 Wanna support cool fashions, creativity, and recycling all at the same time?
Swap-o-rama-rama (SORR) is for YOU! Saturday and Sunday 12-4pm at the Seattle Green Festival past Speaker Rooms 1,2, 4 & 5 - near the Numi Tea Garden.
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What's the Economy For Anyway? Series |
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Room 5
11AM John deGraaf
NOON Families and Health: The Value of Caring; Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Annmarie Widener
1PM Alternative Economic Models; Steven Hill, Judith Martin
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 Saturday
12:15 PM
Boys from Greenwood Glen… a drinking band with an Irish problem!
www.boysofgreenwoodglen.com
1:30 PM
Jelly Rollers Duo; vintage blues
www.jellyrollers.com
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 Saturday
11am Fair Trade Coffee
Café Mam shares stories from the coffee producing cooperatives of native Mayan farmers living in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. The growers primarily of the Mam, Tzetzal and Mochó peoples are organized according to egalitarian, democratic ideals.
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 Ready to make those much-needed, energy-efficient home upgrades?
Finding that toddlers and household toxics don’t mix?
Take this opportunity to make your home environment a healthy one.
40-minute workshops, green home pavilion
Saturday
12:00 Create a Green Kids Room, Alicia Silva, Synergy Space Design
Silva offers everything you need to know about keeping your kid’s room safe and healthy.
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 Room 5
12:00 YERT (Your Environmental Road Trip) Selected Episodes (30 min)
YERT is a year-long eco-expedition through the U.S. With video camera in hand and tongue in cheek, three friends are exploring the landscape of America’s unique approach to environmental sustainability.
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 The Honorable Cecile Hansen, elected Chair of the Duwamish Tribe (People of the Inside), Chief Seattle’s First People, opens the Seattle Green Festival with a traditional welcome and a call to all people to care for and honor the land and all creatures of the region. Hansen will then be joined on stage by her grandchildren and other children of the Duwamish Tribe to perform a welcome song.
The Suquamish Song and Dance Group is made up of elders, adults and youth of the Suquamish and other tribes that live on or near the Port Madison reservation. As members of the Suquamish Canoe Family, the group honors its ancestors by keeping the culture alive through performance of traditional songs and dances in the Puget Sound tradition.
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 There's always something fun happening in the Organic Valley Green Kids Zone!
Look out for the Mud Monster and Mud Buddy!
Ride the Energy Cycle and see what human power can do!
Enjoy Organic Valley chocolate milk!
Book Signing with Author Lee Wells!
Visit the Mothering Magazine booth for more info on cloth diapering!
Saturday
11:00 AM Slippery Stories with Lisa Taylor and Sam O’Brien
presented by Seattle Tilth
An adventure in slime, explore the world of slugs, snails, and worms. Enjoy songs, stories and demonstrations with large garden creatures.
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 Interact with your local community organizations about the issues that affect you and your neighborhood most. Learn how you can reduce your carbon footprint, and get acquainted with like-minded friends in a more personal setting.
Schedule
Saturday
12:00 Community Change in Puget Sound, Jon & Tova Ramer, Interra Project
Discuss how you can help channel money back through the local economy and positively contribute to your community's overall quality of life.
1:00 Building Cultural Bridges, Bill Aal, Tools for Change
Join Aal and members of Sustainable Cascadia to explore how we can
bring diverse people together around the environment, social equity and
responsible business.
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