Green Horizon is divided into a number of areas.
Deep Green - Renewable Energy Demonstrations, Workshops, Open Mike Sessions and Debates, Companies selling RE products and Installation Services
Green Fingers – Permaculture, Dig for Victory, Composting, Organic Food, Organic Growing, Home Chucks
Green Construction and Green Homes - Green Construction methods, green building, insulation, energy efficient appliances, energy efficiency.
Wood and Woodlands
Arts and Crafts
Green Reaper – Climate Change, Recycling, Sustainability
Green Transport - Options for greening your transport: How to make biodiesel at home, how to run your car on straight veg oil, electric vehicles
Green Kids Area - play area, environmental, organic and vegetarian options for children
All electrical power on-site will be produced by renewable means. We’re hoping to showcase as many different techniques as possible.
Confirmed Features:
Brigit Strawbridge will be at the festival in the Big Green Idea tour-bus.
The bus is run on biodiesel and travels the country, demonstrating green technologies, and provides help and advice for people wanting to become more environmentally-conscious. The Big Green Idea bus also incorporates a cinema on the upper deck which shows regular screenings of short environmental films.
http://biggreenidea.org
‘Compostwoman’ – will be demonstrating a variety of composting methods, and will be on hand for advice and guidance on composting, wormeries etc – see Compost Woman’s BLOG – http://compostbins.blogspot.com/
Charcoal Burning
High Performance Electric bike conversions
Straw Bale Building Demonstrations
For the piston-heads amongst us we will have:
University of Glamorgan’s tri-hybrid Hydrogen powered minibus
The bus incorporates a hydrogen fuel cell, lead acid batteries and ultracapacitors to provide the ultimate ecological transport. The bus was developed by Dr. Jonathan Williams of the university, to demonstrate how these emerging technologies can improve upon conventional technologies.
Proposed Features:-
Hydrogen-powered vehicle Rally arriving at Green Horizon
Construction of a Wood Gasifier and Installation to a Vehicle – demonstrating that petrol-engined vehicles can be converted to run on wood!
‘Escape to New Horizons’ - featured Road Race for vehicles running on non-petroleum means.
On-site demonstrations of generators running on woodgas, biodiesel and vegetable oil
