Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Fair - Custer, WI

Join us for the 19th annual Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Fair June 20-22, 2008. The Fair will be held at the ReNew the Earth Institute. The ReNew the Earth Institute is located at 7558 Deer Road in Custer, WI. See the Travel and Accommodations page for mapquest details and other information.

Greetings from the Energy Fair: Tickets on Sale on Now!
Tickets for the 2008 Energy Fair are now on sale.
Buy tickets for Energy Fair admission, bus tickets, home tour tickets and Back 40 camping. To purchase tickets call 715-592-6595 or visit:
http://www.the-mrea.org/fair_online_registration.php

Long Distance Bus Tickets Available to Energy Fair: Save on gas and take the bus!
The MREA is offering coordinated, daily bus service to the Energy Fair from: Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay/Appleton, Minneapolis and Chicago. Buses feature air conditioning, restroom, and plush seating. Breakfast items served on the bus each morning to help jumpstart your day! Buses from Madison, Milwaukee, and Green Bay are $20 for round-trip daily service. Buses from Minneapolis and Chicago are $30 round-trip daily service. Sign up online at: http://www.the-mrea.org/fair_online_registration.php or call MREA 715-592-6595.

General Fair Information
Since its inception in 1990, the Renewable Energy & Sustainable Living Fair has has shown 190,000 fairgoers how to change the world while having fun. Each summer the Fair transforms rural Custer, Wisconsin into the global hot spot for renewable energy education. The Fair is the world’s largest renewable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainable living educational event of its kind. Please join us this year!

The Fair features hundreds of workshops and exhibits all emphasizing clean energy & sustainable living and is fun for the whole family. All activities and parking are FREE with paid admission. Long distance and/or rideshare to the Fair is available. Special sets of workshops for children, educators, renters, and women are offered as well as a Clean Energy Car Show, where you can learn how to reduce your reliance on foreign fuel.

• 232 exhibit spaces
• 170 workshops
• 19,570 attendees
• mass transit offered from Madison and Milwaukee
• free hourly shuttles from Stevens Point
• Clean Energy Car Show
• Hybrid Rally
• Polka breakfast

Fair Receives Travel Green Certification

The Fair has been certified as a green tourist event by Travel Green Wisconsin. Travel Green Wisconsin is a pilot program the Wisconsin Department of Tourism sponsors to recognize tourism-related businesses that are reducing their environmental impact through operational and other improvements. To gain Travel Green certification businesses have to meet several goals including showing how they encourage staff and vendors to be environmentally aware and how they reduce their solid waste generation and energy consumption.

The Fair was recognized for the following best practices:

• All food is served on reusable or biodegradable plates and food waste is composted
• Shower house for guests Is heated by solar water heating system
• Carpooling is encouraged through rideshare page on website
• Organic, local, and fair trade products are purchased