Living in one of the coolest and most environmentally conscious (kind of) cities in the world, San Francisco has a constant variety of "green" events and activities that take place pretty much on a daily basis. I never thought that a city could ever live up to its expectations before I moved here (I guess NYC aint so bad either.) Before moving to the foggy city I had always heard about how amazing and modern and casual and laid-back and simply how freaking awesome San Fran is. And every glowing recomendation of this glorious city was always followed by the same confirmation: "Jewels, you would LOVE it there." They were right. San Fran truly is one of the most unique cities on the planet. I just moved here 4 months ago, but I have seen enough to know that my heart can feel at home in a place like this.
I was pretty pumped about going to this Green Festival. I am obsessed with health; Mental health, Physical health, Spiritual Health, I love it all. But I am a verrrry lazy healthy person, if that makes any sense? So I didnt really do too much research on what was going to be going on there, but I knew that I wanted to go. There was a swarm of people at the entrance and we were greeted with 2 samples of acai berry sorbet (yum!) which gave a very good first impression. However on getting inside, it was... OK. I guess if I honestly ask myself why I wanted to go there in the first place, the truth is, all I wanted were free samples. Sigh. I know how it sounds. But its true. Poor David. The guy has never tried a fermented beverage in his life and here we are downing Kimchee and Cayenne Kombucha. He truly sucked it up for me this time. At least he got to get some play time in!
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| That's David in the blue plaid. |
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| Yoga! The people here were so awesome. As we were walking around, I noticed that there were recycling stations pretty much at every turn. There were people attending the bins, guiding and teaching others the difference between composting, recycling, and trashing certain items. It was kind of a huge thing there. There were maybe 60 staff members there just for this reason, which I thought was wonderful. San Francisco is becoming a very waste conscious city. I have seen recycling stations at various concerts and events all around the Bay Area and its just GREAT! The more (recycling stations) the merrier I always say! Here is a photo of a recycling station at another event I went to recently, The Folk Music Festival back in October. We made camp in the hillside surrounding the stages and relaxed the day away under the Redwood trees :)  
As you can see.... heavenly.
All in all, The Green Fetival was nice. I feel like it was more for owners and wholesalers to check out new products, which is cool. I enjoyed the taste testing and David enjoyed the Lego building. Not sure I will be going back again next yeat, but until then...
(Not my car!)
Julianne xo |
