CROSSVILLE-The City of Crossville will host its Third Annual Sustainability Fair for Cumberland County students on Thursday, May 12.
The Sustainability Fair aims to increase youth awareness of how to live in a sustainable community. The school system will bring all the fifth graders across the county in by bus to visit the fair at the Cumberland County Community Complex. The fair will be for students only in 2011.
“The Sustainability Fair is just part of the City of Crossville’s continuing initiative to grow our city into one of the greenest cities in the state,” said Mayor J.H. Graham III.
Sustainability is defined as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs,” and that’s the city’s goal with this initiative, Graham said.
Students will visit 40 different demonstrations on ways they and their families can live sustainably. State and federal agencies, universities and community colleges, local nonprofits and individuals have volunteered to participate in the Sustainability Fair, some for the third time.
The Sustainability Fair features exhibits and demonstrations on community sustainability and ways to save energy, save natural resources, strengthen the local economy, and increase our quality of life. Among the topics that will be featured at the fair are:
• Buildings – weatherization, photovoltaic solar energy, rain barrels, water efficiency, efficient lighting, emergency preparation, and recycling,
• Environment – benefits of trees, tree products, wildlife, water quality protection, conservation, erosion and sediment control,
• Health – recreation, stress management, safety, and emergency preparations,
• Sustainable Economy – use of natural resources, growing and buying local food, and the importance of buying locally, and
• Transportation – biodiesel, bicycles, and electric vehicles.
A complete list of the demonstrations and participants at the fair is available at www.crossvilletn.gov.
For more information, contact the City of Crossville at 931-787-1956.
