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Green Fest Expo Around the Corner

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The Green Festival Expo (in Portland Dec. 9-11 at the Oregon Convention Center) features a inspiring array of speakers, documentary film screenings, and green exhibitors. For the past 15 years, Green Festival Expo has been committed to helping Americans find solutions to help make families and communities healthier – socially, economically, and environmentally. The event is completely free with registration.

Green Festival is one of the only trade and consumer shows that is completely vegan and vegetarian offering meatless products at the food court as an opportunity to showcase how food choices can positively impact sustainability and climate change

This year Green Festival Expo will unveil a new pavilion for Sustainable Innovations, showcasing the newest products, concepts, and exhibitors of the year. For this Expo, there will be a strong focus on family activities where kids can learn about the environment and how they can do their part in stopping climate change. The Family Fun Pavilion will be run by local business Hammer and Jacks Toy Store. Yoga programming will be run by Full Lotus Yoga PDX and Carioca Bowls. For both kids and adults, there will also be offerings of organic foods, hands-on demos, educational activities and inspirational speakers at the Green Festival Pavilion and booths. On Saturday afternoon, attendees will be able to enjoy a very special performance from The School of Rock.

Some of the pioneering, inspired speakers at the Green Festival Expo will be:

  • Colleen Polling, Nourishing the body, mind and soul: Vegan 101
  • Barbara Troyer, Environmental, Wildlife, & Northwest Coordinator, Food for Thought (a program of Animal Place)
  • John Lewis, CEO, Bad Ass Vegan
  • Sahsha Campbell-Garbutt, Owner, Life and Light Wellness
  • Lateefah Smith, Founder, The Veggie Connection
  • Ellie Laks and Jay Weiner, Founders of The Gentle Barn
  • Peter Spendelow, President Northwest VEG
  • Erik Wolf, Executive Director of World Food Travel Association
  • Erin Switlaski, Executive Director of Women’s Voices for the Earth
  • Anthony Rossi, Vice President of Global Business Development at TerraCycle
  • Eileen Durfee, Owner, Inventor of Go Healthy Next

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WHERE: Oregon Convention Center – 777 Northeast Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Portland, OR 97232 – View Map

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Bike to the Green Festival Expo for Free Admission!

by Jenn

LA CrowdThe Green Festival Expo is just around the corner! It’s a great place to pick up some free goodies and maybe a holiday gift or two. Taking place Dec 11th -13th at the Oregon Convention Center, it’s the first time it’s been here in the festival’s 14 year history.

Green Festival Expo is the largest and longest-running sustainability event in the United States with a mission to bring together the world’s most trusted companies, innovative speakers, national and local innovative businesses, conscious consumers and pioneering thinkers to promote the best in sustainability and green living.

GF Logo stackedDuring the 3-day expo there will be free yoga classes, B2B mentoring sessions for green business owners, an interactive family fun area for kids to learn all about reducing their carbon footprint and over 50 inspirational speakers. Green Festival Expo is now featuring a Portland Local Market Place on the floor where attendees will be able to shop locally, taste vegan and vegetarian food and enjoy organic products close to home.

Bike to the expo, park at the Green Festival Bike Valet and receive FREE admission! Youth 16 and under are granted free admission as well. Booth space is available for local and national businesses. Book today by calling (828) 333-9403 x300 or e-mail [email protected]. Visit www.greenfestivals.org for more information. Hours open to the public are: Friday 12pm – 6pm, Saturday 10am – 6pm & Sunday 10am – 5pm. Find your tickets here: http://bit.ly/195cS0D.

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Hit the Heights at Alpine Fest

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2201398775_bb12063c24_z (1)Winter has struck and it’s time to hit the slopes or hike the peaks of some epic mountain. Alpine Fest is coming this Nov. 17-22, presented by Grivel & hosted by the Mazamas, it promises to be a info-packed weekend celebrating all forms of Alpine recreation.

Activities scheduled are as follows:

The Summit: An Evening with Alex Honnold & Jim Whittaker. The BIGGEST night of the festival! Nov. 21 at the Oregon Convention Center. You’ll enjoy great food, a huge silent auction with amazing gear from the sponsors, vendor fair, awards, and more. (food is included in the ticket price; beer & wine available for purchase).

Portland Ice Comp: 10th Annual dry-tooling competition at the newly-renovated Portland Rock Gym.

Clinics: 3-hour, hands-on sessions with a pro-athlete. Clinics are limited to 8, 10, or 12 people (depending on location, subject) to maximize your instructional time with the athlete.

Seminars: 1, 2 or 3-hour classroom style learning with a pro-athlete.

Speaker Series: An evening event, slideshow style presentation from a pro-athlete.

Celebration of Trails: A morning of trail running fun in Forest Park for all ability levels.

The Mazamas is a nonprofit mountaineering education organization in Portland, Oregon. Offering over 1000 climbs and hikes annually, classes and activities are open to both members and nonmembers.

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