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Sixth Annual

Athens Area
Sustainability Festival

At the Athens County Fairgrounds, West Union Street in Athens, Ohio
Live music, demonstrations, workshops, food, vendors, informational booths, documentaries

Camping available!
Find out about planning meetings!

  Here's what a recent book, Sustainable Planet: Road Maps for the 21st Century, has to say about Athens, Ohio:
[Athens has] one of the most exciting and dynamic local food systems in the country.
Here's what the Utne Reader recently had to say about Athens, Ohio:
[Local] initiatives have rekindled the local economy and turned Athens into a national model of sustainable community development.
We want to continue to make Athens a model of sustainability!

Athens Area
Sustainability Festival

We have successfully staged the Fifth Annual Susfest! Thanks to everybody for their attendance and their help.
The Athens Area Sustainability Festival is an annual grassroots community event organized through consensus by volunteers working year-round in interest groups. The festival celebrates the many small businesses, organizations, individuals, and initiatives in the Athens area dedicated to building community identity rooted in the principles of sustainability.

The interest groups include:

  • Building & Energy
  • Food & Agriculture
  • Wellness & Healing
  • Sustainable Living
  • Artisans & Crafters
  • Children & Education

This is our sixth year for the festival. Each year, we've held it the second weekend in October at the Athens County Fairgrounds. The first two years, it was Saturday only, and we went to a full weekend in the third year. Also in the third year, we began coordinating more with other events, including the Solar Home Tour and Ohio University Energy Week (Ohio University Unplugged).

Planning Meetings

Our planning meetings this year are held on Tuesday evenings at 5:00 pm, at Abbey Carpet and Tile. Abbey is located on Columbus Road in Athens, Ohio, next door to Sears. All participants are welcome at our meetings.

Listserv

If you wish to be added to the listserve for the Festival planning group
You MUST be doing this from your own account for it to work. This listserv is ONLY for matters relating to the Athens Area Sustainability Festival. If you join this listserv, we suggest that you also join the "AthensGrow" listserv, which is a general listserv for sustainability topics.
Again, this must be done from your own email account.

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Festival Contacts

Interest Groups:

Directions to Fairgrounds

Camping Information

Both primitive camping and RV camping are available at the fairgrounds, for both exhibitors and for attendees and volunteers.

Either type of camping costs $15 per space for one night or $25 per space for two nights. RV hookups are an additional $18 per day.

Restrooms are available for campers, but showers are not.

To camp at the fairgrounds, reserve a space by filling out the vendor application form. If you wish only to camp (that is, not exhibiting or vending), note this on the form.

Other Accommodations

Also available are hotels and motels. All of these except the Carpenter Inn are within a ten-minute drive of the Fairgorunds:

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