The Dream Shop will be escaping the winter chills of Ann Arbor, Michigan, to set up a booth, November 13th – 15th, at the San Fransisco green festival in California. This is the largest green festival in the nation, hosting over 150 speakers and over 400 green businesses. They have been doing this earth friendly event for 9 years and have the best of what there is to offer, when it comes to sustainable green products and information. They have many excellent speakers like Amy Goodman of democracy now, exhibitors of great new products like what we have at The Dream Shop and they also offer many workshops to really delve deeper into earth conscious ideas for business and consumers, alike.

The green movement is growing larger every year, thanks to the initiative of those supporting Green America, the main force behind the green festival. And, we hope to meet many of the hip consumers and businesses that will be there this year, supporting the cause that can save the planet, from catastrophies related to resource depletion and waste. We all need to be more mindful of what we can do, to use less and recycle more. We owe it to future generations, to leave them an equally beautiful planet to live in, as we were given. If we all do, just a little more towards this end, we can create a sustainable path that our kids and then their kids will forever follow. Setting an example for the course of the future is a very important step we need to take now.

We will be offering many examples of products that can help the environment and some that can save you money at the same time. The CFL and LED light bulbs we offer can help save you money by reducing energy consumption. Estimated savings of up to 15% off your home electricity bill, can be achieved by replacing your standard bulbs, to these new earth friendly ones. And if you include other products that reduce electricity like energy star electronics, along with water saving devices like low flow faucets and showerheads, your energy bills can be ruduced by up to 50%, by some estimates. So it is clearly worthwhile to start becoming concerned with these products, if not for the well being of the environment, then for your yearly savings, which can be in the thousands of dollars.

The green festival, offers almost every example of how to save money and the environment, that is currently known. So come out, if you can, and learn about these wonderful possibilities, and pick up some of these items for yourself. We also hope to learn about some great new items that we can offer you online at our store, while we are there, showing off the cool items we have found thus far in our search. Things like, belts, guitar straps and wallets made out of recycled bicycle innertubes, by Splaff. And, Wheatware’s golf tees and guitar picks, made out of the nations surplus wheat crops, into a compostable plastic product.

There will be much to discover there, and we can’t wait to be part of it. Checking out the other booth’s and looking for new products, to incorporate into our online store, will be exciting too. Let’s all hope this will be a great event, to learn about many new possibilities.

If you would like to find out more about the green festival and what they have to offer this year, check them out at http://www.greenfestivals.org/