GREEN GOES MAINSTREAM
Green Festival Celebrates 5th Year in San Francisco
(San Francisco, CA) November, 2006 – Green Festival, a joint project of Global Exchange and Co-op America, and widely known “party with a purpose,” kicks off its fifth year in San Francisco on November 10th at the Concourse Exhibition Center.
Due to the extraordinary success of last year’s festival, a third show day has been added to the event and will bring together more than 100 speakers, 400 green national and local businesses and an anticipated audience of 35,000.
Maintaining its position as the largest and most authentic sustainability event in the world, Green Festival continues to stay at the forefront of bringing leading-edge green products, innovations, services and information into people’s lives and communities.
With a stringent screening process designed by Co-op America, Green Festival ensures all exhibitors meet the best practices for green businesses.
As a joint project of the two non-profit organizations, Global Exchange and Co-op America, Green Festival brings individuals, businesses and investors together to work cooperatively in creating positive economic solutions for communities and the environment
This year’s Green Festival will continue to celebrate the positive impact of sustainable living, eco/organic products for personal health and wellness and the importance of critical initiatives such as recycling, global citizenship and renewable energy.
“Since starting Green Fest in 2002 we have seen an incredible shift in green living as well as a seminal shift in the green economy,” says Kevin Danaher, Executive Director, Global Exchange. “As we celebrate our fifth year in San Francisco we have watched our attendance go from 13,000 in the first year to an anticipated 35,000 this year.
"Consumers are hungry to experience all aspects of green living there is to offer. In business there are now two relevant greens: the bottom line green and the environmental green. Companies are learning they can make better profits by protecting nature and saving our resources than by destroying the environment – we’re witnessing a much different different kind of economy.”
Attendees will experience great “how-to” workshops, attend green career sessions, eat delicious organic cuisine, drink organic beer and wine and “vote with their dollars" when shopping at the many exhibitor booths.
Festival attendees of all ages can also enjoy other highlights including live music performed by some of today’s most influential global artists or a festive walk through some of the hugely popular event areas such as The Power Foods Pavilion, Outdoor Tea Garden, Green Living Workshop and The Fair Trade Pavilion.
Featured local exhibitors include Annie’s Homegrown, SustainLane, Blue Sky Shipping, Branch Home, Household Green Mill, Ecolution and TransFairUSA.
With the tremendous crowd enthusiasm for such past speakers as William McDonough, Woody Harrelson, Julia Butterfly Hill, Arianna Huffington and Cindy Sheehan, this year’s speaker line up which will include Alice Walker, Dr. David Suzuki, Amy Goodman, John Robbins, Medea Benjamin and Tom Hayden, is expected to draw the largest crowds to date.
Green Fest is the perfect place to build cultural bridges, save the planet, grow the green economy and begin healthier, greener ways of living.
SAN FRANCISCO HIGHLIGHTS WILL INCLUDE:
- Socially Responsible Investing
- Fair Trade and Eco Shopping (Green Gear)
- Music Stage featuring live local acts
- Green Living Workshops
- Natural Home and Garden Hall
- Organic Dining , The Organic Beer and Wine Pavilion & The PowerFoods Pavilion
- Green Building/Energy & Renewal Energy
- Green Careers
- Eco Tourism & Eco Fashion
- Green MBA Programs
- Bike Valets
About Co-op America
Co-op America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. Our mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. www.coopamerica.org
About Global Exchange
Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Since our founding in 1988, we have successfully increased public awareness of root causes of injustice while building international partnerships and mobilizing for change. www.globalexchange.org
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