Title: The annual MREA Energy Fair
Location: Custer, WI
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Description: This event demonstrates that the future of renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable living continues to be bright.
Each year the MREA Energy Fair transforms rural central Wisconsin into the global hot spot for renewable energy education. The 20th Anniversary Energy Fair brought people from nearly every state in the US and several countries around the world to learn, connect with others and ready them for action at home. The Energy Fair is the nation’s longest running energy education event of its kind.
Start Date: 2010-06-18
End Date: 2010-06-20

Title: World Water Week 2010
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Description: Hosted and organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), the World Water Week in Stockholm has been the annual focal point for the planet’s water issues since 1991.
The Week provides a unique forum for the exchange of views and experiences between the scientific, business, policy and civic communities. It focuses on new thinking and positive action toward water-related challenges and their impact on the world’s environment, health, economic and poverty reduction agendas
Start Date: 2010-09-05
End Date: 2010-09-11

Title: Pikes Peak Earth Day
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Description: Pikes Peak Earth Day is the premier eco-focused event in the region with a strong and loyal following. We hold our event at beautiful LEED certified Cornerstone Art Center at Colorado College from 10am to 3pm. This year our theme will be 40 Years of Earth Day: ReVision RePurpose ReNew.

This community-wide event offers Eco-friendly exhibitors, Workshops, Children’s Activities, Entertainment, Environmental Presentations, Food, Art, and much more.

Ride your bike & park it in our free, secure bike valet being hosted
by Colorado Springs Bike Month.

Interested in ride sharing? Sign up at www.pickuppal.com/pup/welcome/Pikes-Peak-Earth-Day PickupPals can track the number of rides and Pikes Peak Earth Day can keep track of the amount of carbon emissions we have collectively reduced as a result!

For more information about Pikes Peak Earth Day go to www.PikesPeakEarthDay.org or call 313-1883.
Date: 2010-04-24

Title: Carbon Footprint Fair
Location: Portland, Oregon
Description: Jefferson High School 2nd annual Carbon Footprint Fair for the benefit of our community and to help Portland achieve equity in sustainability.

Jefferson High School Carbon Footprint Fair

If you can, please show your support by visiting the fair at some point tomorrow, even if you can only drop in for 10 minutes. Strong turnout of community will encourage and honor these youth and their teacher’s efforts to make a difference in the community. It’s also an opportunity to engage youth in a positive way that impacts us all. JHS students are making history, please join them. Jefferson High School was one of only 10 schools out of nearly 100 in the nation to be chosen to receive a grant from the Earth Day Network in Washington D.C. to install solar panels on the school! The panels will be unveiled at the fair.
Date: 2010-04-22

Location: Chicago, IL
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Description: Join the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum as they partner with the Green Parents Network for a special day of family fun and holiday shopping with over 30 green companies and their products!

Date: 2009-12-06

Location: Phoenix, Arizona
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Description: The Greenbuild Film Festival will feature two full days of films that promote green building practices and address social, environmental, and health topics related to the built environment.

We are now accepting film submissions from qualified parties for short films, feature films, documentaries, and animation. For more information on the submission process download the official call for submittals » http://www.greenbuildexpo.org/documents/FilmFestivalCall_2009.pdf

If you have questions about the Greenbuild Film Festival, please contact Sara Haywood at
program@usgbc.org.
Start Date: 2009-11-11
End Date: 2009-11-12

Location: Portland, OR
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Description: A fun and educational one-day event for the whole family that celebrates and promotes the nurturing of life through nature. From pregnancy to childhood, parents can learn about eco-friendly, community-involved, natural, and healthy options to raising their families. $3 suggested donation to benefit Sustainable Oregon Schools Initiative.

Date: 2009-09-26

Location: Silver Lake Nature Center
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Description: Festival goers will have the opportunity to meet with “Green”
vendors to learn what they can do in their homes/businesses. There
will be a passport program in which children can complete
different activities and earn a prize. Food will be for sale by local
Bucks County Farms. The Mercer County Wildlife Center AND the
Schuylkill Center Wildlife Rehab Clinic will be here to do animal
shows. We’ll also have a free concert by the Wissahickon Chicken
Shack. AND much more!!
Date: 2009-09-12

Location: Portland, OR
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Description: Portland VegFest is celebrating its fifth anniversary on September 19 with an exciting line-up of speakers and a new, larger home at the Oregon Convention Center.

Started in 2005 by Northwest VEG, a local nonprofit organization, the annual festival has become Oregon’s  remier vegetarian food and education extravaganza, thanks to the overwhelmingly positive support of  exhibitors, sponsors, and the general public. Currently a nationwide nominee for “Favorite Veg Event” in the annual VegNews magazine reader survey, Portland VegFest is expected to attract a growing number of people from all over the region, as well as vegetarian tourists from around the country.
Headlining speakers for 2009 will include the following:

Rip Esselstyn, author of the New York Times best-seller, “The Engine 2 Diet.” Esselstyn is a Texas firefighter and a former world-class professional tri-athlete who encouraged his colleagues at the firehouse to adopt a plant-based diet for the sake of their health. Esselstyn’s easy-to-follow, 28-day plan is guaranteed to reduce cholesterol levels and help participants lose weight not through portion control or counting calories, but by eating foods that are nutrient-dense, low in calories and high in fiber.
Kathy Freston, author of “Quantum Wellness” and her recent follow-up title, “The Quantum Wellness Cleanse.” Freston is widely known for her influential 2008 guest appearance on “Oprah,” and she is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and AlterNet and LA Times Magazine. Freston promotes a body/mind/spirit philosophy that includes gentle encouragement toward a plant-based diet. In O Magazine, Oprah Winfrey wrote, “Kathy Freston struck a nerve for me by speaking of a higher level of awareness, what she calls “spiritual integrity.”

John A. McDougall, M.D., founder and medical director of the McDougall Program, a ten-day residential health program located at a luxury resort in Santa Rosa, California. His highly successful approach to wellness emphasizes a  ourishing plant-based diet that reverses the progression of chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, without the use of drugs. A board-certified internist, Dr. McDougall is the author of multiple best-sellers about health, and one of America’s leading advocates of dietary change as a means of preventing illness.

Vesanto Melina, M.S., R.D., a dietary consultant for the government of British Columbia and the coauthor of “Raw Food Revolution Diet, “The New Becoming Vegetarian,” “Becoming Vegan,” and the “The Food Allergy Survival Guide.” She is an internationally known speaker and has taught nutrition at the University of British Columbia and at Seattle’s Bastyr University. Vesanto is co-author of Dietitians of Canada’s and the American Dietetic Association’s joint position paper on vegetarian diets.

Portland VegFest will also feature a full slate of recipe demonstrations with FREE tastings available to the audience.

Confirmed presenters include the following:
Gabrielle Chavez, founder of the Raw and Living Spirit Retreat and author of “The Raw Food Gourmet” and “Going Raw for Total Well Being.”

David Gabbe, a local cooking instructor and speaker at numerous health symposiums and conferences. He is the author of five books, including “David’s Pure Vegetarian Kitchen,” “The Going Vegetarian Cookbook,” and “Why Do Vegetarians Eat Like That?”
Chef Wes Hannah from Blossoming Lotus Café, the highly acclaimed gourmet vegetarian restaurant in Portland’s Pearl District.

Julie Hasson, host of www.everydaydish.tv and the author of five dessert cookbooks, most recently “The Complete Pie Book.”

Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Post Punk Kitchen blogger and best-selling author of four cookbooks, including the recently released “Vegan Brunch.”
As in years past, Portland VegFest will feature an “Ask the Experts” table and an exhibition room where attendees can enjoy FREE samples of delicious food and drink from local, regional, and national companies. Also back by popular demand will be a wide variety of informative classes on topics like sustainability, family living, and nutrition.

Classes will be taught by the following:
Sussanna Czeranko, ND, a naturopathic physician with a private practice at the Natural College of Naturopathic Medicine. In her presentation, “Preventing Cancer: Eating Outside the Box, Can and Jar,” she will discuss tips for strengthening the immune system through diet.
Richard Heitsch, MD, MPH, FACS, medical director of the Integrated Medicine Group in Northeast Portland. An expert in sports medicine and rehabilitation, he will give a presentation called “Vegan Diet for Optimal Athletic Performance.”
Kathy Hessler, JD, director and clinical professor at the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis and Clark College.
Chef Brian McCarthy, creator of the delicious fare at the vegan food station in the company cafeteria of Intel’s Oregon headquarters. He is also the father of two children and the co-author of “The Vegan Family Cookbook.” McCarthy will give a talk called “The Challenges and Rewards of being a Family on a Vegan Diet.”
Sharon Methvin, Ph.D., an anthropologist who serves as a consultant on animal welfare issues. Most recently, her research and activism brought her into the animal markets of China and into the lives and efforts of the nation’s brave animal activists. Methvin’s lecture will be titled “Making a Difference for Animals—One Bite at a Time.”

Musical entertainment will be provided by SweetJuice, John Davidson, Seth Martin, Kate Mann, Amy Bleu, and
Dawnya Clarine.
Date: 2009-09-19

Location: Bosto, MA
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Description: If you live in the Boston area or are planning a visit this weekend, don’t miss the second Boston GreenFest 2009, this Thursday through Saturday, August 20-22.

Boston GreenFest 2009 brings together community groups, corporations, small businesses, nonprofits, government agencies and citizens to share new technologies and ideas that can immediately change our daily lives and help bring about a more sustainable future.

Boston GreenFest 2009, the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc., and local volunteers will seek to connect with a broad audience from across all Boston neighborhoods to bring an inspiring message of action and change. Together we will work toward sustainability through art, music, fashion, discussions and interactive exhibits. By engaging participants, young and old, we will search for new ideas to reduce our impact on our planet

The festivities will include “Project Recycle Runway,” a walk through the Time Tunnel, gospel with the Boston Community Choir, fun with the “YoYo Show,” lots more entertainment, food, and fun activities for children. Festival-goers will learn what it means to eat and grow local organic food, improve nutrition and healthcare, green our city, build healthy communities, take political action, create green jobs and a green economy. Aside from educational exhibits – including those about greenroofs, of course – there will be some wonderful music with three stages including over 40 live acts, and a GreenFilmFest, too.
Start Date: 2009-08-20
End Date: 2009-08-22