Living GREEN requires ACTION

Green Mary brings it all back to where it started, as together we focus on making as little trash as possible, building soil from our organic waste, and maximizing reuse by concentrating on our individual habits. Good housekeeping for Mother Earth means behaving out at public events the way we do at home where we are stewards of our resources.

Green Mary

Live In Harmony

• CARPOOL or take public transportation - FILL YOUR CAR SEATS!
• PACK REUSABLES - plates, drinking cups/mugs, utensils, cloth napkins
• USE CANVAS OR REUSABLE BAGS for all of your belongings
• RECYCLE & COMPOST all you can at EcoStations throughout the Harmony Festival. Non-disposables, including cook stove fuel tanks, batteries, hazardous waste, etc., can be brought to any dumpster area where we have special containers, or to Harmony Central where we will dispose of it properly. Here and at home, it is ill-advised and illegal to deposit these materials in the regular trash.

In Harmony With Our Waste

Composting
We are still composting ALL food scraps, including meat and bones, all paper food service supplies – plates, hot cup, napkins, and dry office paper and m. All food vendors are provided compost containers and we will still generate a lot of good soil from the event!

No more bioplastics in the compost
In Sonoma County, we can no longer compost bioplastic food service supplies such as utensils and cups made of corn. We also cannot compost any paper food service supplies with any sort of waxy coating, so at this particular event, we have to do a lot of sorting to make it all right.

New recycling cans
Since we are going to have to sort every bag anyway, we are asking everyone to simply pay attention to getting the recycling in the right place.  Around the entire festival, there are just two cans for recycling and then one for "all other materials." We will sort it all out at the dumspters, promise.

Maximizing composting as we have for the past seven years, it's easier for us to do it behind the scenes than to get everything in the right place at the cans. It really is confusing and very detail-oriented. Thanks for understanding and getting the recycling done right!

Sonoma Compost can take all of our yard waste and food scraps in the green containers at curbside. Last year, we filled four huge dumpsters with food scraps and all our organic waste!

Get it? Mostly plastics – move beyond them. How do we live without??? More importantly – how do we live WITH? Google “toxic plastics” for a deep, dark read and a swim in the expanding plastic Pacific gyre, then come up for air to rethink personal and planetary health, desires, connections and habits.

What could easily be a set-back is an opportunity as we have the big reason to BRING OUR OWN dishware, utensils, coffee mugs and cups. There is a dishwashing station on-site, back by the dumpsters. Come say “Hi” to the haulers and sorters who slave to keep us GREEN!

Water and Hydrating

Join Green Mary, the Think Outside the Bottle or Green Sangha Rethinking Plastics campaigns to help us move toward sustainable solutions.

Always a big issue at summer events in Northern California, Green Mary has been bringing free water refill stations to public events for years. The free water refill stations we've offered and enjoyed for the past four years will not be present, so please pack in your own bulk water to your campsite. Bring plenty of water into the festival, look for the couple of water fountains at the fairgrounds, or be prepared to buy bottled water from our vendors.

Saving trees
2009 continues our efforts to stop using trees to wipe our hands and mouths. At The Harmony Festival and everywhere, bring and use your own cloth napkins. Ever handy for multiple purposes, they help the lungs of the planet go on making oxygen for us. Clip ‘em with a safety pin to your waistband, your back pack or your purse strap, and be sure to carry extras for friends. They are a great ice-breaker for a green introduction as you offer up an inexpensive, invaluable gift.

Cleaning Up
We are mostly volunteers taking care of the grounds this weekend and we can't be everywhere at once, so please help us out. Clean up the area around your blanket, around your campsite, call Green Mary on her cell (707-548-7582) to let us know about overflowing recycling containers, or call to volunteer to help even further as we model sustainable event production.

Cleaning Up
We are mostly volunteers taking care of the grounds this weekend and we can't be everywhere at once, so please help us out. Clean up the area around your blanket, around your campsite, call Green Mary on her cell (707-548-7582) to let us know about overflowing recycling containers, or call to volunteer to help even further as we model sustainable event production.

Green Mary
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Good Housekeeping for Mother Earth
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