Environment

It’s My Park Day Spring 2012 is a community service initiative park to encourage citizens to help enhance parkscitywide. Individuals, families, homeowners’ associations, and civic groups are invited to organize beautification, recycling or clean-up activities at parks in their neighborhoods.

Join the White Rock Lake Conservancy as we help the City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department with clean-up projects around the park. We will help spread mulch around the trees and landscaping and clean up graffiti around the park. 

To register for the event go to http://itsmyparkdaydallas.eventbrite.com/

Peace Corps Volunteers perform a variety of jobs in business, education, community development, environment, health, information technology and agriculture. Learn more about these opportunities by joining Linda Tucker, returned volunteer and recruiter, for more information or call 214.253.5411

FREE

http://www.rei.com/event/33909/session/42528

Join Bella for reading and exploratory activities in the Burk Children's Library and the Tree House at BRIT! Bella is the host of BRIT’s family story times. Much more than a hand-puppet, Bella represents a begonia collected by field research botanists in Peru and sent to BRIT as a specimen. Beginning in February of 2012, Bella's Story Time will take place on the first Tuesday and first Saturday mornings of each month. These hour-long programs are designed for preschool-development levels and their adult partners. Parents, grandparents, or guardians enjoy an interactive story read aloud, side-by-side, and explore hands-on nature activities inspired by the story. Pre-registration not necessary; however, due to limited space, preschools and day care centers will need to schedule at least two weeks in advance. Families may attend at no cost thanks to the generous support of the Fash Foundation.

Join Bella for reading and exploratory activities in the Burk Children's Library and the Tree House at BRIT! Bella is the host of BRIT’s family story times. Much more than a hand-puppet, Bella represents a begonia collected by field research botanists in Peru and sent to BRIT as a specimen. Beginning in February of 2012, Bella's Story Time will take place on the first Tuesday and first Saturday mornings of each month. These hour-long programs are designed for preschool-development levels and their adult partners. Parents, grandparents, or guardians enjoy an interactive story read aloud, side-by-side, and explore hands-on nature activities inspired by the story. Pre-registration not necessary; however, due to limited space, preschools and day care centers will need to schedule at least two weeks in advance. Families may attend at no cost thanks to the generous support of the Fash Foundation.

http://www.brit.org/calendar/

The Earth Day Festival is a community-wide, free, fun, family event where ordinary people will learn practical things to improve the health of the planet, their children and themselves.

http://www.earthdaytexoma.org/ED2012/index.html

Building the Off-Grid Home with Compressed Earth Block (CEB)
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Saturday, February 25, 2012, 10:30 am

A building or home from our DFW clay compressed into earth blocks is Natural, Healthy, Inexpensive, Durable, Quiet, Strong, and Super Energy Efficient. And what could be better than building your home out of your own dirt?

This is a mechanized form of adobe that is easy and quick to build. It is naturally cooler than the outside air on a Texas afternoon and also warmer in the winter. Of course in the North Central Texas area, staying cool is of utmost importance. Adobe does this through latent heat.

Latent heat is thermal energy released or absorbed during a phase-change of a substance such as a phase-change material (PCM) like adobe.

Clay, carrying a negative charge, draws water from the atmosphere when relative humidity is highest, as in early morning. When the relative humidity is low, as in later afternoon, water vaporizes out of the adobe as latent heat of vaporization.

Sunday, February 19

9 a.m. – noon

Southwest Nature Preserve

Meet at the northwest gate on Bowman Springs Rd.  Classic crosstimbers woodlands, grasslands and ponds make this an interesting place to count birds. 

About the Plan

The Walk! Fort Worth Pedestrian Transportation Plan aims to make walking around the city safer and more convenient.

By replacing the short vehicle trips with pedestrian trips, Cowtown air will be measurably cleaner and the population healthier thanks to increased physical activity. If that isn't important enough, it also helps reduce congestion on our streets.

Public Meetings

Public meetings will be held at 6:30 pm 

The Friends of OS Gray Natural Area will host a Great Backyard Bird Count at O.S. Gray Natural Area, Saturday, February 18th from 9 am to 11 am.  Avid birder Julia Burgen will help with bird identification and counting.  If you wish to participtate bring your binoculars and your bird identification book (if you have one). We recommend dressing for the weather and for walking the trails in a natural area. 

Recycle Revolution would like to invite you to be a part of our Community-Wide Festival, Market, and Recycling Round-up Event: The Deep Green Revolution on Saturday, March 24th from 10AM - 6PM.

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