Free three-day event featuring screenings at six venues with almost 40 documentaries and children’s films. Films focus on issues such as food, water, natural resources and people making a difference.
For a complete listing of films, locations, times and film summaries, visit website.
Contact: Fran Witte at fwitte@cityofirving.org.
Town Hall meeting on water conservation issues in Texas. Panelists: Representatives from Texas Conservation Alliance, Dixon Water Foundation and Dallas Water Utilities. Moderator Shelley Kofler of KERA.
Showing of the "Last Call of the Oasis," a film presenting a powerful argument for why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this center. Audience discussion follows. http://www.lastcallattheoasis.com. Free.
Watch a free screening of“Extreme Ice,” a documentary that profiles photographer James Balog, who captured global warming with time-lapse photography. Hosted by the Green Sanctuary Team and the Sierra Club. http://extremeicesurvey.org. Contact: administrator@firstjefferson.org. 817-451-1505.
This documentary film by Ben Evans and Mark Dixon follows three young friends as they take a year-long environmental road trip across all 50 United States, tackling peak oil, eco-vehicles, sustainable farming, wind energy, piles of garbage and a category they call, simply, “the weird.” Part of SMU's Sustainability Film Festival. Free. 214-768-7654. CobbK@SMU.edu. www.yert.com
Presented by the Sustainability Forum of the Dallas Institute's Center for the City. Featuring Thomaas Homer-Dixon, energy expert, and Eric Klinenberg, authority on cities, culture and politics. $30/members, $45/nonmembers, $10/teachers. DallasInstitute.org
Alliance for Clean Texas is organizing this eco-lobby day in Austin. Join environmental, consumer and public health activists from around the state for day of united legislative action. Training will be held March 19 from 6-8 pm at University Presbyterian Church, 2203 San Antonio St, Austin. Sign up on website http://www.acttexas.org/lobby-day-2013-in-austin/.
Live music on solar powered stage.
The North Texas Renewable Energy Group presents Steven M. Wiese, Principal, Clean Energy Associates, LLC. He will discuss Austin's plan to increase its solar capacity to 400 MW by 2020.
Environmentally themed vendors. Good Karma Kitchen food truck, which provides a vegan/vegetarian/gluten-free menu. Herb plants and T-shirts will also be for sale.