The main purpose of the event is to provide green living solutions to Venice residents to help them become more environmentally engaged, aware and proactive. Expo vendors will provide green solutions to help attendees green their home, lives, cars, kids, food, and more!

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Neighbors can expect an Expo section full of vendors providing information (no commerce is conducted on site, its purely informational), a huge Kid’s section sponsored by local animation house Hippo Works, a company that teaches kids about climate change and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals through fun, interactive cartoons. Activities including: upcycled arts & crafts from the reDiscover Center, a kids’ fitness challenge in the park, a huge coloring wall provided by the LADWP, and other crafts and games.

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The speaking schedule is chock full of prominent names in the environmental space. We’ll hear from:

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Venice local David Hertz about his new SkySource water initiative
Finian Makepeace, founder of Kiss the Ground about the importance soil plays in our lives
Genesis Butler, a wonderfully articulate 10-year old advocate for veganism and animal rights
Matt Petersen, the Head of Sustainability City of LA, to discuss LA’s sustainability plan
Steve Glenn of Living Homes, about sustainable architecture
Anna Cummins, founder of 5Gyres discussing our oceans & their health
We’ll also have workshops on: gardening & composting led by Nicole Landers of Community Healing Gardens, plant-based nutrition made simple by vegan activist Alex Rea, and more.

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EcoSafe Zero Waste will run the zero waste stations to make this event completely zero waste, the LADWP will power the event with their solar truck, and FREE trees will be given out by the LA Conservation Corps.

Finally, solar-run DJ’s the Syncons will be spinning all day, while people enjoy local restaurants Poke Shack, Flower Child and others who will be giving out free food & lemonade, and there will be food for sale as well.

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FOR MORE INFO: Green Venice Festival 2017

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Green Venice Expo kids

The future of building with MNM Mod Building Solutions.  MNMOD.com

Dylan Newhouse learns about Kiss the Ground

Kiss The Ground’s mission is to inspire and advocate for the restoration of soil worldwide.
Our work is helping farmers and communities build back healthy soil through policy and consumer awareness.www.KissTheGround.com.  What you can do:  Compost, host a screening, help a farmer, vote with your wallet, and help your community.  Click here for full details!

Paul Scott talks about Autonomous Cars.  Paul is a founding member of Plug In America and a long-time EV driver and advocate for renewable energy.

Community Healing Gardens’ goal is to create organic gardens in every school throughout the L.A. Unified School District, to educate and introduce the importance of nutrition, health, food safety and environmental sustainability. They hope this will lead to healthier food options in the lunch and nutrition programs.  Join them at their Coffee + Dirt event on April 16th, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.  www.CommunityHealingGardens.org

Wow! This is a frightening fact, presented by speaker Joel Cesare of Surfrider Foundation!

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Surfrider Foundation is a volunteer based, environmental non-profit group dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of our world’s oceans, waves and beaches. surfrider.org.

Hama Sushi is the first restaurant to sign up for Surfrider’s Ocean Friendly Restaurant program!  Way to go Esther Chaing!  About Ocean Friendly Restaurants:   Their main goal is eliminating EPS foam foodware (aka Styrofoam) because it is a top item found at their beach cleanups.  Click here to be an Ocean Friendly Restaurant!

Surfrider also tells us about their “Hold On To Your Butt” program!  Over 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered every year. Our goal is to cut down on cigarette butt pollution in our community so that dirty butts don’t wind up on the beaches we all love. In the coming months, cigarette disposal ashcans will be installed along the coast from Marina del Rey to Malibu. Butts will be collected and recycled through TerraCycle!  To all local businesses, please participate in this program!   Click here for more info!

Green Truck’s Mission: Healing our planet one meal at a time.  Here are just a few ways Green Truck is helping make our planet a happier and healthier place.  greentruckonthego.com

• The vegetable oil we use in cooking our foods is used to power our food trucks the next day.Our commissary kitchen is solar-powered.
• Saying NO to plastic and styrofoam. All of our packaging and utensils are either recyclable or compostable. Our utensils in fact, are made out of potato starch. (But no, they’re not edible.)
• Serious composting! The packaging and utensils we compost are delivered back to the farms from which we source our ingredients. In turn, the compost is used to grow more food. It’s a circle of life sort of thing.

Heal the Bay is an environmental nonprofit dedicated to making the coastal waters and watersheds of Greater Los Angeles safe, healthy and clean.  Everyone let us do our part!   Here are 5 Ways to Heal the Bay.  1.  Keep Litter out of the gutter. 2.  Use Water wisely.  3.  Hold Onto Balloons.  4.  Go Non-Toxic  5.  Sack the Plastic Bags.

• Become a beach scientist every Wednesday!  Get your feet wet and join Heal the Bay’s Santa Monica Pier Aquarium  in collecting scientific data.  www.Healthebay.org/smpa.
• Heal the Bay Beach Clean up is on April 16th at Santa Monica Beach Pier 10 a.m.-12 noon.  www.HealtheBay.org

Venice Neighborhood Council President Mike Newhouse and family

Thanks for the fruit WholeFoods!

Check out Venice’s David Hertz’ book The Restorative Home: Ecological Houses!   About The Works of David Hertz FAIA and the Studio of Environmental Architecture:   S.E.A is based in Venice Beach, Ca. Their practice primarily focuses on sustainably built, environmentally sensitive, contemporary green buildings. We handle residential and commercial designs in Los Angeles and worldwide.  http://davidhertzfaia.com

Save the date for April 23rd for the The Grunion Run!  Marvel as the seashore is covered by hundreds of sex-crazed fish. Event hosted by Venice Oceanarium

Farm Food Friends by ThomasBangert.  Farm Food Friends ABC-123 Picture Book features 26 beautifully illustrated watercolor far scenes that help everyone learn the alphabet, numbers, vocabulary, writing, and where food comes from on a farm.  www.FarmFoodFriends.com

DJ Petey Pete

Thanks to Rob Dew (right) and the Venice Neighborhood Council for hosting this wonderful and educational event!   FYI.  Miguel Bravo (right) is the artist that created the Venice flyer below!  Love your work Miguel! 

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For more VNC events or to volunteer with the Venice Neighborhood Council, visit www.VeniceNC.org

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