energy ottawa Ecosphere Environmental Fair
July 31 - august 2, 2010 at Confederation Park

Group Ecosphere — a non-profit organization — in collaboration with The Rideau Canal Festival, will hold its third multidisciplinary fair entirely dedicated to ecology and the environment. The main goal of this event is to bring awareness to the population, as well as inform and educate them by bringing together some of the key people in the environmental world.

Over 55 Exhibitors!

Don't miss Green Speakers Series, with over 10 featured speakers!

These include companies working in green architecture, new green technologies, organic farming and alternative medicines, as well as conference speakers and community organizations who will inspire the public to embark on the road to real change in their everyday lives.

Click here to register your company.

Meet us in the Park

The Fair will take place in Confederation Park in downtown Ottawa. With its open concept and large green spaces, it is the ideal venue for erecting a number of architectural and technological structures, and creating a charming and rustic ambiance favorable to the environmental goals of Project ECOSPHERE. It also has adequate parking space, and is set up to receive over 50,000 visitors in a weekend!

Exhibitor Categories

• Architecture
  Buildings, frames and roofing
• Alternative energies
  Solar and hot water panels
  Wind technology
  Septic systems and recycling of waste-water and rainwater
• New green technologies
  Hybrid cars Solar cars
  Natural foods
  Organic and handicraft products
• Organic farming
  Residential greenhouse gardening
  Pesticides, herbicides, natural fertilizer and composting
  Biodiversity
• Resources
  Government and community organizations
  Literature Eco-tourism
• Health and alternative medicines
  Traditional herbalist, naturopathy, massage therapy and others
• Artists and artisans
  Traditional crafts
  

Electromagnetic fields in our living space

Stéphane Bélainsky, 3E Electromagnetic Environmental Expertise

Electromagnetism is not only a question of science and technology but also the fundamentals of life itself and who we are. Come and rediscover yourself as a highly sophisticated bioelectric living system linked to our environment and now exposed to multiple sources of artificial energy fields. Update your knowledge and discover the importance of electromagnetic hygiene in our modern technological lives. Practical and economical solutions are at hand. An encounter that can make a positive difference in your life today.

Our mission is to preserve and promote the health of living beings in their environment through electromagnetic hygiene. We offer onsite surveys to detect and measure the presence of electromagnetic fields (emf) in your home and work areas. We provide diagnostics and applied economical mitigation solutions for many sources to reduce long-term exposures. People who choose a formal way to evaluate their exposure will find this service will provide the information needed to compare home and office results with the best presently available national and international guidelines, towards a health prevention approach.

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Garbage to Garden

Géraldine Baker, Worm Factory

Join Gerrie Baker, The Worm Lady, on an exploration with nature’s great soil engineers, earthworms. Discover this simple and effective way to create rich soil from household waste by composting indoors and outdoors. Reduce your personal carbon footprint and commit to recycling all organic carbon-based materials. Save money and time. Learn to grow your own nutritious produce. Have your questions answered and purchase worms to start your own habitat.

Visit us to learn how you can stop all household organic waste from going to a landfill. Be an advocate and take worm composting to your place of business. Share the information with family, friends and neighbors. Convert compacted, unused space to gardens efficiently and easily. Indoor composting using a simple, odorless earthworm habitat is being enjoyed by thousands of people in apartments, homes, schools, associations and businesses. Outside a basic compost pile becomes a place of rich dark humus with earthworm action quickly converting garbage to castings. Cardboard, newspapers, floor sweepings, fur, fibers, feathers as well as food scraps, tea leaves, coffee grounds and egg shells all become beautiful black soil. This cast is pH balanced and full of minerals and trace elements that provide perfect slow release natural fertilizer. To learn more, ask questions and see a working habitat locate The Worm Factory booth.

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Eco Friendly Roof

Daniel Payne, Forever Roof

Our Cool Pigment Roofing Roofing/Energy Star finishes reflect up to 80% of UV rays, thus, using less energy in the summer to cool your home, which saves you money along with helping our environment. The dept. of Energy, based in Oakridge, Tennessee has drawn the analogy that going over an old roof with an energy star roof is like leaving a sweater on under your coat in the winter, which again lowers your carbon footprint by saving energy and not adding to our over-burdened landfills.

This conference is about an all Canadian Product and is helping to improve our environment. Our Cool Pigment Roofing/Energy Star Finishes reflect up to 80% of UV rays, thus, using less energy in the summer to cool your home. This product is very light and the composite metal materials will not conform to pre-existing roofing, it can be installed directly over your old asphalt roof which lowers the impact on our environment and lessens the impact on our landfills. The U.S. Department of Energy, based in Oakridge, Tennessee has stated that going over an old roof with an Energy Star roof is like leaving on sweater on under your coat in the winter, lowering your carbon footprint by saving both energy and by not adding to our over-burdened landfills.

We believe our product is a benefit for both the environment & the consumer. Like all Energy Star products it will only increase the resale value of your home.

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The oil shortage and urban life

Robert Bériault, Canadian Association for the Club of Rome

Petroleum has allowed us to build large, automobile-dependant cities, machines to replace human labour, the proliferation of large, energy hungry houses, an advanced medicine and food production that have allowed a sextupling of the human population since the first oil well of 1856. As the easy-to-extract petroleum diminishes it will no longer be possible to maintain our extravagant way of life. How will the decline of oil production affect our society and what can we do to reduce the severity of the consequences?

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Sustainability and growth: are they compatible?

Madeline Weld, Population Institute of Canada

Population growth is a factor in environmental degradation everywhere in the world. Although the population of the developing world grows by 80 million people each year, this growth is ignored in most development programs. Developed countries such as Canada continue to base their policies on the paradigm of continuous economic growth, despite the irrefutable evidence that it is unsustainable. To stop the "ecocide" that Homo sapiens is inflicting on the planet, we must accept that there are limits to growth on a finite planet.

PIC's website aims to help people understand the connection between population growth and the problems that beset the Earth. The human population of over 6.8 billion is growing by about 80 million each year. The number of hungry people, one billion, is larger than ever before. But our food production capabilities are under tremendous stress: agricultural land is rapidly being lost; rangelands are overgrazed; water tables are falling in key areas; and the world's fisheries are being overexploited. The growing human population is also driving other species to extinction. Humans must reverse their collision course with the natural limits of Earth by stabilizing and reducing their population or nature will do it for them as it has for countless other species that have gone into overpopulation. PIC promotes ethical policies to limit family size and believes that every country has a responsibility to keep its population size within the carrying capacity of its territory.

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The Elections, Our Community, and the Ecology of Ottawa

Madelyn Howitt et Léa Braschi, Ecology Ottawa

The initiatives being taken by Ecology Ottawa to address the most pressing environmental concerns in the city of Ottawa, including our Green Buildings & Workplaces Challenge and our efforts to make sure that city council spurs important environmental changes in our community. The conference will talk about ways that the community can get involved in our various projects and be active participants during an exciting time in our city’s evolution.

Founded in 2006, Ecology Ottawa is a volunteer-driven, non-profit organization working to make Ottawa the green capital of Canada. We believe that Ottawans want sustainable communities and that they care about issues such as public transit, pollution, green spaces, global warming, renewable energy, waste disposal, and recycling. We are helping residents come together to nurture sustainable communities and build a grassroots, city-wide movement to ensure that these concerns are heard at city hall.

The City of Ottawa used to be an environmental leader among Canadian cities, but today it is falling further and further behind other Canadian cities. It doesn't have to be this way. By increasing citizen participation in decisions that shape Ottawa's environment, we can hold city council accountable for its environmental performance and bring our nation's capital back to the forefront of efforts to foster healthy communities and develop sustainable solutions. Together we can make Ottawa the green capital of Canada, but we need your active support!

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Semences d'espoir... pour la souverainetÉ alimentaire

Geneviève Grossenbacher, USC Canada

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How Dietary Choices Affect the Environment

Josh Flower, National Capital Vegetarian Association

This talk will seek to educate attendees on the various ways animal-based agriculture impacts the environment. Most people are unaware that animal agriculture accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire global transportation industry combined. Livestock graze on more than 30% of the world’s habitable land, produce unfathomable quantities of waste, and require more fresh water than the entire global human population. This talk will touch on these details and more, and offer hope for the future.

This talk will seek to educate attendees on the various ways animal-based agriculture impacts the environment. Most people are unaware that animal agriculture accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire global transportation industry combined (cars, trucks, planes, trains & boats) and is the #1 source of global methane emissions. Livestock graze on more than 30% of the world’s habitable land, produce unfathomable quantities of waste, and require more fresh water than the entire global human population. Rainforest clear cutting is done largely to free up land for livestock grazing and related crop growth, and our oceans are being destroyed by industrial fishing operations that are literally tearing ecosystems apart at rates that have the scientific community very concerned. This talk will touch on these details and more, outlining alternatives for those wishing to reduce their contribution to animal agriculture industries, and offer hope for the future.

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View list of conferences in French.

Conferences on the environment

• Organic farming
• Benefits of a healthy home
• The solar energy and geothermy
• Sustainable development

Join us for Zerofootprint Day! Saturday, july 31
Confederation Park site

• Energy Ottawa Ecosphere Environmental Fair with over 55 Exhibitors
• Green Speakers Series with 10 featured speakers
• Buy Local BBQ Challenge
• Bicycles for Humanity; bicycle loan program
  ...and much more!

List of Exhibitors
NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION

• La Cité collégiale
• Katimavik
• Ontario Electronic Stewardship
• Population Institute of Canada
• Summerhill Impact - Retire Your Ride program
• Tucker House Renewal Centre
• University of Ottawa Heart - Institute Bike for Beats
• ECOTOURISM
• IMAX Theater - Canadian Museum of Civilization

PHOTO EXHIBIT

• Biosphere, Environment Museum
• UNESCO

PRODUCTS AND RESSORCES

• Capital Memorial Gardens
• Eco2Bureau

HOUSING AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

• Bullfrog Power
• City of Ottawa - Public Health
• City of Ottawa - Solid Waste Operations Branch
• City of Ottawa - Water Efficiency
• Costco
• Distribution Polti inc.
• Expertise Électromagnétique Environnementale 3E
• The Forever Roof
• Green Hyhiene
• Harrosmith Country Life
• Krumpers Solar Solutions Inc.
• Plasma Innovation Cookware
• Service technologique la Relance/Valoritec
• Société Technique de la Polytechnique de Montréal Esteban voiture solaire
• Unlimited Potential Now

NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION

• Bicycles for Humanity
• Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
• Ecology Ottawa
• Foundation for Wellness Professionnals
• National Capital Vegetarian Association
• Ottawa Riverkeeper

HEALTH and FAMILY

• Les créations Mayukori
• Cuisine Santé Internationale
• Liberty Homecare
• Myriane Bernier
• Natural Soaps & Crafts
• PureCréation
• Rothwell Heights Chiropractic
• Shaklee
• Vivifiant-eau

FaSHION and DESIGN

• Adorit Boutique
• Les collections Bon-Zay
• FribEthik
• Lilidom
• Mariclaro
• Oulala Shop
• Sur le fil
• Vue d`la terre

FOODS

• GLOBAL FLCCG Inc
• Island Spices

PRODUCTS AND RESOURCES

• GreenStop inc.
• Primerica Financial Services
• The Worm Factory

Contact information

Eric Ferland, president
e.ferland@projetecosphere.org
450-538-5005

Group ECOSPHERE
12A Principale Street South Sutton,
Quebec J0E 2K0
info@projetecosphere.org