1. These are challenging economic times
2. EPIC is about empowering
3. Be among the first
4. Buy local!
5. EPIC is the biggest GREEN LIVING show
6. Shop with Scruples
7. Exciting new features
8. Live healthier
9. EPIC is more than just a tradeshow - it’s a CELEBRATION
10. EPIC is a new breed of green event
Here’s my challenge to everyone - Let’s get an EPIC event in every town and city across Canada!!!
I was in Vancouver a couple of weekends ago and noticed an article in the Vancouver Sun on April 25. I took it home with me and am reading it now. I would really like to go to EPIC this coming weekend, May 8,9 and 10 at the new Vancouver Convention Centre. It’s Western Canada’s ONLY green consumer show and eco-marketplace. Featuring Summer Rayne Oakes - ‘Eco-model’ pushing sustainability through fashion and media, Shop and Learn form 300+ green companies and find unique gifts for Mother’s Day! Daily Fashion Shows - where style meets sustainability, Expert advice on greening your life, work and play on the Workshop Stage and EPIC Main Stage, Bring the Kids! Educate your kids about sustainable living in a fun, interactive setting in The Kid’s Funzone, Looking for a Greener Ride? Test drive a new Toyota or Lexus hybrid, or take a spin on a new bicycle or scooter, Organic Spring gardening workshops!!! If you live anywhere near Vancouver, BC make sure you get there if at all possible!!! You can get tickets on line and save $5.
Finally some news from us at thispreciousplanet.com Immediately after our official launch on March 11 at the Okanagan Health Forum, we had some challenges to overcome. However, we are ready to roll again. I have been collecting some interviews and have many ideas for new ones. Also, I’d like to hear from our readers to see what kind of topics you are interested in and would like to see covered. I’m not making any promises at this moment as to when a new interview will be posted but it will be soon. Thanks for being patient. Alice
What the world needs now is …………. sustainability!
My business partner and friend, Hans Looman, and I have come to a point in our lives where we want more than a job to pay the bills and be part of the status quo. We want to have significance in our lives. This idea didn’t really come as part of a well thought out plan or goal to begin with but rather a series of events. It’s funny how life goes sometimes…………
I have always been horrified by the fact that we butcher harmless animals for food. As a matter of fact, before I could logically think about that I was chasing the chickens out of the coop at my great uncles farm. I was only 2! Later, on the same farm I fed the calves, in the yard next to the house, their pail of milk every morning for a week and grieved for them when one morning the yard was empty and my astonishment was answered with the agonizing fact that they had gone to the slaughter house. I never really liked meat although I ate it almost everyday of my life until I was 39 years old. I was conditioned to do so and didn’t know how to cook without it. Every meal centered around the meat. Chicken with fried potatoes and beans,
roast beef with mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables, pork chops with potatoes, carrots and applesauce…………..does it sound familiar?
(Photo by OakleyOriginals)
A good idea and intention is great, but even better if it gets out to the world to take note of it.
If a tree fell in the forest with no one to hear it fall, did it make a sound?
A PC and the internet are tools for me that assist me in my job and out of sheer necessity I gathered quite some knowledge in this field over the years. To use this knowledge for “a greater purpose” is a combination of 2 good things to me: 1) I love fuzzing around with internet applications and 2) It helps people
Alice would not have been able to start this project without technical help, and all my technical knowledge alone means nothing without a goal. In that way it’s a perfect match, a mutualistic symbiotic relationship.
Being a Libra as astrological sign, I tend to bring balance in situations. Here we go: I am not a vegetarian. I am concerned with what I eat though, and I realize that there is a lot to learn here. Which is great, I have an engineering background and life long learning comes naturally as a lifestyle. And it’s great to think of the difference it makes if everyone tries to make their contribution, even if it is just a small one. Millions of small changes makes a big change!
On to the challenge, we are interviewing fantastic people with fascinating stories. I can’t wait!
We are working on a podcast series with celebrities and experts that have this precious planet at heart. You can follow our progress on twitter by following @preciousplanet
The purpose of this site is to propagate the sound of a fallen tree. (But in a positive way)
Hans Looman
