so we are a green fast company name as tiny's organic and we are a family owned and operated farm out of eastern washington we sell all of our produce in the seattle region mostly through our delivery service which is called a c a community supported agriculture and the way that works as we drop off fresh bags of produce local pick up spots all around the puget sound for customers pick up between june and november once a week on wednesdays we also bend our product at local area farmers market ambassadors international were non profit organization here in seattle completely volunteer based our mission is the health orphanages in conflict zones become more sustainable and self sufficient we have three projects right now in tanzania cambodia and sierra leone right now we're doing so in still ation we've got solar projects as you can see in these pictures we have solar installations for solar power providing electricity and energy for our orphanages there we do vegetable gardens water wells and chicken coops we use a lot of support from local volunteers here in seattle to help install the solar panels and build the chicken coops here's a picture of and it's bed time now with the new solar power they can turn the lights on even the light studying the light orphans two ambassadors dot org you can find out more information there we've got all of our photos from all of our projects there community intersect with the sustainability movement we've seen that sustainability isn't just about carbon is not about composting exclusively it's much broader than that and it's also not just a bunch of say white hippies in the woods like it was forty years ago it's really much broader and we're about bringing kind of everybody to the table and giving visibility between these two communities that the gay community has been statistically us to support the environment fifty five percent versus thirty three percent in the straight community but there's not the sense that in the gay community that we identify a sustainable so how can we improve that by a connecting  connecting people in the gay community with with the incredible things that are happening at places like green fest where sustainability is really on the cutting edge and and happening you know like i said in a much broader a broader sense so that's kind of what we're about we do events primarily in seattle we're seattle based but we're looking beyond we haven't in turn out of york university in toronto looking at baseline data for printing a global best practices tool kit for pride organizers and attendees so looking at how can a scrappy little nonprofit that's all volunteer and unfunded go beyond and really make global impact through a strong sort of community of individuals who have relationships and care about things and and one more thing sustainability should be fun so that's why we wear things like nature so gay because sustainability shouldn't take itself quite so seriously make it accessible and relevant to everybody my name is patrick spencer and i'm the executive director of the workforce conservation alliance we're here at the green festival to help people learn a little bit about the court force of the mediterranean basin how important they are to our world's biosphere and to learn a little bit about the facts about cork and specially as a relates to the wine industry these seven million acres of cork forests exists in spain portugal france italy morocco tunisia algeria it is a very unique tree the cork tree because it's the only tree in the world that you can harvest a bark from and not harm the tree some of the common misconceptions about cork especially in the forces that the trees are cut down these trees are never cut down and they are harvested by hand with no mechanical tools every nine years so it really is the most sustainable and environmentally friendly forestry practice in the world and some of the other misconceptions that people have about the cork industry is that screw caps are better or more environmentally sound in fact mining for boxset is devastating to the planet and your screw caps aren't being recycled in any in any state in the united states so what we try to do is help people understand why these forces are so important and just to kind of help educate people we run a cork recycling program it's called corkery harvest and you can find our corporate harvest boxes that any whole foods in the united states also it's p c c and at the wine warehouse here in the greater seattle area moved to attack iraq and in turn factor in february march of two thousand in february two thousand and three i was in new york city or a million people in the streets of new york city i was some you may have watched television all around the world people are gathering insisting on one piece we need that kind of collective consciousness pressure now and so it whatever our concern is we have to be ready to get together with others and be visible because it's through our personhood getting together with like minded people when we make that expression we have a tremendous impact we don't even know what happens to the part of the people unless we get together in large groups and demand it and frankly i believe it's the only my name is richard heron we are we are sustainable building and insulation we are sustainable insulation contractor we primarily focus on the retrofit market and we do like commercial and new construction all the products that we install are the most sustainable that we have found for each category we have three blown in products blown in cellulose has one hundred percent borat blown in wool which is one hundred percent or natural from sheeple and then we have and it is done from the outside we also have bad products we carry eco bat which is a fiberglass with no harmful chemicals we also have cotton bats which is one hundred percent natural cotton and then we also have sheep all install we really believe that one component of sustainability is to build from the heart and create eight environments that will have meaning and spirit and long jetty as well as healthy man tox rather like well i'm with the northwest biodiesel network where i'm not for not for profit five hundred one c three education advocacy organization educating the public in promoting biodiesel as an alternative to petroleum and we have monthly education forums the fourth tuesday of every month from seven to nine pm and we bring in speakers talk about a variety of subjects from biofuels quality to bio mass conversion to local producers had a meeting about co ops recently where people interested in starting biodies ops learned about the ins and outs of that cover a wide variety of subjects and we also got tabling at various events like the green festival to educate people and answer questions and raise awareness biodiesel should always look at all to her kids to petroleum in energy and ask lots of questions about everything and educate yourselves about what we have we do is we help you to reconnect with your power source in a very peaceful and loving environment we set up individual weekends special for you so that the only person that i work with is you for that moment in time you send us a questionnaire that answers all the questions i need as to why you're coming i designed the workshops special for that and we have forty five hours to put it all together so that you can relax in a peaceful place and reconnect with your power source thank you this is  niger delta and the impact of the petroleum industry in the niger delta hi my name is kyle to p z this is the sustainable fuel co op one prior to that was supplying compressed natural gas equipment has as an alternative fuel and was this was one of the first pumps in the united states to make high blend  diesel available dr dan has since been primarily working on vehicles as a mechanic and is interested in having a community group take over the  the pumps so there's one available in ballard as well as on sixty fifth and fifteen at the express so express and the reason for doing this is that a community dan wanted to assure that they were going to have the most sustainably sourced fuel possible in addition they wanted to be sure that large portions of their work available the community based principles that were shown are primarily coming from the sustainable biodiesel alliance which is a national organization and some of the principles that they espouse are also supported by an international organization called the round table for sustainable biofuels so this is both a local effort as a co op but there is in national and international effort to assure that some of these biofuels which are supposed to be better for the environment are sustainably sourced and available that information is available to the consumer our website is w w w sustainable fuel co dash op dot com and the film is w w w dot sweet crude movie dot com can hi my name is mike hines i'm a volunteer for those like ice movement we're an international grassroots organization that promotes global sustainability through changes to our core economic and social dot com as well as washington state site called z m w a dot org and we'd love to have anybody join us and help see what what is you know making our planet sick and making our population sick and causing the strife in our societies and help come up with solutions to solve those problems through changes to the core structure of our society thank you now you might ask how is it that our government with the food and drug administration how could they allow such dangerous foods on the market well the answer is this i think you'll find it let's say interesting maybe even funny the policy of the f d a says that the agency is not aware of any information showing that these foods these g m foods are significantly different and on that basis they say absolutely no testing is necessary no labeling is necessary you don't even have to tell the f been fined convicted fined seven hundred million dollars just for the p c b allies they're in charge of determining whether their genetically modified foods are safe now why is it that the f d a gave monsanto that opportunity to determine if the foods are sa or the person in charge of policy at the f d a was monsanto's former attorney later monsanto is vice president now the u s food safety czar so it's really about people's local stories it's it's about educating people about who lives in the who live in these places what is the local culture what would you find if you went and explored in greater detail detail and these parts of our state if you're more interested in learning more about our guides and some of the other programs that we do you can find that on our web site which is northwest heritage resources dot org or alternatively we have a website for our tour guys specifically and that is washington folk arts dot com so please come and visit our website you can and learn more about our cultural heritage tours and the other programs that our organization does thank you very much my name's cameron and i'm here with clif bar at the green festival and we like to say that we're very proud to be part of seattle's green festival and encourage everybody to come out and check out our line of organic natural products such as our crunch bar knew for this year it's our new granola bar seven percent organic and then moving our way down the line we've got the original cliff bar and our mojo trail mix bar and our products are in most major grocery store retailers and we encourage everybody to have a green year and thanks for coming out hi my name is cheryl cheerio well we're here with to mark for democracy now we're volunteers and to speak people come by to visit the table we ask them if they've heard of democracy now if we if they haven't then we tell them about democracy now most people are pretty aware of amy goodman and democracy now and they just stop by to say hello and give us their support my name's david had just day me was amazing as usual today and she came in spoke at noon and needed to be out here at one thirty still managed to she just she spoke all the way tell one managed to get everybody through the book signing table and do her usual personal talking to each person clued in sending a guy an email on her from her phone see and throwing in an interview with side using her i phone and interviewing him asking some questions and then back to the signing wound up getting out of here with the limo waiting as usual and  and she took a quick picture with all the crew and and she was gone so it was it was more of a whirlwind than usual for her and it's always a whirlwind with her but she's just really a treasure thank you so i'm jenny heinz seattle regional director for the green festival my name is alisa gra i am the executive co producer of green festival and the director of green america and well jenny hines and i are here to tell you a little bit about green festival so jenny as the regional director of seattle for green festival tell me what happened here this weekend then what's going to happen next year well this is our fourth year here green festival and we were in a new location this year quest field which was really nice an open area space and we have lots of exhibitors here we just have lots of great green business exhibitors here as well as thirteen different stages with topics ranging from green building to growing food in your garden to social justice  all kinds of different activities here in the space yeah i certainly when we put together the green festival we set the intention that anyone can come to green festival and have a great time and learn more on their journey to sustainability whether their chest starting from the very beginning and they have not even learned how to spell green yet when people can come and do that and you know there might be one thing here that they're interested in maybe they're interested in some of the art and culture or maybe they have a young kid and they bring their kid to the green the green kids own and the next thing you know they're looking at what other kinds of speakers we have and they're checking out the all vegetarian local organic food court and you know they really get the idea of what green means i mean other side of the spectrum we have people here who have been working on sustainability since that idea first got created and they come here to learn more ideas to go deeper on their journey to sustainability and to learn about and basically to connect with all kinds of people so about three years ago we were invited to a meeting with a farmer who is from tenure has named joseph machine gun and somebody from the gates foundation to talk about the future of agriculture in africa and by the time we were through with that conversation we were horrified just at my saying i was talking about having learn kind of agriculture actually that comes from the northwest but was brought into the african context and made african by a group called manor house in kenya and they've trained thirty seven now fifty thousand farmers in bio intensive agriculture that keeps farmers in their community using on farm and puts and basically sustainable in our gannett techniques and with very little money this technique was taught to lots of farmers and it's working in the gates foundation guy said well that's really interesting because we don't think that are getting works on the continent that the soils are too poor that there's that environmental conditions and so on are not really up for that they've changed their tune a little bit if you look at some of their propaganda but basically they think that hi industrial agriculture with lots of money fertilize their hybrid seeds and genetically modified seeds or the way to feed africa and to consolidate farms they talk about land mobility what's land mobilit no it's not kind of farming it is privatizing land so people can sell the farm if they need to so they can actually mortgage their farm so they can be a part of these loan packages that are being pushed by the gates foundation and usa id and other international aid organizations and so the idea is that you can you can borrow against and if you can't pay for it you don't have any other resources so the farm gets back to the bank effect