Workshops:

Food Not Lawns (Organic Gardening Tips): Organic gardening workshops will be held in the Mountain Creek community garden. Topics will include the benefits of buying local or growing your own food, tips and tricks for a successful chemical-free garden, composting, and permaculture.

Permaculture workshops: Katie Nixon, Co-director of the Sustainability Research and Education Project, will be teaching several hands-on workshops related to permaculture design.

Topics include:

• Introduction to Permaculture: Ethics, Principles and Zones
• Edible Landscapes
• Using Nature as Your Guide: How the elements affect design.

Be prepared to go for a walk!

Ride a Bike Generator (Help Power the Show) Our bike generator will be set up by the river so we can watch movies by the water!  Anyone who wants to plug something in can bring their electronic device to try it out!

Build a Recycled Home: Green construction is a concept which offers numerous opportunities for us to improve our impact on the earth. As we learn how to reuse more of our garbage, we will decrease our need to harvest new building materials, and we will slow the filling of landfills! At the festival this year, we will be building a kids' play castle out of used tires, straw bales and old newspapers. This will be an interactive workshop. You can help by throwing papercrete on the building and decorating the walls!

Rain Barrel Workshop: Using rainwater before it seeps into the ground saves our groundwater for drinking and reduces the amount of electricity used to pump water out of pockets deep in the earth. In cities, it diverts rainwater that would otherwise run into creeks causing flooding. A short workshop will show you how to make your own rain barrels for a fraction of the cost of purchasing them!

Environmental Films:Environmental documentaries such as "The Future of Food", "The Power of Community", "Fresh" and "What a Way To Go: Life at the end of empire" will be shown throughout the festival on the main stage screens and by the river (powered by the bike generator).

Speakers:

• Ecovillages and Sustainability Around the World by Katie Nixon
• Transitioning Back to a Sustainable Local Agriculture by Katie Nixon
• 5 Steps to a Zero Energy Home by Craig Wiles, owner of Preferred Energy
• Sizing A Solar System by Craig Wiles
• History of Solar Energy by Craig Wiles
• Human Rights Awareness by John Corkery
• The Energy Crisis by Jeremy Jacobs of Jacobs Energy
  

Human Rights Awareness Tour:This nationally touring group will be bringing a variety of entertainment and education:

• No Sweat Fashion Show featuring fair trade and eco-friendly clothing and accessories.
• Art Installations and giant sculptures throughout the festival. One series is sculpted out of recycled styrofoam. Other works focus on human rights awareness.
• Speakers
• Direct Action Booth where you can find out about all kinds of organizations that are doing great things!
• Giant Crowd Peace Sign: On Saturday evening, the Human Rights Awareness Tour staff will lead the crowd in forming a giant peace sign symbolizing our united cry for peace and justice around the globe!
• Green Symposium: a conversation between a panel of environmental experts and the crowd.

Earth Prayer: At noon on Saturday, we will all come together in a meditation for the healing of our mother earth!

River Cleanup Float Trips: Want to get away from the crowd for awhile and enjoy nature on the clear, cool Niangua River? Canoe, kayak and tube trips will be available while there's room! Reservations are recommended.
Contact Mountain Creek River Resort at 1-888-603-6749.

Raku Pottery Demonstrations:  Learn how to fire pottery with natural materials in a kiln made of recycled material with Bobbie Stamper.

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RiverSong Wellness Space:

Yoga By The River: with Brittany Zschoche

Bellydance for Fun and Fitness: With Jen Baird, founder of Ozark Mountain Gypsies. Exotic Middle Eastern dance steps and music make belly dance a totally different and exciting way to exercise. Learn basic moves in this belly dance workshop with Jen Baird. Jen will teach shimmies, belly rolls, hip circles, snake arms and more along with simple dances. Jingling hip scarves and finger cymbals provide flash and percussion. Belly dancing moves work not only the cardiovascular system, but also tone major muscle groups in the arm, abdominal, and leg areas.

Homebirth Workshop: Mountain Chartier Dixon, Kansas City home birth midwife, has a passion for gentle, unhindered birth. Her journey as a midwife began 12 years ago when she became interested in herbal medicine, nutritional healing and natural birth. After many years of self study and 3 beautiful home births, she began a traditional apprenticeship with a local home birth midwife. Mountain will be teaching the benefits and methods of birthing your child in a natural setting.

Everyone Can Drum Workshop: Led by Aubree Taylor, drum circle facilitator & percussionist for Jah Kings. "Rhythm is a universal language that we can all understand and experience. Drumming connects us to the natural rhythms deep within our bodies and is a powerful tool for self-expression, empowerment, wellness & unity." In this hands-on workshop we will explore the fundamentals of playing a Djembe. For the past two years Aubree has been teaching a class called Djembe Fundamentals, which teaches an understanding of African Rhythms as brought to the U.S. by the Nigerian Drum Master Babatunde Olatunji. She worked (2004) as an Artist in Residence in the Baltimore, MD school system with at-risk children. Currently she facilitates a wellness drum circle at Christ Church Unity in Springfield, Missouri and an open drum jam at The Move Studio.

Hoop Dance Classes: Come and learn the beautiful art of hoop dance with Ziggy! The circle is one of the most ancient symbols known to man, representing unity, oneness, wholeness, infinity, etc. The hoop is holistic tool as the many benefits of hoop danace affect the mind, body and spirit. Not only is hoop dance an excellent fitness tool, it also aids as a new form of meditative practice, boosts serotonin levels, brings back childlike excitement and silliness, builds confidence, and much more. Adult sized hoops will be provided and for sale. So come and play! Learn tricks, how to hoop dance, hoop meditation, and much more. Any size, any age, anyone can do it!

Wild Fermentation Station:  Learn the health benefits of fermented foods and how to make them yourself!  Trisha Grim, Small Farm Specialist at Lincoln University, will teach us how to ferment foods such as kombucha (fermented medicinal tea), kimchee (one of Health magazine's top five "World's Healthiest Foods", claimed to fight flu), mead, nuka pickles, and yogurt.  Then come back on Saturday to try some of them!

Tree House Club For Kids:
Our hope is that future generations will grow up understanding how to protect our planet. With this in mind, we have created a kids' area around the playground with activities all weekend. Youngsters can turn trash into art, storytelling, kids' songs and more!

Kids' Songs by Sugar Free Allstars
Native Storytelling
Recycled Crafts
Papermaking
Nature Walk
The Edge of Imagination Station Stop Motion Lab
Solar Oven Cooking

Schedule:
The schedule for the Green Mountain Eco Festival will be posted one week before the show.
Please check back!