List of green inspired festivals/events - Page 3

[Ifluffedthree]

subbing to thread -- such a great collection of information.

[sunanthem]

:

[dinahx]

Originally Posted by UmmSamiyah

June 19- 21 (i think) ithaca fest. it is not solely "green" but they do feature a lot of green projects

It also features tons of Reggae!!!

Oh sweet I-town! I miss you. <3

[Ifluffedthree]

While on the smaller scale I certainly think this fits the green living type event.

I am and exhibitor at this event on the 28th of June. I am really looking forward to being around such like minded.

http://www.maggiesmercantile.com/festival.html South Western Pennsylvania

[HippChick]

Weed-Lady, Mollie will soon be sharing her wildcrafting know-how in
her summer Weed-Shop and Fun Shop.

Wildcrafting in Western North Carolina can be good exercise and this
is one of the best places on the planet for gathering pristine nutritious plants,
healing herbs and yummy wild foods.:

On Saturday, June 28, 2008, select applicants can discover weed eating,
grubbing and foraging as a real life wild crafter. Weed Lady's Harvest

class, will not overwhelm a new student with huge numbers of edible
plants and herbs.

Mollie chooses to focus on a lower but still fairly good number of readily
found and easily identifiable plants for her foraging classes. This increases
a new student's confidence and starts them properly. Taraxacum officianles,
Stellaria media, Urtica and Laportea sounds a bit scary but there's only a little

talk of genius and species. Her class will focus on discovery and the
joy of learning and perhaps some delightful weed songs.

Foraging for Food can mean Having Fun and Saving Money
You can look forward to Mollie sharing her special approach to wildcrafting
in her summer weed workshop. Mollie has an eye for both herb safety and nature
conservation, keeping a sharp eye on protecting endangered plants, too.
More and more folks are discovering the mind-set of abundance:
getting free, delicious, and nutritious foods in the wild.

What you get from nature's cupboard is many times more nutritious than
anything you get at a grocery store.

With room left for just seven herb enthusiasts, the class includes a
wild gourmet meal. Participants will be gathering their own lunch,
the menu, not final yet, as mother nature can offer up her own
surprises BUT it’s a menu
sure to delight one and all.

Call Mollie to reserve you space at her
wildcrafter’s Weed-Shop fun-shop at: http://www.wellnessweeds.com/
On Saturday, June 28, 2008

(I just heard from Mollie that she has two spaces for her fun shop)




* Location: Haywood County North Carolina

[sunny*pa*mom]

Bumping for the PA Renewable Energy & Sustainable Living Festival this weekend.

[iamama]

Red Earth Descendants presents

FIRST NATIONS DAY/NATIVE ECOSYMPOSIUM, 2008

September 20/21, Noon to evening each day
Beginning with a Women's Circle 10 a.m. Saturday
Briscoe ArtWing
265 N. Main, Ashland, Oregon

Salmon in the Klamath and Trinity Rivers

In honor of our third annual First Nations Day and Native EcoSymposium, Red Earth Descendants invites the community to share a weekend committed to the issue of SALMON SURVIVAL along the Klamath and Trinity Rivers. In accordance to the vision and commitment R.E.D. has to make positive and healing relations with the indigenous peoples of this region--the Karuk, Hupa, Yurok, Takelma, Shasta, Klamath, Calapooya, Modoc and Yahooskin Tribes--we understand the survival of salmon in their homelands is a CORE CULTURAL ISSUE of survival for the Indigenous People. We intend to let this be our platform for education and discussion at our EcoSymposium this year. We've asked some of these tribal connections to take the lead on the subject matter. Also a core commitment for R.E.D. is the honoring of youth and elder projects. It was the Native American Student Union (NASU) youth from Southern Oregon University who inspired this subject matter to gain attention in our group as a small contingency of Karuk/Hupa/Yurok/Klamath students have worked as activists on the salmon crisis most of their lives and want to participate in the EcoSymposium, bringing the community their perspective as Native youth, holding on to the survival of their way of life--with salmon being at the center of their existence.

In addition to salmon restoration, we will host discussion about how to understand the indigenous food base of our local region, involving oak/acorn restoration and other indigenous food resources.

Tribal representatives and people working in these fields will lead discussion of ways we can all--young and old--work on restoring Native foods and medicinal plants for a better way of life.

Red Earth Descendants holds the vision to support local indigenous peoples as we integrate our community in ways of helping each other create a healthier way to live, grow and preserve food that in turn honors ways of restoring land back to better health. We'd like to help the people learn how they can CONTINUALLY help our Southern Oregon/Northern California land-base come back into better health. We can learn how to bring this land back in balance and be in relationship with it by listening to those who already have a relationship with this land going back thousands of years.

All R.E.D. events are drug and alcohol free.
First Nations Day/Native EcoSymposium is FREE OF CHARGE!
We welcome eco-vendors, environmental tabling/literatrue
Daily Community Feasts, Saturday 6 p.m. and Sunday Noon

Some of our cosponsors include: NASU Karuk/Hupa/Yurok/Klamath Tribes, Klamath Riverkeepers, Lomakatsi Restoration Project, Bernard's Composting, City of Ashland Recycling/Sanitation, Allied Environmental, Computer Drop-off, Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance, Lithia Arts Guild, Madrona Arts, the Karuk Tribe, Descendants of the Earth, Seven Circles Foundation, Bellview Grange, Devon's Buffalo and Handmade items, IGOTTASCOOTER, KS wild, Ashland Co-op, eGo Electric Scooter, and more. We will also host a variety of eco-vendors with hands-on products and displays.

Members of R.E.D. have had a training through the City of Ashland regarding how to create a "Zero Waste" event. We have a transitional goal for this year's EcoSymposium to work towards zero waste. To attain this goal, we will have a recycling station and very little throw-away products. This will be a BRING YOUR OWN PLATE AND WARE event! (This could be a story in itself, and we encourage the press to cover this!) We will provide plates at a rental cost, and if you don't have funds to offer rent of eating ware, you can help wash dishes. We will be showing a power point presentation, created by a City of Ashland employee working with the City doing more zero waste events, demonstrating how this can be achieved. The best goal to have is to use non-paper products so that everything can be re-USED, rather than re-CYCLED.

Contact information:

541-201-8101
541-890-3529
[e-mail]
www.redearthdescendants.org

[sunanthem]

This one is coming up too!

Originally Posted by sunanthem

In my area I can think of The True Nature Country Fair

Their myspace; http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndid=232284502

Second Annual True Nature Country Fair - September 26-28, 2008
Deerfields, Mills River, NC

The Organic Growers School announces the Second Annual True Nature Country Fair, a celebration of sustainable living in the southern Appalachians, to be held September 26-28, 2008 at Deerfields in Mills River, North Carolina. The farmers, homebuilders, craftspeople, restaurateurs, social and political activists and alternative health care practitioners of the southern Appalachians are invited to join their neighbors for a celebration of life lived in connection and harmony with the Earth. The True Nature Country Fair will feature vendors of local, organic, and sustainable products and resources from throughout the Southeast, workshops on all facets of sustainable living, a children’s program and live music, all in a pristine mountain setting.

Businesses and organizations interested in participating in the 2008 fair should contact Program Manager Karen Vizzina at [e-mail] or call [phone].

Deerfields, located 20 minutes south of Asheville in the Mills River Community, is a 940 acre family-owned tract of unspoiled wilderness in the Queens Creek Mountains. The fairgrounds feature an old homestead with two cabins, apple orchards, and ponds. All areas of the grounds are handicapped accessible.

[almama]

Here are some around me -

Greenerborough -hopefully they will do it again next year: http://www.greater-peterborough-cham...orough-nh.html

Northeast Sustainable Homes Tours: http://www.nesea.org/ -Oct. 4th this year!

Not specifically "green," but fully in the spirit:
http://www.womensherbalconference.com/
http://www.nofa.org/conference/index.php