Conservation

Dallas resident Scot Miller will give a multimedia presentation about creating the photographs for Emerson, Muir, Thoreau: A Photographic Trilogy of American Wildness, the first book to visually connect the philosophies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir and Henry David Thoreau. He will emphasize the interconnectedness of these three writers/philosophers/activists and the role that their intertwined orbits played in America's environmental coming of age.

Join the Global Climate March in Dallas to say YES to 100 percent clean energy and protect our future.

A community meeting has been organized at the Park in the Woods Recreation Center with District 3 Councilman Casey Thomas to express opposition to zoning application change (z 145-357). The proposed zoning change is from Residential Zoning (PD 521 S-2a) to Industrial Zoning (PD 521 S-1c,d) on the property south of I-20 and to the east of Mountain Creek Parkway and north of Camp Wisdom Rd. The zoning change would allow a 1.8 million square foot warehouse, the size of 31 football fields, in the entrance/gateway to the Mountain Creek community of 2,000 homes.  

Join Collaborative Laboratory for Environmental Analysis and Remediation (CLEAR) at UTA and top environmental scientists to learn how unconventional drilling can affect the environment and your health. The boots on the ground scientists come face-to-face with the unconventional drilling industry on a weekly basis. Learn from their experiences and research before unconventional drilling hits Florida. Have your questions ready and join the webinar live.

Climate change, caused by unchecked carbon pollution and overfishing, is the most pressing environmental issue of our time. Climate change is causing rising global temperatures, rising sea levels, extreme weather patterns and increasing health risks. It is also the most politically divisive issue of our time, particularly in the U.S. Our speaker, Dr. Mike Slattery, director of the Institute for Environmental Studies and Professor in the School of Geology, Energy and the Environment at TCU, examines the science behind climate change and why it has become so politicized. 

Hear Rita Beving, the North Texas Outreach Coordinator for the Clean Water Fund, discuss the framework for DFW water planning and the decision makers who influence water policy, and where we are with water planning for the region. The presentation will then pivot into addressing the highest usage of water, both inside and outside the home, and address how you can save water and save money at your own home.

We're moving ahead on a wide variety of exciting plans and opportunities ramping up to expand our outreach and engagement throughout North Texas this year ahead, so if you've been interested in joining the local efforts but haven't known when to jump in, this Saturday is a perfect opportunity!

Here's a few of the highlights from the past month and coming up:

Our guests are from the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. President Terri Parton will be speaking, along with Cultural Program Planner and past president Gary Mc Adams. We first met the Wichitas and Affiliates last year in Waco, when we declared the Waco Indian Village Live Oak Grove as historic.

Info: mary.graves@txhtc.org

The Chapter meets on the third Monday of the month:

    •    6:45 pm – Social time with refreshments

    •    7:00 pm – Announcements and general meeting items

    •    7:15 pm – Speaker

There are no meetings in the months of July, October, or December.

Permaculture is the program for November.

Info: Theresa Thomas, kayleetl@sbcglobal.net