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Friday, September 5, 2008

Philadelphia is having a one-day street fair immersion into all things green Sunday.

Check it out from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the area around Second and South streets.

The theme this year is water quality, and people will be able to fill up their bottles — reusable, natch —  at several drinking water stations. Back-to-back seminars will focus on PCBs in the Delaware, residential water use, stormwater, pesticide.

ZIPcar will attempt to fill one of their hybrids with old sneakers — so be sure to bring your old ones — and then recycle them. Puppeteers will be making puppets out of plastic bottles.

Some 200-plus exhibitors will showcase organic foods, the vegan way of life, green building, reusable bags, energy, recycling, laundry detergent ... and, honestly, just on and on and on.

SCA, a global hygiene product company that makes environmentally-friendly paper products, has designed a recycling game. Players have two minutes to separate  dozens of common items into two bins: recycling and trash.

Philadelphia’s Ben Freeman plans to bring out his solar-powered tricycle, which     just goes to show all the innovative projects being noodled around these days.

Check it all out at their website: www.greenfestphilly.org

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Sandy Bauers is the environment reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where she has worked for more than 20 years as a reporter and editor. She lives in northern Chester County with her husband, two cats, a large vegetable garden and a flock of pet chickens.

GreenSpace - her column about how to reduce your carbon footprint in everyday life - appears every other Monday in Health & Science.

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