Earth Day Event: Resilient Community Challenge

Come celebrate Earth Day and learn how, together, we can make every community a circular, sustainable and zero-waste community!
April 20th, 10 am to 6 pm, Fairfield Arts and Convention Center

Event Schedule:
*Speakers*
National Heroes
11 am – 12:30 pm
• 11 am -11:30 am: David Levine, President of the American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN)
“ASBN’s Circular Economy Working Group” Interview by Faith Reeves, Fairfield’s Sustainability Coordinator
•11:30 am – 11:45 am – Alden Wicker – Author of ‘To Dye For – How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick—and How We Can Fight Back’
“The True Cost of Modern Fast Fashion”
•11:45 am – 12 pm – Martin Wolf – Chief Sustainability Officer of 7th Generation eco-friendly cleaning products
“The successes and challenges of creating a truly circular household products line”
•12 pm – 12:15 pm – Amber Lasciak CEO of ReDu sustainable furniture
“Scrap rescue and re-purposing into furniture and interior decorating products”
• 12:15 pm – 12:30 pm – QnA with our National Heroes

Local Heroes
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
• 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm – Francis Thicke, Radiance Dairy
“A Circular and Regenerative Dairy Model”
• 2:15 pm – 2:30 pm – Cheyanne Holiday, Golden Magnolia Sanctuary
“A farm to table to farm circular model”
• 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm – Terry Philips, Mill Seed CO. and TK Enterprises
“Reusing, repurposing and reimagining in building design”
• 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm – QnA with our Local Heroes
• 3:00 pm -3:30 pm – Maharishi School Global Solutions Class
“Alternates to Plastic”

Eco-Jam Fashion Show
3:30 – 4:00 pm

*All Day Activities*
~ Interact with local sustainable organizations
~ Buy from local artisans
~ Repair Fair – Repair any broken item – knives, tools, shoes, if it’s broken, bring it in and we will fix it 🙂
~ Clothing exchange – An alternate to fast fashion, bring clothes to swap!
~ Demos and workshops

10:30 am -11:00 am & 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
• Food waste “Bokashi” at-home composting by Faith Reeves
• Building preservation and reuse by Terry Philips
11:15 am – 12:00 pm & 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
• Making upcycled notebooks by Alison Stimson
• Paper making by June Breffle and Melissa
• E-zone bag building by Alison
• Grow your own Microgreens by Dean Menigoz

All day
• DIY eco-friendly home cleaning products by Jenny Connor
• Make your own wildflower seed balls by Shreya Sood
~ Games, music and much more!

*Food*
11 am – 2:30 pm
Addis Ethiopian Food

All day
Pollo Rico Mexican Food
Ice cream by the scoop by Scream
Pastries by June Breffle
Kombucha by Hedgeapple
Fire Cider and Health Bars by Simple Life Food
See you there! ❤