On each of those days, the Farmers Market will be open from 9 am to 2 pm.

The Farmers Market will feature about 20 vendors on Orange Mall, west of the Memorial Union Fountain, Arizona State University at the Tempe campus.

The Farmers Market is a collaborative effort sponsored by several ASU departments, student groups, and community organizations.

Remember to bring your own reusable bag!

For questions, please contact farmersmarket@asu.edu.

Whether you participated in the Black Friday festivities or not, here is a fantastic deal that will not make you stand in a seemingly endless line at checkout.

Visit LetsGoGreen.biz, find neat eco-friendly products, buy a present for yourself or to someone else. At checkout (while sitting relaxed in front of your computer screen), use coupon code SHM20, and you will instantly receive 20% off of everything in your cart.

Let’s start this trend of purchasing eco-friendly products, and let’s call it “A Green Friday”!

But, instead of just on Fridays, use coupon code SHM20 at LetsGoGreen.biz any day and any time, and you will receive the same 20% off of everything in your cart.

But I suggest you do it today, so you can forever claim that you joined in on the first annual Green Friday event!

High school students at City High in Tucson are dedicated to clean up 7 acres of land west of the Santa Cruz River.

The students will organize and lead a Garden Clean Up Day on Saturday, November 21st, 2009 from 9am to 12pm. Comprised of volunteers from the Tucson community, the high school students will lead the volunteers in the completion of the cleaning up activities.

Also, these students are creating a local organic garden in this area currently growing garlic, onions, and wheat.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Kinser by email jenniferk at cityhighschool dot org or call (520) 623-7223 extension 207.

Presented by Tucson Electric Power Company, the “Keeping it Green” festival will celebrate Westcor’s 40th anniversary and is a joint effort between La Encantada and Who’s Green.

The Keeping it Green festival will take place on Saturday, October 31st, 2009 from 11 am to 4 pm. The event will feature free food, a special presentation from my wonderful friend Mrs. Green (Mrs. Green Goes Mainstream), green costume contest for kids, workshops from The Solar Store, Oasis Water Harvesting, Permaclean, and more.

Everything is free and is designed to inspire you to lead or maintain your eco-friendly lifestyle.

For more information or questions about the event, please contact Priscilla at (520) 749-5845 or priscilla@whosgreenaz.com.

Hope to see you there!

The Eat Local Challenge is hosted by food co-ops around the nation.  The purpose of this event is to raise awareness and promote eating foods grown by local farmers.

If you are an avid locavore (someone who makes it a point to eat local foods), you are encouraged to eat four out of five meals with local food.  If you are a novice, start out by eating five meals a week made with local foods.  If you are somewhere in between, create your own goal.

Are you interested?  Visit a co-op near you!  Here are some locations in Tucson you can obtain locally grown foods:

Food Conspiracy Co-op in Tucson (Open every day from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.)
412 N. 4th Ave., Tucson, AZ 85705. Or call 520-624-4821.

If you are not in the downtown area, you can always buy locally grown foods from Whole Foods Market in Tucson:
3360 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson.  Or call (520) 795-9844.
7133 N Oracle Rd, Tucson.  Or call (520) 297-5394.

In addition, Whole Foods Market has a ton of locations in Phoenix.

Also, wherever you are in Arizona, you can still obtain locally grown foods from Farmers Markets in your area.

Pledge to eat as much as you can from locally grown foods!

At noon, the luncheon featured a keynote speech by Jacquelyn Ottman, which highlighted ways through which businesses can use sustainability as a pathway to business growth and a way to help businesses thrive in these tough economic times.

It was so wonderful to see more than 200 business leaders in the Tucson area come together at this event.  The event was featured on the 6 pm KGUN9 news and the video clip is available online.

The event was a great success.  I would like to send a sincere thank you to all those who made the event a great success.  Particularly, I would like to acknowledge our great sponsors: Doubletree Hotel Reid Park, Cox Communications, Wells Fargo, Arizona Lithographers, Tucson Electric Power Company, Arizona Party Rental, Elastek, Legendary World Travel, Seaver Franks Architects, and Schaffer Dry Cleaning & Laundry.

We are very proud of our great sponsors!  In fact, in the next couple of weeks, I will post blog entries highlighting the sincere efforts that each and every one of our sponsors is conducting toward greener and more eco-responsible business practices.

For additional information, please visit the Green Media Alliance of Tucson website.

The Green Media Alliance is a local organization in Tucson composed of Cox Media, the Tucson Green Times newspaper, Mrs. Green Goes Mainstream Radio Show, Who’s Green? (WhosGreenAz.com) and AdVision Outdoor.

We are very excited about our partnership!  Together, we are working toward providing businesses and individuals with the education and resources that will help build a sustainable community and preserve our planet’s resources.

We are an ambitious bunch and we have many goals and objectives.  One of our goals is to present special events to help educate individuals, businesses, and organizations, and that provide resources for building a stronger, more sustainable Tucson community.

Given today’s uncertain economy, our first planned event is geared toward helping Tucson businesses learn how to survive these tough economic times.

We are very grateful to our sponsors (on the left), who are helping us make this event a reality.  In particular, I would like to acknowledge the Doubletree Hotel in Reid Park Tucson for their outstanding contribution to our event.  To learn more about this exciting new event and how you can register, please visit the Green Media Alliance website.

More details are coming soon!

This award is one of the 41 recently announced national innovation grants (funded by Toyota).  It is a community-driven project that incorporates the best sustainability practices, such as water conservation, rain-water harvesting, and landscaping with native plants.

The project will be coordinated by the Tucson Audubon Society.  For more information about the Tucson Innovation award, please visit TogetherGreen: Community Conservation in Tucson.

In addition, Phoenix also received a TogetherGreen Innovation Grant that will be coordinated by Audubon Arizona (National Audubon Society) and aims to raise awareness of the human-caused water pollution and its consequences on the environment.  The project will be centered in the heart of Phoenix’s Rio Salado Habitat.

For more information about the Phoenix Innovation award, please visit TogetherGreen: River Keepers.

To learn more about TogetherGreen, to view other projects, or if you have an idea and would like to submit a proposal for your own project, please visit the TogetherGreen website.

When: Saturday, October 25, 2008 between 10 AM to 3 PM.

Where: La Placita village and Tucson Convention Center Plaza (Directions).

This is a must-attend event.  It’s going to be informative, uplifting, and fun!  For more information, please visit the TucsonGreenFestival.org website.

Hope to see you there!

It’s a chance to commit to eat foods and produce grown locally.  You can sign up to participate in the challenge, where you will be able to list your goals, to which you would like to commit.

If you live in or around Tucson,  The Food Conspiracy will be stocked with locally-grown foods and produce.  If you live in other parts of Arizona, Local Harvest will help you locate farmers markets in your area, where you can buy locally grown/produced groceries and foods.

Eating locally-grown produce has many benefits.  It is healthier and definitely more eco-friendly than produce that travels thousands of miles to reach you.  Not to mention that you would be supporting your local economy.

Make a commitment today to change a few of your shopping habits and eat more local foods.