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North Central Texas Council of Governments: DFW Air Quality Meeting - Arlington

The DFW Clean Air Network (Downwinders at Risk, Texas Campaign for the Environment, State Rep Lon Burnham and others) has been invited to present their plan on how to get to cleaner air in North Texas.

Bring your questions and comments to the meeting to build a new clean air plan for the 10-county North Texas area.

Info: Info@DownwindersAtRisk.org.

Dallas Sierra Club: Earth, Wind & Fire Summit - Addison

Learn where our current sources of energy stand and what our energy future looks like in the U.S.  Find out more about the pros and cons of those sources and what concerns that they pose to our air, water and the environment. Experts and academics from around the country and state will speak. 

Topics include: 

Geothermal, wind, solar, coal, natural gas, oil & tar sands, nuclear. 

Info: Rita Beving, rita.beving@gmail.com.

North Texas Renewable Energy Group: 'Taking the Next Steps to Bring Solar Across the State' - Dallas

Presenter Howard "Scot" Arey, chair of the Texas Solar Energy Society, was a career Army officer, with much of his time spent at Fort Hood. After he retired, he joined Nexolon America in San Antonio where he first served as the Chief of Staff and was then promoted to executive vice president. There, he helped commence Nexolon's efforts to manufacture high-quality, high-yield solar modules for San Antonio. He serves on the Texas Solar Energy Society board of directors, and was elected Chairman through 2015. Arey has a bachelor of science from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a master of science in manufacturing from East Carolina University.

City of Irving: Understanding Renewable Energy Systems: Solar and Wind - Irving

 Renewable energy sources or RES capture their energy from existing flows of energy; from on-going natural processes, such as sunshine, wind, wave power, flowing water (hydropower); biological processes such as anaerobic digestion; and geothermal heat flow.

The most common definition is that renewable energy is from an energy resource that is replaced by a natural process at a rate that is equal to or faster than the rate at which that resource is being consumed. Renewable energy is a sub-set of sustainable energy.

This class will help students understand renewable energy, with an emphasis on solar and wind, as it relates to the residential sector and will provide resources for further exploration. Free. Info: 972- 742-2296.

Cedar Valley College: Sustainability Conference: The Responsible Pathway - Lancaster

The all-day conference features George Bandy, Jr., vice president of sustainability at Interface, and Michael Cain, executive director of Earth Day Texas.

The breakout sessions feature three tracks, saving the people, planet & money, with speakers from the cities of Dallas, Cedar Hill and Lancaster, medical organizations, non-profits and churches of southern Dallas.

Texas A&M Agrilife Research, North Texas Renewable Energy Group, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Urban Acres and Fossil Rim are also participating. Free. 

Dallas Sierra Club: Film Screening: 'Cry Heard 'Round the World' - Dallas

The locally produced movie focuses on the rally in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17, 2013, where 50,000 people from around the country came in freezing weather and said NO to the Keystone XL pipeline. It includes footage on the Texas bus that traveled 34 hours to the rally, along with exclusive footage and interviews with residents affected by the devastating oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas. Refreshments. Free. 

READ THE GSDFW ARTICLE.

Clean Eco Meetup - Dallas

Regular gathering with representatives from local environmental groups. Topics to be discussed at  meeting:

• Trinity Toll road and upcoming deadline for comments

• "Earth, Wind, and Fire Energy Summit" - new details on speakers and more re: this fall Energy conference

• Keystone pipeline - report on the the DC "Reject and Protect" event, updates on Julia Trigg Crawford and more

• Boy Scout Hill at White Rock - what's new with this develop putting a restaurant at the park?

• Fracking, earthquakes and disposal wells - what was discussed at the hearing in Austin -- the SMU study and where it is today

RSVP if you are coming so organizer can gauge handouts. The public and all environmental groups are welcome to attend and talk about what they are working on.

Info: Rita Beving, Dallas Sierra Club, 214-557-2271 or antiquerita@aol.com.

UU Church of Oak Cliff: Film Screening 'Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade' - Dallas

Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade is an hour-long documentary film written, edited and narrated by Garrett Graham, an active participant of the Tar Sands Blockade, a grassroots effort to stop the tar sands pipeline. Features exclusive video footage shot by the blockaders themselves during the course of more than six months of sustained resistance. 

The screening is free.

READ MORE:  garrettgraham.org/tag/blockadia-rising/