[S-C] S.F. Green Festival Nov. 8-9

[Kevin Shrieve]

http://www.greenfestivals.com/sanfrancisco.htm

San Francisco Green Festival
Nov. 8-9, 2003

Sat. 10am - 9pm
Sun. 11am - 7pm

Concourse Exhibition Center
635 8th St.
(8th & Brannan)
San Francisco, CA

http://www.greenfestivals.com/tickets.html

Green Festival Mission

The Green Festival, co-produced by Global Exchange and Co-op America,
brings together green enterprises, environmental groups, leading
thinkers on the green economy, and thousands of attendees for a
two-day party with a very serious objective: strenghtening the locally
controlled, green economy and expanding popular support for policies
aimed at sustainability and social justice.

The first annual Green Festival last November at the San Francisco
Concourse attracted 13,000 enthusiastic attendees who had a chance to
see, hear, taste, touch and smell the green economy. Fifty speakers,
250 green enterprise exhibits, tasty vegetarian cuisine, music,
networking and much more made the event a transformative experience.
We distributed hundreds of opinion questionaires and got very positive
feedback in addition to many detailed suggestions on how to make the
event even better.

Green Festival attendees see cutting edge technology and pick up new
ideas and then they go out into the world and spread the word: a new
economy is just around the corner. And we=8Fre not just promoting
sustainable business practices. Both Co-op America and Global Exchange
are well acquainted with the many ways in which large corporations
have too much political power in our society. So we help people find
ways to influence local government to implement policies aimed at
democratizing and greening the economy.

The Green Festival works with thousands of individuals and
organizations that are constructing an alternative economy based on
three central principles: sustainable economy, ecological balance, and
social justice. These principles are springing up at the grassroots
level around the world and they take many institutional forms:
community supported agriculture, the fair trade movement,
eco-labeling, renewable energy companies, local currency movements,
farmers' markets, the micro-enterprise lending movement, democratizing
pension funds, shareholder activism, socially responsible investing,
worker-owned co-ops, and a host of others. The Green Festival is a
galvanizing event that brings together businesses, nonprofit
organizations, and community members in a fun setting that allows
their creative networking energy to flower.

Building the Next Economy

Green Festival seeks to foster local networks of green enterprises
that operate year-round and convene at each Green Festival. A key
objective is to strengthen existing networks such as the Co-op America
Business Network (CABN) and the Business Alliance for Local Living
Economies (BALLE). Ultimately, our goal is to strengthen the
community=8Fs commitment to building a just, green and locally
controlled economy.

Green Festivals educate people about their shared interests and help
them to empower themselves by creating more collaborative venues
-physical and electronic- which they can use to network with each
other and increase the viability of each organization through
collaboration. This will help accelerate the transition from an
economy dominated by money values to an economy rooted in life values.

Though financially small compared to transnational corporations, these
green economy networks are increasingly powerful in a qualitative
sense: they pose an attractive alternative to the dominant,
profit-driven economy that tends to create more inequality and more
environmental destruction. The problem is that many of the alternative
economy groups do not know enough about each other to collaborate
effectively. Global Exchange and Co-op America are addressing this
challenge by organizing Green Festivals in Austin, TX, October 11-12,
and in San Francisco November 8-9, 2003.

Our broad, professional marketing campaign utilizes mainstream mass
media and diverse niche media. Green Festivals tap into the growing
concern and realization that now is the time to bring the wealth of
sustainable living products and services together at one event. From
carefully screened vendors to provocative, topical speakers, and from
graphically compelling marketing to organized networking at the event,
the Green Festival offers a unique opportunity for creating mutually
beneficial partnerships.

The Green Festival promises to be a critical and defining moment in
the creation of a just and equitable world where our earth is our
partner and people are a treasure. We hope you will join us in
building a new economy from the grassroots up.


San Francisco Festival Info
Nov. 8-9, 2003
Sat. 10am - 9pm
Sun. 11am - 7pm
Concourse Exhibition Center
635 8th St.
(8th & Brannan)
San Francisco, CA

Green Living Workshops Schedule
Saturday, November 8th

12-1pm David Arkin
Designing with Nature - Ecological Design Overview

1-2pm Penny Livingston
Culture of Permaculture

2-3pm John Schaeffer
Guerilla Green marketing, eco entrepreneuring, & the history of Real Goods

3-4pm Kumar Plocher
Green Fuel: Biodiesel Basics

4-5pm Meet the Experts
Sustainable Living Networking and Q&A

5-6pm Doron Amiran
Compost Kaleidoscope - Green Waste Recycling


Sunday, November 9th

12 -1pm Maria Alovert
Green Fuel: Biodiesel Basics

1-2pm Doron Amiran
Worms Ate My Lunch: Composting in the City

2-3pm Meet the Experts
Sustainable Living Networking and Q&A

3-4pm Doug Livingston
It's Payback Time! Cash Back From Solar.

4-5pm Penny Livingston
=46uture of Permaculture

5-6pm Meet the Experts
Sustainable Living Networking and Q&A


Speakers...

*	Ray Anderson
=46ounder Interface, Inc.

*	Bob Banner
Hopedance

*	Medea Benjamin
Co Founder Global Exchange

*	Melissa Bradley
=46ounder & President New Capitalist=81

*	Peter Camejo
=46inancial Advisor

*	Kevin Danaher, Ph.D
Co Founder Global Exchange, Author

*	Guy Dauncey
author

*	Amy Domini
=46ounder, CEO and President
Domini Social Investments

*	Malaika Edwards
co-founder of the People's Grocery

*	Gil Friend
President and CEO Natural Logic Inc.

*	Terry Gips
Director Sustainability Associates
President Alliance for Sustainability

*	Alisa Gravitz
Executive Director, Coop America

*	Jay Harris
Publisher, Mother Jones Magazine

*	Hazel Henderson
The Politics of the Solar Age

*	Jim Hightower
Author and Political Activist

*	Steven Hill
Center for Voting and Democracy

*	Gary Hirshberg
President and CEO, Stonyfield Farm

*	Jeffrey Hollender
CEO Seventh Generation

*	Arianna Huffington
Columnist

*	Emily Hust
WSP Environmental

*	Paul Katzeff
CEO Thanksgiving Coffee

*	MICHAEL KIESCHNICK
President and Chief Operating Officer, Working Assets

*	Michael Kramer
=46inancial Advisor

*	Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)

*	Aleyne Larner

*	Robyn Griggs Lawrence
editor-in-chief of Natural Home magazine

*	Penny Livingston
=46ounder Sustainable Living Designs (SLD)
co-director of The Permaculture Institute of Northern California

*	Jane Lorand, J.D.
Co Founder & Director Green MBA - New College of California
Owner, Breadstone

*	Jason Mark
Author

*	Melissa Nelson
Executive Director Cultural Conservancy

*	Greg Palast
Author

*	Paul Rice
President and CEO TransFair USA

*	John Robbins
Author

*	Ocean Robbins
=46ounder, Youth for Environmental Sanity
Author, Choices For Our Future

*	Dame Anita Roddick
Trade Justice

*	Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D.
Evolutionary Biologist and Futurist

*	Eleanor Smeal
Publisher, Ms. Magazine

*	James Stark
co-director of The Permaculture Institute of Northern California

*	Alli Starr
=46ounder, Dancers Without Borders and Cultural Links
Co-founder of Art and Revolution

*	Richard R. Troxell
National Chairman Universal Living Wage

*	Nina Utne
Chair, Utne Magazine

*	Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D.
President of the Global Footprint Network

*	Alice Walker
Author

*	Catherine Wanek
Author, photographer and filmmaker

*	Judy Wicks
=46ounder & President White Dog Caf=E9
Co founder/Chair Business Alliance for Local Living Economies.