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Green Tech Guide To Seattle Green Festival

May 4

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“Coming up on May 21st and 22nd the Seattle Green Festival will be held at the Qwest Event Center, where a wide range of environmental and socially responsible businesses and organizations will come together to celebrate all things green across the nation.

Sponsored by Global Exchange and Green America, which are non-profit membership organizations that focus on business as a tool for positive change, the Seattle Green Festival is one of the largest consumer focused green events in the nation. To educate the public about the current workings of those within the green community, a wide array of both national and local authors, celebrities, visionaries and activists will be speaking throughout the weekend.”

Green Tech Guide To Seattle Green Festival via Mindy Cooper – Earth Techling

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GREEN FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY MAY 21-22

Apr 25

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The nation’s largest green consumer living event: Now in Seattle’s Qwest Event Center

Seattle Green Festival May 21-22 at Qwest Event Center

SEATTLE – The premier sustainability event in the nation celebrates 10 years, one million attendees at a new location, Qwest Event Center, May 21-22. This one-of-a-kind weekend experience offers opportunities for community members to meet their favorite authors, actors and community leaders; shop more than 300 eco-friendly exhibitors; participate in educational workshops; enjoy live music and local vegetarian cuisine; and sample organic chocolates, wine and beer.

Ten stages and pavilions host more than 125 inspirational and educational speakers, including Amy Goodman, Jeffrey Smith, John Perkins, Zoe Weil, Dr. David Korten, Dr. Sharif Abdullah and Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

The Green Marketplace showcases more than 300 green and socially-responsible businesses and organizations. Attendees browse everything from non-toxic home products to organic clothing to fair trade treats and décor. Green Festival gives back GF Bucks to individuals who purchase tickets online or at the door. GF Bucks are the local Green Festival currency and can be used the same-as-cash to shop in the Green Marketplace. Discount admission available online until May 20: http://tickets.greenfestivals.org/events/139716.

“Last fall, Green Festival stimulated the green economy by giving back $44,000 to local, regional and national sustainable businesses through the new ‘GF Bucks’ admissions policy,” says Global Exchange and Green Festival Founder, Dr. Kevin Danaher.

Volunteer or donate to various local nonprofits in exchange for complimentary Green Festival admission. Engage with Sierra Club Seattle, Washington State 350, Sound Circle Center, Sustainable Seattle, Solar Washington, International Bicycle Fund, Alleycat Acres, Washington Health Foundation, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Seattle International Film Festival, El Centro de la Raza, Sustainable Wallingford, Transition Seattle, Real Change, feet first, SCALLOPS, Sightline Institute, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, The Art Affect, Green America, Global Exchange and more to receive free Green Festival tickets. Also, Green America and Global Exchange members always receive free admission to Green Festival.

A joint project of Green America and Global Exchange, two leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to environmental and social justice for more than 27 years, Green Festival inspires and promotes the connection between change and sustainable progress for people, communities and businesses. Green Festivals empowers people to live healthier lives—socially, economically and environmentally.

“Whether you go to shop, learn, try new organic foods or experience art and music, Green Festival has it all, with the goal to motivate every person to think, participate and make more planet-friendly, sustainable choices in their every day lives,” says Green America and Green Festival Founder, Denise Hamler.

Thank you to Corporate Innovators Bon Ami and Ford for their commitment to sustainability. Receive complimentary tickets when you visit your Seattle-area Ford Dealer. Test drive one of Ford’s new green hybrid and electric vehicles right at the Green Festival.

Thank you to Green Festival partners: Hyatt at Olive 8, Mother Earth News, Utne Reader, Herbal Companion, Natural Home, Entercom, AM1090 and KOMO.

Engage with Green Festivals online at www.GreenFestivals.org, www.Facebook.com/GreenFestival and www.Twitter.com/GreenFestival for the latest news about the Seattle Green Festival and additional Green Festivals in 2011. Children under 18 and all volunteers receive free admission. To volunteer, email: volunteer@greenfestivals.org.

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About Green America

Green America is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1982, providing the economic strategies, organizing power and practicing tools for businesses and individuals to address today’s social and environmental problems. Its Green Business Network is the largest national network of businesses screened for their social and environmental responsibility.  www.greenamericatoday.org

About Global Exchange

Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Since its founding in 1988, Global Exchange has successfully increased public awareness of root causes of injustice while building international partnerships and mobilizing for change. www.globalexchange.org

About Seven-Star, Inc.

Seven-Star, Inc. is the nation’s premier green full-service event company focusing exclusively on green events. Since 1999, Seven-Star has provided turn-key green event services for environmentally Responsible and socially Respectful (eR/sR) festivals, trade and consumer expositions, conferences and concerts. From the greening of the 2007 International Live Earth events, to the 2008 Democratic National Convention events, to producing the nation’s largest consumer Green Festivals, Seven-Star has defined itself as the company for eR/sR event production. Seven-Star is the first event company to have won the EPA’s Gold Waste Wise Award for Excellence in recognition for their proprietary system of event waste diversion, which has consistently achieved greater than 95%.www.sevenstarevents.com

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Solar Goose partners with Handi-Crafters organization to increase production, cut packaging costs and support local employment

Apr 21

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Tom Chorman (back left) with his wife Eileen (back center) and daughter Megan (back right) of Solar LED have embraced their partnership with Handi-Crafters, which includes promotion on their product packaging.

THORNDALE, PA – April 21, 2011 Solar LED Innovations, LLC uses the energy of the sun to produce highly efficient, reliable and utility-conscious flashlights and other lighting accessories.

This past year Handi-Crafters has partnered with Solar LED to help cut packaging costs and ramp up mass production of their products as the business has grown. “I would not have been able to grow rapidly without the support of Handi-Crafters,” remarks Tom Chorman, CEO of Solar LED.

“As an entrepreneur, you offer an incredible advantage to start up companies. In this new economy, having full access to a world class manufacturing and packaging facility puts your customers on equal footing with much larger companies. As a small business I can enter the marketplace without having to hire, train, and supervise a workforce.”

With 300 pairs of hands to package products. Handi-Crafters has produced 9 different products for Solar LED, including flashlights, book lights, laptop lights and cap clip lights.

“Every new manufacturing business should consider the value available via utilizing Handi-Crafters to jump start the business. ”

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About Solar Goose
Solar Goose breaks the boundaries of renewable energy innovation, providing an array of portable, solar powered rechargeable LED lights, batteries and even I-Phone and I-Pad chargers! www.solargoose.com

About Handi-Crafters
Handi-Crafters started as a very small, make-shift operation. A group of parents felt their adult disabled children should have something meaningful to do during the day. With only six “clients” and a church basement, Handi-Crafters was in business.

Their first contract was rolling newspapers used as stuffing for a
furniture company. Today we serve over 400 individuals with an expanded array of employment services. We have two buildings on our campus with
fourteen shops running from 8am to 3pm, five days a week. Our 40-
plus customer list includes Fortune 500 companies and numerous entrepreneurs. We are no longer simply a sheltered workshop striving to provide meaningful activities to a handful of adults with disabilities; we are part of several vital supply chains for large companies and we are the affordable solution for several start-up enterprises. We are an offsite temporary labor force ready at a moments notice, allowing companies to respond quickly as their business ebbs and flows. Most importantly, we are a real place of work where our workers come each day ready to “get the job done.” They are proud of their paychecks. For many, they have come to depend on the money they earn to help them live more independently. www.handi-crafters.org

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California Hopes To Speed The Transition To Clean Energy

Apr 15

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“Those of us who live in California often have occasion to feel proud of our state’s leadership in the area of clean energy. Last weekend’s spring San Francisco Green Festival provided another such opportunity at the session on “Accelerating the Transition to Clean Energy,” with speakers Panama Bartholemy of the CA Energy Commission and Stephanie Wang from the CLEAN Coalition.”

California Hopes To Speed The Transition To Clean Energy via Rosana Francescato – The Energy Collective

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San Francisco’s Green Festival: A Network of Revolutionaries

Apr 15

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“If it is your first time attending the Green Festival in San Francisco, the immersion into a fast-paced marketplace can be a bit overwhelming. But as I discovered, if you just take in a deep breath, go with the flow, and take some time to listen to speakers and enjoy some amazing vegan food, the holistic vision of the festival will emerge.

First and foremost, the Green Festival advocates bringing sustainability to the forefront of the global economy. The booths are filled with fair trade vendors, vegan food, and organic beauty products from companies that support indigenous peoples, labor rights, and high all-natural and organic standards. Likewise, these companies do what they can to off-set their carbon footprint and decrease their energy usage.”

San Francisco’s Green Festival: A Network of Revolutionaries via Donna Kohut – Ecolutionist

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Inner Tradition’s solar panels offset 22,000 lbs. of carbon

Mar 16

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Located in the heart of the Green Mountain state of Vermont, book publisher, Inner Traditions Bear & Company, is practicing environmental consciousness by installing solar panels on their office to reduce energy use.  The system can generate 13,000 kWhs per year, offsetting the production of over 22,000 lbs. of carbon.

Founded in 1975, Inner Traditions is a leading publisher of books on indigenous cultures, perennial philosophy, visionary art, ancient mysteries, spiritual traditions of the East and West, sexuality, holistic health and healing, self-development, as well as recordings of ethnic music and accompaniments for meditation.

In July 2000, Bear & Company joined with Inner Traditions and moved from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where it was founded in 1980, to Rochester, Vermont. Together Inner Traditions Bear & Company have eleven imprints: Inner Traditions, Bear & Company, Healing Arts Press, Destiny Books, Park Street Press, Bindu Books, Bear Cub Books, Destiny Recordings, Destiny Audio Editions, Inner Traditions en Español, and Inner Traditions India.

Inner Traditions Bear & Company will be providing an exciting array of literary genres at the San Francisco Green Festival April 9th and 10th. They will be located in booths 551 and 552 For more information or to peruse an extensive collection of topics, visit www.InnerTraditions.com.

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Chicago Drops $2.5M on Trash Compactors

Mar 7

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“Garbage collection in the Loop will soon change thanks to a new purchase.

The city bought about 400 solar-powered trash compactors for streets in downtown Chicago, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Each unit compacts the trash using solar power, and it holds about five times the garbage of a normal trash can.

The compactor also contains a built-in sensor to alert when it’s full.”

Chicago Drops $2.5M on Trash Compactors via Sandra Torres – NBC Chicago

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Northwest Wind & Solar Installs Major Solar System for Magnuson Park Housing

Mar 4

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SEATTLE— March 4, 2011 Northwest Wind & Solar has installed an 11.96 KW photovoltaic (PV) solar system on the Brettler Family Place/Magnuson Park Housing community building. The three-building, 52-unit complex will provide permanent housing with supportive services and is owned and operated by Solid Ground, It will be completed in March 2011.

Designed by Tonkin/Hoyne Architecture & Urban Design the complex, especially the community building, is symbolic of the project’s interaction with nature. The community building utilizes sustainable materials, especially those that can be reused, and showcase how the buildings interact with nature and relate to the park. With funding from Washington State, the buildings are designed to the Evergreen Sustainable Design Standard (ESDS), a standard mandated and certified by the state.

The Magnuson Park Community Building PV system is a combination of high-profile tilt, and a flush mount array of panels using standing seam metal roof clamps.  The array design elevates and spaces the solar panels to optimize solar exposure. The panels are mounted using specially-designed and custom built structural roof curbs.  The system uses microinverters, which provide maximum power point tracking and increase energy harvest from each solar module, to maximize production.

According to Solid Ground, the housing is being built with environmentally friendly materials and energy conservation features; provides opportunities to increase the already successful collaboration with neighbors and community groups within the neighborhood; contributes to the region’s 10-year plan to end homelessness; and creates a model for how communities can reuse surplused military facilities to help end homelessness.

About NW Wind & Solar:

SME Inc. of Seattle brings more than 39 years of electrical construction experience to its newest business unit – NW Wind & Solar. A natural extension of SME’s electrical prowess, NW Wind & Solar’s professionals are estimating, designing and installing solar electric systems and wind turbine installations for residential and commercial clients throughout the Pacific Northwest. Recent projects include: a 5.2 kW PV system for the Construction Industry Training Council in Bellevue, an 8.28 kW PV system for a residence in Buckley, Wash., and a 68 kW PV system for the Seattle Housing Authority’s Lake City Village development.

Photo caption: NW Wind & Solar installed an 11.96 KW photovoltaic (PV) solar system on the Brettler Family Place/Magnuson Park Housing community building.

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Green On Green “Violence” in California

Feb 28

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“Several solar thermal power plant projects to be constructed on public lands are on hold pending lawsuits by environmental groups, including Sierra Club, and Native American tribes. The Sierra Club petitioned the California Supreme Court to overturn the license for the Calico Solar Energy Project because it would harm desert tortoise and other wildlife. California Unions for Reliable Energy, a labor group, filed a similar petition. Calico is a 663.5 megawatt (MW) solar power project.”

Green On Green “Violence” in California via Gina-Marie Cheeseman – Triple Pundit

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Clif Bar keeps it green and local in Emeryville

Jan 10

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“Clif Bar & Co. has turned its ideals into bricks and mortar – and solar panels, atrium gardens, a child care center, yoga studio and gym – at its new Emeryville headquarters.

From the organic, locavore cafeteria to the repurposed bikes, kayaks and surfboards hung as artwork to the numerous environmental features that the company hopes will win it LEED Platinum certification, the building embodies Clif Bar’s outdoorsy, do-good, green aesthetic.”

Clif Bar keeps it green and local in Emeryville via Carolyn Said at SF Chronicle

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