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Energy Trust Good Energy House
Get up close and personal with improvements and products that can fill your home with good energy. A visit to the Good Energy House will put you in touch with ways to shrink your energy costs and your carbon footprint. From energy-saving lighting to solar power, you’ll find features that can help you live better.
2009 House Floor Plan & Product Resource Guide
2009 Good Energy House Photo Tour |
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Planet Kids presented by PGE
Are your kids ready for something different during Spring Break? Looking for an affordable way to entertain them? Bring them to the kids activity corner...a fun place for interaction, exploration and some tasty snacks! PGE and other partners are providing daily hands-on activities for kids of all ages to discover renewable energy, local food, wildlife and some friendly mascots. Save time to take your kids on the new Oregon Adventure game while you're here!
2010 Kid's Activity Schedule
Kids Enjoying the 2009 Show |
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Gardens Gone Wild!
Four unique and earth-friendly landscapes will provide beautiful examples of outdoor environments to enhance your living space. You'll want to see how the finest landscape designers create wondrous visions for your yard, garden & patio.
2010 Landscape Designers
2009 Garden Photos |
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Clean Energy Pavilion
Sun, wind, water and beyond. Visit this collection of renewable energy resources to see the great advances, many made right here in Oregon, in clean technologies for your home and business. With the new tax credits available for energy upgrades--now is the time to go solar! |
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Veg Village
Veg Village buillds on the popular Vegan Chef series we've hosted for the past two years on the NW Natural Kitchen Stage. In Veg Village you will find an array of top exhibitors offering the best in vegan services, products and packaged food. All in a friendly and inviting atmosphere where you can explore the green and sustainable features of living a veg lifestyle. Stop by and sample a few bites--you just might be surprised! more |
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The Corner Bookstore
Food for thought abounds here. Great titles on green living, natural gardening, raising chickens, social justice and sustainability for your next reading adventure. Browse at the festival or visit our online store today. Check back for author appearance schedule. |
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Groundbreaking Flower Show
The nation's first Small Standard Flower Show to highlight native plants and sustainability! Now this isn’t as difficult for horticulture since Oregon is naturally beautiful, but for floral designers that’s a challenge! Admire the creativity as they learn to rethink and design with sustainable material and native plants rather than those flashy, colorful tropical flowers. more |
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Conversation Cafe
Throughout each day of the Better Living Show, the Conversation Café, will capture people's thoughts and feelings on questions related to sustainability. Conversation Cafe is an invitation to sit down for a few minutes with friends, neighbors, and yes, even strangers, to reflect, explore and share with others everything that matters to you about going green, living better, and sustainability. |
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The Recycling Plaza
Finally, a one-stop resource for all your recycling! Clear the clutter and those stacks of things you don't want to put in the trash. Electronics, cell phones, household items, small furniture, car seats and that pesky styrofoam can all be dropped off for free at the show. While you're here, pick up info on Refrigerator Recycling--they pay you $30 bucks to do the right thing!
And finally, make the ultimate recycling gift and Give Blood. Donation times TBA.
(Free Recycling. Free Admission. Parking $7.
Must access parking lot to drop off items.) |
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Alpha Broadcasting Green Living Pavillion
Join Alpha Broadcasting and their six radio stations (KINK, KXL, KUFO, KUPL, KXTG and KCMD) as they celebrate the sustainable lifestyle with many of their advertisers in the Green Living Pavilion. Each station will be broadcasting live from the Energy Trust Better Living Show throughout the three day event. |
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