Exhibiting Sponsors

Alderman's Toyota Superstore - Visit the only 6-time Toyota President's Award Winner in New England!

Best Moon Catering - Best Moon has been bringing you quality food on the road for 12 years. Local and organic products used whenever possible. Come join us under our tent at SolarFest.

Brown Boar Farm, LLC - Brown Boar Farm is a family-owned and operated business committed to producing wholesome, naturally raised food in an environmentally friendly way. We have taken a "whole farm" approach by raising heirloom pork, beef and produce, offering consumers and fine restaurants a delicious alternative to commercial farm products while helping to ensure the continuance of these varieties of meat and vegetables. At Brown Boar Farm, we are proud of our contribution to the preservation of these rare and important heritage and heirloom products.

Casella Waste Systems, Inc. - Founded in Rutland, Vermont in 1975 with a single truck, Casella is an integrated regional solid waste services company that provides collection, transfer, disposal, recycling and resource management services to residential, industrial and commercial customers, throughout the eastern US.

Chelsea Green Publishing - Founded in 1984, Chelsea Green Publishing is regarded as the preeminent publisher of books on sustainable living.

CV Solar & Wind - Sales, installation and support of renewable energy systems in southwest Vermont since 1996.

Elemental Energy - Elemental Energy is a small solar energy contractor serving central Vermont from our off-grid solar offices in East Montpelier, VT. Our mission is to install high quality, reliable, and aesthetically pleasing PV and solar hot water systems for residential home owners in Vermont. Our staff has been in Vermont's solar industry for nearly 20 years. We have a strong commitment to helping Vermonters transition to a green and sustainable way of life. www.elementalenergy.com

Evergreen Solar - Our unique String RibbonT wafer manufacturing technology ensures we make optimal use of our planet's resources. Producing our own wafers, cells and modules "under one roof" assures that the highest quality components go into every one of our panels.

Forget-Me-Not Farm - Beautiful Host Site. Nestled in the hills of Tinmouth, VT our 80 acre farm is not only host to SolarFest every summer, but offers year-round natural horse care, bed & breakfast facilities, and is Vermont's premier eco-friendly wedding site. Offering many picturesque settings for your ceremony and reception from open fields with mountain vistas to cool and secluded wooded areas.

Friends of the Sun - We offer sales and installation of solar electric, hot water, and space heating systems, as well as biomass heating appliances.

Green Mountain College - Founded in 1834, Green Mountain College offers 25 undergraduate degrees in Environmental Studies, Recreation and Outdoor Studies, the arts, sciences, humanities, and pre-professional programs. Our low-residency online graduate programs, an M.B.A. in Sustainable Business and a M.S. in Environmental Studies, offer flexibility for working professionals.

groSolar - North America's premier installer, distributor and integrator of solar energy solutions.

Morgan Mountain Organic Gardeners - Owned and operated by Paul and Meredith Morgan. Morgan Mountain Organic Gardeners is an organic landscape/gardening company that practices organic gardening techniques for the home and commercial landscape. We pride ourselves in nurturing the soil environment to produce the safest and healthiest landscapes.

Noble Environmental Power - Noble Environmental Power is a leading wind energy company that was founded in 2004 in response to public policy initiatives designed to foster the increased use of renewable energy sources. Noble's vision is to be a leading supplier of clean, renewable energy from environmentally responsible facilities that will be a source of pride and benefits to the communities in which they are located. Noble is majority owned by J.P. Morgan Partners, managed by CCMP Capital. Based in Essex, CT, Noble has offices in Altona, Churubusco, Bliss, and Fredonia, NY; Ubly, MI; Rutland, VT; and Lancaster, NH. For more information, please visit our web site, or email to info@noblepower.com.

OutBack Power - OutBack Power Systems, Inc. is a global designer and manufacturer of cutting-edge power conversion solutions that provide reliable electricity for your home, business, or mobile application.

Progressive Asset Management - The nation's largest socially responsible financial services firm, offering the widest selection of green investment options.

The Renewable Energy Resource Center - The Renewable Energy Resource Center, a program of the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, provides information to all Vermonters about renewable energy technology, service providers, and incentive programs.

Rutland Natural Food Market - The Co-op - A community-owned cooperative natural food store with a strong commitment to local foods and to supporting the local economy.

Solar Works, Inc. - Solar Works, Inc. is the leading Northeast energy systems integrator and developer, providing solar electric (photovoltaic) and solar thermal systems. Solar Works has expertise in engineering design, project management, system performance analysis, project financing and renewable energy credit programs. Solar Works Inc. was founded in 1980 on the idea that business could be a positive force in protecting our environment and transforming our energy future. That transformation is enabled by customers willing to invest in what they believe in, builders and architects willing to lead the way with better designs, and employees who are dedicated to a better energy future.

SolarWrights - SolarWrights specializes in design and installation of renewable energy systems including photovoltaics, solar thermal and wind. We work with systems of all sizes, from small off-grid residential systems to large grid-tied commercial systems. William White, SolarWrights's Vermont regional manager, is a NABCEP certified installer for both photovoltaics and solar thermal systems.

Sunnyside Solar - 30 year history in renewable energy technologies, focusing on photovoltaic systems design and installation. Expansion to educational programs and training installers in photovoltaic systems. Instructing the pre-festival "Introduction to Photovoltaics Hands on Workshop" and will present several SolarFest programs during the festival.

Sunweaver - Solar Café & Juice Joint. Serving smoothies, fresh juice, vegetarian and vegan food choices.

Trojan Battery Company - Clean Energy for Life. With over 80 years of experience, Trojan Battery is the world's leading manufacturer of deep cycle batteries, providing clean and reliable energy for demanding off-grid and grid-tie back up applications.

TS Designs - Printing T-shirts for Good - Provides custom eco-friendly t-shirt printing & dyeing. Produces the most sustainable custom t-shirt available.

USA Solar Store - A Grass Roots start-up. An entrepreneurial based chain of environmentally focused networked advocates, USA Solar Store keeps growing across the nation. Originating and headquartered in Vermont, as a one-stop, one-store resource for education and appropriate solutions, USA Solar Stores has grown to more than 20 stores in the last 7 years. Bringing affordable & sustainable solutions and a new positive attitude to Main Street USA. USA Solar Stores proudly sponsor SolarFest 2008!

VT Soap Company - Organic stuff that foams!

Renewable Energy & Sustainable Future Exhibitors

The Alternative Energy Store - The Alternative Energy Store is the premier retailer of renewable energy goods. We provide not only the expertise and the technical service the Do-it-Yourselfer needs but also a place for learning and sharing with others who have the same passion. We are making renewable do-able.

GreenForce Energy Systems - One Home-One Solution. GFES is your single source for multiple energy efficient solutions for your home.

Independent Power LLC - Solar electric design, sales, and installations.

Matrix Energy: Matrix Energy offers sustainable development an energy efficiency solutions.

Midnite Solar - Manufacturer of renewable energy disconnect enclosures for all battery based inverters, PV combiners, battery cabinets and MPPT solar controllers.

Phoenix Composting Toilets / Advanced Composting Systems: ACS designs and manufactures the Phoenix Composting Toilet for commercial and residential applications, and prefacbricated restroom buildings for installation in public facilities, campsites, and ecologically sensitive areas.

Red Worms for a Green Earth - Promotes vermi-composting. Sells worms, worm bins, vermi-compost and related literature.

ReKnew Energy Systems, Inc.: Affordable systems, designed to scale. ReKnew designs, sells and maintains solar PV, solar domestic hot water and wind power systems. Vermont rebates available.

Renewable Energy Vermont (REV) - REV is Vermont's trade organization for the renewable energy industry. Membership is open to all those who support REV's mission to promote renewable energy and the renewable energy industry in Vermont.

Ricker Morris Systems, LLC: Renewable energy system monitoring.

Special Services - Warehouse distributor for QuickCableT custom cables, wire, connectors, testers, plus PulseTechT battery maintenance technology.

The Solar Bus - An educational display of renewable energy

The Solar Specialists - Design and installation of renewable energy systems. Vermont Solar Partner. NABCEP Certified.

Solar-Stream Company - Solar-Stream sells small solar water pumps, pulsing solar fountains, and children's water toys. Solar-Stream is also introducing a low-cost complete solution for small-wind turbine site monitoring and assessment. Also see www.windmonitoring.com.

Sunnev Solar Car - Sunnev is a small solar-electric car that gets 250 mpg equivalent.

Whole Farm Services / Natural Alchemy Herb Farm: Whole Farm Services and Natural Alchemy Farm will be bringing sustainable farming products from medicinal herbs and plants to locally produced sustainable ag solutions and supplies.

Craft Vendors

Ally's Sun Moon and Stars - Handmade jewelry, beaded earrings, necklaces and bracelets.

AlternaTees Company - AlternaTees shirt fronts stimulate random conversations that strengthen the American liberal political identity. We also promote awareness of the coming battle for freedom from aggressive political repression of Darwinian/Cartesian class separatists.

Ambrosia's Emporium: Ambrosia's got shade.

Ancestral Voices - Asian Imports for you and your home.

Brilliant Body Massage - Massage, dance therapy, sound healing, Thai massage, sports, spa treatments, hot & cold stone, reiki, expressive arts therapy, sports psychology & eco-psychology.

Breeze Dryer - Web based retailer/wholesaler of Hills Clotheslines - modern unobtrusive and designed for use indoors or outdoors.

Brighter Planet - Provides innovative products to help consumers clean up the environment. Become a Brighter Planet Visa® card member and join the movement for a clean-energy future. Calculate your carbon footprint, track your offsets, and find ways to reduce your environmental impact at brighterplanet.com

Camp Peace Outpost - T-shirts

Clairvoyant Readings and Healings - Receive some communication about what you are working on as a spirit in a body. Receive information on a specific topic. An energy healing involves balancing the seven main chakras and cleansing the aura. You don't have to be "sick" to get a healing. It's an energy tune up similar to getting the oil in your car changed.

D-M Enterprises: Beaded and glass jewelry. Also finding and beads for the crafter.

Dolma Designs - We import fair trade jewelry, scarves, bags, candles and various gift items from India and Nepal. We donate 20% of our profits to schools in India and Tibet. We carry a variety of products made from recycled silk and natural fibers such as hemp, banana fiber and organic cotton.

Donnelly/Colt - Donnelly/Colt provides custom pringing services for progressive activitists and has an online catalog of over 1,000 in-stock buttons, stickers, posters, postcards, DVDs, books, t-shirts, banners and more.

Dutchtub - Wood-fired soaking tubs.

Eagle Ray Traders - High quality, fair trade fun batik clothing.

Eatmorekale.com - Vermont's original one-at-a-time design t-shirts.

EcoQuette - Silk skirts made from recycled saris. Interactive demos.

Flyby News - Free independent news covering everything from global warming to green solutions, waste-power generating systems to advanced ancient civilizations and the arms race.

Green Living Journal - Green Living is a "Practical Journal for Friends of the Environment" published in regional editions for local markets.

The Healthy Hippie Magazine - Publication dedicated to health and green living.

Kevin Gallelli Batiks - Original batik designs crafted in the traditional method.

Lama Chodpa Incense - 100% pure natural Tibetan, medicinal, charitbale, sustainable, ancient, sacred, blessed incense.

Loabie Lotus Design - Beautiful handmade batik skirts, shirts, dresses and fishermen pants for men, women, and children. Mayan Connection - Hand-carved pendants, Mexican and Guatemalan bags and clothing, Mayan calendar jewelry.

Mayan Connection - Hand-carved pendants, Mexican and Guatemalan bags and clothing, Mayan calendar jewelry.

Maridadi - Kenyan crafts including soapstone, baskets, jewelry, recycled flip flops, beaded belts.

Northern Sun - Progressive messages on clothing, magnets, button, bumper-stickers and more since 1979. Often humorous, seldom dull, always thought-provoking. 800-258-8579

PARVISANI - PARVISANI is a symbol and a movement for healing: healing of the Earth and of social/political injustice.

Rimay's Craft - Handmade clothes for kids and adults. 100% cotton.

Run, We Must Art & Apparel Company - "Run, We Must" was founded by musician and multimedia artist Ben Karis-Nix to bring natural imagery into urban environments and to call attention to sources of renewable energy.

Seasoned Books & Bakery - "Feed the Mind, Feed the Belly." Resource station of books on sustainable agriculture, energy and eco-design.

Sol Café: Handmade jewelry and crafts.

Toltec Art - Handmade jewelry made of silver wire, hemp, shells and leather. The most important material is love.

Wildflower Beads - Beadwork jewelry, beads and beading supplies.

Woodsong Herbals: Handmade natural body an dhome care products: insect repellent, lotions, lip care, perfumes, first aid, kool wraps, fair trade shea butter and teas, and other assorted goodies.

Wormtown Trading Company - Crystals, gems and minerals, and handmade hemp jewelry.

Food Vendors

The Barn Restaurant - Our eighth year at SolarFest. Serving burritos, Caesar salad wraps, Thai chicken wraps, hot dogs, breakfast burritos, muffins, fresh squeezed lemonade and wild mint iced tea.

Best Moon - Best Moon has been bringing you quality food on the road for 12 years. Local and organic products used whenever possible. Come join us under our tent at SolarFest.

Coffeeman - Organic coffee, black and herb tea, hot chocolate, brownies.

Ben & Jerry's - Premium ice cream.

Naga Bakehouse - Naga Bakehouse is a small, family-run business preparing wood-fired, naturally leavened stuffed breads featuring Vermont- grown seasonal, local and organic ingredients.

Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont - NOFA-VT - Local, organic, seasonal veggies roasted in a woodfired oven.

Samosaman - Samosaman strives to produce the highest quality organic products.

Sunweaver Solar Café & Juice Joint - Serving smoothies, fresh juice, vegetarian and vegan food choices.

Non-Profit Exhibitors

Building for Social Responsibility - BSR is an organization of building professionals who are dedicated to raising the standards for homebuilding in Vermont.

Care Net - Non-profit counseling and pregnancy center which provides women and men with accurate, up-to-date information in order to make informed decisions about pregnancy, sexual health, and relationships.

Central Vermont Peace and Justice - Central Vermont Peace and Justice is a collective of volunteers working together to promote peace and justice locally, nationally, and globally. SPARC works with young people around issues such as Counter Recruitment and peace through education and music.

Citizens Awareness Network CAN - CAN is a grassroots environmental organization working to end the use of unaffordable and dangerous nuclear power in the Northeast and replace it with sustainable, reliable and affordable energy generation.

Corporate Accountability International: Think Ouside the Bottle Campaign to raise awareness about the impacts of bottled water and to mobilize people to take action.

Green Mountain Club - Protects and maintains 450 miles of trails, shelters, and overnight sites that make up the Long Trail systems in partnership with the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, the US Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, and private landowners.

Long Trail Festival: Free 3-day festival of music, camping, activities and exhibits to educate, excite and enable you to put on your boots and go take a hike on Vermont's Long Trail.

Marlboro College Graduate Center - The Marlboro College Graduate Center offers the following degrees and educational programs in our Brattleboro facility: MA in Teaching with Technology; MBA in Managing for Sustainability; MS in Internet Engineering; MS in Management; MS in Management - Healthcare Administration; MS in Information Technologies; BS in Managing Information Systems.

Mentor Connector - A mentoring agency serving all of Rutland County.

Monadnock Beekeepers Association - Table, observation hive, posters, etc.

Mountain View Community School - Providing sustainability education woven through all areas of curriculum and community. Serving grades pre-k through 8.

Peace & Justice Center: Vermont statewide organization working on racial & economic justice, fair trade and peace & human rights.

People for the Planet

NH Sustainable Energy Association - The New Hampshire Sustainable Energy Association provides NH residents with an effective resource to help you through the process of incorporating renewable energy and sustainable technologies into your lives.

Planned Parenthood of Northern New England - PPNNE strives every day to broaden access to reproductive health care, decrease the silence between adult and teens about sexuality, and create a supportive public policy environment for reproductive health care and sexuality education so that all people can make voluntary choices about their reproductive and sexual health.

Pollina for Governor - Anthony Pollina will be discussing his run for Governor, and how Vermont can again lead the nation on energy and environmental issues, with new leadership in Montpelier.

ReNew Building Materials & Salvage, Inc. - Retail sales of used building materials. Deconstruction services - remodel to full take down. Job skills training. Resource conservation and waste reduction.

Rhizome Collective - Austin, TX based urban sustainability educational organization.

Rutland County Democratic Committee - The Rutland County Democrats will register voters, introduce local and statewide candidates (including candidate for Vermont governor Gaye Symington) and collect signatures for candidate petitions. Plus, we will have a sign-up sheet for Rutland county residents to volunteer to help out during campaign season. Check out our website.

Sterling College

TERRA: The Earth Restoration & Renewal Alliance - Confronting our climate change challenge, we will describe an emerging carbon-negative technology based on ancient indigenous strategy to sequester carbon, create sustainable soil fertility, grow nutrient dense foods, and produce renewable energy.

Vermont Freedom to Marry - Vermont Freedom to Marry is a statewide grassroots organization working to gain civil marriage rights for same-sex couples.

Vermonters for a Clean Environment - VCE is a statewide non-profit made up of Vermonters who believe that Vermont's economic growth depends on its environmental health. We work to empower Vermonters and their communities to have a meaningful role in permit applications and appeals, at the state and local levels. VCE was founded in 1999 to defeat a proposed pipeline and energy production project. Our current focus is protecting groundwater, working for clean, safe drinking water, and the regulation of mining and mineral processing.

Vermonters for Obama - Voter Registration for Vermonters