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Tarrant County Greenweavers: Sustainable Investing & FW Plastic Bag Ban - Fort Worth

Learn about creating change through your investments. Jason Smith III of Edward Jone will be available to answer your questions on how to invest green. In addition, a representative from the Sierra Club will discuss the Fort Worth Plastic Bag Ban.

Happy Hour & appetizers. Admission donation: new unwrapped toys. Info: Joan Meeks @ 817-300-6958.

University of Dallas: How Companies Can Profit from Sustainability - Irving

Panel will discuss how organizations define sustainability, the processes they use, the outcomes they expect to achieve and the tangible and intangible benefits of their respective sustainability strategies. 

Featuring Garrett Boone, co-founder & chairman emeritus of The Container Store and
Investor in Treehouse; Nathan Loftice, sustainability leader for FedEx; and Nelly Rocha Andresen, vice president of Quality Environment, Health & Safety; and senior cCorporate counsel for eRecyclingCorps. 

Free.  Includes continental breakfast.

The Haggar University Center is in Building #4. Free parking in lots A & B: Campus map. 

Angelika Dallas & The Green Spot: Film Screening: 'Plastic Paradise' - Dallas

Thousands of miles away from civilization, Midway Atoll is in one of the most remote places on earth. And yet its become ground zero for The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, syphoning plastics from three distant continents. In this independent documentary film, journalist/filmmaker Angela Sun travels on a personal journey of discovery to uncover this mysterious phenomenon. Along the way she meets scientists, researchers, influencers, and volunteers whom shed light on the effects of our rabid plastic consumption and learns the problem is more insidious than we could have ever imagined.

Presented by the Green Spot. $12. Limited seating. Reserve your tickets on website link.

USGBC North Texas: Case Studies & Cocktails - Irving

The U.S. Green Building Council - North Texas Chapter is hosting a tour of the Lady Bird Johnson Middle School in Irving, the largest net-zero middle school in the U.S. The school generates its own power through geothermal, wind and solar photovoltaics.  Members of the design team will lead the discussion and tour and discuss the design decisions that went into building the school.  $15-$35. Info: mmceuen@usgbcnorthtexas.org

Schedule
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM Reception and refreshments
6:00 PM – 6:45 PM Panel discussion
6:45 PM – 7:30 PM Tour  

North Texas Corporate Recycling Association: Eco-Bus Tour - McKinney

The North Texas Corporate Recycling Association's seventh annual Eco-bus tour. This year's theme:  "LEED, Lights, & Lager." Stops include Pat Lobb Toyota and Franconia Brewing in McKinney with presentation by Perfectly Green. Close-toed flat shoes are required for the tour. Optional networking lunch at 11 a.m. at Hedary’s Mediterranean Grill. $15-$35/tour. Additional $19/lunch.

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