Milton Green Homes Fair
Saturday, April 23, 2011 12PM - 4PM
@ Cunningham Hall
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Our aim is to provide residents and businesses with a range of products and services that reduce a consumer’s environmental impact, from proprietors who have a local presence or Web-based business to decrease travel emissions and support the local economy and include sustainability as part of their DNA.
Raffle Prizes
This year's prizes include:
Abby Park: $50 Gift Certificate.
Boston Green Building: Energy Assessment.
Buta Full Life: Gift certificate for consultation/ home analysis.
The Great American Rain Barrel Company: Forest green 60 gallon recycled rain barrel.
Lattanzio Landscapes: Native Dogwood tree, cornus florida, value $100.
Milton Department of Public Works: Earth Mover Compost Bin.
Nstar: 2 energy efficient desk lights.
Renewable Energy Systems (RES): $150 Gift Certificate – Installation of solar hot water and heating systems.
Solar Flair Energy, Inc.: Solar Fleece.
Thayer Nursery: Firebelly Organics 'Lawn in a box' six step organic liquid fertilizer program.
Sustainable Milton: Bag, water bottle and t-shirt.
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Food, Entertainment & Acknowledgements
Milton Green Homes Fair is an enjoyable, educational and informative event for the whole family. We have fun activities planned for the children and valuable information and presentations from a wide variety of local vendors.
- Eastern Nazarene College - Animal Caretaker Team
(Children’s Animal Presentation - You may see lizards, snakes, frogs or spiders)
Exhibitors
Utility / Rebate Companies
- Mass Energy: This electricity for this event has been matched by local, clean wind power. Through the New England Wind Fund, Mass Energy is able to provide the financial support needed to secure contracts for wind projects. It is the only tax deductible clean energy option in Massachusetts available to all residents and businesses. Contact Mass Energy at 617-524-3950 for more information!
- Nstar: Take action to save on energy costs—learn how the choices you make at home determine how much you pay for energy. Learn about the programs and services we offer to help make your home energy efficient.
Home Energy Auditors
- Green Guild: Green Guild performs comprehensive Whole House Energy Audits - including a blower test and infrared scans to pinpoint leaks and problems in your home. We provide a detailed report and a to-do list of ways to make your home more energy efficient. We fix basic problems with caulking, weather-stripping and insulation and more complex problems with installation of new doors, windows and/or heating/cooling systems. We make sure you get the benefit of all available rebates and tax credits.
- Next Step Living: Next Step Living is a residential energy efficiency company, providing home energy diagnostics and improvements to the greater New England area. We are a socially-conscious, environmentally-focused, results-driven organization dedicated to helping our customers lower their energy bills, increase the comfort of their homes and reduce their carbon footprint. Through collaborative efforts with major utilities, communities and employers, we strive to help bring social, economic and environmental change to cities and towns across the country.
Life Style and Building
- Boston Building Resources: Our energy-saving products (such as pipe insulation and gap-sealing foam) help homeowners reduce their carbon footprint. Our landscape timbers and whiskey barrel planters are made of recycled plastics. Our nonprofit Reuse Center reduces needless waste and preserves the energy embodied in used building materials such as cabinet sets, windows, doors and millwork while making them available at affordable prices to local homeowners. New products are sold through a consumer co-op.
Solar Energy Vendors
- MacDougalls Solar hot water & heating system installation 761 Brook Road, Milton, MA 02186, Office- 617.698.6740, pmmacdoug@hotmail.com.
- RES Solar: Installation of solar hot water and heating systems. We also install high efficiency boilers to further reduce carbon emissions. Assistance provided with all tax credit and rebate forms.
- Solar Flair Energy: SolarFlair Energy Inc. was founded with a mission to deliver cost effective clean energy solutions to residential and commercial clients in MA. With over 10 years of experience, SolarFlair brings together an intimate knowledge of solar technology with creative financing mechanisms to deliver a product that meets our clients' energy goals and saves money. We are committed to customer satisfaction.
- Sunlight Solar Energy, Inc: We are committed to providing you with the highest quality grid-tied solar electric and solar hot water (solar thermal) installation for your home or business. Our company has been dedicated to installing the best renewable energy systems available for over 20 years
Yard Care
- Compost Guys: Our organic lawn care service includes organic fertilizers, organic weed, insect & mosquito care
- The Great American Rain Barrell Company: Recycled products to help you recycle! When it rains you save money and rain water in our 60 gallon recycled Great American Rain Barrel.
- Grow my City green: GREEN CITY GROWERS are experienced and passionate organic farmers specialized in building, maintaining, and harvesting raised-bed year-round produce gardens. Our raised-beds can be placed anywhere the sun shines: yards, rooftops, decks, or parking spaces! emailed but haven't heard back - they help plan and establish veggie gardens.
- Lattanzio Landscapes: Lattanzio Landscapes is a landscape design/build and garden care company dedicated to creating gardens that are ecologically beneficial, livable, and beautiful. We offer a wide range of services from design and installation to customized garden care and consultation and we use organic and environmentally responsible techniques in both our design and maintenance work. Our goal is to offer high quality personalized services to residential customers who want to enjoy beautiful home gardens of any size.
- Thayer Nursery: Thayer Nurser, a six acre, family owned farm in Milton, has been growing exceptional & sustainable plant material and offering high quality landscape installation, supplies & services since 1965. We provide organic lawn care services and products as well as organic land care solutions and are accredited Organic Land Care professionals under the Northeast Organic Farming Association.
Contractors & Builders
- Boston Green Builders: Boston Green Building builds beautiful and healthy spaces that increase the well-being and comfort of individuals and families, while decreasing operational costs and carbon footprints of their homes.
Architects
- Albert, Richter & Tittmann Architects, Inc: We have a long history of building durable, efficient, and well-loved buildings. Now we can design buildings that consume zero energy.
- Timeless Architecture: Timeless Architecture designs environmentally conscious residential and light commercial buildings in New England. We offer new green home design, historic preservation, energy star consulting and deep energy retrofits.
Cleaning / Personal Care
- Buta Full LIfe: BFLI is dedicated to the best practices for long-term personal, physical and environmental health. Our team advocates proactive care for the environment and proactive disease risk reduction. We create awareness through educational seminars such as our Pollution Reduction Initiative, then make it easy, via our consulting, products and services for committed people to reduce their risk of disease both for now and for their future. We are passionate for our clients' healthy, dynamic, beautiful lives, well into their 60's, 70's and beyond.
Transportation
- Bike Milton: BikeMilton, the Milton Bicycle Advisory Committee, is dedicated to encouraging bicycling and bike safety in and around Milton. BikeMilton promotes local events, supports training via programs like Safe Routes to School and makes facility recommendations to the Town and other local government agencies.
Non Profit Education / Advocacy Groups
- Sustainable Milton: Sustainable Milton aims to create a community that acts to preserve our ecosystem as a whole. We aim to raise awareness, educate and motivate residents, town government and businesses to reduce waste of all forms and create a healthy, vibrant future for all.
- Mass Climate Action Network (MCAN): MCAN is a coalition of locally organized groups fighting the climate crisis. We do this by promoting carbon-reducing practices in our homes and communities.
- Friends of the Blue Hills: : Friends of the Blue Hills helps maintain the Reservation's 125 miles of trails, control invasive plants that threaten endangered species, and advocate for policies that protect the park from office complexes, private parking lots and other inappropriate development.
- Brookwood Community Farm: The Brookwood Community Farm is a working organic farm and education center located in Milton and Canton, MA. The farm is dedicated to preserving historic farmland through sustainable agricultural production that improves access to healthy, affordable, freshly grown fruits and vegetables in urban communities.
Presentations - Presentations will be conducted throughout the course of the event. For more information on presentation contact us.
1.00pm HOME ENERGY AUDITS DEMYSTIFIED
1.30pm CHEF DIDI COOKS WITH KIDS
hands-on cookery workshop with chef and bestselling-author Didi Emmons
2.30pm DETOX YOUR HOME with Nick Anastas
3.00pm WHY PLANT NATIVES? 50 GREAT NATIVE PLANTS YOU CAN USE AT HOME
with Nancy Lattanzio of Lattanzio Landscapes
Directions (map)
Cunningham Hall, 75 Edge Hill Rd., Milton, MA, 02186
Directions from the North:
From I-93 South: Take exit 10 and merge onto Squantum St. toward Milton. Turn left at Adams St and continue for 0.3 miles. Turn right at the lights at the Post Office, bear right and then right again onto Edge Hill Road. Cunningham Hall is .7 miles on left.
Directions from the South:
From I-93 North: Take exit 5 and merge onto Route 28 North toward Milton and continue for 2.9 miles. Turn right at Pleasant Street and continue 0.9 miles straight onto Edge Hill Road. Cunningham Hall is 0.1 miles on right.
Milton Green Hoimes Fair is funded in part by a grant from MIlton Junior Womens Club
View last years event here!
