursday, September 24, from 5 to 7 PM, Rabbit Recycling and Remark Glass walk guests through circular glass recycling, the actual process of turning discarded material into new glassware.
It’s a rare chance to hear directly from the people doing that work over happy-hour drinks rather than reading about it secondhand. Most drinkers never think past the recycling bin once a bottle is empty, and this is a chance to actually see where it goes next.
Friday, September 25, same hours, shifts to what’s actually in the glass. Tim Kweeder of Fell to Earth vermouth and Ian Brendle of Green Meadow Farm trace Post Haste’s ingredients from a Lancaster County farm, through the vermouth-making process, into the finished cocktail. Following one ingredient that far back, from soil to glass, is a level of transparency most bars never bother offering.
Post Haste Climate Week’s Cocktail Menu Tells Its Own Story
Two Fell to Earth cocktails run all week. Earth to Glass is a fruit-forward, herbal sparkling white negroni built on Bluecoat gin, cantaloupe and lemon verbena sourced directly from Green Meadow Farm, Fell to Earth Dry Vermouth, Clementine Aperitivo, and sparkling wine.
Green Is the Warmest Color takes the boulevardier in a different direction entirely, built on Laird’s Apple Brandy and Fell to Earth Sweet Vermouth, rounded out with Trifoliate Orange, Appalachian Allspice, and fig leaf.
The rest of the week runs on more familiar terms: $6 drafts, $10 house wines, and $2 oysters from Fishtown Seafood, keeping the programming approachable rather than precious about it. Nobody has to attend a panel discussion to get in on the week; showing up for happy hour is enough.
Post Haste Climate Week Builds on a Real Seafood Commitment
Post Haste recently joined the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch Best Choice Restaurant Program, becoming the only participating restaurant in Philadelphia. The commitment requires serving at least one green-rated, environmentally sustainable seafood dish, giving diners a genuinely simple way to make a more ocean-friendly choice without needing to research it themselves.
Being the only restaurant in the city currently carrying that designation says as much about the state of the program locally as it does about Post Haste itself.
Chef Ari Miller, who’s reshaped Post Haste’s dining room since taking over the kitchen, is bringing that same ethos north the same week, building the menu for the Aquaculture Stewardship Council’s own Climate Week dinner in New York, one exploring certified seafood and climate solutions directly.
New York gets a UN-adjacent summit with a guest list and a press pool. Fishtown gets the same conversation over $6 drafts and a negroni built from cantaloupe grown an hour away, and there’s a real argument that the second version does more to actually change how people think about what’s in their glass.
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