Boonah World Environment day Festival

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Saturday, 6th June 2015
9:00am till 4:00pm

The Outlook , Boonah
Queensland

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Visit: http://boonahboss.blogspot.com/
Call: Julie Jackson on 0435992798.
Email: Julie Jackson at boonahboss@hotmail.com.

Cost: FREE

A huge array of exhibitors, workshops, demonstrations, art and performances will again be showcased at this year’s World Environment Day Festival in Boonah. This free event which celebrates and inspires sustainable communities, is presented by the Boonah Organisation for a Sustainable Shire (BOSS), and is coming up on Saturday 6 June at the Outlook, 4001 Boonah Ipswich Road, Boonah. The global theme, set each year by the United Nations Environment Program relates very specifically to sustainability for 2015. The slogan is Seven Billion Dreams, One Planet, Consume with Care. Festival Coordinator Julie Jackson explains the United Nations’ theme, “Living within planetary boundaries is the most promising strategy for ensuring a healthy future. Human prosperity need not cost the earth. Living sustainably is about doing more and better with less. It is about knowing that rising rates of natural resource use and the environmental impacts that occur are not a necessary by-product of economic growth.” The event officially opens at 9.30am with a moving traditional acknowledgement smoking ceremony, before a day of fun and innovations for all the family. There’s free creative workshops (including drumming!) for young and old, raw food and many other displays and demonstrations, live entertainment, and a huge assortment of artisan stalls featuring local organic produce including cheeses, olives, preserves and confectionary; loads of plants and vintage and upcycled pallet furniture, aquaponics and wicking beds, jewellery, and fashion, local beers, wines and verjuice. The festival is a plastic bag free event, and we encourage visitors to bring their own bags or take advantage of the many stall holders providing great options in upcvcled bags, including ones made from chicken and horse feed bags, cement bags, denim jeans, and even baling twine. The family friendly day has something for everyone, including a great multi prize raffle featuring lots of sustainable prizes from our local and visiting businesses. For more information on the entertainment, workshop and demonstration programs, and the list of stallholders and the special recycling bays, please visit http://boonahboss.blogspot.com.au/

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The Outlook

4001 Boonah Ipswich Road, Boonah, Queensland, 4310, Australia

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