Environment

Nature Explore Families Club aims to connect children and families with nature and each other through fun, age-appropriate activities. This month's theme: color in nature. Free.

Family-friendly event celebrating the Fort Worth Prairie. Activities include making seedballs, historical marker tour, face painting, guided prairie walks, paper flower-making, demonstrations of soap and candle making, basket weavingm gourd art and live entertainment.

 Entertainment schedule:

10:00 a.m. Bearclaw Singers and Dancers

10:30 a.m. Cowboy Poet Lanny Joe Burnett

11:00 a.m. Prairie Divas & the Outlaw

12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Live music by 3 Fools on 3 Stools

Citizens Climate Lobby-Dallas Chapter hosts Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) via conference call. Sen. Whitehouse goes to the floor of the Senate every week to speak about climate change and the urgent need for congressional action. The group will also work on May action items and talk about additional outreach opportunities, etc. Snack foods will be provided so please RSVP. Info: Ricky, 214-606-4529.

Edible Dallas & Fort Worth presents the Chipotle Food Film Series. The featured movie on April 30 is "Grow." A minimum $2 donation for local charities accepted at door. All attendees receive a buy one/get one item free coupon from Chipotle. See movie trailer. A panel discussion will follow. Panelists: Chef Graham Dodds of Central 214, Charles Plummer with the Youth Village, Andrea Bithell with Oak Cliff Organics and Paul Quinn College from the North Texas Food Bank, with moderator Susie Marshall of GROW North Texas.

 Also see listings May 14 and May 28.

DFW Clean Cities hosts this free screening of "Revenge of the Electric Car," followed by a panel discussion. Panelists: Dr. Ross Baldick, EV-TEC Center Director; Jason Buckland, EVGO; Steve Hanson, Frito Lay/Pepsi Co.; Lanny Shivers, Earth Day Dallas; Tom Anthony, Oncor; Lori Clark, NCTCOG. Refreshments served. See movie trailer.

During our Zip Line Days, guests will climb up our new dual zip platform and then proceed to a 487-ft. zip line. Purchase one ticket ($12 each) for each time you would like to travel down the zip line. Pre-registration is required.

These local rallies are part of an international campaign started by a Utah woman to protest big ag giant Monsanto and its genetically modified seeds. The Dallas march starts at City Hall. The Fort Worth march starts in General Worth Square. Dallas march info. Fort Worth march info. Green Source DFW story.

All ages are invited to join this free outdoor walk hosted by the city of Dallas' Environment Education Initiative. The first 175 people to register online get free Camelbak water bottle and T-shirt.

Annual festival dating back to the 1930s, featuring local vendors selling trees and plants, gardening products, landscaping and home improvement items. In addition, there will be workshops, children's environmental activities, a recycled fashion show  and festival foods. Free.

Dallas Sierra Club meeting will feature speaker Linda King of the Dallas Zoo sharing her experience at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Africa. Also Ginger Bradley will talk abou opportunities at the Cedar Ridge Preserve (formerly the Dallas Nature Center). Contact: Kirk Miller, 972-699-1687 or KirkMiller@DallasSierraClub.org.