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Festival Features
Building Resilience, Creating Community
Check back frequently to this page as we add details about the 2017 Festival!
What’s Going On at the Festival
Exhibits and vendors, fascinating demonstrations, the Resilience Center, solar ovens, electric vehicles -- along with local food and music -- and plenty of activities for all ages. Click here for a list of this year’s great variety of exhibitors, demonstrators, vendors, food, and music -- to date (there may be more).
Exhibitors
Exhibits will feature a wide range of sustainable practices, dealing with everything from home and community gardening to water conservation, from reducing energy use for home and businesses to key local and regional environmental issues, from dealing with heat emergencies to recycling of various materials, from solar for the home to models of sustainable communities, from localizing our economy to living in harmony with urban wildlife, and much, much more.
What’s Going On at the Festival
Exhibits and vendors, fascinating demonstrations, the Resilience Center, solar ovens, electric vehicles -- along with local food and music -- and plenty of activities for all ages. Click here for a list of this year’s great variety of exhibitors, demonstrators, vendors, food, and music -- to date (there may be more).
Exhibitors
Exhibits will feature a wide range of sustainable practices, dealing with everything from home and community gardening to water conservation, from reducing energy use for home and businesses to key local and regional environmental issues, from dealing with heat emergencies to recycling of various materials, from solar for the home to models of sustainable communities, from localizing our economy to living in harmony with urban wildlife, and much, much more.
Demonstrators
Throughout the Festival, you’ll find lots of exciting demonstrations of hands-on skills that you can put into action in your own home or neighborhood or through resources in our community. In the Courtyard, be sure to check out models for building with paper adobe and techniques for composting or soil building. And be sure to make a seed ball or two, to jumpstart your home garden.
In the Display Area behind the Courtyard, you can see some creative solar ovens (though possible solar cooking demos will depend on the weather). You’ll have the chance to get up close and personal with a solar panel. And we welcome Tucson Electric Vehicle Association, displaying an array of their vehicles -- all-electric and plug-in hybrids, conversions as well as brand-name cars -- and they’ll answer questions about making the move to one of these energy-efficient cars.
A new feature this year is the Resilience Center, an area where you can see demonstrations of techniques and technologies we all can use for making our homes and neighborhoods more sustainable. Explore ways to make Tucson more food-resilient and more water-efficient, with water harvesting and city-wide dry wells. Check out 3D printing in action, and see how an aquaponics system works. Try some tasty -- and new to you -- local fruits, and learn about the value of edible urban trees.
Throughout the Festival, you’ll find lots of exciting demonstrations of hands-on skills that you can put into action in your own home or neighborhood or through resources in our community. In the Courtyard, be sure to check out models for building with paper adobe and techniques for composting or soil building. And be sure to make a seed ball or two, to jumpstart your home garden.
In the Display Area behind the Courtyard, you can see some creative solar ovens (though possible solar cooking demos will depend on the weather). You’ll have the chance to get up close and personal with a solar panel. And we welcome Tucson Electric Vehicle Association, displaying an array of their vehicles -- all-electric and plug-in hybrids, conversions as well as brand-name cars -- and they’ll answer questions about making the move to one of these energy-efficient cars.
A new feature this year is the Resilience Center, an area where you can see demonstrations of techniques and technologies we all can use for making our homes and neighborhoods more sustainable. Explore ways to make Tucson more food-resilient and more water-efficient, with water harvesting and city-wide dry wells. Check out 3D printing in action, and see how an aquaponics system works. Try some tasty -- and new to you -- local fruits, and learn about the value of edible urban trees.
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Activities for All Ages
The Festival is definitely an event for families and for kids, with hands-on activities at many exhibitors. Have fun as you test your knowledge, try your hand at new skills, and get involved first-hand with sustainability. There’ll be plenty of opportunities to express your sustainable creativity. You’ll be able to make crafts out of upcycled materials and get your ideas down on paper at the Story and Art Gathering Center. Commemorate what you love and don’t want to lose to climate chaos, and add your message on the Climate Ribbon Tree. And share your vision of our sustainable community and future -- on video, if you’re willing -- in the Resilience Center. |
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Food, Music
Delicious local food and drink will be available for purchase, and local musicians will share their unique sounds throughout the day. Moving Toward Zero Waste There will be recycling bins available, and compost bins for any food waste, to minimize the impact of the Festival on the environment. And please! Bring your re-usable water mug! You can refill with water from the drinking fountain. Coming to the Festival What’s more sustainable than biking to the Festival? There’ll be plenty of bike parking on site. If you can’t bike, there will be plenty of free parking (see belowa). Or come by bus -- or even on the streetcar, if you don’t mind a bit of a walk from the streetcar stop. Parking: You can use the lot at the YWCA. There’s also overflow parking just down the street at the National Law Center lot, or on the east side of the street. Please, no parking in the company lot just south of the YWCA. |
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Thanks to our 2017 sponsors!
