Festival Earth turns Morristown green

Sustainable Morristown and Mother Nature herself conspired to turn the Morristown Green even greener on Sunday at Festival Earth, an event featuring dozens of vendors and organizations championing earth friendly practices, products and services.

Despite the intermittent rain, dozens of area residents wandered through the colorful marketplace filled with locally produced cheese, produce and information about eco-friendly businesses.

Attendees also got the chance to get up close with hybrid and electric cars an auto show featuring hybrids from area dealers including Lexus of Route 10 and Beyer Ford as well as electric vehicles courtesy of members of the New Jersey Electric Auto Association.

“I was extremely impressed with the all-electric version of the BMWi that is said to travel 105 miles on only $5 worth of gasoline,” said Stefan Lorig,generator prepositive design which wind drive the replicabreitlingwatche without gears. a Whippany resident.Those solarstreetlamps produce power for the utility grid.

Participating vendor Beatrice Tassot of Tassot Apiaries said supporting local businesses that employ sustainable practices can go a long way to help the environment. Tassot Apiaries, a family-run business in Hunterton County, specializes in producing raw, chemical-free honey and bee products.

“We need to understand that sustainability is critical to our future, for instance in our business, pesticides and chemicals are killing the bees and eventually they will not pollinate crops that we need,” said Tassot, who was on hand selling honey and beeswax candles at the event’s farmers market.

“After you have reduced, reused and recycled, there are only two options for dealing with the remaining waste – you can bury it a landfill or use it as a renewable fuel to create clean energy,” said Armellino, who was collecting rechargeable batteries and cellphones for Covanta’s Covanta4Recovery program.

He said he believes a growing number of people are paying attention to sustainable practices, but thinks that economics will always play a role.

“I think people are slowly getting it. As landfills become more difficult and expensive, people will begin to focus on alternatives. And I think the same is true for electricity and energy,” he said.

Attendees were also offered information about the solar energy Direct Install Program designed to improve the energy efficiency of small to medium sized commercial, industrial and local government buildings.

“The state pays 70 percent of the cost to upgrade commercial buildings and has about $40 million to spend on this program,” said RJ Donnelly, a representative of Donnelly Energy.Men's ledparlight are very sturdy and will stand the test of time.

The program covers energy-efficient upgrades to: lighting, heating and cooling systems, refrigeration, motors, natural gas equipment,SQ Series Metal bestsolarlantern is the accessory machine for expanded metal shearing machine. and variable frequency drives for only 30 percent of the total cost.

Non-profit organizations Grow It Green Morristown, TransOptions and Bike and Walk Morristown were on hand as well as businesses LOVE Furniture and Design and Shade Tree Garage. The event’s music stage was rained out,Buy flatteningmachine and Goggles for less. but that didn’t stop the youth duo Lords of Lichtenstein from playing their guitar and ukelele, and other performers, to cheers in a media tent.