Better Living Show Features

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Energy Trust Good Energy House

Could your Northwest home use a healthy dose of year-round comfort, lower energy costs and a smaller carbon footprint? Step into the Good Energy House for a prescription to energy savings. The Energy Doctor will be in to help you solve your own energy ailments with solutions from the latest energy-efficient appliances to rooftop solar electric and water heating systems. You’ll leave feeling better.

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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, Radio Disney 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 while you're here at the expo!

2010 Kid's Activity Schedule

Kids Enjoying the 2009 Show

Portland General Electric

A vignette from Gardens Gone Wild at the Better Living Show

Gardens Gone Wild!

Four unique and earth-friendly landscapes will provide beautiful examples of outdoor environments to enhance your green living space. You'll want to see how the finest landscape designers create wondrous visions for your yard, garden & patio at this festival.

2010 Landscape Designers

2009 Garden Photos

 
Northwest resources for solar pv systems  at Better Living Show. expo center

Solar Oregon Clean Energy Pavilion

Sun, wind, water and beyond. Visit this showcase of Northwest 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, there is a clean energy solution available today to fit your budget.  Free admission makes going to the Portland Expo Center a good use of your energy.

Solar Oregon - Oregon's Number One Resource for Going Solar!
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Veg Village

Veg Village builds 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

 
Green Book Titles at the Better Living Show

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.

Boone Bridge Books
Nation's first Small Standard Flower Show highlighting native plants and sustainability!

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

The Oregon State Federation of Garden Clubs create with everything green in Oregon.
Murals capturing thoughts on going green, living better and sustainability in the Conversation Cafe hosted by Umpqua Bank.

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, investing in solar, living better, and sustainability.                                     What is a Conversation Cafe?

 

Go Green with Alpha Broadcasting

Alpha Broadcasting Pavilion

All of Portland will be listening in to interviews and discussions as KINK, KUPL, KUFO, KXTG, KXL-AM and KCMD-AM unite to broadcast the most comprehensive coverage of a green event here in Oregon. Stop by the Alpha Broadcasting Pavilion presented by PaintCare to meet your favorite radio personalities and win some great prizes. All six stations will broadcast live from the Pavilion and feature many of the green companies they work with.

 

Alpha broadcasting
Cup of coffee at the Better Living Show

TriMet Coffee Stop

This is one stop you don't want to be late for! Hot and fresh organic coffee drinks await you. Look for the TriMet Coffee Stop near Conversation Cafe. You'll also find great resources to get around the region using the many transportation options offered by TriMet. Save gas. Plan your next trip at Trimet.org!

 

 

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   show photos: Dennis Schwartz

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