Sustainable Home and Garden Pavilion
Looking to green your everyday life? Stop by the Sustainable Home and Garden Pavilion and learn how to green your home and garden from the experts. Discover practical tips for everyday living, including how to compost, build an urban garden and live a more enlightened life. Topics include horticulture, permaculture, composting, edible landscaping, herb gardening, vertical farming and seasonal plantings.
| All Programming Subject To Change Without Notice |
Saturday | ||
Time | Presenter | Title |
10:30 AM | Janine Björnson (clay, bones, and stones) | Introduction to Natural Building |
11:30 AM | Melanie Nutter (San Francisco Department of the Environment) | San Francisco: "Greenest City in North America"...Earning the Title Every Day |
12:30 PM | Nikhil Arora, Alejandro Velez (Back to the Roots) | Sustainably Delicious - Growing Your Own Gourmet Mushrooms on 100% Recycled Coffee Grounds |
1:30 PM | Kathryn Alcántar (Center for Environmental Health; Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy), Mary Brune (Making Our Milk Safe) | Shampoos, Sofas and Strawberries, Oh My: Toxics in our lives and what you can do about it |
2:30 PM | Markos Major (Rainbow Chard Alliance), Seth Eisen (Buffet Flats) | Queer Ecology and Activism |
3:30 PM | Karen Peteros (San Francisco Bee-Cause) | Helping our Bee Pollinators (with and without becoming a beekeeper) |
4:30 PM | Suzanne Ludlum (All Ah We/All of Us), Gloria Gutierrez (ArribaCycle) | ArribaCycle - Upcycling Plastic Into Beautiful Accessories -- Transformando Basura En Belleza [English/Español] |
5:30 PM | Institute International Indigenous Science (Indigenous Permaculture) | Indigenous Permaculture: Strengthening Traditional Farming Practices and Examples of Food Security Projects [English/Español] |
Sunday | ||
Time | Presenter | Title |
11:30 PM | Aaron Lehmer (Bay Localize) | Session I: Building the Movement for Food Justice |
12:30 PM | Doria Robinson (Urban Tilth) | Session II: Envisioning a Just, Resilient Food System for the San Francisco Bay Area |
1:30 PM | Danny Kennedy (Sungevity) | Solar is HOT! |
2:30 PM | Antonia Roman-Alcalá (San Francisco Urban Agricultural Alliance), James Kalin (Sustainable Commercial Urban Farm Incubator program) | Employment in the Growing Field of Urban Farming |
3:30 PM | Nyisha Moncrease (African People’s Education & Defense Fund), Tamika Phillips (Marcus Garvey Upliftment Project), Maureen Wagener (Uhuru Pies) | African People's Education & Defense Fund leads the way to a sustainable future of shared prosperity |
4:30 PM | Joan Blades (Moveon.org, MomsRising), Jessica Tully (Jamie Oliver Food Foundation), Joe Baker (Care2), Stephen Dinan (The Shift Network) | Building Vibrant Communities for Change: Online Organizing from Local to Global and Back |
2002-2011 Green Festival®