Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair Quick Report
Filed Under: Environmental News on September 20, 2009
This is just a quick run down of what we saw at the Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair yesterday. If you’re in the Fort Collins, Colorado area right now, you need to head over there. It’s going on today, Sunday the 20th, and you do not want to miss this.
We walked the whole fair and saw a lot of really cool stuff. Of course, the usual clap-trap green hippie stuff was there like pot smokers selling their overpriced hemp goods, but most of the booths and people are awesome. The picture at left was taken during a brief break when we stopped at the local brewery tents to enjoy a great-tasting mead while we watched people walking around.
In the background, you’ll see a septicycle – a bicycle powered by six peddlers and a driver. Pretty cool way to get around the place, for sure. There were lots of cool things for kids, adults, dogs, and anyone else to enjoy there too.
We talked with people selling (and custom building) bicycle trailers, beehives, electric cars and motorcycles, hand crafted wood turning, black smithing, building homes with straw bales, building greenhouses with geodesic domes, cooking natural foods, growing those foods, recycling t-shirts into darned socks, making hats out of old plastic bottles, fueling home heating systems with anything you can imagine, making washable and reusable grocery bags from old nylon tents… Imagine it and someone is doing it in this area of the world.
I’ll have more information here, on Zoomilife.com, on Examiner.com, and probably even on NaturalNews.com and other places in the coming days. Tons of cool stuff, lots of people I will follow up with for less time-constrained interviews, and more.
For more information on the fair, click here.
