Green Festivals - Welcome to Chicago Green Festival
The Nation emails:
We wanted to let everyone know that the Green Festival is coming to Chicago. Previously held only in San Francisco and Washington, DC, the GF is expanding to one of America's greenest cities at the invitation of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's office.Co-produced by Global Exchange and Co-Op America and co-sponsored by The Nation, The Green Festival brings together socially responsible businesses, environmental groups, leading thinkers on the economy and social justice, the best in organic food, and thousands of attendees for a two-day party with a very serious objective: expanding popular support for policies aimed at ecological sustainability and social justice. The Chicago Green Festival will feature more than 300 exhibiters and 150 speakers as well as a special talk by The Nation's Chris Hayes on Sunday, April 22.
April 21 (10:00am to 8:00pm)
April 22 (11:00am to 6:00pm)McCormick Place
2301 S. Lake Shore Drive, ChicagoThe Nation will be at booth #2008 on Saturday and Sunday. Come by to meet Nation writers and staffers and pick up free copies of the magazine and Nation buttons! Don't miss Hayes speaking on Sunday at 3:00 in Room 1 and check out other featured speakers, including Amy Goodman, Jim Hightower, Dennis Kucinich, Bill McKibben, Van Jones and Frances Moore Lappe, among many others.
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McKibben will be speaking about Step It Up!, the April 14 National Day of Climate Action, and what can be done to combat the consequences of global climate change. Click here to see what Step It Up! activities are taking place near you this Saturday and read The Nation's ActNow blog for more info on the largest day of citizen action focusing on global warming in our nation's history and the largest environmental protest of any kind since Earth Day 1970.
My cousin M and her husband are in town, maybe I can talk them into going. Magnificent Mile shopping is so boring anyway.
Tags: Chicago, /environment, /global_warming, /Green
