Sustainability Fair – Tuesday, 26th February, Geoffrey Manton Building, MMU
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Hello, my name is Nick and I want to organize a Sustainable World Fair.
This event would be like a regular sustainability fair, except instead of happening in just one community, it would happen in communities all over the world, at the same time.
One weekend for the planet to celebrate all of the ways people are making the world a better, more sustainable place!
If this sounds like something your group would like to participate in I would love your help.
Here’s what the event might look like…
The global fair would be comprised of local sustainability fairs, held in communities all over the world, all happening on the same weekend.
Each local fair would be a unique, independently organized and hosted event; yet all every fair would be united through common cause and simultaneous occurrence.
I imagine each local fair featuring some mixture of the following:
* local sustainability projects and innovations where individuals, groups and companies showcase their sustainability initiatives and ideas
* local musicians and entertainment
* local, sustainable food options
* workshops and lectures on locally important sustainability issues
* local artists and artisans selling their products
* activities and games for kids and adults
To put all of this together will take a lot of planning, networking and work. So far I have tried to map out the following major steps in the project:
1. R&D:
* Create a guide/how to manual that shows interested communities how to organize and host a local fair
* create a promotional package that shows interested communities and the relevant governing bodies why they should participate
* create a comprehensive business model to help secure funds
2. Networking and Fundraising:
* establish a core group of enough participating communities to launch the global event
* secure funds through a mixture of corporate sponsors, philanthropic organizations, government and non-governmental organizations and private individuals.
3. Advertising:
* agree on a date for the event (mid September has the advantage of agreeable climate in both hemispheres, coinciding with harvest season in the northern hemisphere and at the start of the school year in many countries)
* promote the event as largely as possible in as many places around the world
* create a website to display all the participating local fairs and provide live streaming of the events
* get more communities on board
4. Setup
* help participating communities organize their events
5. Showtime
* Have the largest party with a purpose on the planet
To start off the R&D process I want to open the idea up to a discussion.
To facilitate this I’ve created a forum:
http://sustainabilityfair.boards.net
I believe that the only way for a project like this to become reality is if a lot of people know about it and want it to happen.
Im a strong believe in the power of the people and crowd sourcing.
If you feel this is an idea that should happen, and know a person or group who might feel the same way, then please share this idea by inviting people to the forum, or sending them to the public proposal on my site:
http://earthcareinstitute.ca/party-with-the-planet/
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Adamson-Jones
earthcareinstitute.ca
416-889-8803