A Green Eyed View of the Green Home Exhibition

This is a walk-through of the Green Home Exhibition briefly describing what you will find in each of its main areas.

1. Entranceway
   • Environmental and fair trade carpeting and including Hessian mat walkway
   • Non-tropical hardwood door
   • Sustainable Wood furniture display
   • Paints and DIY materials
   • Solar doorbells to ring and set up to play with
2. Home Energy
   • Home energy audit - staff to help explain and advise
   • Light Bulb Giveaway - each questionnaire answered gets an energy efficient bulb free
   • Best In London, home appliances display - Information showing the best energy efficient appliances . We expect to display items with energy rating details.
   • Renewable energy in the home - exhibition including solar panels, solar water heating
   • Green electricity - stand from a green electricity company
3. Living Lightly
   • Reclaimed sofas from the Kingston Furniture project covered with gorgeous fairly-traded throws from Oxfam
   • Living room comfort area with low coffee tables, beautiful flowers and cushions with information & product samples
   • PEACHES Fair Trade Coffee Bar - sample coffee and fair trade teas, profits go to the Fair Trade group Traidcraft
   • Exhibition and display area to pick up literature
   • Green Library of most recommended books by top greens
   • Women's Environmental Network information and bookshop area
   • TV DISPLAY - TURNED OFF with SWITCH IT OFF NOT STANDBY message
4. Play, Rest & Sleep
   • Ecological bedroom furniture display, including a reclaimed bed and with an Oxfam mattress, Organic cotton bedclothes, linens
   • Teddy Bears and Wooden hand made toys
   • Clothing rack with assorted fair trade organic fabrics and clothing items, information labels instead of prices
5. Green And Clean
   • Chemicals in the bathroom explained, green cleaner information with inexpensive green solutions for washing the bath, bicarbonate of soda cleaning competition
   • Non toxic alternatives samples for giveaways
   • Solar shower
   • Water Saving Display - Thames Water household water advice, Hippo brick giveaways
   • Green recycled paper toilet rolls, san-pro products and washable nappies
6. Food & Kitchen
   • Assistants to go through typical kitchen rubbish with participants and help them to divide it up correctly and answer questions Council/waste operatives and to participate and advise, composting, separation of waste, re-use issues
   • Shelving units with displays of organic and fairtrade produce
   • Sample food items to nibble
   • Go Green - kitchen products and cleaners explained
   • Lists and examples for simple examples of saving energy in the kitchen, focus on correct kettle use, cooking with saucepans covered, pressure cookers and steaming
   • Lists of current information for Energy Use in the Home
7. Other Exhibits
   • Foods Of The Planet - cookery talk/demonstration using raw food (including raw cocoa/chocolate).
   • Local home grown vegetables display - promoting allotments.
   • Lifestyle Exhibition from Kingston Council, Eco-footprinting explained.