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Crestone Energy Fair 2020!

September 12
Connecting Community

The Crestone Energy Fair is an annual event highlighting innovative and visionary energy, building, and human relation’s technologies while networking the skill sets and resources of local, regional and global communities who practice sustainable, regenerative and whole systems designs.

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Announcing our 2020 keynote speaker!

David "Diamond" Mauriello of the Oppenheimer Ranch Project

Diamond has an extensive background in landscape, residential, and commercial construction, and is also a master dry-set mason, skills which fit nicely with the tasks at hand. An awoken voice for sustainability, Diamond is a proponent of the core tenants of the Crestone Energy Fair, and we are happy and eager to hear his message for us at this year’s event.

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Be part of the Fair!

We are looking for Presenters, Vendors, Musicians/Artists, Home Tours and Volunteers

that are aligned with our mission and focus on alternative building/construction methods, gardening/permaculture and community health.

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Many Thanks to our 2020 Partners!

We are currently looking for individual donations and sponsors to help us produce this year’s event.

Donations can be made through our Go Fund Me page at http://www.gofundme.com/zmcrm-crestone-energy-fair or by mailing a check to Crestone Energy Fair, PO Box 83.

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Until Then check out our Youtube Channel

Many thanks to Pete VanHorn and Nick Nevares for their work filming and editing this ongoing series.

We are grateful to Joanna Dokson for touring us through Atalanta Gardens, to Matt Evers & Goldie Mariola for teaching us about building their earthship home, and to Tony & Amy Jo Cannata for showing us the beginning stages of preparing for a strawbale building.

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Crestone Energy Fair 2020

September 12, 2020

 

Connecting Community

The Crestone Energy Fair continues to be a tradition in the San Luis Valley for thirty years, bringing innovative ideas in construction, lifestyle, and sustainability to the region. This event continues to be one of the longest running sustainability fairs in the nation, and in the past has included a weekend of educational presentations, community symposiums, hands on demonstrations, and guided home tours. This year, however, we find ourselves adapting to the current conditions and will be presenting the same content in a virtual forum, as well as a single day event that will be live streamed with online and live q&a integrated. This is new territory for the event, but we are confident that we will successfully implement this format. Run by committed volunteers, this free event is committed to improving the lives of all attendees by empowering them to learn and experience the necessary skills to use alternative building methodologies and materials in future projects. With a past attendance exceeding 500 people, we are excited to continue the energy fair to a broader online audience.

Crestone is uniquely situated as the county in which it resides, Saguache, has no building codes. As a result, permanent housing comprised of unique and visionary methods are allowed and encouraged, and the Fair has taken advantage of this unique situation. Through an interactive online forum of demonstrations, potential owner-builders can learn how to use elements like straw bales to insulate walls, hempcrete to affordably lay a foundation, and old tires pounded with earth to reinforce and berm walls. After learning how to build with these materials, we then offer virtual home tours of completed and under construction homes, so that future builders can see the results of people who have been in their shoes, and taken the leap to build themselves. We believe that everyone deserves a place to call home, and by providing the necessary knowledge and experience for those who have not yet endeavored to build their own, we have become a resource for those with the dream of owning a home who can’t afford a traditional builder.The financial support we receive from visionary individuals and businesses is what allows us to continue to provide this weekend of free education to anyone interested in a regenerative future. We believe that the sharing of information and resources will undoubtedly reap an abundant reward. Crestone is proactively asking, answering and, most importantly, acting on the next series of big questions that stimulate our cultures evolution towards a prosperous future.

 

Please Donate

Please consider making a donation to the Crestone Energy Fair. We need your support to help make this year's community-run event a success. We need to raise money for everything from speakers, musicians, sanitation/recycling/composting, advertising, youth events, community art to alternative energy to power our stages! Every little bit really makes a big impact, helps us to engage and empower the broader community, and supports the volunteers who are committing hundreds of hours to produce this event. Click below for our Go Fund Me donation page.
http://www.gofundme.com/zmcrm-crestone-energy-fair
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