Green Living Fair
Clarkson University, ERC Building, Potsdam NY
Tabling/Exhibit - Vendors & Local organizations (10am-3pm)
Food Truck - Big Spoon
Kids Zone - provided by North Country Children's Museum
Exhibitors 2023 Green Living Fair
*Sponsors of Sustainability Day and Green Living Fair
Algonquin to Adirondacks Collaborative
https://www.a2acollaborative.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/A2ACollab/
The A2A Collaborative is a U.S., Canadian, and First Nations partner organization that works with scientists, policy-makers and a variety of conservation groups to protect and enhance the unique ecological features and functions of the A2A region.
Our dream is a resilient, ecologically connected A2A region that sustains a full range of native wildlife and enhances people’s quality of life for generations to come.
Apex Solar Power
https://www.apexsolarpower.com/
Over the past decade, Apex Solar Power has established itself as a premier solar energy provider in the solar industry. We have expanded from an Upstate NY-based solar electric/thermal company to a regional company providing clean and green energy in the Northeast and the Carolinas.
Barstow Subaru
https://www.barstowsubaru.com/
Barstow Subaru provides a vast selection of new and used vehicles, exceptional car care, and customer service with a smile! They are excited to be exhibiting their EVs at this year's Green Living fair.
Big Spoon Kitchen
www.facebook.com/BigSpoonKitchen
From their purple school bus food truck: Light food fare for lunch made from locally sourced ingredients.
Birdsfoot Farm
Birdsfoot Farm offers certified organic vegetables, herbs and flowers along with Summer, Fall, Student and Winter CSA weekly boxes
Potsdam Climate Smart Communities & Canton Sustainability Committees
The Canton Sustainability Committee's principal areas of focus are food and agriculture, energy, transportation, and plastics. The committee also works on waste, climate change mitigation and adaptation, natural resources, open space, and land planning. In each of these areas, the committee supports and promotes smart sustainable practices that enhance Canton’s human, natural and financial resources. The annual Sustainability Action Plan provides a framework for the committee’s work.
Potsdam Climate Smart Community - www.facebook.com/groups/852161308931472 will provide general info about the Potsdam Joint CSC Task Force. They are working on Community Choice Aggregation, Pollinator habitats, community vulnerability and resilience - and more!
Both communities are working with Joule Community Power, who is empowering local decision-making and enabling access to cleaner and cheaper energy. Through community choice aggregation (CCA), Joule helps municipalities join together to aggregate the buying power of residents to negotiate more favorable terms of their energy contracts. This decreases electricity costs, designates renewable generation sources, supports local renewable generation, and increases consumer protection for entire communities. www.JouleCommunityPower.com
Casella Waste Systems
Recycling, Collection, Organics, Energy, Landfills, Professional Services and Sustainability form the foundation for providing service to our customers.
Clarkson Institute for a Sustainable Environment
https://www.clarkson.edu/academics/research/labs-centers/ise
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cusustainability/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clarksonsustainability/
The Clarkson Institute for a Sustainable Environment is a hub of all environmental and sustainability activities on campus. We offer academic degrees, coordinate sustainability initiatives and work toward a goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Clarkson University: Environmental Science & Sustainability
https://www.clarkson.edu/academics/research/labs-centers/ise
Students in the EV100 class will present a sculpture made from water bottles with messages regarding the quantity of water bottles we use and their consequences.
Coakley Home and Hardware
www.coakleyhomeandhardware.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/CoakleyHomeandHardware
Coakley Home and Hardware is a family owned business that has been serving the North Country since 1902- currently operating stores in Canton and Saranac Lake. Their stores feature traditional hardware (paint, plumbing, electrical, hardware, hand and power tools and lawn and garden), a flooring department (carpet, ceramic, hardwood, luxury vinyl for both residential and commercial use), a kitchen and bath design & showroom, in home installation/repair service, kitchen and bathroom remodels, and professional handyman services.
Compost for Good
https://www.adkaction.org/project/compost-for-good/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/compostforgoodteam
The goal of the Adirondack Compost for Good project is to help Adirondack communities turn food and other organic “wastes” into high quality compost. This process keeps nutrients in the community and out of our waterways, building local resilience, healing soils, and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. Bring a sample from your active compost pile to test for a healthy diversity of biodegraders.
Cornell Cooperative Extension of St. Lawrence County
Agriculture
CCE of St. Lawrence County's Agriculture Program offers a wide range of services from livestock trainings and workshops to natural resources and local food initiatives. Whether you are a farmer, food entrepreneur, or a curious community member, there is something for everyone at the Extension Learning Farm. Stop by our table to see our upcoming trainings and workshops! You can also come chat with some of our staff to learn about what other resources we can offer you.
Energy Navigator Volunteer Program
Energy Navigator Volunteers are concerned and capable residents who help their friends, neighbors, and other community members learn about ways they can reduce their energy use and energy bills and use renewable forms of energy to heat and power their homes. Do you want to save energy, save money, and learn ways to address climate change? Communities around the world are facing the double impacts of the economic crisis resulting from COVID-19 and the ongoing climate crisis. Ask an Energy Navigator how you might lower your energy bills while becoming more climate resilient.
Master Gardener Volunteer Program
The Master Gardener Program is a national program of trained volunteers who work in partnership with their county Cooperative Extension offices to extend gardening information to the local community. Come meet some of the master gardeners representing Cornell Cooperative Extension of St. Lawrence County and learn more about our programs and one-on-one consultations.
Ducted Wind Turbines
Ducted Wind Turbines design, manufactures, sells, and installs, one of the most efficient and cost effective small wind turbine on the market today. Our focus is to provide the lowest cost per kWh in the small turbine market, because lowering one's carbon footprint should also be a sound financial decision. The passion to change people's quality of life is what drives us. Whether it's helping a farmer offset their carbon footprint, emergency crisis relief or bringing electricity to places in the world that have never had it, we want small distributed wind to be a part of it.
EDF Renewables
www.edf-re.com/project/rich-road-solar
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/edf-renewables-north-america
Rich Road Solar Energy Center is a 240 MW solar project that will provide enough emissions free energy to power 75,000 homes. Located in the Town of Canton, the project will also create many benefits for the local community: from stable sources of revenue to town, county, school district and local landowners, to workforce development opportunities, potential for co-location of solar and agriculture, and improved storm water retention and carbon sequestration possibilities.
GardenShare Inc
www.GardenShare.org
GardenShare promotes a local food system that ensures food security for all St. Lawrence County residents. Our feature programs are cost sharing Bonus Bucks, SLC Farmers Markets tokens and support, and Local Food Guide - print and online that feature local farmers, and food access locations (community meals, food pantries, school backpack programs).
G.R.O. Energy Solutions
https://groenergysolutions.com/
G.R.O Energy Solutions provides energy efficiency services such as insulating, air sealing, and energy audits to help individuals be more comfortable in their homes while also lowering their energy costs.
League of Women Voters of St. Lawrence County
Visitors will be able to register to vote, fill out an absentee ballot application, and get information about the League of Women Voters.
Local Living Venture
http://www.locallivingventure.org
Local Living Venture will be sharing rural skills and building community! The LLV places an an emphasis on "appropriate technology" and helps strengthen a vibrant local community of both homesteaders and seekers of simpler ways to live, in town or in the country.
Matt Burnett Guiding
The Northern Forest Explorers program is a 5 day, 4 night paddling experience that promotes Leave No Trace, Environmental awareness, outdoor skills and team building for youths ages 9-16. Scholarships are available from our generous sponsors.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NYSDEC
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nysdec/
NYS DEC’s mission is to conserve, improve and protect New York's natural resources and environment and to prevent, abate and control water, land and air pollution, in order to enhance the health, safety and welfare of the people of the state and their overall economic and social well-being. DEC's goal is to achieve this mission through the simultaneous pursuit of environmental quality, public health, economic prosperity and social well-being, including environmental justice and the empowerment of individuals to participate in environmental decisions that affect their lives.
North Country Children's Museum
https://northcountrychildrensmuseum.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ncchildrensmuseum
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nccmuseum/
At the North Country Children’s Museum, we believe that learning is a hands-on, minds-on, interactive experience. With exhibits that celebrate the cultural and geographic resources of the North Country, you’ll find play areas and tinker spaces for all ages to get kids thinking, making, and doing. Join us at Green Living Fair's Kid Zone for a selection of fun games and activities, then come to the Museum itself for a day of play!
North Country Compost
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NoCoCompost
Community Compost Service for residential, commercial and institution customers. We collect food scraps at your door and convert them into high quality compost at a facility six miles south of Canton. For pricing and availability in your area, please contact at 802-750-1550 or email us at nccompost22@gmail.com. We are committed to fighting climate change, the biggest threat of time. Please come join us.
Northern Power & Light *
Northern Power & Light serves North Country residents and businesses with local renewable electricity sources from nearby hydro power plants. NP&L empowers customers to direct their electricity dollar to local producers, supporting renewable power and local businesses at no change in cost.
Norwood Public Library
Libraries are a shared resource in your community! The Norwood Public Library loans books, board games, technology, and canning equipment. Their mission is to assure effective, expanding free library services for the residents of the Library District through educational, informational, and cultural resources and activities. Libraries are for everyone.
Paul Smith's College
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paulsmiths/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paulsmithscollege
Paul Smith's College offers experiential education with Bachelor's Degrees in Sustainability, Natural Resource Conservation Management, Forestry and more.
Potsdam Pride
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/potsdampride
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/potsdampride/
Potsdam Pride is a community group whose mission is to organize events for the LGBTQ community, including the annual Potsdam Pride festival.
Potsdam Public Library
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/potsdamlibrary
The Potsdam Public Library offers a variety of free resources for the community. These include: LIFE - Literacy IS For Everyone, Make and Take activities, storytime sessions 4 morning per week, little free libraries, special music story events, and periodic homeschool singing and art classes. Additionally, the Library hosts a variety of free community events throughout the year.
Radiant Hearth, Inc.
Designer and builder of Tulikivi masonry heaters cookstoves and bake ovens. Masonry heaters are the most fuel efficient and comfortable way to heat your home with cord wood. Tulikivi heaters are made with natural soapstone inside and out and weigh between 2,000 and 10,000 pounds. This stone mass removes otherwise wasted heat energy and stores and gently releases the heat into your home.
St. Lawrence County Environmental Management Council
https://www.stlawco.org/Departments/Planning/AdvisoryBoards/EnvironmentalManagementCouncil
St. Lawrence County Environmental Management Council is the environmental advisory committee to St. Lawrence County Board of Legislators
St. Lawrence Health Initiative
SLHI promotes well being in St Lawrence County with programs that promote/support better nutrition with local produce in schools and physical activity in schools. We help make communities safer for all types of pedestrians and bicyclers. The Navigator program helps people apply for subsidized health insurance. We work on cancer prevention, chronic disease management, and comprehensive adolescent pregnancy prevention.
SUNY Canton Admissions
www.canton.edu/admissions/
We invite you to take a closer look at SUNY Canton. We encourage you to visit us, glance through our Academic Catalog and our publications, take a virtual tour, request information or email us with your questions. Whatever your academic or career goals may be, we hope you will let our office help you reach them.
SUNY Canton Automotive Technology *
We have an old hybrid in which we are trying to find ways to bring back the life of the high-voltage battery. Most people have never seen what a hybrid battery looks like or what the vehicle looks like with the battery section exposed. We will bring the vehicle to the Fair to show these two parts: battery rejuvenation and what a hybrid internal looks like.
Wild Center
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thewildcenter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildcenter/
The Wild Center is a natural history museum based in the Adirondacks that runs a Youth Climate Program, houses a Climate Solutions exhibition, and promotes sustainability and climate education.
WISER Center, Biology Department, SUNY Potsdam
www.potsdam.edu/academics/AAS/biology/wiser
Facebook: www.facebook.com/WISERPotsdam
Twitter: @WISER_Potsdam
The WISER Center at SUNY Potsdam is the Biology Department's research and outreach facility. Comprised of three greenhouses and teaching space, this student-operated facility is focused on several student-created sustainability initiatives. Whether it's growing hyperlocal foods, creating pollinator habitat, promoting wellness, or battling food insecurity in our region, the WISER Center is committed to providing applied learning experiences for students on campus and our local community. Our activities and events have provided hundreds of people with opportunities to learn how they can put sustainability into their lives. Please stop by our booth and learn how we can work with you in your local community!
Youth Climate Science Challenge
Youth Climate Science Challenges offer youth an opportunity to undertake challenges to understand climate science and the impact of their choices, and then to gather data about the use of fossil fuels in their homes and community. Youth Climate Science Challenges is a project being developed by two volunteers with experience in environmental education, software development, and climate action. An application for initial funding is underway that will provide area youth with hands-on experience in reducing fossil fuel use in homes while guiding youth toward careers in home energy, including careers in sales, installation, maintenance, and financing of investments in insulation, air sealing, solar, wind, geothermal, and heat pumps. Stipends for youth Home Energy Challengers are planned.