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2008 Date & Times:
Fri., Sat., & Sun. - Sept. 19, 20, & 21, 2008
Fri. & Sat.: 9 AM to 10 PM Sunday: 9 AM to 5 PM
Exhibits open until 6:30 PM

Entry Ticket Prices:
Adults: $12.00 Under 12: FREE
Ages 13 to 21: $6.00 Campers: $15.00
Parking: FREE
Most lectures, exhibitors, and demos will be included with admittance fee.
Some workshops will have sign-up requirements and fees which will be posted the beginning of August on this web-site in the
[speakers & workshops page]
Sorry no dogs allowed on the festival grounds, it's an insurance thing.

2008 Keynote Speakers
[CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION]
Friday
Noon
Main Stage

Colin Beavan - "The No Impact Man"
Author of several bookson low impact lifestyle.
"A No Impact lifestyle."

Saturday
Noon
Main Stage

Greg Pahl
Journalist & author of five books on renewable energy & sustainable communities
"Community Supported Renewable Energy "

Saturday
Evening
Main Stage
Jeffrey Cramer
Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
Editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition ( Yale University Press, 2004), a winner of a 2004 NOBA (National Outdoor Book Award) and a co-winner of the Boston Authors Club's 2005 Julia Ward Howe Special Award. 
"Living Deliberately: Thinking Like Thoreau Today"
Sunday
Noon
Main Stage

Christopher Weber
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
"The Average American Footprint "

Sunday
Evening
Main Stage
Patricia DeMarco
Rachel Carson Homestead
"Rachel Carson's Legacy"

This Year's Musical Guest:

Livingston
Taylor

Time to be
Announced


2008 Highlights
TBA [MORE INFO]
Green Builder's Forum [MORE INFO]
The Transportation Tent [MORE INFO]

Directions to the Festival: Kempton, PA
[CLICK HERE]

Places to Stay, Things to Do
[CLICK HERE]
Beautiful, rural Berks County offers a variety of things to do that will please all ages.