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October:
Second Annual
The Green Market Exposition is an annual community event which provides support, information and resources for sustainable living for residents of Bridgeport and surrounding Fairfield County communities, and will kick off
Bridgeport’s Green Market Economy.
For more information, please click HERE
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Green Market Exposition in Bridgeport
Updated: Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009, 12:40 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009, 12:25 PM EDT
Bridgeport (WTNH) - From green job training to eco-friendly products, the Green Market Exposition is underway at the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport today.
When you think of the green movement, you probably think people trying to protect the environment. Sure, that is a major component, but these days going green can also be good for your bottomline. It's why new buildings are being built to meet higher green standards.
"Where you'd have certain alternative energy sources and you'd use building products that are friendly and renewable," said Michael Sepanek, EMC.
EMC is an alternative energy company that uses heat sensing technology to assess your home and tell you how you can make it more efficient.
Analiese Paik writes a blog about eating green and says when you buy vegetables from a farmers' market you're helping the farmer, the local economy and your family.
"And when they buy them and they cook them very simply, they realize, this hasn't been sitting on a grocery store shelf for a couple of weeks and it hasn't been sitting in a warehouse - this tastes different," she said.
The idea behind the Green Market Exposition is to show people how they can do better in going green, but it's no coincidence that it's being held here in Bridgeport, because organizers believe this city can revive its economy by becoming a green leader.
"It's pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps," said Remy Chevalier, one of the Green Market's organizers.
Chevalier says Bridgeport has the opportunity to reinvent itself by rediscovering its innovative spirit.
"Now it's all about green manufacturing, about green infrastructure, about having these sound managing practices," he said.
The city's already building a workforce. Its successful Green Team program trains people for so-called green collar jobs. The city has also established a 40-member advisory panel to consider new opportunities.
"Well, it's like I'm back in the 60's again and everybody's idealistic and putting forward ways to fix the world up. So, it's very exciting," said Mayor Bill Finch (D-Bridgeport).
So many opportunities and possibilities that many here hope will one day become reality.
The Holiday Inn ‘Green Engage' software works by hotels directly inputting data on site. The system automatically compares hotels of a similar nature across the world and lists a series of actions that each hotel can take to reduce waste and the consumption of energy and water.
Green Engage responds to growing levels of interest from guests who are looking for sustainable hotels that manage their environmental impact. As well as location, price and amenities, guests are now factoring in a hotel's environmental credentials when booking a place to stay.
By utilising ‘Green Engage', hotels will now have for the first time, a comprehensive on-line system which gives them the means to:
- Measure - their usage of energy and water, waste produced and their carbon emissions. They can then benchmark themselves against other hotels and set demanding, but achievable reduction targets.
- Manage - the elements of their hotel that most impact the environment. These can range from insulating the hotel's hot water pipes to introducing a recycling programme and switching to organic cleaning materials to appointing one of the employees as a green champion.
- Report - on progress to date both internally and to guests and corporate clients.
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219 Bedford Street
Bridgeport Winners
2009
Restaurant/Dine-in:
Coffee:
Green Building Supplies:
Leader in Environmental Model:
B Green 2020
Green Job Training:
Greater Bridgeport Community Enterprises
Mayor:
Mayor Finch
Fashion Accessories:
Organic Ornaments
Student Organization:
Housatonic Community College:
The Friends of the Environment Club
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$5 red and white wine
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Imani leads the Hartford-based Growing Green Coop. She is the author of The Absence of Soil and visionary behind The MAMALUTION, www.growinggreenevents.com.
This series is brought to you by Gateway Community College's Center for a Sustainable Future in collaboration with the City of New Haven. All programs take place on Gateway Community College's Long Wharf campus,
room 160. This series is free and open to the public.
To Register for CCE courses
Click HERE
To Learn More About Registering for CCE Courses, Click HERE and Scroll Down to The Bottom of The Page.
Join Us at
The Second Annual
Green Jobs
Green Market Exposition Will Explore These Questions:
What Is A Green Market Economy?
What are Green Jobs?
Where is Green Job Training Available?
How Can We Nurture a Green Collar Economy Locally?
How Can I Live A More Sustainable Lifestyle?
Starting February 2, 2010
It's $2 Tuesdays
at
The Barnum Museum
Same price
no matter what your age!
Come one Come All!
Experience the wonders
of the three floors
of The Barnum Museum
for only $2 a person!
