Chicago Green Festival

Submitted by bluecobalt on March 4, 2007 - 12:40pm.

Celebrate Earth Day at Green Festival

Same Great Event - Great New City!

Experience Green Festival in one of the greenest cities in the nation. The Great Lakes are home to some of the most innovative and cutting-edge green technologies, products and services— the perfect place to find great ways to green your life.


Take in more than 300 exhibits in the nation’s largest eco-mall:

* Shop for everything from eco-fashion and natural home and health products to solar panels and fair trade gifts and crafts.
* Discover new techniques and strategies at great how-to workshops.
* Network at green career and green investing sessions.
* Green your home and save energy at the City of Chicago Pavilion.
* Find local organic farmers at the FamilyFarmed Pavilion.
* Let your kids play at the Organic Valley of Family Farms' Kids’ Zone.
* Enjoy organic dining and sample local beers & wines.
* Hear great, live local music.

See more than 150 dynamic speakers on 5 stages:

• Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
• Greg Palast, Armed Madhouse
• Paul Stamets, Fungi Perfecti
• Frances Moore Lappé, Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
• Richard M. Daley, Chicago Mayor (Invited)
• Judy Wicks, White Dog Enterprises, Inc.
• David Korten, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
Omar Freilla, Director of Green Worker Cooperatives
• And many more (check our site for updates)

http://www.greenfestivals.org/content/view/230/200/

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