Come celebrate Earth Day early with us on Thursday, April 19th! Our celebration features a variety of informational booths related to Earth Day, as well as live entertainment.
Tarrant County Public Health Building, 1101 South Main at Rosedale.
Free admission and parking. Open to the public.
Dan Lepinski's "Solar Shuttle" solar trailer will provide 100% solar electricity for the event sound stage.
Irving is hosting an Eco-Movie Fest in honor of Earth Day on Saturday!
Saturday, April 21 | 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. | at two of our libraries – Central and West.
This event is FREE to the public!
Below are the movies that will be shown by location:
Central Library Movie Lineup | 801 W. Irving Blvd.
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Fresh (the Video Project) |
Learn 2 Live Green (L2LG) is a fun, family-friendly, FREE event encouraging people to adopt a greener lifestyle. L2LG includes the latest in green and/or fair trade products, along with interactive hands-on activities, entertainment, presentations, a film festival, artwork, children’s activities and prize drawings. Learn about keyhole gardens which provide enough food for an entire family in just a 6’ diameter area. Discover how food additives and processing contributes to children’s allergies and asthma. Hear how global observations about water impact the local water supply. Learn! Enjoy! Experience! In making greener choices, you’ll help the environment AND save a little green.
Register for one of the many workshops or classes at L2LG here https://livegreeninplano.obsres.com/Info.aspx?EventID=21
Web site http://www.learn2livegreen.com
http://www.meetup.com/DFW-Tarrant-County-Greenweavers/events/57686162/?a=ea2_grp&rv=ea2
Mr. Smart is the director of public activities for the BRIT (Botanical Research Institute of Texas www.brit.org )
He will speaking to us on the 27th about the BRIT, and it's mission, then moving onto what he calls 'Learning The Way'. This is a stewardship driven system that bridges the gap between some great thoughts on tactics for water conservation and those items that can be done NOW.
Dallas is celebrating the 100th year anniversary of the Houston Street Viaduct with a ciclovia!
Ciclovia is:
A chance to experience a place without cars and meet new friends. Streets are closed off to auto traffic – bikes, trikes, skaters, roller bladers and walkers take over!
At Cyclovia de Dallas, an event organized by BFOC and the City of Dallas, the Houston Street Bridge will be off limits to cars and trucks while pedestrians, cyclists, skateboarders and other non-motorized travelers practice greener ways of getting around.
The bridge connects Oak Cliff to downtown Dallas and will be closed to motorists during the event, from 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 14.
Activities will include kite flying, line dancing, bicycle races, skateboarding, live music, yoga, a bicycle safety rodeo, an urban market, healthy food trucks, a dog park, and more.
The Viaduct is an easy walk from Downtown via Houston Street. Parking is abundant and DART’s Union Station has service from all lines.
Open to the Public. Donation Only.
"Hands are the heart’s landscape." -Karol Wojtyla.
On Wednesday, April 11 at 7 pm we'll learn about sustainable architecture during a free tour and talk at the gleaming new UTA College Park Center, 601 S. Pecan St.
For this month's general meeting we will tour the CPC, UTA's newest environmentally-friendly sports arena/events facility. We will be guided by the building's architects and managers, who will highlight its green features.
Representatives of the UT System and the architecture and engineering firms involved Bill Amendola, Office of Facilities Planning and Construction, UT System; Ellen Mitchell, sustainable design coordinator, HKS; Jennifer Blount, LEED coordinator, Jacobs Engineering; and Keith Schobert, assistant director, UTA College Park Center will lead a discussion of green building elements, both visible and stealth, and other environmentally aware features of the state-of-the-art venue and how the entire 20-acre College Park District is accelerating a growing synergy between the university and downtown Arlington.
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All Day Two Day Festival
APRIL 21-22
FAIR PARK
FREE ADMISSION
Earth Day Dallas features two days of engaging exhibits, compelling speakers, music, entertainment, food and fun for everyone. Join us April 21-22, 2012 in Fair Park to see how you can make a difference.
Mission: Learn. Grow.
Celebrate Earth Day at this fun festival with exhibits, speakers, films, music, food & more focused on making a positive impact on our environment.
The heart of the festival is the Eco Expo, and exhibitors will use their presence to promote their achievements as green leaders, and teach attendees how to take environmentally responsible action by better utilizing available resources, switching to eco-friendly products, or joining their organizations.
In addition to the Eco Expo, attendees will have a number of educational entertainment options, which will include:
http://www.meetup.com/DFW-Tarrant-County-Greenweavers/events/53196872/
Earthships are self sustained, off-grid houses made out of recycled materials that provide for all human needs of shelter, comfort, water and power. Earthships collect their own rain water, create their own solar & wind power, and maintain a consistent temperature in any climate through thermal mass. This workshop is an in depth overview of how to build an Earthship, and how each system works. There is a fee of $100 for the instructor, and includes the instruction booklet. The workshop will take place at our transitional community just South of Tyler, on April 7th and 8th. Please register for the Earthship Biotechture Training course weekend April 7th and 8th, at: http://www.biotechtur...