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| Boston GreenFest is organized by the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. As the region's largest multicultural environmental festival, Boston GreenFest celebrates the many ways we can create a better world by greening our lives and our communities.
The Mayor endorses Boston GreenFest. more Boston GreenFest![]() Promote Your Page Too Take a Walk through the amazing Time Tunnel. more Isaac's Moving Company will be at Boston GreenFest 2010 to help the exhibitors move into place and get things set up for an amazing time! Look for their trucks around Boston and outlying areas - they are carrying our message!
Native American Drum & Dance Ceremony will launch Boston GreenFest 2010 on the Main Stage, Thursday, August 19th at 5 pm. Annawon Weeden will lead the ceremony with friends and family of Wampanoag and Narragansett heritage. Experience a piece of Eastern Woodland culture and feel the spirit of the native songs.
Alexanderia the Great, the female reincarnation of Houdini, will perform an amazing feat. She will escape from a recycle bin in which she will be submerged underwater with her hands above her head shackled in handcuffs above the bin, and once freed, she must then try and pick the padlocked lid to escape. How long will it take to escape all? How long can she hold her breath? Will she escape in time? See if you can hold your breath with her. Start practicing! Alex will be on the Main Stage at 5 pm on Friday, August 20.
The One Gallon Challenge is a "race" from Northampton to GreenFest. On display at City Hall Plaza will be a group of cars you've never seen before. On Thursday, August 19th, they will have "raced" 110 miles from Northampton, MA to Boston City Hall Plaza's GreenFest on the energy of one gallon of gas. Pictured above, the ICARE is a Swiss-engineered wind/solar powered vehicle that is on its way to us via Switzerland and Morocco. Don't miss it's inaugural USA appearance! more Special thanks go to Northampton Brewery, the Parking Director of Northampton, Green Northampton and all the people of Northampton for the wonderful welcome given to Boston GreenFest 2010's One Gallon Challenge! GreenFilmFest A series of films about going green, including HOME. more This Year's EcoThemes: |
Thursday   10 AM to 4:30 PM   Green Jobs Forum
Gubernatorial Green Debate! Sat. Aug 21st 4 pm.
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LIVE! At Boston GreenFest 2010 ![]() Bring your own reuseable water bottle to GreenFest. To help raise awareness about the wastefulness of plastic water bottles, GreenFest will provide free drinking water to everyone. MWRA will help us provide fresh cold water for all festival goers using a special portable water fountain. The water fountain is being used in NYC and now will be in Boston for Boston GreenFest 2010. Visit the EcoFashion Tent! ![]() The Children's Museum will send over their festival bubble kit! The New England Aquarium will be educating our children and families about marine life and helping us understand that what we do on land affects our oceans. For example, if we throw trash on the street or don't pick up what our dogs leave behind, it will get washed into the ocean and make problems for our fish. This is called nonpoint source pollution. With a little consideration, we can help keep our oceans and watersheds clean. Come say hello to a starfish or a sea urchin! Boston Public Schools EcoPhoto Contest 2010 Boston Photography Center $1000 Gift Value Photo Course Grand Prize Winner: Nathan Hale School $250 Borders Gift Winners: Samuel Adams Elementary School Boston Latin School Ohrenberger K-8 School Special Mention: Henderson Inclusion Elementary School Honorable Mention: Mission Hill K-8 School Philbrick Elementary School Winship Elementary School Borders is providing three wonderful prizes for this year's Boston Public Schools EcoPhoto Contest. Three $250 Borders Gift Certificates will be awarded to the winners to acquire special texts on the environment for their school library.
Boston Photography Center is providing the grand prize for this year's BPS EcoPhoto Contest:   a digital photography class for 15 of its students and staff. Brighter Planet for the second year in a row, will offset whatever energy we use to run Boston GreenFest 2010 that we cannot offset ourselves. We will use solar power, pedal power, walking, biking and public transit. Brighter Planet will perform a full audit of our energy use at Boston GreenFest and educate festival goers about the savings. Brighter Planet develops innovative tools to help transition to a low-carbon future and move into an era of clean energy. We applaud Brighter Planet for being named Small Business of the Year by Treehugger and considered the most strategic philanthropy by Justmeans and Financial Times. Mass Energy will match the electricity used to run our EcoStage with clean, local wind power. Mass Energy is a non-profit organization that works to make energy more affordable and sustainable. They host a discount heating oil program and offer two programs that allow residents and businesses to buy green power: New England GreenStart and the New England Wind Fund. To green your own electricity use, visit www.massenergy.org. |
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