Environment

The Downtown Arlington Farmer’s Market is a community-oriented market focusing on Texas provided foods, arts, crafts, services and wares.

 We are located at 215 Front Street Arlington, Texas 76011 and we open every Friday and Saturday from 8AM to 1PM.

The goal of the market is to provide a venue for local vendors to offer Arlington, Texas residents an opportunity to buy the freshest meat, produce, breads and other great foods, crafts and products available.

The DFW Truck Farm 5k Fun Run will take place on Sunday, April 22, 2012, at the Earth Day Dallas Festival at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas.

www.dfwtruckfarm.com

The first annual 5K Fun Run is a non-competitive event (no chip timing) in which participants can run, walk, jog, or skip to the finish line!  This is a family event and strollers are  welcome!  For this year's fun run, we have designed a course full of farming-inspired challenges to complete before you cross the finish line!

You will have farm challenges along the way around the race course, you might harvest a seed, plant a seed, save water, or pollinate a flower.  Whatever the challenge you are faced with you will have a good ol' time completing it!

A selection of Dallas’ top executive chefs will step away from the kitchen to prepare signature culinary creations between rows of strawberries, mint and arugula on Paul Quinn College’s organic WE Over Me Farm for an event called "A Community Cooks." The event is happening at 6 p.m., Thursday, April 19 at the college, 3837 Simpson Stuart Road. Tickets are $75 and can be purchased at http://www.prekindle.com/promo/id/21692820750405706.

Along with providing an opportunity to feast between the budding sprouts of cantaloupe and sweet potatoes and listen to live music beneath the stars, "A Community Cooks" celebrates the Farm's accomplishments and raises resources to help expand the Farm’s ability to combat the food desert surrounding Paul Quinn College. The Farm brings healthy food to the neighborhood by donating a minimum of 10 percent of all items grown to those in need.

Join the vendors of Cowtown Farmers Market for this one-day event in Federal Plaza Park, in front of Lanham Plaza (federal building) at 1000 Throckmorton St. Featuring fresh, local produce; artisan bread and baked goods; hot tamales; cut flowers and vegetable plants; soap and bath product; and more. Everything is grown or made within 150 miles of Fort Worth. The Bacon Wagon and SoCal Tacos food trucks will be on site for the farmers market.

Please mark your calendar for the next Clear Air Meetup at Picasso's for Thur. April 26th at 6:30 pm (same location off Inwood/N. of Forest ln). We are going to try and aim to have these the 4th Thur. of the month, so mark your calendar for Thur. May 24th as well (I will verify but plan for Picasso's on that date as well).

At this upcoming meeting, we'll discuss:

A) Keystone and the Seaway Pipeline - where are we now and new organizing efforts and the update on the Landowner Julia Trigg Crawford's case against TransCanada
B) Gas Drilling update
C) Exide update
D) Meeting announcements of other groups/Earth Day reviews
E) Announce Coal speaker for May

Thanks all for your ongoing participation -- Rita Beving, 214.557.2271

April 25th, 6:30pm
Texas Wesleyan School of Law
This event is free and open to the public.

Clean Water Act Forum
Texas waterways are part of what make Texas beautiful, thriving, and prosperous.  According to EPA, however, Texas waterways are at risk. Up to 56% of the streams in Dallas and Tarrant counties that provide water for surface water intakes are currently without Clean Water Act protection. At the same time, expanding the Clean Water Act imposes difficult barriers on the energy and agricultural industries, industries that boost our economy. Come learn about the current state of the law and how legal uncertainties impact DFW.

Speakers include policymakers, environmental advocates, business/agricultural representatives and water law experts.

Texas Wesleyan's Environmental Law Society is excited to be co-sponsoring this event and will be providing refreshments.

The Trinity Bird Count is an exciting new effort to count every bird species in and along our Trinity River in Dallas! Birds are among the most beautiful and intriguing visitors and residents of the forests, grasslands, river banks and neighborhoods along the Trinity River.

This year, the Trinity Commons Foundation begins an exciting new project to learn about the Trinity's birds – the Trinity Bird Count. With 636 of the 957 bird species in North America, Texas is for the birds! Come enjoy the Trinity and help investigate the birds that live along the Trinity or that visit here during their migration.

The Trinity Bird Count is underway! Here are the next opportunities to join us in the count! 

Area #3 - Levee B – Lake Cliff Park, on June 23, 2012, from 8:00 – 11:00 a.m.. Meet at Lake Cliff Park. Click here for parking location.

Birding On Your Own