Saturday afternoon I visited EarthWorks Expo at the Denver Merchandise Mart on 58th and I-25, expecting an event much like the Denver Green Festival. And they were quite similar, though EarthWorks Expo was smaller and in an older venue.
The talks at EarthWorks Expo were much better, however. I enjoyed learning how to garden in the winter using a cold frame (and plan to try it out again this fall, if I can manage to plant everything in the next 2 weeks), but the best speaker was Albert Bates, whom you might call an optimist-environmentalist. Yes, they do exist. His vision of the future: Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
But just in case things don’t work out the way Bates wants, at least you can go out in an eco-friendly way.
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Today I turned 47 years old at 12:47 am (the witching hour). At my request, Todd got me a cake reading “Happy 45th Birthday,” because that was the last birthday I greeted with enthusiasm.
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47? No worries, you’re just a teenager.
Happy Birthday
Happy birthday!!
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Yeah, Bernard, that’s just exactly how I feel.
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Happy birthday! It’s funny that 45 was good and 47 seems not so good. Everyone seems to have their personal milestones that mark “getting older.”
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Yeah, don’t know what it is about the last 2 birthdays. I don’t hate them; I just can’t get excited about them the way I usually do about birthdays.
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Hi Beth,
Can you please post the date till when this fest is open? The way you have written about it is interesting & I would love to go and sit in those talks myself.
Nancy, that’s why I included the link to EarthWorks Expo, so people could find out the hours and other information. It was just the past weekend. I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until next year…or until the next green festival hits Denver. There have been several so far.
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