Original Event Description:

GreenFest: Sustainable Solutions for Your Life
GreenFest is a fun-filled community sustainability celebration packed with green exhibits, vendors and workshops to educate visitors about green living. Enjoy live music, activities for the kids, and green products and sustainable solutions for the whole family. Free workshops will help you save green while living green.

Who is invited?
EVERYONE! GreenFest offers something for the whole family.  Make a native bee house, tie dye a cloth napkin, create an aquaponic garden for your home, up-cycle a pallet into something new and creative, and bring home information and sustainable solutions for your life. Vendors and exhibitors who sell or promote sustainable products and/or activities will provide information and products on the courthouse lawn and along N. and S. Main Street.

Interested in being a vendor or exhibitor?
We are seeking vendors and exhibitors who sell/promote sustainable products or services or can provide exhibits to educate the public about sustainability. Please Register HERE — Vendor Registration and list any special needs (i.e. electricity) in the comments section.

2nd Annual Pallet Challenge!
Form a team or go solo to up-cycle used pallets into something new and creative. Register by Sept. 24 to participate and pick up pallets for your use on 9/24 at STEMFest. Click here for more information.

2016 Event schedule
9:00am Festival begins
10:00am People’s Choice pallet challenge voting begins
10:00am Upcycling vinyl banners into bookmarks, pouches, and placemats – Workshop
10:30am Pallet birdhouses – Workshop
11:00am Design upcycled vases and planters – Workshop
11:30am People’s Choice voting ends for Pallet Challenge
12:00pm Welcome from President Jaimie Hebert, Georgia Southern University and Darron Burnette, President/CEO Sea Island Bank and Chair, Blue Mile Committee
12:15 Pallet Challenge Winners Announced, Raffle concludes
Tie Dye a Cloth Napkin – Ongoing while supplies last
With live music 9am-1pm from the School of Rock

Don’t forget the Mainstreet Statesboro Farmers Market going on across the street from 9-12:30 for your fresh local and sustainable food and craft products.

GreenFest is presented by Georgia Southern’s Center for Sustainability in partnership with the DSDA.