Green Festival 2010
Chicago, IL (May 22-23) – Fourth Annual Green Festival, the largest sustainability event in the world, will take place at the city’s historic Navy Pier. Don’t want to pay for the ticket? No problem, just bring your old cell phone and you’re in!
Bring your family’s unused mobile phones with you to the Chicago Green Festival for recycling through T-Mobilize program. In exchange for recycling a mobile phone at the festival, you’ll get free festival admission and can enter for a chance to win tickets to Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival on July 26. All makes and models of devices will be accepted.
The wide selection of workshops, speakers and panelists will cover topics both local and international in scope. Some of the Chicago 2010 Green Festival Speaker Highlights:
Amy Goodman, award-winning journalist, host of Democracy Now!; Commissioner Deb Shore; John Perkins, founder and board member of Dream Change and the Pachamama Alliance and author of best-selling Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun; DJ Spooky; Thom Hartmann; Naomi Davis, director of BIG: Blacks in Green and many more.
There will be The Green Career Fair in collaboration with BIG and Chicago Public Schools.
Some of the Green Festival Highlights:
- 150 renowned authors, leaders & educators
- 350 eco-friendly businesses in a unique marketplace
- Workshops, green films, kids’ activities, live music & more
- Delicious, organic, vegetarian cuisine
You’ll also enjoy Green Kids’ Zone, Community Action Center, Green Home Pavilion, Fair Trade Pavilion, Socially Responsible Investing, Local Organic Restaurants and High Energy Eco-Fashion Show.
