An environmental group or organization
The Earth Day fest features local environmental vendors. Good Kitchen Karma food truck will be serving up vegan and vegetarian food. Herb plants and reusable water bottles will be handed out. Earth Day T-shirts will be sold $5-$10. Free.
First Jefferson Unitarian Universalist Church is showing the Dolphin Blue documentary, Cry Heard ‘Round the World: The Journey to DC to Take a Stand for Mother Earth. The film documents the bus trip from Texas to the DC Climate Rally in February 2013. Free. Info: Karl at administrator@firstjefferson.org or 682-465-0021.
READ MORE: http://greensourcedfw.org/articles/film-follows-texans-journey-dc-climate-rally
Howard Garrett will speak on organic gardening and landscaping. Learn how organic programs can save 50 percent of irrigation costs. Also learn about various organic gardening techniques that benefit you and our environment. Free. Info:. 972-699-1687. KirkMiller@DallasSierraClub.org.
Migration!
• Meet our raptors up-close at one of our programs; 11am and 1 pm
• Learn how birds migrate long distances
• Feather Fun - see how feathers are important to their survival
• Learn how to identify a raptor by its silhouette in the sky or tree
• Take a prairie and native plant walk while looking for migrating birds
$3-5.
8:30am-noon: Community Clean Up. Register @ KFMB.org.
10am-1pm: Environmental & Health Fair. Booths promoting healthy and eco-friendly lifestyle. Kid's activities, workshops. Paper shredding for residents. Clothes, housewares and electronics collection.
Info: events@KFMB.org.
Wall-E is an animated romantic science fiction film that tackles such issues as consumerism, nostalgia, environmental problems and waste management. Wall-E, a robot designed to clean up a waste-covered earth, falls in love with Eve, another. The two go into outer space and embark on an adventure that changes their destiny and the destiny of humankind.
The film is seen as a critique and an examination of the impact humans have on this plant and the risk to our civilization and Earth.
Free. Discussion follows.
This annual sale includes more than 100 hard to find beautiful native Texas plant species, which are drought-tolerant, disease-resistant, low maintenance and well suited for the soil and extreme temperature conditions found in Denton County.
The city hosts the family friendly celebration at the Government Center. Includes a self-guided video tour of sustainable exhibits that event-goers can access via QR codes, tree planting, recyclable crafts, green booths, face painting and entertainment.
Arlington nature center presents nature walks, story times and crafts. Free.
Join David Allen Sibley, an American ornithologist, author, and illustrator of The Sibley Guide to Birds, for a bird walk, presentation and book signing at Dogwood Canyon.
Bird walks: 6:30, 7:30, 8:30am. $40/hike, $65/hike and Sibley's new book. Advanced payment required.
Book signing: 10:30 am. Free.
RSVP required: 469-526-1980.