Prairie Fest: Information & Ideas for Sustainable Living
What:
A Festival of Information & Ideas for Sustainable Living, Building a Sustainable Community
When:
Saturday, October 4, 2008
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Where:
Unitarian Universalist Church of Elgin (three miles west of Randall on Highland Ave)
39W830 Highland Avenue
Elgin, IL 60124
The fifth annual Prairie Fest held is a one day celebration of sustainable living. Workshops, presentations, exhibits, and interactions are free to the community. This Prairie Fest Community Conference promises to give attendees valuable and practical information on living a low impact sustainable lifestyle. It features professionals, practitioners, authors, and civic official who give attendees the opportunity to explore the many practical ways that we can live more sustainably. Green City is the central theme of this year’s Prairie Fest. The name points to the larger challenges of creating a “Green City” in which we all live and thrive sustainably.
Fest with positive steps to take and resources to help them learn to live
more sustainably. There can be no sustainable community without all of us learning to live sustainably.
Thom Thomas, Presenter - 9 to 11
Moderated by Elgin City Council Member Dave Kaptain, panelists include:
Elgin Mayor Ed Schock, City Planner Tom Armstrong, Green Architect Keelan Kaiser, Judson University, School of The Art Institute, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) GO TO 2040
Exhibits and Presenters:
- Advanced Geothermal Plumbing & Heating, Dirk Dypold, Elgin
- Blazing Star Nursery, Caron Wenzel
- Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, Owen Read
- Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), Jesse Elam
- ComEd, Jana Jones
- Elgin Community Network/Slow Global Warming, Sandy Kaptain
- Erewhom Farm, Beth Propst
- Friends of the Fox River
- Prairie Gardening, Author, Pat Hill
- Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund
- Earth Share Illinois, Dave Segel
- Factory Farming, Diana Jyoti
- Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Becky Stanfield
- Northern Illinois McBioneers Symposium, Linda Gaska
- SolarBrite- Art Meyer
- Solergy Alternative Energy Solutions, Dewaine Nelson
Workshops on the following topics:
- Prairie Gardening
- Eco Friendly Yards
- Energy Efficiency
- Environmental Legislation
- Alternative Transportation
- Eating Greener
- Cap and Trade
- Sustainable Living
- Conscious Business
- Bicycling for Transportation
- The Geothermal Thing
- Children’s Workshop
- Alternative Transportation
- What can we do to live more sustainably
- Making the home more eco friendly
Please visit http://www.uucepf.com/ for complete schedule of events and more information.
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September 17th, 2008 at 2:42 am #Bob
I’ve volunteered on this free event for the past three years and it is well worth the day not only for the panels, workshops, exhibits but also for the people you meet who are also working on sustainability in their personal and business lives. Highly recommended. http://www.uucePF.com for more info.