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Festival 2007


Sustainability Expo - New this Year!

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Have fun while learning how to live green! Plant a seed, build a solar oven, play GE jeopardy, and take up the challenge of creating a sustainable future. Visit each expo booth, complete the activity and get your Sustainability Expo Passport stamped - passport available in July 3rd Times Colonist.

Make your pledge to 'green' one thing in your daily life. Enter your passport in the “Living La Vida Eco” Grand Prize Draw containing over $1,000 worth of green goods and services.

Expo Exhibitors

West Hills Community Development

Plant a seed to grow a food crop in your front or backyard and then sign up for a seminar at Westhills about creating “Edible Landscapes.”

BC Sustainable Energy Association (BC SEA)

Build a portable solar oven out of cardboard boxes (reused from exhibitors), newspaper and aluminum foil, or play the "Climate Action Game". Learn about 'Peak Oil', solar hot water, home energy retrofits funded by 'LiveSmartBC' subsidies program.

CRD Environmental Services

Make your pledge about what you can do to Reduce, Reuse or Recycle, and receive prizes including colouring posters, mini blue boxes and reusable shopping bags. Browse, pick up hard copy brochures and see/touch samples of recycled products.

O.U.R. EcoVillage

Take up the challenge to spread as much food seed in your local neighbourhood. Enjoy Sun Brewed medicinal tea created from wildcrafted plants. Or get your hands (and feet) down and dirty in a ‘Cobbing Session’….a natural building process. Find out about alternative, sustainable food & shelter options.

GE Free Society of BC

Sign a petition urging municipal governments to pass resolutions establishing GE Free Zones. Play Jeopardy Game style question & answer on GE issues and receive a prize for correct answers.

The Trust for Sustainable Forestry

Have your say about what it means to have a “conservation community” and what you love about nature and forests. A video camera will record your response and will be posted on our website. What do you think you can do to help save trees and promote sustainable forestry practices? Let us know.

Georgia Strait Alliance

Make your pledge to become ‘Stewards of the Strait. Enjoy live demos showing you how to make your own toxic free cleaning products, and enter the free toxic smart draw.

Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre

Demonstrate your composting knowledge and sort different household waste items into compostable or non-compostable categories. Undertake the challenge, “Compost for our Climate – Join the Black Gold Rush” (black gold being compost) and find out more about the link between composting and climate change.

The Seed and Plant Sanctuary of Canada

Coming soon...

Sierra Club of BC

Coming soon...

Lifecycles Project

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