DC Green Festival

I went to the Green Festival last weekend. It was pretty epic. The booths seemed well organized, too. The environmental financial organizations were all clumped together, the foods were clumped together, the coffee sellers were clumped, the charities were clumped, the merchants were clumped. If you knew what you wanted you could just go to that area.
There were a bunch of speakers that I skipped because they said the recordings would be on the website. I'm still looking.

I'm just going to write up a few of the booths that caught my attention.
A full list of exhibitors can be found at http://www.greenfestivals.org/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,53/Itemid,105/.

Filament Free
There's a real market among environmental websites for a decent designer and developers. Most of http://filamentfree.org is under construction. That's ok, because I just want to send you to http://filamentfree.org/betterbulb_products.html.

ECO supply
http//ecosupplycenter.com
Turned out that I had just been to their site the day before. No eCommerce, but they deliver to DC every week or two. I'll be getting my plyboo from them to close up my walls.

Full Circle Industries
http://fullcircleplanet.com/
Their products are made with "paper" that is made from 100% sugarcane fibers-Bagasse. This material is an agricultural by-product from sugar mills. Their factory uses these materials to make disposable paper products. Their bowls are oven safe and can be reused or composted.

Mr. Ellie Pooh
http://www.mrelliepooh.com/
Somehow I missed their booth. I just picked their card up off the ground and it made me laugh.
From their website "Since an elephant’s diet is all vegetarian, the waste produced is basically raw cellulose. Thoroughly cleaned and processed, the cellulose is converted into a uniquely beautiful textured product, marketed as “Ellie Pooh Paper”. This acid free, linen-like papyrus-type paper can be formed into art and construction projects, notebooks, cards and assorted gift items where the only limitation is ones imagination."

Recycle Place
http://recycleplace.com
Sell them your used printer cartridges instead of returning them to the printer.

Greenline Paper Company
http://greenlinepaper.com/
Sells a variety of environmentally friendly office, school, and food service supplies.

Green Earth Office Supply
WARNING: See my earlier comment about bad website design.
http://greenearthofficesupply.com/
Sells a variety of environmentally friendly office, school, and food service supplies.

Kwytza Kraft
http://chopstickart.com/
Products made from recycled chopsticks. I wouldn't buy anything, but I'd start saving my chopstick so I could make my own.

Eco Strip
http://eco-strip.com/
I got to see their product in action. They had windows that looked like they were pulled off an old barn and stripped them. They put an infrared heater over the area to be stripped. The head causes the resins in the wood to rise to the surface so that the paint practically wipes away.

Lime
http://www.lime.com/
Healthy living TV and radio. Starring some woman who stares at all her interviewees like they're saying the most interesting, important, and serious thing in the world. Four hours and that woman didn't appear to have moved an inch or changed her interested scowl in the least.

Ecoprint
http://ecoprint.com
EcoVision Partners
http://ecovisionpartners.com
Environmentally friendly printers.

Standard Solar
http://standardsolar.com/
DC area solar panel installers.

CarbonFund
http://www.carbonfund.org/site/
Their site has a calculator to determine your carbon footprint.
They'll offset your carbon emissions for $5.50 per ton.

Community Forklift
http://communityforklift.com
The retail arm of a deconstruction company. They tear down houses and preserve the outlet, vent covers, siding, cabinets, etc. and resell them. They work with Habitat for Humanity a lot.

Naturally Creative
http://naturallycreative.com
All natural craft products. Lots of yarn.

Bluehouse
http://bluehouselife.com/
Environmentally friendly cafe and home improvement store.

Cafe Campesino
http://www.cafecampesino.com/
Fair trade coffee merchant.

My Organic Market
http://moms-er.com
A DC area organic market. This one uses 100% wind power.

P3
http://epa.gov/P3
Sort of like the Solar Decathlon but with low energy use products.
The next show is 24-25 April 2007 on the National Mall.

New Society Publishers
http://newsociety.com
Too many nifty books to really give them a fair shake. Browse their book list.

The Wilderness Society
http://wilderness.org/
They have job openings.

Fuel Cell Store
http://fuelcellstore.com/
I can't get to the website right now, but they sell a bunch of fuel cell educational toys. Good for classroom use or toys for child and cubicle.