http://livegreenlivesmart.org/blogs/green_suburbanite/archive/2007/09/04/pedal-powered-tv-and-more-at-the-state-fair.aspxAs Summer winds down into Fall I look forward to one last burst of August joy: The Minnesota State Fair. Usually when I visit The Great Minnesota Get Together my focus is quite single-minded: food. Sure, I walk around, I people-watch, and in my youngerenCommunityServer 2007 SP1 (Build: 20510.895)http://livegreenlivesmart.org/blogs/green_suburbanite/archive/2007/09/04/pedal-powered-tv-and-more-at-the-state-fair.aspx#486Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:11:49 GMTe910e637-7e81-4e59-83b2-2f944cab18bc:486liz<p>I sure hope you didn't actually eat all that stuff - </p> <p>It would be cool if, since most machine barns at most state fairs have sort of faded, instead of the status quo exhibits, fairs would have a special section for organic growers, and turn their former machinery displays into venues for wind generators and geothermal furnaces, and an entire sustainable house to walk through with cutaways and energy efficient systems all working - I guess it would be TOO much to have a family actually living in this sustainable house during the fair - sort of like the 1939 world's fair, which took place during another world crisis....</p> <p>Fairs can go green-er.</p> <img src="http://livegreenlivesmart.org/aggbug.aspx?PostID=486" width="1" height="1">