Free event featuring Earthen Ware vendors (carved wood art, organic foods, handmade jewelry, etc.), environmental education booths, kids' crafts/entertainment, plant sale, hybrid car show and live music. Drop off usable household goods and clothing/shoes, household documents for secured shredding and bulky trash items at Town Center Elementary School parking lot (185 N. Heartz).
Environmentally themed vendors. Good Karma Kitchen food truck, which provides a vegan/vegetarian/gluten-free menu. Herb plants and T-shirts will also be for sale.
Dallas Sierra Club is hosting this screening of the film "Mother, Caring for Seven Billion" about human population growth. Gayle Loeffler, member of the National Sierra Club’s Global Population and Environment Committee, will also give a presentation of the United Nations Conference on Population, Health and Environment, held in Ethiopia. Free. KirkMiller@DallasSierraClub.org.
Green Source DFW and the Memnosyne Foundation hosts our second annual award ceremony for outstanding volunteers, nonprofits, business leaders and entrepreneurs in the North Texas environmental community. Details to be announced.
Networking and educational group for advocates and professionals interested in sustainability. The meeting is cancelled for February.
Hosted by Environment Texas. Learn how to pick a campaign strategy, goals, and tactics, and how to recruit and train volunteers. Contact: Jennifer@greencorps.org or 818-203-7625.
Environment Texas is hosting a press conference to promote solar energy development in Texas. Speakers include: Jennifer Rubiello, Environment Texas; Anna Clark, Interfaith Power and Light; Michael Gorton, Principal Solar; Aaron Harville, concerned father with asthmatic family, local musician; and Jim Duncan, North Texas Renewable Energy Incorporated. Check out the solar panels, write a solar valentine, grab a snack. Families and children welcome. Contact: Jennifer@greencorps.org or 818-203-7625.
Free one-day event. Choose from among five tracks of sessions: 1) Healthy Living; 2) Urban Agriculture; 3) Resource and Energy Efficiency; 4) Smart Cities; 5) Green Careers and Jobs. Keynote speaker: Joel Salatin, a third-generation alternative farmer whose family's farm, Polyface, Inc. has been featured in Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, Gourmet and in radio, television and print media. Exhibitors will also be on hand to share their green products and services.
The North Texas Commission is hosting a water summit to discuss the growing demands on our water resources, proposed solutions and corporate best practices. Scheduled speakers include:
• Sen. Kelly Hancock and Rep. Eric Johnson.
• Lewis McMahan, Board Member - Dallas Region, Texas Water Development Board.
• Heather Harward, Executive Director, H2O4Texas.
• Jonathan Radtke, North America Water Resource Manager, Coca-Cola Refreshments.
• Tom Gooch, P.E., Group Manager, Water Resource Planning, Freese & Nichols.