We Are For Better Alternatives (WAFBA), the organization that produces the NoCo Hemp Expo under the direction of Morris Beegle, will present a shop — the Hemp General Store, Powered by WAFBA — at this month’s EarthX Expo in Dallas. The shop will feature a variety of hemp products for display and sale, including T-shirts, hats, assorted hemp merchandise and CBD products. The purpose is to inform and educate, as well as to make hemp products available to attendees, Beegle said.
The EarthX Expo is the world’s largest green gathering, held annually around Earth Day in Dallas. It features a Congress of Conferences that highlights a wide range of environmental and sustainability-related topics and brings together environmental organizations, businesses, academic institutions, governmental agencies, speakers and subject matter experts. The multi-day celebration also features live music, art and food.
EarthX and the Congress of Conferences will take place at Fair Park in Dallas from April 19-23, 2023.
Beegle has been involved in bringing hemp education and products to the huge Earth Day celebration since 2018, when he began with a small hemp pavilion. WAFBA sponsored the pavilion the following year as well, with Beegle as a featured speaker. The show was canceled in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
At this year’s EarthX — the largest yet — hemp will have an even bigger presence. The store will be part of a Rocky Mountain pavilion that includes a hemp stage for programming about the plant, as well as an assortment of hemp companies that will demonstrate how hempcrete is made. It will also provide information about food, fiber and cannabinoids. Exhibitors will include NoCo and the WAFBA brands, Global Fiber Processing, PureHemp Technology, the Texas Hemp Coalition and Dama Bioplastics, among others.
Beegle, who will appear in a panel discussion, is enthusiastic about attending this year. “We are looking forward to being back at Fair Park for the EarthX show,” he said. “It’s exciting to bring education and hemp products to such a large mainstream audience. What better way to celebrate Earth Day than by bringing hemp to more and more people.”
Dallas business owner and philanthropist Trammell Crow founded EarthX as Earth Day Dallas in 2011 to revitalize enthusiasm around Earth Day, meant to bring attention to environmental and sustainability causes around the world. In more recent years, the annual event has drawn over 750,000 visitors. Crow spoke at the NoCo9 Hemp Expo in March and urged crowd members to attend EarthX if they were “serious about conversation and serious about the environment.”
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