Green Festival DC

So my favorite faux-hippie friend Morgen invited me to work with her at the District's "Green Festival". The Green Fest was a joint venture between Global Exchange and Co-Op America that featured green/sustainable vendors who ran the gamut from eco-conscious products and apparel to green services and publications. Morgen's the marketing director for one of the Green Fest's main sponsors, Plenty Magazine. Plenty is the leading sustainable lifestyle mag, that basically offers tips and ideas on simple ways to make your everyday life greener. (Yes, that was pretty much the pitch I gave to prospective Plenty subscribers too!) I worked along side Morgen and Kate (another friend who likes helping save the planet), chatting with tons of festival attendees from dread-locked college kids to yuppie mothers tightly snuggling their organically-attired children in hemp-woven kid-carriers. We had a pretty kickin', and was even better when we discovered that Plenty's publisher had mistakenly sent us copies of Southern Lady Magazine instead of extra copies of our journal. Just try pawning that off on eco-conscious liberals! (I got laughed at!) Cliff bar was there giving away samples of their yummy peanut better bars, (those def got me through the day), and Kashi was handing out their cereal (a personal fav of mine). Naturally, solar-powered solutions were there in abundance, as well as all kinds of herbal skin care solutions, and organic vegetarian cuisine. (I am not convinced Kate was actually satisfied after her "tempeh Southern BBQ platter". All I was surprised and delighted at the high turn out of "greenies" in DC.