Green Festivals - Programming

Programming

2009 Schedules now available!

PCC Cooking Demo Stage

PCC Cooking Demo Stage Come see what's cooking! Learn and sample delicious, affordable recipes. Featuring PCC Cooks instructors. Saturday 11am Perfect Protein Salad with Birgitte Antonsen 12pm Quinoa Tabouli Salad with Birgitte Antonsen
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Special Features

Conversation Café
Bring conversation and connection to your organization, community and workplace with the Conversation Café’s model to increase community, connection and capacity for change.

A Conversation Café will begin each hour at tables outside the speaker rooms. Festivalgoers are invited to continue the topics that have been introduced by Green Festival speakers.

The simple Conversation Café process is the easiest way to bring people into deep dialogue: agreements, talking object, circle of 6-8 people with a host, two rounds with the talking object, open conversation, and then a final round of reflection with the talking object. This simple yet robust structure brings the group to a generative space, transforming ordinary chitchat to deeper connection and meaning.

Sat / 5pm / Rm 4C-2

What’s The Economy For, Anyway? 90 Minutes
World Premiere (a tragi-comic film in 13 short acts)
In this latest film by John de Graaf, the coproducer of Affluenza, ecological economist Dave Batker (a la The Colbert Report) takes you on a humorous, edgy, visual tour of the American economy, deflating some sacred
cows along the way. LOL while LAL (learning a lot)! Host Dave Batker and filmmaker John de Graaf will be present for Q&A after the film.

Green Week

Participate in any of these events and receive a free one-day pass to Green Festival!

Global Conversation Week 2009
Join in the Renaissance of Conversation
3/22-29 | All Week
Locations locally and worldwide, including Seattle Green Festival, March 28-29.

City of Seattle Pavilion

Visit the City of Seattle’s Climate Action Now pavilion on the Skybridge, and join us on the path to climate solutions—from energy to transportation. By doing small things to reduce pollution, you can help make a difference. Stop by to win great prizes! www.seattlecan.org Saturday 11:00am Recycling – What Goes Where
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Music Stage

Located in the natural foods dining area, the music stage features great local bands and performers.

Saturday
12:00 PM
Paula Boggs
intelligent lyrics | authentic voice | singer/songwriter
www.myspace.com/paulaboggs

Fair Trade Pavillion

Produced by Green America's Fair Trade Program
www.fairtradeaction.org

Saturday
Noon Fair Trade: What Does It Mean?
Yochi Zakai, Green America
Join Green America’s Fair Trade Program in an exploration of commerce that focuses on producer empowerment, equality and economic development.

1 PM A Fair Brew
Café Mam
Café Mam will share their 19-year history at the vanguard of the sustainability movement, as well as stories from the indigenous coffee farmers in Chiapas, Mexico that grow Café Mam’s coffee. You’ll be inspired by the pioneering work of one of the country’s first and only 100% organic and Fair Trade coffee companies. Plus, you’ll get to start your Green
Festival experience with a sample of Café Mam’s freshly brewed coffee.

Green Home Pavillion

45-minute workshops, green home pavilion
Ready to make those much-needed, energy-efficient home upgrades? Finding that toddlers and household toxics don’t mix? This is a perfect opportunity to make your home environment a healthy one.

Saturday
12:00 A Call to Action: Green Bag Fee
Heather Trim, Ellie Rose, Emily Utter, Green Bag Fee Campaign Organizers
Seattle’s mayor and City Council voted in favor of a 20 cent green fee on all single-use bags. The Exxon-funded American Chemistry Council spent $180,000 to stop the bill and send it to a ballot. Hear both sides, the history and the build-up to the ballot vote in August.

Shorts Film Festival

Enjoy a selection of the best short films from the 2008 Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival. Papiroflexia (3 min, USA) Animation Papiroflexia (Spanish for Origami) is the animated tale of Fred, a skillful paper folder who could shape the world with his hands. (Joaquin Baldwin, 2007)
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Organic Valley Green Kids Zone

Join us for fun, interactive activities all weekend that explore the world around us. Enjoy samples and a bean bag toss provided by our host Organic Valley. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Sat+Sun Stage
11:30 Green Kids Earth Pledge
Global Exchange
Start the day with the Green Kids Earth Pledge, uniting kids worldwide as they do their part to live green! Kids also get to make their own Green Kids Earth Badge.

Community Action Center

90-minute Interactive Sessions
The Community Action Center is hosted by Sustainable Communities ALL Over Puget Sound (SCALLOPS). Share your stories with us about what is going on in your sustainable community! After the Green Festival, we’ll post the best ideas online: www.scallopswa.org.

Sat 12-6PM: Getting Ready
12pm Community Preparedness
Discuss ways that our communities can prepare to be as self-sufficient as possible. Topics include water storage, emergency power, food preservation, emergency kits, forming support networks with neighbors and successful partnering with Seattle’s Office of Emergency Preparation.
Jon Alexander, Sunshine Construction
Mary Heim, Sustainable Wallingford
Deborah Stinson, Local 2020
Jennifer Mackley, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Diane Dondero, Babes in Belts