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Green Home Pavilion
The Energy Fair features the fourth annual
Green Home Pavilion. It’s now easier than ever
to find sustainable resources for your home.
The Energy Fair has set aside this special area
to help homeowners and future home buyers
discover ways to make their house a “home
sweet sustainable home.”
The Green Home Pavilion provides an
opportunity to see what products are currently
available to create a healthy, green home. You
can also learn about building techniques and
design to make your home more energy efficient
to save money and the planet.
Visit exhibitors featuring green building
materials, energy efficient appliances, and
sustainable products. Connect with others who
have experimented with alternative building
materials such as straw bale, whole trees, and
cordwood. Find the complete list of Green
Home Pavilion exhibitors on page 54.
Workshops highlight sustainable building
techniques, healthy green homes, and ways to
improve existing homes. See the complete list
of workshops on page 64.
Building Demonstrations
Ever wonder what a straw bale wall actually
looks like Or would you like to see how to
put together an earthen clay wall Based on
last year’s success, we will once again feature
green building demonstrations throughout the
weekend. You never know what you’ll find in
the Green Home Pavilion. Here is a list of a few
specific scheduled demonstrations:
Straw Bale Wall Demonstration
Friday, 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, 1:00 p.m.
See the guts of a straw bale wall construction,
and watch a wall be built throughout the
weekend. Hands-on demonstration will be
led by Mark Morgan of Bearpaw Design and
Construction. Don’t miss workshop #24, Straw
Bale Construction in the Midwest, offered prior
to each of these hands-on demonstrations
(Friday, 10:00 a.m. and Saturday, 12:00 p.m.)
in the Green Home Pavilion.
Light Straw-Clay Demonstration
Friday, 1:00 p.m.
Saturday, 2:00 p.m.
Learn how the straw-clay wall structures are
mixed, built, and dried in these two hands-on
demonstrations. Demonstration will be led by
Lou Host-Jablonski of Design Coalition and
Douglas Piltingsrud of Sustainable Housing
Research. Don’t miss workshops #12 Green
Building Part 1: High Performance Natural
Midwestern Homes (Friday, 12:00 p.m. and
Saturday, 11:00 a.m.) and #13 Green Building
Part 2: Light Straw-Clay Insulation (Saturday,
12:00 p.m.) offered prior to the hands-on
demonstrations in the Green Home Pavilion.
MREA cordwood workshop. Photo courtesy of Matt Kirsch, Media Loom.
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