Green Festival this weekend!
Friday, May 20, 2011 at 12:38PM With annual festivals in five cities, The Green Festival (ten years old this year) is the "largest sustainability event in the world" (says their website).
Their Seattle gig enters its fourth year this weekend, and it's crazy huge and interesting. 100 speakers, cinema, arts, and of course tons of vendors (hey, you can buy lots of green stuff!) and community-building opportunities, people to meet, things to learn.
We're partial to the Muckleshoot Canoe family program on Saturday 5/21, the film "Journey to Planet Earth" also on Saturday, and US Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) on Sunday 5/22. (Kucinich is reviled in my hometown of Cleveland since he was Mayor when the city went bankrupt in the 1970s. I've been following his subsequent resurgence and national leadership on quixotic ideas like the "Department of Peace" and environmental causes ever since.)
The event is at the convention center next to Seahawks stadium, all day Saturday and Sunday. We've already doled out tickets to selected lucky members of Essential Arts; you can get yours at the door or online here.
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