Green Building Expo
Posted by sustainableswitch on March 12, 2010
We checked out a green building expo “Built Green Conference 2010″ http://www.builtgreenconference.com/1/home.html today to see what is going on. It was offered by the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties. The cost to get in was $15.00 per person, so for the fiancée and I $30 plus $5 to park for the 1/2 hour it took to walk the whole expo. The expo was geared towards builders, but open to the public for a few hours in the afternoon. My personal opinion is that if these companies and associations want to get people to attend these type of things, free is a really good way to start. I think there may have been 5 or 6 people at this thing that were paid visitors, not a very high traffic turnout. If I had a booth at this show and paid what was probably a pretty steep expo fee, I would be a little upset and not looking at coming back in the future. Just my thoughts on this subject of expos.
As for the actual exhibitors, there was a good mix of companies. I think one of the most interesting things at the expo for me was a group called the Stewardship Partners www.stewardshippartners.org and their affiliation with Salmon Safe http://www.salmonsafe.org/ This group does a pretty intensive certification of farms, properties, golf courses, etc. From what I can see, they look like a good group to support. There were many other exhibitors selling things such as building panel systems, windows, other “green” things. I will probably get in touch with the only solar company that was at this show, Northwest Mechanical Inc. www.nwmechanical.com, to have them come out and quote a solar system. Not sure if it will be PV or hot water, but I think it is time to take the next step. There were also a couple there that may or may not be so green, but you can look at the list on the website and decide for yourself.
I think it is great that these things “Green Expos” have shown up and are becoming more common.
