April 12-13, 2008

Show Hours
Saturday 10AM - 8PM
Sunday 11AM - 6PM

Venue Name and Address
Washington State Convention & Trade Center
800 Convention Place
Seattle, WA

Thanks to everyone who participatied in the Seattle Green Festival for creating a wonderful event!

Named one of the top 10 green cities in the U.S. in 2005 by National Geographic’s The Green Guide, what better place to celebrate an urban community’s vision of green than Seattle? Led by the Office of Sustainability and the Environment, the City of Seattle proudly co-hosted the first Green Festival in the Pacific Northwest.

Speakers included…
Mayor Greg Nickels – City of Seattle
Jim Lopez - King County Deputy Executive
Amory Lovins - Rocky Mountain Institute, Profitable Solutions to Oil, Climate, and Proliferation
Amy Goodman – Host of DemocracyNow! Bush and the Media
Thom Hartmann - Air America Host & Author of Cracking the Code: The Art and Science of Persuasion
Paul Stamets - Mushrooms can Save the World
Jim Hightower - Author of Swim Against The Current Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow
Riane Eisler – Author of The Chalice and the Blade & The Real Wealth of Nations
Eric Liu – The True Patriot, Why Patriotism is Progressive
Caroline Casey - Coyote News Network
Frances Moore-Lappé – Author of Diet for a Small Planet Living Democracy: Feeding Hope
John Perkins – Author of The Secret History of the American Empire
John DeGraaf -  What's The Economy For Anyway?
Medea Benjamin - CodePINK
Bishop Steven Charleston - The Genesis Covenant
Gifford Pinchot III - Health Happiness and Sustainable Business
Richard Heinberg - Peak Everything: Treating Our Collective Hydrocarbon Addiction
Sharif Abdullah – Commonway, Creating a World that Works for All
Gary Paul Nabhan - Renewing the Food Traditions of Salmon Nation
Maude Barlow - Blue Alert: The Global Water Crisis
David Korten – Author of The Great Turning
Kevin Danaher – Author of Building the Green Economy
Goldie Caughlan , PCC, Elements of Ethical Eating in the 21st Century
Sarah van Gelder – Executive Editor YES! Magazine
Annie Leonard - The Story of Stuff
Billy Frank Jr. - Nisqually Tribe, Quest for the Truth
Jerome Ringo - Apollo Alliance Energy for the Long Run: The New Apollo Project
John Lombard - Saving Puget Sound
Mark Anielski -  Genuine Wealth
Vicki Robin - Liberating Limits

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Please check our website regularly for updated speaker, exhibitor and ticketing information.