Saturday August 6, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Zane Youngren & Mack Shane hold up the "solar death ray."
The first ever Funhouse Eco Fest & Solar Science Fair! EcoFest is a science-based event celebrating local sustainability, renewable energy and island eco-living. Featuring booths and exhibits, local experts, live music, hands on activities and more!
Prizes, activities, and education demos all day long!
Topics and Demonstrations include:
- Renewable energy technologies (PV, wind, microhydro, solar thermal, tidal power, biomass/biogas, and more…)
- Energy awareness, efficiency and conservation – educational displays & activities, innovative products and services
- Organic farming, permaculture, aquaculture, livestock
- Transportation – Electric and hybrid vehicles, alternative fuels, biodiesel, sail and human power
- “Green Living” and “Green Building” designs, ideas, techniques and products
- Recycling, ‘Up-cycling’, re-use and waste reduction
- “Homebrew” solar science experiments and displays of DIY technology and energy projects
- Appropriate technology of all types
- Water use, conservation and rainwater harvesting techniques
- Locally produced and value-added products
- Business displays from contractors and service providers
- Island scale approaches to the post-petroleum future: sustainability, food security and local self-reliance
Contact Krista at krista@thefunhouse.org or 376-7177 to find out how you can get involved!
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I’m wondering what outreach has been done to County officials and the County Council to send some representatives from Public Works, County Council, and Community Planning & Development to this event? Those of us working to try to save existing Critical Areas see that without protecting those areas first, these solutions, although wonderful and helpful, will be far less effective. For instance, farming in a protected wetland seems like a good solution, but actually degrades the wetland. There have to be solutions that spare our Critical habitats! We need to build this understanding and proceed from the bottom up. To really understand what Critical Areas are and what they do is first and foremost. I suggest that at the next eco-fest, you cover that. Then the whole Big Picture will begin to weave together in a fabric that will be the strongest it can be. Hoping you will do these twice a year and involve school children in the one during the school year. Thanks for doing this.