Please join us this weekend for the first annual Chicago Green Festival, April 21 and 22, at the McCormick Place on Chicago’s south loop. This is the Windy City’s first Green Festival, following on the heels of San Francisco, which rolls out its green carpet for the sixth time on November 9-11, and Washington D.C., which will hold its second annual Green Festival on October 6-7.
Volunteers Needed
Worldchanging will be sharing a booth with the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, North America’s premier green MBA program. We still need volunteers to gather email addresses, show off our book, and spread the Worldchanging word. We still have a limited number of free passes to give out to volunteers. If you’re interested, please e-mail leif [at] worldchanging [dot] com.
About the Green Festival
Visitors to the Chicago Green Festival this weekend can shop for everything from eco-fashion and natural home and health products to solar panels; learn new innovative strategies at how-to workshops; network at green career sessions; learn how to save energy at the City of Chicago Pavillion; find local organic farmers at the Family Farmed Pavillion; and peruse more than 300 exhibits in what the festival terms “the nation’s largest eco-mall.” This is a family event: Let your kids run loose at the Organic Valley of Family Farms’ Kids’ Zone while you dine on organic food and sample local beers and wines.
The Green Festival will also host more than 150 speakers on five different stages: from truth-speakers Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) and Greg Palast (Armed Madhouse) to food revolutionary Frances Moore Lappé and Mayor Richard M. Daley, who wants to make Chicago the nation’s greenest city.
