The Solar Living Institute is offering two tickets to their 16th Annual Summer Celebration, the MoonDance "Eco-Fest" Saturday, August 11th at the Solar Living Institute in Hopland, CA.  The MoonDance is their annual fundraiser supporting environmental education.  They've scheduled an afternoon and evening of live music, sustainability workshops, fire dancers, Trash Fashion Show, organic wine and drink, food and festivities. The Moondance is from 12:00pm to 12:00midnight at the Solar Living Center 13371 South Hwy 101, Hopland, CA.

Like last year, presentations and demos will take place mainly in the Hops Tipi and the Workshop Yurt at the beautiful 12-acre demonstration site in Hopland. This year's topics and speakers include:

• Rachel Kaplan - author, Urban Homesteading

• Paul Taylor - Cultivating Mushrooms

• Barrett Raftery - Off-Grid Solar in Africa

• Gabriel Bridges - Intro to Permaculture

• Rainforest Action Network - Ecosystem preservation

• Power to the People - installing Solar in Central America

• Laytonville EcoVillage - Co-housing

• Living Earth Structures - Building with Cobb

• Paleotechnology - primitive survival skills • Green Economy Leadership Training - Detroit

Musicians include Dgiin (pronounced "Gin"),  the Freys, the Voodoo Medicine Show, Mountain Lion Sound, plus three sound selectors: Jah Hermit, Jahway, and the Archangel Gabriel.