Explore all things green for home, garden and more

ROSEMARY PONNEKANTI

Wondering about solar? Need to cut down your trash? Head this Saturday for the sixth annual Sustainability Expo, where local schools, nonprofits, agencies, businesses and experts will congregate to offer a sampling of ways to make our lives and our city more sustainable.

Organized by the City of Tacoma, the Expo covers many green-living solutions such as transportation alternatives, green construction, energy conservation, waste minimization and recycling, water conservation, alternative energy, and dealing with climate change.

There’ll be local providers, a kids’ corner, an environment-themed dance performance by School of the Arts students, a schools Envirochallenger art exhibit and a miniature Tacoma Farmer’s Market, new this year.

Also available are workshops: at 10:30 a.m. sustainable landscape design, at noon solar power basics and at 1:30 p.m. growing gardens from seed.

Entry is free.

Rosemary Ponnekanti: 253-597-8568 rosemary.ponnekanti@ thenewstribune.com