Earth Day Events: EnviroExpo

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day!  There are so many great events to go to this month that we thought we would highlight the ones we’ve checked out. Today we went to Windsor for the EnviroExpo, an event for consumers to educate and entertain on environmental issues.  Here are a few of the vendors we met:

Recharge Mower: I’ve seen different types of electric and manual mowers, but with the electric you have a cord and the manual is a little bit more labor intensive.  But with a rechargeable mower,  there is no gas, no oil or emissions.

Jamieson: A health product manufacturer that is really going the extra mile.  Their goal is to plant 20,000 trees by Canada’s Environment Week in June.  They were giving small pine trees at the event and if you planted them would plant a tree in return.

Natural Passage: This is one industry I have not heard of going green…funeral homes.  It was a company that offered a greener choice for your funeral arrangements.  They had sustainable wood coffins that were manufactured without nails, soy candles for your funeral, and bamboo clothing.  Not something I really want to think about, but good to know those type of services are offered.

Enfinity: This is an Canadian company that leases unused land to install solar panels.  I had never heard of land lease for solar and thought it was such a cool concept.  Any 1,000 sq.ft. of land can be used, whether its barren agricultural fields, used landfills, deforested areas, or unused/unusable land.

Verde Lifestyles will also be selling products at the “Urbane” Green Networking Event in Corktown on the 22nd and the Western Market Earth Day After Party in Ferndale on the 23rd.  Other Earth Day events we will be going to are the MI Earth Day Fest in Rochester on the 23rd-25th and theGreen St. Fair in Plymouth the first weekend in May.  We’ll also be writing about each event.  Hopefully we’ll see you there!