Conservation

May 3, 9:00AM – 9:00PM

Enjoy FREE admission all day and join us throughout the day for guided hikes, animal encounters, and children's arts & crafts activities.

An earthship is a self-sustained, off-grid house made out of recycled materials. A survival pod is a very basic earthship design that provides very basic needs: water, heating and cooling, and safety from the elements.

This 4-weekend course will be class time and hands-on build.
We will cover the following systems:

Construction from the ground up.
Tires, placement, pounding, leveling and wall construction.
Bond beam construction
Dome construction
Skylight and cooling tube convection draw system for cooling.
Thermal mass
Rain water collection
Construction of a cistern

Scheduled for 4 consecutive weekends of:
May 5-6, 12- 13, 19-20, and 26-27

Location is 15 minutes South of Tyler, Tx.

Price is $400 per person to cover cost of materials.
Discount of $100 for every person you refer that pays full price.

Free dry camping provided.

Register at http://www.biotechturetraining.com/training.html

Sierra Club Meeting, May 8, 2012

Japan and Texas Photographs - From the Fridge to the Fire: Wildlife Contrasts
This photography presentation will highlight the contrasts between the chilly winter months in
Japan and the baking hot climate of South Texas, and how the resident wildlife copes in each
of these harsh environments. Jeremy Woodhouse is an outdoor photographer based in Dallas,
Texas, whose photos have appeared in print all over the world. He has received numerous
photography awards, and his images have been included in exhibitions at the Smithsonian in
Washington, D.C., the Dallas Museum of Natural History, and the Natural History Museum in
London. His website is http://www.pixelchrome.com/

May 5^th, from noon to 5 pm. 

We help you protect the environment by keeping electronic waste materials out of landfills and putting them back into the manufacturing process to make new products. Drive up and our team will unload your items for recycling. There are small fees for monitors and TVs .click here for more information.

International Migratory Bird Day Festival at Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center

Saturday May 12, 2012  

9:00AM – 5:00PM

Admission $3.00 (kids under 3 yrs free)

Celebrate our migratory birds and learn more about what you can do to help them during their amazing journey across the Americas. This event features fun activities for all ages, including kids’ crafts and activities, a live falcon, guided hikes, and a warbler identification class.

Please mark your calendar for the next Clear Air Meetup at Picasso's for Thur. April 26th at 6:30 pm (same location off Inwood/N. of Forest ln). We are going to try and aim to have these the 4th Thur. of the month, so mark your calendar for Thur. May 24th as well (I will verify but plan for Picasso's on that date as well).

At this upcoming meeting, we'll discuss:

A) Keystone and the Seaway Pipeline - where are we now and new organizing efforts and the update on the Landowner Julia Trigg Crawford's case against TransCanada
B) Gas Drilling update
C) Exide update
D) Meeting announcements of other groups/Earth Day reviews
E) Announce Coal speaker for May

Thanks all for your ongoing participation -- Rita Beving, 214.557.2271

The Trinity Bird Count is an exciting new effort to count every bird species in and along our Trinity River in Dallas! Birds are among the most beautiful and intriguing visitors and residents of the forests, grasslands, river banks and neighborhoods along the Trinity River.

This year, the Trinity Commons Foundation begins an exciting new project to learn about the Trinity's birds – the Trinity Bird Count. With 636 of the 957 bird species in North America, Texas is for the birds! Come enjoy the Trinity and help investigate the birds that live along the Trinity or that visit here during their migration.

The Trinity Bird Count is underway! Here are the next opportunities to join us in the count! 

Area #3 - Levee B – Lake Cliff Park, on June 23, 2012, from 8:00 – 11:00 a.m.. Meet at Lake Cliff Park. Click here for parking location.

Birding On Your Own

The Trinity Bird Count is an exciting new effort to count every bird species in and along our Trinity River in Dallas! Birds are among the most beautiful and intriguing visitors and residents of the forests, grasslands, river banks and neighborhoods along the Trinity River.

This year, the Trinity Commons Foundation begins an exciting new project to learn about the Trinity's birds – the Trinity Bird Count. With 636 of the 957 bird species in North America, Texas is for the birds! Come enjoy the Trinity and help investigate the birds that live along the Trinity or that visit here during their migration.

The Trinity Bird Count is underway! Here are the next opportunities to join us in the count!