CALVERT COUNTY'S 1ST ANNUAL GREEN FAIR EXPO
Date: September 27. 2009
Time: 11am - 4pm
Adresse: Jefferson Pattterson Park Museum
Location: Saint Leonard
Hosted by the Calvert County Citizens Green Team
Co-sponsored by the Friends of Jefferson Park
For additional information call 410-586-8501 or email: jppm@mdp.state.md.us
FUN & EVENTS FOR EVERYONE! - Free Admission
There will be speakers, displays, demonstrations, and various companies and agencies present dedicated to creating a greener environment in Calvert County. They will show you how, why, and where we can all help. Not only to turn your environment into a green environment, the vendors can help you save money and energy in the future.
Hundreds of Dollars of Prizes & Giveaways
The subject areas below offer the perfect way for Exhibitors and Seminar Leaders - and visitors - to find their niche at the Expo.
Greening Your Home: Our homes provide the ideal opportunity for practicing sustainability on a personal scale. This track will include exhibitors that provide products, services and expertise that would be of interest by individuals for use in their homes. From solar panels and recycled glass countertops to exploring better ways to recycle and save energy, this track will include a wealth of information for homeowners. This Track will provide a focus on products used in your home - how they are made, used and discarded, and how to use that information to make better purchasing decisions.
Greening Your Garden: This Track is the outdoor version of Greening Your Home. Here you'll find exhibitors that provide products, services and expertise that would be of interest to people who like to work in their yards and cultivate their gardens. You'll see how you can make your yards into more sustainable and fruitful environments. The Calvert Green Expo will show you how to create beautiful yards and gardens, done in ways that are environmentally friendly. Topics will include composting, conserving water, natural pest abatement and much, much more.
Green Building and Sustainable Development: Architects, Developers, Builders, Remodeling Contractors - this is the track for you. Here you will find a vast assortment of exhibitors and seminars dedicated to illustrating the bottom line benefits of "going green" in your planning and development. Working with members of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), NAHB Green Builder, others, this Track will present the latest trends and available products to help you design and build GREEN and LEED certified projects.
Energy, Conservation & Recycling: The focus of this track is on alternative energy, conservation efforts, and the concept of "refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle". Attendees can see for themselves the products, services and practices that can help them save energy, conserve resources and save money as well. Energy use is one of the areas with the greatest potential to improve one's ecological footprint. The Calvert Green Expo will help us learn how we can start making better choices, by using less energy, moving towards the use of renewable energy sources like solar and wind power, and reducing the environmental impacts to our air, water, and land from many of our current practices.
Food & Agriculture: What's better - locally grown or organic foods? What are C.S.A.'s? What's all this talk about "Permaculture"? Come find out about these issues, the state of American agriculture and food production, and how you can help to make it better. A healthy, sustainable lifestyle is driven by choices about food. Making such choices involves answering questions about how our food is grown and how that growing process affects the environment, as well as who grows our food and how far our food travels. The Calvert Green Expo will offer insights into the importance of how our food choices affect our health, and of discovering ways of raising food that are less costly to the environment.
Sustainability Education: What principles should we follow as we make dozens of small decisions each day to reduce our environmental impact? The Calvert Green Expo seeks to empower families, businesses and communities toward the long-term ideal of sustainability. In addition to having a hands on, educational "Kids Zone", this track consists mostly of Workshops and Seminars in topics ranging from reducing your Carbon Footprint to the importance of Socially Responsible Investing. Here the Expo will illustrate ways in which we can make our lives and our communities more sustainable.
Transportation: Transportation is one of our society's largest contributors to local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the problems associated with our country's "addiction to oil". The Calvert Green Expo will highlight more sustainable options in transportation, and encourage us to find alternate ways to get around instead of continuing to rely on our personal, carbon-based vehicles. Bio-diesel, plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles are new technologies that are available today. And there are many under-used, yet "green" methods of transportation that need to be re-emphasized, such as car-pooling, public transit and riding bicycles more often.
Community Action & Involvement: Come and find out how you can get involved with organizations that promote sustainable practices that affect our community. We will have representatives from religious communities, government, activist and non-profit organizations offering many ways to get involved and to help make a difference! Meet organizations that are taking action in our community and making a difference.
Green Lifestyles: Being green isn't just about alternative energy and recycling. It's about adopting and living a life that is in balance with nature. Here exhibitors and seminars will focus on helping you find products, services and practices which will promote ways in which you and your family can live healthier, happier and more sustainable lives.
The Kids Zone: The Kids Zone will introduce the principles of environmental sustainability through multi-sensory, hands-on activities and demonstrations. From this experience, children will learn how to affect changes necessary to promote a more sustainable future.
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