Marta Gold, edmontonjournal.com
Published: 11:03 amEDMONTON - Festival City will add a new, aptly named Green Festival to its roster later this month at the Devonian Botanic Garden.
Visitors to the Green Festival will be able to see green, in the garden's lush plants and flowers, go green, with environmental advice and lectures, and spend green, on eco-vendors' products and services.
The event is aimed at helping average consumers become more environmentally friendly, says Emma Gilbertson, who runs youth programs at the Devonian Garden. "We're trying to make it a really educational event," she adds. "We're looking at every part of green living in Edmonton."
That includes composting, recycling, environmentally safer gardening, carpooling, using green energy - even housecleaning with less environmentally harmful products.
Half-hour talks in the centre's outdoor Pine Pavilion will cover the basics of recycling, or green gardening, for example. Vendors will be on hand offering products and services like green cleaning services or green landscaping using native and low-maintenance plants.
The Green Festival runs Sun. July 20 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Devonian Botanic Garden.
Argh and I am in Calgary that weekend, I would have LOVED to go to this!
1 comments:
Cool, I'll have to visit that for sure!
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