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Friday, Aug. 9th 4 pm – 12 am
Yoga – Christina Law, Awakening Balance
5G Networks – Stop 5G Asheville
Israeli Folk Dancing – Gladheart Farms – sponsor
Love and Social Permaculture: Reimaging Home, Career, the World – Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff and Rob Mies
Poetry
Nutritional Healing: Listen to Your Body – Zanna Lee Sturm
Zydeco Dance Instruction, Deborah Swansom
CBD Oil – Nancy Chancy
Black Soldier Fly Composting – Danny Keaton, Danny’s Dumpsters – sponsor
Your Solar Questions Answered – David Del Vecchio
Honey Creek Pottery
Saturday, Aug. 10th 9 am – 12 am
Keynote Speaker: Dave Freeman – Wake Up America – The Sun is Shining – 11 am
Renewable Energy Policy and Infrastructure panel – 1 pm
Climate Change and Justice in NC panel – 4 pm
Saturday Morning
Yoga – Christina Law, Awakening Balance
Tai Chi – Kate Morrill
Storytelling – Count Mumbuto
Aquaponics – Robert Rodriguez, Mountain View Farms
Goatherding – Megan Naylor, Wild Mountain Farm
Wake-Up America – The Sun is Shining – Dave “The Green Cowboy Freeman” , keynote speaker
Saturday Afternoon
Solar Hot Water and Solar Thermal – Randy Flinders, Renewable Energy Southeast
Asheville Adventure Play 10 am – 4 pm Buncombe Partnership for Children and Verner Early Learning Center – sponsor
Poetry
Off-Grid Solar in the Developing World – Ed Witkin, Steve Thomson, Samantha Childress, Jon Ruth , United Solar Initiative – sponsor
The Importance of Play in the First 2,000 Days – Buncombe Partnership for Children and Verner Center for Early Learning – sponsor
Renewable Energy Infrastructure and Policy panel with: Dave “The Green Cowboy Freeman”, keynote speaker; Ben Stockdale, North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association; Steffi Rausch, Citizens’ Climate Lobby; Rocky Buldo, Power2Choose/Enough Technologies; Ned Ryan Doyle, Asheville energy activist
Community Empowerment and Food Resiliency – Tatiano Auturo, Bounty&Soul
Biochar – Dan Hettinger, Living Web Farms
Goods from the Woods: Profits from the Understory – Roger Lenhardt, Norm’s Farms – sponsor
Warren Wilson Farm and Recycling Center Tour
Asheville/Buncombe’s Blue Horizon’s Project – Sophie Mullinax, Blue Horizon’s Project
Helping Each Other Reduce Energy Use – Roger Helm, Energy Savers Network
Earth-bag Building – Morgan Caraway, Sustainable Life School
Hooping with Mel
Climate Change and Justice in NC panel with: Jenny Dissen, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Dr. Liesel Erb, Warren Wilson College; Dr. Anne Richardson, Climate Psychiatry Alliance; Will Heegaard, Footprint Project – sponsor
Regenerative Agriculture – Frank Holzman, Recovery Eco-Agriculture Project
Coal Ash – Appalachian Voices – sponsor
Beekeeping 101 – Becky Johnson, Kiss My Beehive
Saturday Evening
Climate Change Basics – Marcela Moreno and Roger Helm, Climate Reality Project – sponsor
Songwriters Workshop – NC Songsmiths Collective
Nuclear Energy Cannot Save the Plant and Why – Mary Olson, Nuclear Information Research Service
Self-Sufficiency and Me: Bringing Self-sufficiency into Any Lifestyle – Mike Rutledge, Wi-Buy Energy
Renewable Energy Systems on a Farm – Richard Freudenberger, Living Web Farms
Green New Deal Explained – Sunrise Movement AVL
Origami Mami
New Life CBD
Sunday, Aug. 11th 9 am – 7 pm
Green Jobs Panel – 1 pm
Closing Ceremony and Dance of Universal Peace – 6 pm
Sunday Morning
Yoga – Christina Law, Awakening Balance
Breathing – Tama
Poetry
Preserving Our Mental Wellbeing Through Fermentation – Jennifer Eby
Power and Light from the Sun 101 – Ed Witkin – United Solar Initiative, sponsor
EV Vehicles – Rudy Beharrysingh, Blue Ridge EV Club
Shanti Elixers
Financing Solar – Josh Redmond
Toning Energy Chakras – Janet Gillettee
Empower Yourself: Edison (Nickel-Iron) Battery Refurbishing and Benefits – Keenan Phillips, KS Phillips Contracting – sponsor
Sunday Afternoon
Clean Green Solar Machine – Lyle Ciardi – sponsor
Faith-based Environmental Stewardship – Rev. Scott Hardin-Nieri, Creation Care Alliance
Advanced Energy Storage – Rocky Buldo, Power2Choose/Enough Technologies – sponsor
Clean Path 2025 – Kim Porter, NC Warn
Green Jobs Panel with: John Esson, Environmental Careers Center; Montana Bush, Alternative Energy Southeast; Chelsa Barnes, Appalachian Voices – sponsor
Herbs – Folk Apothic
Arts and Activism – Community Roots
Spiritual Ecology – Tom Blue Wolf, Earthkeepers – sponsor
Footprint Project and Red Dot Solar – sponsors
Belly Dance – Lacy Maselle
Healing Tonic – David Rosenthal, Pure Fire Foods
