BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Meetup Inc//RemoteApi//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://rawfood.meetup.com/222/calendar/10655366/ical/MIDWEST +RENEWABLE+ENERGY+FAIR/ X-WR-CALNAME:Events - MIDWEST RENEWABLE ENERGY FAIR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:MIDWEST RENEWABLE ENERGY FAIR DESCRIPTION:THE RAW CHICAGO COMMUNITY!!!\n\nMIDWEST RENEWABLE ENERGY FAIR\n www.the-mrea.org\nThe Nation's Premier Energy Education Event\nJune 19-21\, 2009 \nThe 20th Anniversary Energy Fair at the ReNew the Earth Institute i n Custer\, WI. \n\n22\,500 people attended last year\, this is a big deal! I went last year and it was truly amazing\, something for everyone\, beginn er to advanced - excellent workshops and a huge variety! Highly recommended !\n\nCost: $15 a day or $35 for the weekend\n$5 off if you take the bus fro m Chicago\ninexpensive hotels and great camping\nfree shuttles around town \n\nThe Energy Fair features over 200 workshops (see sample list below)\nFa ir Hours: Friday June 19 and Saturday June 20 from 9 am to 7 pm\, Sunday Ju ne 21 from 9 am to 5 pm\n\nSince 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 educa tion. The Energy Fair is the world's largest renewable energy\, energy effi ciency\, and sustainable living educational event of its kind. \nThe Energy Fair features hundreds of workshops and exhibits all emphasizing clean ene rgy & sustainable living and is fun for the whole family. \n \nEnergy Fair Features \n· Over 270 exhibitors \n· Over 200 workshops \n· Mass transit of fered from Madison\, Milwaukee\, Green Bay/Appleton\, Chicago and Minneapol is. \n· Free hourly shuttles from Stevens Point \n· Clean Energy Car Show \ n· Green Home Pavilion \n· Sustainable Table Workshop Area \n· Educator Wor kshops \n· Hands On Workshops \n· Food\, entertainment for the whole family !\n\nSome of the workshops: everything solar\, wind\, green ur home\, greyw ater\, arbor care\, living off the grid\, geothermal\, year round gardening \, build with stone\, straw bale\, veggie gardens\, yoga\, seed saving\, he rbal remedies\, biofuels\, permaculture\, compost\, green careers\, transit ion towns\, greenhouse\, and much much more!\n\nCHICAGO BUS DETAILS \nThe b us will depart from 5101 Dempster Street\, in Village of Skokie at 6:30AM F riday\, 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 so uth parking lot). Parking tokens are required\, and can be purchased at mac hines in terminal. Parking is at owner's risk. Cost: $20 each way.\n\nMAYBE SOME OF US COULD MEET ON THE BUS???\n\n2009 Energy Fair Keynotes:\nFriday\ , June 19 at 1 pm\nAntonia 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 th e 2004 Project Censored award. In 2008\, she published The Tyranny of Oil. For more information on Antonia and her lasted book. \n\nSaturday\, June 20 at 1 pm\nAlan Weisman\, spoke at the 10th Anniversary Energy Fair\, and we ’re happy to have him join us another ten years later to celebrate our prog ress and help us look forward to another 20 years. \nAlan Weisman is an aut hor and journalist whose reports from around the world have appeared in Har per's\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Los Angele s Times Magazine\, Orion\, Wilson Quarterly\, Vanity Fair\, Mother Jones\, Discover\, and more. \nHis most recent book\, The World Without Us\, (a sta ff favorite) is a bestseller\, and was named the Best Nonfiction Book of 20 07 by both Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. \n\nSunday\, June 21 at 1 pm\nWendy Williams\, an is the author of Cape Wind: Money\, Celebrity\, C lass\, Politics\, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound. The Wall Street Journal called Cape Wind "a ripe subject\, populated with t he sort of people who would be among the first to count themselves as frien ds of the Earth but the last to accept an environmentally friendly energy s ource if it meant the slightest cloud on their ocean views." Williams has w ritten for many major publications\, including Scientific American\, The Ch ristian 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 . \n\nMichelle Shocked\, will headline The Energy Fair on Saturday\, June 2 0 at 7:30 pm. You can hear Michelle for FREE with your paid admission to Th e Energy Fair. \nMichelle Shocked is a phenomenal singer-songwriter whose m usic and performances are influenced by her Texas roots and her political a ctivism. \nSome of her tunes include Anchorage\, If Love Was a Train\, On t he Greener Side\, and a new tune (a staff favorite) called Hi Skool.\n\nChi cago\, IL 60614 - USA\n\nSaturday\, June 20 at 9:00 AM\n\nPhoto: http://ph otos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/c/f/f/event_10488383.jpeg\n\nAttendin g: 2\n\nDetails: http://rawfood.meetup.com/222/calendar/10655366/ LAST-MODIFIED:20090719T193455Z UID:event_10655366@meetup.com CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20090615T163703Z DTSTAMP:20091231T143606Z DTSTART:20090620T140000Z DTEND:20090620T160000Z GEO:41.92;-87.65 URL:http://rawfood.meetup.com/222/calendar/10655366/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR