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Animal Connection of Texas: Alcon Laboratories Protest - Fort Worth

ACT hosts this event in solidarity with activists around the globe for World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week. 

Alcon Laboratories (owned by Novartis) produces eye care products, surgical equipment and medications; they induce retnal diseases, glaucoma, ocular hypertension and other painful conditions in rats, mice, dogs, rabbits and primates for product testing. 

Around the world, over 25 million animals each year are killed after being physically and psychologically tortured in unimaginable ways in laboratories. Reliable and responsible alternatives for product testing are readily available and most importantly, animals are not lab equipment, it's time for a change. 

Please join us outside of Alcon Laboratories to show people the ugly truth about vivisection.

Tarrant County College: Spring Fling - Fort Worth

Earth Day celebrations featuring activities, airbrush tatoo artist, contests and food. 

In addition speakers will offer programs prior to the fest at the Student Center, WSTU 1303:

9:30 am - Easy Butterfly Gardening 

10 am - Big Time Into Small Things

10:30 am - Why We Do What We Do

Free.

Info: Joan Shriver at 817-515-7242 or Joan.Shriver@TCCD.edu or June Relyea at 817-515-7060 or June.Relyea@TCCD.edu.

City of Arlington: Water Efficient Property Mgmt - Arlington

This program will give property managers techniques on implementing indoor water conservation, drip irrigation, new water conserving technologies, cycle and soak, lawn care during drought or water restrictions, proper plant selection, foundation watering, tree watering, and irrigation scheduling. This class is intended for property managers associated with homeowner associations, apartment complexes and large commercial properties but is also open to the public. Patrick Dickinson, Urban Water Program Coordinator with Texas A&M AgriLife Research, will be the speaker. Free.

Info: Dustan Compton at dustan.compton@arlingtontx.gov or 817-459-6628.

White Rock Dog Park: Howl at Hillside featuring E-Waste Event - Dallas

Find out about White Rock Lake Dog Park improvements and the pet oxygen mask project. Also featuring pet adoptions, Taste of White Rock, kids activities and E-waste collection. 

Accepting: computers, office equipment, appliances, TVs, CDs and video tapes, digital cameras, mobile devices, fitness equipment. Info: 972-438-6030 or Renee.Chatham@E-WasteCollections.net.

Downwinders at Risk: DFW Clean Air Plan Strategy - Dalllas

State Representative Lon Burnam and Downwinders at Risk are hosting a brainstorming session regarding the region's newest anti-smog plan.

A recently publicized UNT graduate student study shows why this anti-smog plan is the largest regional fracking fight that no one is fighting right now. It's also the best chance to get more action on coal plants and cement kilns, public transit, energy efficiency, renewables, etc. For the next year and a half we have a chance to wage a truly regional clean air fight that could benefit a lot of different causes and campaigns and unify our energy. But we need your help to pull it off.

Join Rep. Burnam, members of Downwinders, the Sierra Club and other local air quality activists as we do some short-term and long-term planning to make sure we get as much out of this anti-smog effort as we can.

If you can't attend on the 6th, come to NCTCOG's Air Quality meeting April 17 at 10 a.m.

http://greensourcedfw.org/events/north-central-texas-council-governments-air-quality-meeting-arlington

Info: Jim Schermbeck at schermbeck@aol.com.

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