Idaho Green Expo Nine Tracks

The Idaho Green Expo will focus on nine major areas of interest. Described below, these Tracks offer the perfect way for Exhibitors and Seminar Leaders – and visitors - to find their niche at the Expo.

Greening Your Home and Garden:
Presented by: Green Remodeling, LLC

Our homes provide the ideal opportunity for practicing sustainability on a personal scale. This track will include exhibitors and workshops that provide products, services and expertise that would be of interest by individuals for use in their homes and gardens. From solar panels and recycled glass countertops for your home to workshops on starting vegetable gardens in your back yard, this track will include a wealth of information for homeowners. There will also be a focus on products used in your home - how they are made, used and discarded, and how to use that information to make better purchasing decisions.

You'll also learn how to make your yards into more sustainable and fruitful environments. The Idaho Green Expo will show you how to create beautiful yards and gardens, done in ways that are environmentally friendly. Topics will include composting, conserving water, natural pest abatement and much, much more.

Green Building and Sustainable Development:

Presented by the Green Building Council Idaho Chapter

Architects, Developers, Builders, City Planners - this is the track for you. Here you will find a vast assortment of exhibitors and seminars dedicated to illustrating the bottom line benefits of "going green" in your planning and development. Working with members of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), Idaho Chapter, this Track will present the latest trends and available products to help you design and build more LEED certified projects.

Energy, Conservation & Recycling:
Presented by Idaho Power

The focus of this track is on alternative energy, conservation efforts, and the concept of "refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle". Attendees can see for themselves the products, services and practices that can help them save energy, conserve resources and save money as well. Energy use is one of the areas with the greatest potential to improve one's ecological footprint. The Idaho Green Expo will help us learn how we can start making better choices, by using less energy, moving towards the use of renewable energy sources like solar and wind power, and reducing the environmental impacts to our air, water, and land from many of our current practices.

Food & Agriculture: Presented by the Boise Co-op

What's better - locally grown or organic foods? What are C.S.A.'s? What's all this talk about "Permaculture"? Come find out about these issues, the state of American agriculture and food production, and how you can help to make it better. A healthy, sustainable lifestyle is driven by choices about food. Making such choices involves answering questions about how our food is grown and how that growing process affects the environment, as well as who grows our food and how far our food travels. The Idaho Green Expo will offer insights into the importance of how our food choices affect our health, and of discovering ways of raising food that are less costly to the environment.

Sustainability Education: Presented by Boise State University

What principles should we follow as we make dozens of small decisions each day to reduce our environmental impact? The Idaho Green Expo seeks to empower families, businesses and communities toward the long-term ideal of sustainability. In addition to having a hands on, educational "Kids Zone", this track consists mostly of Workshops and Seminars in topics ranging from reducing your Carbon Footprint to the importance of Socially Responsible Investing. Here the Expo will illustrate ways in which we can make our lives and our communities more sustainable.

Transportation: Presented by ACHD Commuterride
Transportation is one of our society's largest contributors to local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the problems associated with our country's "addiction to oil". The Idaho Green Expo will highlight more sustainable options in transportation, and encourage us to find alternate ways to get around instead of continuing to rely on our personal, carbon-based vehicles. Bio-diesel, ethanol and electric vehicles are new technologies that are available today. And there are many under-used, yet "green" methods of transportation that need to be re-emphasized, such as car-pooling, public transit and riding bicycles more often. You'll even be able to see a home-made solar powered car!

Community Action & Involvement: Presented by Eagles Consulting, Inc.

Come and find out how you can get involved with organizations that promote sustainable practices that affect our community. We will have representatives from religious communities, government, activist and non-profit organizations offering many ways to get involved and to help make a difference! The Idaho Green Expo is also hoping to work with Habitat for Humanity to build a net-zero, green home which will be available for tours before it is given to a deserving family in the community.

Health & Wellness:
Being green isn't just about alternative energy and recycling. It's about adopting and living a life that is in balance with nature. Here exhibitors and seminars will focus on helping you find products, services and practices which will promote ways in which you and your family can live healthier, happier and more sustainable lives.

Art, Culture & Lifestyles: Presented by Great Western Barbecue Supply

It has been said, "If it isn't enjoyable, it isn't sustainable". As humans, it is not enough to simply exist in harmony with nature - we need to thrive as well! To do this, we must nurture the world in which we live. This includes celebrating our cultural diversity, as well as promoting and enjoying the art and music within our community. This track will include exhibitors and seminars which cover the topics of eco-art, eco-fashion, eco-travel and will also include a Green Film Festival and a Green Music Festival.