The idea was to increase knowledge of green building in the local community.

The idea of the festival is to celebrate our culture and our relationship with the natural world and examine how this has influenced our art, music, dance and history over the years. This free festival is a way to celebrate spring, our culture and the many resources of this region.

They incorporate what they've seen here at other parks and nature centers around the country. It's a pretty neat legacy.

In green building, that's a long time ago. Probably a generation ago.

State and local regulators are the officials with the closest contact with the regulated community, ... Given their close intimate knowledge of the business they regulate, they are in a much better position than Congress to judge whether a particular small business is deserving of leniency for a first-time violation.

There is a need in the community to become united. There is a lack of knowledge of other cultures that we need to work on.