Enjoy a day of powerful presentations designed to educate and promote green living practices and environmental insights for the way we work, play and live. Top experts in various dimensions of “Green Living” headline this unique conference.

 

• 6 Extraordinary Speakers
• Book Signings with Authors
• Delicious Lunch Included
• Raffle for Great Green Prizes
• Eco-Friendly Vendors
• Green Living Resources

The conference will feature renowned speakers: Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden (over 35,000 copies sold), Brad Lancaster, author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (and will have his newly released Volume 2 available), Greg Peterson from Your Guide to Green and the Urban Farm, as well as many more top-level experts within the fields of GREEN Living!

Conference is Mar 3rd 9am to 5pm at the Phoenix Zoo Stonehouse Pavilion.
$44 per person if you register by April 1st. $55 after that.
You must register to attend, no walk-ins. Space is limited.

Get the full scoop at the Green Living Conference website.

Earthships, cleaning toxic waste with mushrooms, and dumpster diving. Actually the first two are really cool and there are some really nice looking Earthships out there, and cleaning up toxic waste with mushrooms is ingenious. Dumpster diving is definitely too extreme for me. Read all about these over at Mental Floss.

For one, the new store taps more local suppliers like Tonopah Rob, who produces locally grown lettuces, baby cabbages, beets, turnips and watermelon radishes, said Chris Petroulakis, Whole Foods regional produce coordinator.And Petroulakis found French Kiss melons from a Yuma farm family, the only ones with the seeds for the extra juicy variety, he said.

Article at East Vally Tribune