MIDWEST RENEWABLE ENERGY FAIR

MIDWEST RENEWABLE ENERGY FAIR
www.the-mrea.org
The Nation's Premier Energy Education Event
June 19-21, 2009
The 20th Anniversary Energy Fair at the ReNew the Earth Institute in Custer, WI.

22,500 people attended last year, this is a big deal! I went last year and it was truly amazing, something for everyone, beginner to advanced - excellent workshops and a huge variety! Highly recommended!

Cost: $15 a day or $35 for the weekend
$5 off if you take the bus from Chicago
inexpensive hotels and great camping
free shuttles around town

The Energy Fair features over 200 workshops (see sample list below)
Fair Hours: Friday June 19 and Saturday June 20 from 9 am to 7 pm, Sunday June 21 from 9 am to 5 pm

Since 1990, the Energy Fair has shown fairgoers how to change the world while having fun. Each summer the Fair transforms rural central Wisconsin into the global hot spot for renewable energy education. The Energy Fair is the world's largest renewable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainable living educational event of its kind.
The Energy Fair features hundreds of workshops and exhibits all emphasizing clean energy & sustainable living and is fun for the whole family.
Energy Fair Features
· Over 270 exhibitors
· Over 200 workshops
· Mass transit offered from Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay/Appleton, Chicago and Minneapolis.
· Free hourly shuttles from Stevens Point
· Clean Energy Car Show
· Green Home Pavilion
· Sustainable Table Workshop Area
· Educator Workshops
· Hands On Workshops
· Food, entertainment for the whole family!

Some of the workshops: everything solar, wind, green ur home, greywater, arbor care, living off the grid, geothermal, year round gardening, build with stone, straw bale, veggie gardens, yoga, seed saving, herbal remedies, biofuels, permaculture, compost, green careers, transition towns, greenhouse, and much much more!

CHICAGO BUS DETAILS
The bus will depart from 5101 Dempster Street, in Village of Skokie at 6:30AM Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The bus will leave the Fair at 6:30PM Friday and Saturday, and at 5PM on Sunday. Parking is $4 for 24 hours (in the south parking lot). Parking tokens are required, and can be purchased at machines in terminal. Parking is at owner's risk. Cost: $20 each way.

MAYBE SOME OF US COULD MEET ON THE BUS???

2009 Energy Fair Keynotes:
Friday, June 19 at 1 pm
Antonia Juhasz is an author and political activist. She was the author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time in 2006, Alternatives to Economic Globalization for which she received the 2004 Project Censored award. In 2008, she published The Tyranny of Oil. For more information on Antonia and her lasted book.

Saturday, June 20 at 1 pm
Alan Weisman, spoke at the 10th Anniversary Energy Fair, and we’re happy to have him join us another ten years later to celebrate our progress and help us look forward to another 20 years.
Alan Weisman is an author and journalist whose reports from around the world have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Orion, Wilson Quarterly, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, Discover, and more.
His most recent book, The World Without Us, (a staff favorite) is a bestseller, and was named the Best Nonfiction Book of 2007 by both Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly.

Sunday, June 21 at 1 pm
Wendy Williams, an is the author of Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound. The Wall Street Journal called Cape Wind "a ripe subject, populated with the sort of people who would be among the first to count themselves as friends of the Earth but the last to accept an environmentally friendly energy source if it meant the slightest cloud on their ocean views." Williams has written for many major publications, including Scientific American, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, The Providence Journal and The Baltimore Sun. She has been journalist-in-residence at Duke University and at the Hasting Center. The author of several books, she lives on Cape Cod.

Michelle Shocked, will headline The Energy Fair on Saturday, June 20 at 7:30 pm. You can hear Michelle for FREE with your paid admission to The Energy Fair.
Michelle Shocked is a phenomenal singer-songwriter whose music and performances are influenced by her Texas roots and her political activism.
Some of her tunes include Anchorage, If Love Was a Train, On the Greener Side, and a new tune (a staff favorite) called Hi Skool.