An environmental group or organization
Earn CPE Credits while learning how to bring plants into your classroom and curriculum. Plants in your social studies lesson and botany in your math lessons will help your students appreciate the natural world while they learn. Appropriate for elementary educators. $15. Register online or at 214-428-7476 x343.
Explore Dogwood Canyon, meet new friends, and learn more about the canyon from an environmental educator. On the second Saturday of each month, your guide will provide a fun-filled experience sharing knowledge of the canyon’s flora, fauna, history and geology.
Free. RSVP required. Call for time.
Info: 469-526-1980 or DCAC@Audubon.org..
Dr. Armendariz is a former SMU professor and EPA administrator and currently with the Sierra Club, as senior campaign representative for the Beyond Coal Campaign. Info: MortonIsis@aol.com.
Trammell S. Crow, who transformed Earth Day Dallas into the largest Earth Day celebration in the world, will talk about Earth Day Texas, its purpose, its importance and plans for the future. He supports various non-profit organizations that are active in family planning, education, the environment, community initiatives and political causes. All welcome. Info: Kirk Miller, 972-699-1687, KirkMiller@DallasSierraClub.org.
Besides good company, you can enjoy cheap eats, because it's $1 burger night from 5 p.m. until closing, so you can chow down on a hamburger, turkey burger or portobello burger for only a buck. Meet downstairs at the large table to your right as you walk in the door. Look for our sign.
Learn where our current sources of energy stand and what our energy future looks like in the U.S. Find out more about the pros and cons of those sources and what concerns that they pose to our air, water and the environment. Experts and academics from around the country and state will speak.
Topics include:
Geothermal, wind, solar, coal, natural gas, oil & tar sands, nuclear.
Info: Rita Beving, rita.beving@gmail.com.
This month's guest speaker is Derek Broman, Urban Wildlife Biologist, DFW Metroplex
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, Cedar Hill State Park.
The last couple of years have seen the Dallas environmental scene blossom and mature. Now many of us want to take the next step by forming a city-wide “Dallas green alliance.” We plan on creating a 501(c)3 arm and a 501(c)4 or even a PAC that will have the political power to build it, election by election.
Dallas Sierra Club member Dale Edelbaum leads a photo tour of his 2013 trip to South America (Argentina, Chile and Brazil).
Monthly gathering of the Tarrant County Green Party.