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Lake Superior Harvest Festival & Energy Fair
Sept. 6, 2008  -  Bayfront Park, Duluth, MN
WORKSHOPS, PANELS, EVENTS   (draft 4)

10:00  Energy Saving Opportunities in the Home (Dean Talbott, MN Power)
 Family center / warming house bldg

  10:30 Backyard Composting: Troubleshooting for newcomers and
   long-timers
   WLSSD Tent

11:00am - Renewable Energy  (David Boyce, MRES)
 Family center / warming house bldg

  11:30 Worm Bin Composting with local author Ellen Sandbeck
   WLSSD Tent

12:00pm - Taking the Next Steps in Reducing Home Energy Use  (Mike
LeBeau, Conservation Technologies, Rachel Wagner, Wagner Zaun

Architecture)
 Family center / warming house bldg

   12:30 Compost Therapy: Landscape care in tough times
   WLSSD Tent

12:50pm -  SFA Farmers Voice & SFA Distinguished Service awards
 Music Stage

1:00pm -  Energy and Food realities
(panel discussion: Rep. Bill Hilty, State Sen. Yvonne Prettner Solon,
State Sen. Tony Lourey, Mike Lebeau - Conservation Technologies & LSEA,
Chris Reed - Reed Energy & LSEA, Joel Rosen - Sustainable Farmers
Association
 Music Stage

2:00pm  Peak Oil   (Brian Merchant)
 Family center / warming house bldg

3:00pm  Relocalization, Local Food and Energy
 Family center / warming house bldg

5:00pm -  Slow Food Harvest Picnic!
Only 200 tickets will be sold for the event, 110 for the pork entree and
90 for the ratatouille. Advance tickets are available at Positively
Third Street Bakery, the Whole Foods Co-op, the Green Mercantile, and
online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/41430. Cost is $12 for adults, $6 for
children.

Music (though-out the day at music stage until 8:30 pm)

 

It seems that everyone is jumping on the sustainability bandwagon these days.  Politicians are engaging in the debate about long-term energy acquisition and locally produced goods while cameras snap pictures of them standing in front of wind turbines.  Groups promoting renewable energy and locally harvested foods are popping up all over.  Businesses and residents are erecting wind turbines and solar power, and vegetables are replacing flowers in the garden.

 

Achieving true sustainability will be a major undertaking for the next generation requiring a prolonged effort, difficult decisions, and definite sacrifices.  While terms like “green” and “sustainable” are currently in vogue, it has yet to be seen whether they will create a new paradigm for understanding how we must live or dry up like morning dew in the heat of a sunny day.  In order to ensure that current ideas turn into long-term behavior change and decisions about how we vote with our dollars, there’s no replacement for research, investigation, experimentation, and a conversation with the person in the mirror.  In the 1970s the oil embargo brought on a wave of interest in renewable energy that was encouraged by subsidies and accompanied at times by snake oil.  Once oil markets were opened and the spigot turned back to full throttle, interest waned and those that realized there wasn’t a buck to be made quickly aborted the mission.  To be sure, there were many that lamented the downturn of interest and just couldn’t keep a business going in such a new industry once subsidies were removed.  This time around hopefully we will recognize that sustainability is not a sprint, but a marathon.

 

For those of us that believe that the oil peak is upon us (a time when the world has extracted roughly half of its reserves and a perpetual reduction is inevitable), this peak represents both a challenge and an opportunity.  The time is quickly approaching when we’ll have to pick and choose between trips.  Cars will spend more time in garages, and we may not have ready availability of fruit trucked in from South America in January.  Despite the possibility of a loss of some creature comforts, we may also soon find ourselves in a time of greater community awareness, self-sufficiency, and appreciation of just how delicious fresh fruit tastes in the fall.  The marketability of some terms may end up a casualty, but hopefully with the understanding that “green” and “sustainable” have morphed simply into “food” and “energy.”  Marketing is necessary only when we have choices.

 

Saturday September 6^th, the Lake Superior Energy Association will hold its 4^th annual renewable energy fair in collaboration with the Harvest Fest.  Admission is free (donations requested), and all are welcome to come see what opportunities exist for the next paradigm.  http://lseafair.shutterfly.com/

 

It’s great being on the bandwagon. To any that have yet to jump on, stick your hand up so that I can grab it and pull.  Get ready for a long ride.

 

Tim Ollhoff

Lake Superior Energy Association Board

Lake Superior Energy Fair 2008

Tim Olaff, Board Member of Lake Superior Energy Association talks about the fair.

Lake Superior Harvest Fest & Energy Fair 2008

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