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Green Festival - Save the Environment

by Jon on September 28th, 2007

Join consumer advocate (and possible Presidential candidate) Ralph Nader and 125 other visionary (as well as a couple possibly fringe) environmental speakers, plus 350 green businesses and exhibitors at this year’s Green Festival at the D.C. Convention Center.

With a jam-packed agenda of 50 programs using four simultaneous stages, attend lectures, panel discussions, how-to workshops and green films on a variety of topics.  Lectures, programs and workshops include:

• Building the green economy
• Green activism
• Energy - solar and alternative energy and fuels, nuclear power
• Globalism
• Recycling
• Climate change
• Conscience consumerism
• Fair Trade

There’s also a food drive benefiting the Capital Area Food Bank.

Green Festival ‘07
Washington D.C. Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place, NW
Washington, DC 20001 (map it)

Dates and Times - Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 6th and 7th

• Hours - Saturday - 10:00 a.m. - 8: 00 p.m., Sunday 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Tickets - $15.00 (good for both days), and are available online. A special discounts ticket is available at the door $10.00 for Seniors, students 12 and over, with ID, union members with union card, and people who bicycle to festival.

Nearest Metro Subway Station - Mt. Vernon Square, Yellow and Green line, then a 2-block walk

Parking - Metered street and paid garage parking is available.

Images - Flickr

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