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The Crestone Energy Fair in Crestone, Colorado, is really a great bang for your buck weekend, providing you can get to Crestone (not the easiest feat). It’s held on Labor Day weekend (schedule here), and is free (though the all day home-tours of sustainable homes cost $15). And most importantly, it is all about people conserving energy on their own by repairing and modifying their homes for energy conservation. Jim got some great ideas for gardening and heating a greenhouse, as well as some more technical engineering stuff with heating hot water.
It’s really not a corporate-driven event as you can see from the straw-bale building workshop I attended (see photo lacking evidence of suits and logos). There’s music and friendly people and lots of dogs (we brought our dog to attend last summer). I wish I could go back this summer!
Here are my posts on the fair from last summer:
Thanks for that, being in Golden, Colorado, I can probably make it, and knowing that our St Bernard would be welcome is another great hint. We almost offered our house for the Solar homes tour but the timing didn’t work. Friends often visit former college mates who now live in a straw bale house in Crestone and teach the craft. I think they spent $5000 on the structure! Perfect place for artists, such a house, all kinds of creative things you can do with a self built home: niches, altars, weird windows.
Comment by Martin Voelker 07.26.08 @ 11:23 amMartin
Oh, that would be wonderful! It’s really a lot of fun, and there are all sorts of folks with little pockets of knowledge about sustainable design. I would call first to confirm the dates as they seem to not update their web pages all that often. But, yes, your dog would have a great time too.
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