Washington DC Green Festival - October 10-11, 2009
The Washington DC Green Festival is a joint project of Global Exchange and Green America,
Scheduled for October 10-11, more than 125 renowned speakers will attend, along with green businesses, workshops, yoga classes, organic food and more.
There will be a strong focus on local Washington DC environmental initiatives, and awareness of creating a healthier environment in neighboring local communities.
If you are committed to the environment, this a perfect opportunity to volunteer and receive free admission, as well as ten percent off merchandise at Global Exchange Stores.
Other benefits include an exclusive organic cotton staff t-shirt, an amazing networking opportunity and a fun, rewarding experience and Free/optional memberships to Global Exchange and Green America.
A few notes about volunteering:
People under 14 years of age are not permitted to volunteer.
People who are hearing impaired, deaf, or handicapped are encouraged to volunteer.
Contact the festival if you would like to arrange a group volunteer reservation.
See the most recent developments in renewable energy and green technology; sample Fair Trade chocolate and coffee; and learn how to invest in your community, green your home and avoid products made in sweatshops.
Green Festival is the largest sustainability event in the world and maintains a commitment to sustainability, ecological balance and social justice.
If you plan on attending the festival, and haven’t secured accomodations or lodging, you may want to consider spending more time in the area and look into Washington DC Vacation Rentals.
Enjoy your stay in the comfort of a townhouse, apartment, condo or rental home.
Eco Friendly Printing
There is a lot of talk going on about adopting environment friendly practices in everything we do. Governments and corporations have started adopting production methods that don’t harm the surroundings or cause as much damage as the traditional methods. A lot of incentives are being offered to budding entrepreneurs to practice green friendly methods in their work. Ordinary people like me are using environment friendly methods in any small ways we can. Things like walking to the local store instead of taking the car or switching off the light bulb when not in use are small things I practise ,which I am sure everybody else does too. It’s like everybody has woken up one day and realized that this planet is not going to last that long if we continued the same dangerous practices we employ in our day to day life.
Actually, there are so many more things that we can do to contribute to the efforts of the governments and corporations in making things better for the environment. For starters, we can add more environment friendly practices in our day to day life. Let’s think green when we think food. We can go in for organic foods which are grown using safe natural methods. Using products that are environment friendly and which are bio degradable or recyclable will go a long way in reducing harmful emissions. Little things like our cellular batteries and paper can cause great damage to our atmosphere. Using biodegradable mobile phone batteries should be enough to put us on the right track for a start.
Paper is a thing that all of us make the most use of at work or home. This innocuous material can cause much greater damage to the environment than most of us think. Huge amounts of used paper end up as toxic garbage that are not recycled or disposed of in environment friendly ways. Adopting safe and healthy methods in using paper and disposing paper can significantly reduce the environmental damage. Many environment conscious printing companies have understood the damage paper can make and the contribution they can make in controlling the damage. These companies now do adopt green printing methods to lessen the harmful effects of using paper for their printing purposes.
Green printing is nothing but environment friendly printing. Green printing methods use environment friendly raw materials in their printing jobs. Recyclable paper that are sourced from local vendors and disposing of used printing cartridges in a safe manner or reuse them are all green printing strategies. Minimum energy consumption and thereby less harmful emissions is also a vital strategy used in green printing. Using equipments that adhere to environmental and emission guidelines is also important to the success of green printing.
Contrary to the prevalent opinion among many that adopting environment friendly printing methods like green printing is not a viable business strategy and that green printing will drive up the overhead costs of the printer is the fact that green printing is a tried and tested successful printing method. Green printing is not only easy but economical to the maker as well as the user. Many companies now offer 100% green printing solutions in many printing jobs they do like printing envelopes, brochures, folders, business cards and folders. The idea of green printing has caught on with the end user as well as the printing companies that some of them even offer online customizable printing facilities to the customers. Needless to say, green printing works for the customer, the printer and most importantly, the environment!