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.
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
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.
Edible Wild Plants and Mushrooms of New England – 11:30am
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
The \"Why Are You Green?\" Project – 1:30pm
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
Eco-Chic Fashion Show – 4:30 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.
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
EcoSignals Manifesto – 6:00 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.
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
Fair Trade + Small Farmers = Big Change – 4:00pm
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
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
Think Outside the Bottle – 4:00pm
Room 107
Gigi Kellett will discuss water conservation and numerous problems caused by bottled water.
Gigi Kellett, Corporate Accountability International Learn More
Chef Demonstration – 12:30 pm
Electrolux Kitchen Theater
Making Mozzarella
Lourdes Smith, Fiore di Nonno in Somerville, MA Learn More
Chef Demonstration – 2:00 pm
Electrolux Kitchen Theater
Seared Wahoo with Watercress and Radish Salad
Tim Ridge, from the New England Aquarium Learn More
Chef Demonstration – 4:00 pm
Electrolux Kitchen Theater
Mary Dumont, from Harvest in Cambridge MA Learn More
Green 101 – 1:00 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%.