Hey There Middlebury,
Hope everyone is planning to go to this year's Sustainable Living Expo on Saturday! It's going to be great! Last year it was great!
The Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN) and the Acorn Renewable Energy Co-op will present the second annual Sustainable Living Expo on Saturday, April 11 at Middlebury Union High School (MUHS), from 9 AM to 4 PM. The snow date is April 18.
The Expo will feature over 60 exhibits and 28 workshops, as well as music, children's programs, and local foods. The attendance fee is $5 for adults, students, and children over 12, $2 for children under 12.
Here is a sampling of the variety of workshops offered in each of the six focus areas:
Local Food - winter greenhouse growing, soil fertility, permaculture, fermentation, pastured poultry, the energy intensity of local agriculture.
Renewable Energy - community solar, heat pumps, electric vehicles, net-zero transportation, a panel on how our county should get the energy it needs.
Green Housing - designing and constructing net zero homes and retrofits, weatherization, high performance mobile homes.
Integrative Health - apitherapy, natural law and consciousness, yoga, and preventing cancer through integrative medicine.
Empowered Communities - socially responsible investing, complementary currency, investing in our local landscape, herbalism for community resilience.
Healthy Ecosystems - forest gardens, commercial food forestry, landscape land management, green burial, managing our waste.
Go to www.acornvt.org/sle2015 for a full listing of workshops.
Children's Renewable Energy Activities will be offered throughout the day by the Vermont Energy Education Program (VEEP), including hands-on generation stations where children can test solar panels, ride the energy bike to generate light; make pinwheels, and make circuits. There will be sailboat sail designing and wind racing, as well as building and testing "pet" solar cars. Children's programs are included in the attendance fee, thanks to a sponsorship by SunCommon.
The Sustainable Living Expo is grateful for the support of our sponsors.
Sustaining Sponsors: Building Energy, Cooperative Insurance, Efficiency Vermont, Green Mountain Power, Middlebury College, SunCommon, and VBT Bicycling and Walking Vacations.
Supporting Sponsors: AllEarth Renewables, Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op, National Bank of Middlebury, Smith & McClain and Vermont Coffee Company.
Media Sponsors: Addison Independent and Front Porch Forum.
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