Sustainability Fair
Wednesday August 24, 2016  4pm - 7pm (3 Hours)
Culinary / Wine Community

 manager@wolfvillefarmersmarket.ca
 902 697 3344

We are delighted to announce that this year's 4th Sustainability Fair at the Market will be highlighting   organizations dedicated to Community Sustainability.  Sustainability is key to becoming a well-balanced and resilient community and ensures that not only will everyone in a community benefit from such initiatives, but also that they will be designed by community with community well-being in mind.  We will be showcasing seven organizations in and around the Valley who are dedicated to creating and maintaining sustainable initiatives within their communities!  We hope you will take this opportunity to learn about these organizations and how to get involved, what you can do to help, as well as what amazing initiatives are taking place right here in our community!  


Our Sustainability Fair is part of our Wednesday Community Market and Market Supper with over 25 vendors, and live music!  We hope to see you there!


Sustainability Participants:

Acadia Sustainability Office will be sharing campus and community wide sustainability initiatives created in order to advance university sustainability.  Specifically initiatives shared will touch on student education and engagement, campus operations, community outreach, and provincial partnerships.

How you can get involved and support the Acadia Sustainability Office:  Community members and students are invited to help or have a plot at the Acadia Farm Campus and Community garden.  Students can also volunteer to work on programs throughout the Academic year! sustainability.acadiau.ca


CittaSlow is an International Organization that recognizes communities that have demonstrated a commitment to quality of life and sustainability. Wolfville is the third community to be designated in Canada and joins less than 200 worldwide.

How you can get involved and support CittaSlow:  We will be looking for people to get involved in the Committee and future Cittaslow projects.

wolfville.ca/wolfville-a-cittaslow-community.html


Common Good Solutions supports organizations and businesses to create social, cultural and environmental value by selling goods and services in the marketplace.  They provide training, technical expertise, and coaching.  Common Good Solutions is a social enterprise. commongoodsolutions.ca



Efficiency Nova Scotia is Canada’s first energy efficiency utility. Working with more than 100 local partners, we’ve helped 225,000 program participants complete energy efficiency projects, saving Nova Scotians $110 million in 2016 alone and preventing the release of 590,000 tonnes of GHG emissions annually.  Efficiency Nova Scotia is operated by EfficiencyOne, an independent nonprofit organization. efficiencyns.ca


FarmWorks will be encouraging people to buy locally, including FarmWorks shares when they are available, We'll also be encouraging people to consider growing their food businesses and perhaps borrowing from FarmWorks or other lenders to do that. We need more producers so that we can sustain ourselves, our health and our economy!

How you can get involved and support FarmWorks:  You can get involved and support FarmWorks by purchasing or borrowing shares from us!

farmworks.ca


Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op will be promoting fair trade, SPP (small producers symbol), organic farming, biodiversity, and small scale farming.

How you can get involved and support Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op:  You can get involved by visiting us at any of our coffee houses! justuscoffee.com


Wolfville Area Transition Initiative will be networking to let more people know about an emerging Transition Initiative in our area which at present is spreading the world about what it means with hope of formalizing an organization in the new year. Transition Initiatives may include working toward permaculture, food sovereignty, local economies, local currencies, energy descent action plans, community resilience, personal transition and awareness of the need for shifting the dominant paradigm because of climate change, peak oil, and the failures of economic globalization, and having fun while we do it.

How you can get involved and support the Wolfville Area Transition Initiative:  You can get involved by signing up at our booth, as well as by frequenting our website and Facebook pages! wolfvilleareatransitioninitiative.ca



Pricing & Tickets
Pricing: Free
Poster
The DeWolfe Building
24 Elm Avenue
Wolfville, Nova Scotia

 info@wolfvillefarmersmarket.ca
 902-697-3344

         

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