DC Green Festival this weekend!

Posted By Si Kailian, 11/07/08 11:37 AM

You wont want to miss the 5th annual DC Green Festival taking place this weekend at the Convention Center - November 8-9 Saturday 10AM - 7PM, Sunday Nov. 11AM - 6PM

At the Washington DC Green Festival™, a joint project of Global Exchange and Co-op America, we’re celebrating what’s working in our communities—across the District, Maryland and Virginia—for people, for business and for the environment.

You’ll enjoy more than 125 renowned speakers and 350 green businesses (start your holiday shopping now!), great how-to workshops, green films, a Fair Trade pavilion, yoga classes, organic beer, delicious organic cuisine and live music.

Find out about DC environmental initiatives; and learn how neighbors, community nonprofits and city departments are working together to make their cities healthier places to live.

According to the ANC 2C02 blog, our own local socially conscious entrepreneur Andy Shallal (Busboys & Poets) shall be speaking amongst others including !Cornell West! If you are looking for ways to make your house more energy efficient, neato things to buy, and awesome activities for the kids this event is for you. (I will be volunteering there for City Blossoms, a wonderful organization that teaches urban kids the joys of gardening. They will be making nifty newspaper pots & digging in the dirt with the little ones during the afternoon. Check them & others out in this Fox 5 spot!)

November 8-9 Saturday 10AM - 7PM, Sunday Nov. 11AM - 6PM Admission is $15, BUT you can easily get a $5 discount. Kids under 18 are free! Come on out and explore the crunchy granola life!

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Anyone know why there has been a constant stream of cars being parked in the surface parking lots on the 300 and 400 blocks of K Street the last hour or so? I don't think I've seen that on a weekend since I moved in this spring.

Posted By FourthandEye / At 11/8/08 5:48 PM

I heard the estimated attendance was 20 thousand and indeed it was packed! Uhop was also having an event, 6th st was lined with buses.

I'm really stocked up on reusable grocery bags now!

Posted By Si Kailian / At 11/8/08 6:37 PM

If the parking lots filled up early in the day I would have thought it was the Green Festival (although greenies should take metro!). But the hordes of cars streamed in after 6pm. Maybe it is UHOP.

Posted By FourthandEye / At 11/8/08 6:52 PM