BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – The Illinois Sustainable Living & Wellness Expo will bring new opportunities for people to discover how to live well and live green. The Expo will include educational workshops, food demonstrations, music performances, a kids’ carnival, an artists’ venue, a mother/daughter class on Middle Eastern dance and the local premiere of the movie No Impact Man.
A kickoff for the Saturday event will be held on Friday when Jay Truty, founder of Ecosystem Capital, LLC, will be the keynote speaker. Truty, a 1996 graduate of Illinois Wesleyan, practiced environmental and natural resources law for almost 10 years before creating Ecosystem Capital in 2008, which specializes in providing assistance to landowners, corporations, financial institutions, conservation organizations and government entities to develop innovative and market-based ecosystem services. His kickoff speech, titled “Creating Ecosystems of Nature,” will be at noon in the Hansen Student Center (300 E. Beecher St., Bloomington) on Friday, April 9.
The Expo, slated for Saturday, April 10 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., will be in the Shirk Center for Athletics and Recreation (302 E. Emerson St., Bloomington) at Illinois Wesleyan University and is free and open to the public.