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2 2014 BETTER LIVING SHOW
March 2014

2014 Better Living Show sprouts up again

By JESSICA VALENCIA for the Pamplin Media Group
Since 2008, Portland has played host to

the Better Living Show, a free-to-
attend three-day event revolving
around healthy and earth-friendly

ways to live and travel.
However, this year ushers in new
components of the show, which is touted to be

the Northwest’s largest sustainability expo,
said Naomi Forkash,
Better Living Show
This year, the
manager.
show will “Over the past five
years there’s been real
feature roughly
growth in green and
75 guest sustainable expos, and I
speakers think with the trend of

throughout the living more simply and 13,000 people attended the event, said Forkash,
lessening our impact on adding that since it began, the show has
course of the the planet, people are luctuated between 10,000 and 15,000 visitors.
two-day event
looking for new ways to Approximately 300 vendors are expected to
do that,” said Forkash.
attend the show this year, she said, a majority
of whom are from the Willamette Valley or Based out of Ashland,

southern parts of Washington. Notably, she the Better Living Show expects to draw in
said GE Appliances plans to showcase its 10,000 attendees during the course of the last
“Home 2025” exhibit, which takes a futuristic
weekend in March, which she said is on par The 2014 Better Living Show will highlight all things healthy and earth-friendly such as growing your own
produce (above).
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