Go Green Expo Returns to New York

 

Go Green Expo, the largest environmentally-focused business and consumer show, announced on Tuesday that it will return to New York City for the second year in a row on April 17-19, at the New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan.

The nation’s premiere eco-friendly business and consumer show will feature big name exhibitors – including Disney’s Earth movie – as well as The Sundance Channel’s The GREEN, DELL, and Home Depot, Food Network’s Good Food Garden, and Honda’s all-new advanced hybrid vehicle, The Honda Insight.

Last years event boasted 10,000 attendees. 

This year, the Go Green Expo will showcase a variety of special interest consumer and business areas including Home Building and Energy Conservation, Health, Beauty and Fashion, Travel and Transportation, Business and Electronics and a Kids Zone. 

Event Highlights:

• Stars Mariel Hemingway and Nigel Barker will join environmental leader Josh Dorfman and bestselling authors Julie Edelman and Seth Leitman.
• Over 20 notable environmental and business leaders including Jen Boulden, Founder of IdealBite.com and Gay Browne, Founder of Greenopia, will be speaking about today’s most topical green issues including Greening Your Business, Greener Transportation, Renewable Energy, Green Tech, Green Leadership, and more.
• Attendees will enjoy being among the first in the United States to view the 2010 Honda Insight. The five-passenger, five-door vehicle gets an EPA-estimated city/highway fuel economy rating of 40/43 and is priced at just under $20,000. 
• Disneynature, a division of Disney, will preview their new film, Earth, narrated by James Earl Jones, which will play a film trailer all-day throughout the weekend event. The film debuts on Earth Day, April 22, 2009, in theatres everywhere.
• Attendees will have the opportunity to see a premiere screening of The Sundance Channel‘s THE GREEN original programming The Lazy Environmentalist starring Josh Dorfman and EcoTrip: The Real Cost of Living.
• Food Network, in conjunction with their charitable partner Share Our Strength, a childhood hunger relief organization, will feature a Good Food Garden on the show floor where Go Green Expo attendees can learn how to plant fresh food, demonstrating the importance of sustainable agriculture in urban areas, helping to save money and eating well in a city environment.
• Green Spaces, a New York City based green business competition, will announce this year’s semi finalists at Go Green Expo on Friday April 17 at 2pm, followed by a panel discussion that will include the winning companies’ three-minute elevator pitches to an audience of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.

For complete information, including admission prices, click here to visit Go Green Expo/New York.