Friday, 29 March 2024

Learn and get inspired at SolFest

HOPLAND – If you want to educate yourself on a more sustainable way to live here in Lake County, you’re in luck – the 12th annual SolFest is just around the corner and up over the Hopland grade.


Leading experts in all things sustainable, green and organic will be on hand Aug. 18 and 19 at the Solar Living Institute in Hopland to answer questions and give workshops with hands-on demonstrations.


In addition to the workshops, over 150 exhibitors will be showcasing the latest in energy and fuel-saving technology and products.


While you’re browsing the exhibits and attending workshops getting inspired about what you could incorporate into your life and home, you can sample tasty organic foods, beer and wine as well as listen to world-class music and entertainment.


District 3 Supervisor Denise Rushing believes events like SolFest are important for Lake County residents to attend.


“We have a great deal of work to do to create a healthy relationship with this place in which we all live,” Rushing said. “That work starts with imagining what is possible.”


Rushing believes in sustainability so much that for the last year, Massey Burke, a Solar Living Institute instructor who specializes in natural building and permaculture education, has been leading workshops on Rushing’s organic walnut farm to construct a straw bale and cob cottage where some Lake County residents are learning what natural building is all about.


“At Solfest, we can learn and share: we learn what others are creating and share information and great ideas including ways to harness energy from the sun, natural building materials and methods, ways to restore damaged lands and waters, and ways we can sustain our own spirit and joy in the work ahead,” Rushing said.


Speakers and entertainers at this years’ event include world-renowned author Alice Walker, legendary songwriter and guitar wizard Bruce Cockburn, singer and songwriter Dar Williams and even the Big Tadoo Puppet Show that will ride into Hopland in their bus fueled by vegetable oil.


“One of the most exciting elements of SolFest is the opportunity to attend over 60 workshops related to almost every aspect of sustainability,” said Lindsay Dailey, workshop director for the Solar Living Institute. “From business opportunities in solar to green burials to international community-building.”


There are workshops on how to drought-proof your land, home wetland/gray water systems, natural building, the future of food, permaculture, pumping water with wind power and much more.


“There will be experts traveling from around the country to share their expertise in our six workshop tents,” Dailey said, “and we invite the local community to partake in this unique educational opportunity.”


For more information, visit the following sites.


Denise Rushing’s cottage in progress:


www.lakefuture.org/2007/08/solfest-and-natural-building.html

  

Schedule for SolFest:


www.solarliving.org/pdf/SolFest2007CompleteSchedule.pdf


Solar Living Institute:


www.solarliving.org/default.asp


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