In partnership with Live Thrive Atlanta, the Atlanta Dogwood Festival will again present the award-winning Eco-Village as part of its Green Festival Initiative. The festival focuses on sustainable operations like requiring food vendors to use only recyclable and compostable serving ware and the use of bio-diesel and/or bio-fuel for all generators at the event. Meanwhile, visitors can learn about sustainability practices and meet organizations and businesses that help make homes, office and the city in general a “greener” environment.
Highlights for 2015 include:
* The Market Place: The Market Place is filled with sustainable vendors who explain why their products were created and demonstrate how they work.
* Live Thrive Atlanta: Founder of CHaRM, the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials, the nonprofit sustainability organization Live Thrive Atlanta will explain how to properly dispose of that hard to handle waste that doesn’t fit into any of the boxes at your curb. With the new CHaRM center, opening April 18, 2015, Atlantans will be able to bring these types of waste to be reused and recycled!
* Furniture Bank: Veterans make gorgeous new benches from discarded headboards.
* Bhutan Baskets: Made by Nepalese refugees from locally harvested materials, the baskets sold at last year’s festival supported a refugee family for nearly a year.
* Re:Loom: This amazing team of weavers produce handmade products from donated fabric and old clothing.
* Mike Snowden: Snowden will be onsite throughout the weekend entertaining attendees with his cigar box guitar.
Just last month, the Eco-Village was honored with a Bronze Award from the Southeast
Festivals & Events Association in the category Event Within an Event. The initiative has previous brought home top honors and was named Best Environmental Program by the International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA) from 2011 to 2013. During the five years since the inception of the Green Festival Initiative, the Atlanta Dogwood Festival has been able to divert nearly a ton of trash from landfills and educated hundreds of thousands of attendees about how to take home eco-friendly practices and make them part of their daily lives.Labels: atlanta, atlanta dogwood festival, atlanta ga, craft, craft fair, craft market, dogwood, dogwood festival, eco village, go green, going green eco friendly, green festival initiative, guitars, market place
