WE invites you to welcome in 2015 and network with women from a variety of environmental fields...making valuable business connections and friends. This is a free event and open to both members and non-members. Dinner and drinks on your own. Enjoy food at the Chicken Scratch located next to The Foundry.
An evening saluting the 18-year record of service on behalf of the environment by State Representative Lon Burnam, with Public Citizen's Smitty Smith, Former EPA Regional Administrator Al Armendariz and some very special guests.
Presenter: Jim Phillips, VP of Engineering, Independent Energy Alternatives, Inc.
Public welcome.
Topics covered:
* The Cost of Energy - How to Read Your Electric, Gas, & Water Bills
* Energy Wasted - How Energy Is Lost in Your Home
* Measuring Energy - Devices That Let You See How Much Electricity Is Used by Appliances
* Changing Behavior - Thinking & Becoming Energy Efficient...
What you can do to lower or eliminate wasted energy
* Measuring Results & Calculating Savings
A simple excel program to calculate energy & dollar savings
About the presenter:
Jim Phillips, PE, CEM, CEA, CDSM, GBE
The alphabet soup after Jim's name are abbreviations for:
* Professional Engineer
* Certified Energy Manager
* Certified Energy Auditor
* Certified Demand Side Manager
* Green Building Engineer
Start the year off on a constructive footing with a one-hour workshop: “Saving the Planet by Design: Why Empathy, Collaboration and Imagination are the Game Changers for Sustainability.”
The mixer will start at 6 p.m., but the workshop begins at 7.
As human development continues to grow in Texas, habitat for our native wildlife becomes less abundant. To offset this impact, create a Texas wildscape on your property to provide vital habitat to our local wildlife. This presentation will detail the components of a wildscape and provide advice on how to create and maintain your wildscape using native vegetation. Free.
Info: 972-699-1687. KirkMiller@DallasSierraClub.org.
This 7-week course led by Mary Ann Mayer Redmond and Renee Rossi, provides participants with an opportunity to explore sustainability more deeply and learn its unique meaning from individual, societal and global perspectives. Class meets on seven consecutive Tuesdays. Register on website. $27.
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Official debut of Dallas' first political action committee devoted to electing Dallas City Council members who support a more liveable vision for the city's residents.
LabyrinthWalk CoffeeHouse presents Winter Solstice Celebration.
Herald the return of light during the time of nature's dark and serene sleep with Music, Dance, Storytelling, and More at this indoor/outdoor event.
Scheduled Events:
6:00 Opening Ceremony
led by Spin Goddess Kathy Kinkaid
6:30 Rahim Quazi
6:30 & 7:30 (Outside) Earth Loom Ceremony
led by Anita Mills & Barbara Fudge
7:00 GloriChanters
led by Glorian Mulligan-Stratton
with members of the UUCOC choir
7:30 Steve Leach
8:00 John Mason
8:30 Emmeline
9:00 Closing Ceremony & Spiral Dance
led by Raven Crow High Priestess Pam Kincaid
to the beating of Drums Not Guns
led by Michael Kenny
Ongoing from 6:30 - 9:00:
Labyrinth meditation - led by Mavis Belisle
will held Outside or
in the Charity Building's Meditation Room
The Yule log will be kept lit by Fritz Kuehn
in the Sweat Lodge Fire Pit
Beyond the Labyrinth
Ongoing from 7:00 - 9:00:
Storytellers Gene and Peggy Helmick-Richardson
First Tuesday Social Justice Films at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff presents “Gasland 2.”
In this explosive follow-up to his Oscar-nominated film ”Gasland,” filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a global level (in 32 countries worldwide).
Refreshments are provided. Audience discussion will follow.
Info: judannwat@sbcglobal.net
Mingle with eco-friendly folks at this monthly meetup.