Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Friday, September 23, 2005

Top 10 Reasons to go to Green Festival DC This weekend

From Green Festival DC --

1. Discover the best ways to start getting involved in making your community a better place.
2. Whoop it up with Jim Hightower.
3. Redefine patriotism for Bush.
4. Move your body in ways you’ve never imagined.
5. Learn how Wal-Mart is really bringing communities together—not in the way those commercials would like you to think.
6. Realize that, “Gee, organic food really does taste better.”
7. Enjoy guilt-free shopping, and maybe even find some unique holiday gifts early.
8. Snack on free fair trade coffee and chocolate, and feel good about the world even after the caffeine rush wears off.
9. Make your home a haven that is not only beautiful but also healthy and kind to the earth.
10. Visit a rainforest without leaving a dent in your wallet…and please, leave your luggage at home.

Speakers include: Amy Goodman - Congressman Dennis Kucinich – Cindy Sheehan - Greg Palast - Delores Huerta - Lester Brown - Daniel Ellsberg -- Youth Speaks -Medea Benjamin - Kevin Danaher - Alisa Gravitz - John deGraaf - Lois Gibbs -CodePink - Rev. Graylan Hagler-- Priya Haji - Van Jones esq. - Gifford Pinchot III - Nora Pouillon -- Brock Evans - - Michael Toms - Zoe Weil and 100 other visionary leaders....Special Attractions include: A marketplace of 300 green businesses - come and do all your holiday shopping, and Marc Maron and Laura Flanders of Air America Radio will be broadcasting live.

Buy tickets ($15) online or at the Convention Center tomorrow or Sunday.
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I will be traveling, otherwise I'd be going.

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