North Texas universities, municipalities and citizen groups, including Downwinders at Risk, is laying the foundation for a revolutionary grassroots high-tech approach to air quality monitoring that will render the current top-down system obsolete.
North Texas universities, municipalities and citizen groups, including Downwinders at Risk, is laying the foundation for a revolutionary grassroots high-tech approach to air quality monitoring that will render the current top-down system obsolete.
On this day, North Texans are encouraged to implement one clean air action in order to make our environment healthier and our air cleaner. Commitments are as simple as carpooling to work, packing a lunch or riding your bike instead of driving. Air North Texas encourages participants to share their clean air action on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Share with the hashtag #CAAD2017, and you could win a prize. Also, don’t forget to tag @nctcogtrans.
Monthly meeting of this bipartisan lobby group aimed at creating the political will for a sustainable world. Info: Andrea Garcia, garcia.andrea125@gmail.com.
Citizens' Climate Lobby is a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change. The Arlington Chapter meets on the third Wednesday of the month from 6-8
Info: Paula Luna, thelunas@prodigy.net
Info: Salima Moolji, salimamoolji@2030districts.org
During this session, attendees will gain an understanding on integrating the big picture of recent, game-changing studies that are revealing the power of indoor environmental quality and the impact on human performance. $35.
John Hall will speak about Texas' rapid transition to a clean energy economy and the significant economic benefits and water savings that would flow from this shift. John is the Environmental Defense Fund's Texas State Director for Clean Energy. He previously served as the executive director for The Texas Environmental Research Consortium in Houston; chairman at The Texas Water Commission and The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (predecessor agencies to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality); project manager and facilitator at The Port of Houston Authority; a
Change begins with you! Once the elections are over, the hard work begins to protect and preserve the Lone Star state in the 2017 Texas Legislature. Will you join us on November 12 for an important gathering to discuss our legislative strategy?
A lot is on the line next year: renewable energy, state and local park funding, oil and gas reform, attacks on local control, water conservation, groundwater management, air quality and clean transportation programs, tires, batteries, and waste of all types. We need leaders like you to help move our agenda forward!
See a fleet of local air monitoring drone and watch one take flight in a demonstration of the new technology Downwinders is using to assemble our North Texas CLEAN Air Force. Meet some of our academic partners helping to build a new DFW grassroots air quality network.
In addition, a national documentary will be filming at the event – a six-person crew from NYC making a film on the decline of coal in America, produced by Oscar and Emmy-Nominated Joe Berlinger. Show up to represent DFW environmental activists!