Ecofactory at the Denver Green Festival 2009

This year's Denver Green Festival brings you many of the most relevant environmental issues, green solutions, eco-related exhibits and organizations to the Denver area. This Saturday and Sunday, May 2 through May 3, 2009, brings the Mile High City a collaborative effort between Global Exchange and Green America which should not be missed by anyone who cares about the future of our planet.

Make A Difference!

If you are at all curious about how you can make a difference, you owe it to yourself, your family and the world to make a trip to the Colorado Convention Center, in Denver, Colorado to be a part of this year's Denver Green Festival. By putting your hum-drum, every-day-weekend life on hold, you get to be a part of what is quite possibly one of the most relevant eco-events of the year!

Stop making excuses that you are too busy, the trip is too long, or that you don't really see how your attendance can make a difference. You will make a difference, because your sole attendance is the difference! Be a world changer and make the world a better place by getting involved, by standing up for your community, standing up for America and the world! Carpool or ride a bike if you can, but whatever you do, get involved by attending Colorado's very own Green Festival this weekend.

Where?

All else is simply drone and apathy. Get involved reader! You, yes you are on call this time. Show the world how awake, aware and passionate Colorado is about making the world a better place for future generations and all life on our planet. Grab a companion, the whole family, or come alone, but whatever you do, take a couple of hours out of your schedule to hit the Denver Green Festival at:

Colorado Convention Center 700 14th Street Denver, CO 80202

Hours: Saturday 10AM - 7 PM and Sunday 11:00AM - 6PM

Important Speakers to Catch

Assembled under one roof, will be some of the most relevant names to the world of green. Covering the event, on behalf of Ecofacotry.com, Rima LeBlanc and Sandra Welte will provide podcast interviews with Green Festival speakers, exhibitors, coordinators and attendees so you can catch up on what you missed after the show. Bookmark Ecofactory so you can learn more about the human interest stories that will certainly serve to add additional season and depth to this very important event. We will continue to publish relevant articles about this year's Green Festival in Denver that you are urged to plug into as well.

Exciting speakers will offer some keynote speeches that will really motivate you to think and reflect. Make an attempt to attend as many of these speaker events as possible. A very important reporter, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! offers insights about how greatness is manifested and democracy preserved when people have the courage to object and criticize where they see injustice and how corporate coercion of the media can skew public awareness.

Gunti Pauli, the co-author of Steering Business towards Sustainability, led the Japanese to eliminate landfills within a decade or so, and teaches important lessons to the core capitalist elite, how making money and improving life can go hand-in-hand. Gunti Pauli's organization, Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives (ZERI) will teach you how to view waste as a resource, something companies like Green Guru, for example, a Colorado-based company, have already caught onto. Pauli's speech, "Pulp to Protein: The Green Job Machine" should definitely be on your agenda of those to attend.

Some of the many other important speakers, officials, presenters, supporters, talent, performers, contributors and relevant you should make an effort to catch include Governor Bill Ritter, Mayor John Hickenlooper, U.S. Congresswoman Betsy Markey, John Perkins, Mike Ferrell, Alan Weisman, Tom DeWolf, Laura Flanders, Chido Govero, Thom Hartmann, Hunter Lovins, Dr. David Orr, Greg Palast, Belvie Rooks, Auden Schendler, Paul Stamets, Jonny 5 (Jamie Laurie), 2 Real 4 da Mind, Sharif Abdullah, Kris Abrams, John "The Worm Man" Anderson, Mark Anielski, Ricardo Baca, Tamara Banks, David Barsamian, Ralph E. Beechum, Sr., Big Green Rabbit, Bluff Lake Nature Center, Robert Bogatin, Michael Brownlee, Leah Bry, Parry Burnap, Jen Caltrider, Frank Cannon, Jeanine Canty, Brian Carlin, Caroline Casey, Jim Cassio, Robert Chanate, Bobby Clark, Chip Comins, Lauren Coyne, Vince Curran, Celia Curtis, Kevin Danaher, Cady Dawson, the Denver Public Library, the Denver School of Science and Technology, David Dittloff, Selena L. Dunham, Dawn Duval, Tom Easley, Michael Eck, Ashara Ekundayo, Malia Everette, Amanda Faison, Kellie Falbo, Fiesta Colorado Dance Company, Fiyawata, the Colorado State Forest Service, Shannon Francis, FrontRange Earth Force, Kenny Frost of the Southern Ute Nation from Colorado, Angie Fyfe, Gobs O'Phun, Nichole Goodman, Alisa Gravitz, Jesse Lee Gray, Preston Green, Ayde Riveros Gutierrez, Matthew Harris, Zakiya Harris, Taylor Hawes, Esq., HawkQuest, Carrie Hawthorne, Justice Greg Hobbs, Michael Holloway, Rob Holmes, Paul Hudnut, Timothy Hutchens, Afya Ibomu, Susan Innis, Jennifer Johns, Donna Johnson, David Johnston, Jon Romero Y Amanecer, Panayoti Kelaidis, Rabbi Jamie Korngold, Victoria Kreha, Mickki Langston, Nancy LaPlaca, Steve Lawrence, Let Us Rise, Davidson Lewis, Patty Limerick, Jill Locantore, City Councilman Paul D. Lopez, The Honorable Alice Madden, Liz Manning, Bryan Martin, Marilyn Megenity, Faatma Mehrmanesh, Marygael Meister, Dana Miller, Moetavation, Montbello High School Green Team, Professor Glenn Morris, Scott Morrissey, Mountain Standard Time, Nearly There, Joshua Onysko, PeaceJam, Kim Peterson, André Pettigrew, Josie Plaut, George Pond, Raging Harmonies, Red Feather Woman, Devin Riles, Romero Theater Troupe, Ellen Rosenthal, Graham Russell, Evangelina Pizarro, and many others.

Note to Speakers & Vendors

If you are a vendor or speaker with a message you want to share with the world, make an effort to seek out Rima LeBlanc or Sandra Welte (or any one of their assistants) to get your story published on Ecofactory.com. Free publicity is good! We want to spread your green message around the world! So if you think you have a good story, message or product, seek us out by looking for the microphone with the green ecofactory label.

Schedule of Events

Be sure to pickup a Green Festivals magazine when you get to the event which will include an up-to-date schedule of events. In the meantime, click here to plan your day around this year's 2009 Denver Green Festival Schedule.