Sustainable Living Fair
Sustainability is the idea that we can better our environment by making lifestyle choices that lessen our impact on the earth. For example, if you walk instead of driving a car, you cut back on fossil fuels and pollution, save money on gas and vehicle maintenance and get exercise to boot.
To help Columbia learn more about how they can live a sustainable lifestyle, Mid Missouri Peaceworks is sponsoring a Sustainable Living Fair on Saturday, October 17, 2009.
The fair will feature:
- Twelve workshops offering insights into earth-friendly lifestyles, in-depth policy issues, as well as practical, hands-on experience in various aspects of sustainable living.
- Three off-site, mini-solar tours of just one hour each.
- An inspirational keynoter, Peter G. Brown.
- Kids’ activities offered by Missouri River Communities Network, so feel free to bring your youngsters (ages 4 and older, please).
- More than 30 educational booths and vendors' booths will be set up inside and outside the Student Commons of Columbia College.
- Delicious vegetarian food available from Main Squeeze Natural Foods Café.
- The opportunity to meet and network with sustainability minded folks from throughout mid-Missouri.
Keynote speaker Peter G. Brown will present Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy. Mr. Brown is a professor in the School of Environment, the Department of Geography, and the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University.
Visit Sustainable Living Fair for maps, workshop descriptions, and the schedule.
PedNet is a proud co-sponsor of the Sustainable Living Fair.
