Meeting includes:
Updates on how recent Earth Week tabling and meetings with the Denton Record Chronicle and Congressman Burgess's office went.
Action items and the various volunteer and committee opportunities we're looking for help with.
We will also work together on the national actions for the month of May and discuss our upcoming time in DC.
Info: Brett Cease, brettw.cease@gmail.com or 218-766-0830
Earth Day Texas (formerly, Earth Day Dallas) is an annual, outdoor festival seeking to elevate environmental awareness and influence the way Texans think, live and work. The family-friendly and free-admission event allows leaders in the corporate, academic and non-profit worlds to unite and show Texans how green lifestyle choices can lower their cost of living, improve their health, and help save the environment.
The heart of the festival is the Eco Expo where exhibitors will use their presence to promote their achievements as green leaders, and teach attendees how to take environmentally responsible action by better utilizing available resources, switching to eco-friendly products, or joining their organizations.
A bus will leave Denton (6:30 am) and Fort Worth (7:30 am) to go to Austin to demand that cities get to keep local control of their ordinances be it fracking or a bag ban. $15. Info: Sharon Wilson, Earthworks, sharson@gmail.com.
Signup at: http://www.texassharon.com/2015/02/17/say-no-big-govt-get-bus-tell-rep/
Topic: "Spring Planting; Sowing the Seeds for Energy and Sustainable Harvest in North Texas."
Presenter: Stephen Studicka, Lynn Stoked, Don Moulton and Dallas Master Gardeners.
Stephen Studnicka will present Midway Hills Cristian Church's energy harvesting efforts and goals. MHCC is host to our monthly meetings. Church members Lynn Stoked and Con Moulton will do a presentation of their solar installation. Dallas Master Gardeners will give a presentation about their organization and water-wise gardening.
This meeting, chaired by Sierra Club Conservation Chair Rita Beving, updates local environmentalists on current critical issues.
This meeting, chaired by Sierra Club Conservation Chair Rita Beving, updates local environmentalists on current critical issues.
Former state rep. Lon Burnam will speak on legislative issues.
The University of Texas at Arlington Institute of Urban Studies and American Planning Association – Midwest Texas Chapter will host the Climate Resilience and Adaptation Symposium. This one-day symposium will bring North Texas stakeholders together to identify and assess the shared challenges we face given the specific impacts of climate change in our region. The symposium provides a forum for learning about climate vulnerability in the region and sharing best practices in the area of resilience planning here in Texas and throughout the U.S. Most importantly, it provides a space for identifying collaborative solutions for adaptation.
$95. Membership and student discounts available.
The Denton group meets the first Saturday of the month.
Info: Brett Cease, BrettW.Cease@gmail.com
H3: The Responsible Pathway Sustainability Conference
Keynote Speakers: Mr. Trammell S. Crow, Dr. Elaine Ingham
This free one-day conference features two keynote speakers and simultaneous breakout sessions in three tracks: Saving the: People, Planet, and Money. The H3 stands for head, heart and hands because the pathway to sustainability involves a commitment and alignment of these three parts of your body.
Info: Sustainability Program Director Maria Boccalandro at 972-860-5204.
From Downwinders at Risk:
Rick Perry is leaving DFW breathers with a final farewell gift - another lousy anti-smog plan. We need you to speak out for a better one on January 15th.
After decades of being out of compliance with the Clean Air Act, this is your only chance to tell the state of Texas that DFW needs a better approach to reducing smog in DFW than the "do nothing" plan it's sending to the EPA.
The state's plan doesn't require new pollution controls on ANY major sources of DFW air pollution.
No new controls for the Midlothian cement plants. Even though one of the plants is installing advanced smog controls on its own, TCEQ isn't requiring them on all three cement plants.
No new controls for the oil and gas industry. Even though we know this pollution is the reason clean air progress has stalled in DFW over the past five years.
No new controls for East Texas coal plants. Even though we know they impact DFW air quality.
Nothing.