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Free Bike Tour of Boston10:00am
In front of the Hynes

Get your blood pumping before you go into the show. We'll be riding from the Rose Kennedy Greenway to Fenway Park's Green Monstah - taking in all the green that Boston has to offer.

Urban AdvenTours, Bike Tours of Boston Learn More
Animals and Conservation11:00-2:00
Kids' Block

Come learn about your favorite Zoo animals with hands-on activities and biofacts!

Zoo New England Learn More
Facepainting11:00-7:00
Kids Block

Jill from Baja Face Painting will offer full face paint for $5 and single objects for $3.

Jill Reed, Baja Face Painting Learn More
Safe Lawns11:30 am
Room 108

Safe Lawns: How & Why to Grow Lawns & Gardens without Toxic Chemicals

Paul Tukey Learn More
Edible Wild Plants and Mushrooms of New England11:30am
Main Stage

Presented by expert forager and wild foods enthusiast Russ Cohen, author of Wild Plants I Have Known.and Eaten, this one-hour slide show features several dozen of the tastiest wild species our region has to offer.

Russ Cohen, Environmentalist, Wild Foods Enthusiast Learn More
Greening your community. Local is the real green.12:00 pm
Room 107

Shopping local to support sustainable local and global economies.

Laury Hammel & Michael Kanter, Cambridge Local First Learn More
Chef Demonstration12:30 pm
Electrolux Kitchen Theater

Making Mozzarella

Lourdes Smith, Fiore di Nonno in Somerville, MA Learn More
Renewable Energy12:30pm
Room 108

Learn about a wide range of renewable technologies including: PV Solar Panels, Solar Thermal, Solar Roof Tiles, Solar Roof Membrane, Solar Thin Film and even Wind technologies.

Liz Argo, Alteris Renewables Learn More
D2E Video Project12:45 pm
Main Stage

Come see how your fellow New Englanders express their ideas about sustainability through video.

Mark Adams, Fine Artist Learn More
Green 1011:00 pm
Room 107

Dan Ruben will help us green our lifestyles by lowering home energy bills, using less fossil fuel for transportation, reducing garbage, eliminating toxic products in the home and using less water. He will focus most on how to reduce our personal carbon footprint by 80%.

Dan Ruben, Boston Green Tourism Learn More
The "Why Are You Green?" Project1:30pm
Main Stage

Meaghan O'Neill, editor of TreeHugger.com and PlanetGreen.com and co-author of Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living, will be documenting participants with photography and video to find out why and how they are going green.

Meaghan O'Neill, Editor of TreeHugger.com and PlanetGreen.com Learn More
Save Money, Save the Earth5:00pm
Room 108

Can you live a more sustainable lifestyle without breaking the bank? What about saving money just by going green? Learn about how to go green affordably while making the best choices for your health and for the earth

Jess Lerner, Green on the Inside Learn More
Toxins in Personal Care Products2:00pm
Room 107

Lead in lipstick? Sex hormones in baby bottles and food can linings? Carcinogens in bubble bath? What is going on?

Mia Davis, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics Learn More
Chef Demonstration2:00 pm
Electrolux Kitchen Theater

Seared Wahoo with Watercress and Radish Salad

Tim Ridge, from the New England Aquarium Learn More
The Future of Cars3:00 pm
Main Stage

What is the future of cars? Will we go completely electric or is there hope for bio fuels? Should we shift our infrastructure away from cars and toward public transportation? Who is innovating what?

Kenneth E. Kruckemeyer, AIA, ASCE, Transportation Strategist Learn More
Chef Demonstration4:00 pm
Electrolux Kitchen Theater

Mary Dumont, from Harvest in Cambridge MA Learn More
Fair Trade + Small Farmers = Big Change4:00pm
Room 108

Fair Trade, as originally championed by pioneers like Equal Exchange in the 1980's, was centered on the goal of connecting small-scale family farmers in the Global South with the North American and European public, ideally via non-corporate enterprises.

Rodney North, 'The Answer Man' at Equal Exchange Learn More
Story Telling4:00 pm
Kids' Block

Green Stories - for people of all ages. True stories and folktales with wisdom and humor of the ages from the world over.

Norah Dooley, Last year, Norah Dooley's 4th grade class convinced Boston, Malden and many other towns "Change the Margins" to save paper. Norah Dooley is a storyteller and children's author. Learn More
Think Outside the Bottle4:00pm
Room 107

Gigi Kellett will discuss water conservation and numerous problems caused by bottled water.

Gigi Kellett, Corporate Accountability International Learn More
Eco-Chic Fashion Show4:30 pm
Main Stage

From bamboo material to organic cotton and fair trade, all of our fashion exhibitors have found ways to reduce the impact their manufacturing makes on the earth.

School of Fashion Design, Boston Learn More
D2E Video Project5:00 pm
Main Stage

Come see how your fellow New Englanders express their ideas about sustainability through video.

Mark Adams, Fine Artist Learn More
EcoSignals Manifesto6:00 pm
Main Stage

EcoSignals is about personal resolution, grassroots action and the institution of policies. The manifesto expresses the belief that each individual has an important role to play in shaping the political and economic process by which we will effectively address climate change, including by reducing his or her own carbon footprint, by peaceful protest and by urging regulation and reform. The goal is to achieve collective change in order to secure our future.

Christina Lanzl, EcoSignals Learn More

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