Issues

April 25th, 6:30pm
Texas Wesleyan School of Law
This event is free and open to the public.

Clean Water Act Forum
Texas waterways are part of what make Texas beautiful, thriving, and prosperous.  According to EPA, however, Texas waterways are at risk. Up to 56% of the streams in Dallas and Tarrant counties that provide water for surface water intakes are currently without Clean Water Act protection. At the same time, expanding the Clean Water Act imposes difficult barriers on the energy and agricultural industries, industries that boost our economy. Come learn about the current state of the law and how legal uncertainties impact DFW.

Speakers include policymakers, environmental advocates, business/agricultural representatives and water law experts.

Texas Wesleyan's Environmental Law Society is excited to be co-sponsoring this event and will be providing refreshments.

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This will be a free screening of the documentary King Corn at Westside Unitarian Universalist Church in Fort Worth. (The following is taken from the website of the documentary King Corn)

King Corn is a Peabody-winning feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In the film, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.

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Neighborhood Symposium – April 14

Annual Neighborhood Symposium & Grant Program Kick-off
April 14, Saturday, 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.  
Turner House, 401 N. Rosemont  Avenue.
RSVP Email vpneighborhoods@ooccl.org by April 11.

Dallas Councilmembers Griggs and Jasso will discuss City Initiatives. Agenda topics include: Ft. Worth Avenue, Oak Cliff Libraries, Real Estate trends. Most important, we'll tell you how your Neighborhood can apply for grant money. Come early for coffee, juice, kolaches, yogurt and fruit.  Lunch will be an assortment of salads and sandwiches catered by Bolsa Mercado. We're asking for $10 donation to help defray costs.  Please let us know by April 11th so we can have enough.

Subject: Public Invited! Urban Bike Systems Talk at Dallas City Hall – April 11

Free Urban Bike Systems Presentation, concluding with Q & A 
Wednesday, April 11, 6 p.m.   
Dallas City Hall, Council Chambers, 1500 Marilla Street 

Gil Penalosa, an internationally renowned leader in creating great communities through active public spaces, will give a presentation on urban bike systems and ‘pedestrianism’ as the City prepares to implement its Bike Plan. 

Environmental Issues Associated with Oil and Gas Development in North Texas
Michael Overbay, the EPA Region 6 Ground Water Center Coordinator, and Ruben Casso,
the EPA Region 6 Air Toxics Coordinator, will present information on how large scale
development of the shale gas resources in the Fort Worth Basin have been perceived as
impacting environmental issues, such as water quantity, water quality, air quality, wastewater
disposal, and induced seismicity. The presentation will also include a discussion of the status of
EPA's proposed rules on air emissions related to oil and gas development and production.

Free. 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 10, Dallas Sierra Club at REI Dallas

Open to the Public. Donation Only.
"Hands are the heart’s landscape." -Karol Wojtyla. 

On Wednesday, April 11 at 7 pm we'll learn about sustainable architecture during a free tour and talk at the gleaming new UTA College Park Center, 601 S. Pecan St.

For this month's general meeting we will tour the CPC, UTA's newest environmentally-friendly sports arena/events facility. We will be guided by the building's architects and managers, who will highlight its green features.

Representatives of the UT System and the architecture and engineering firms involved ­ Bill Amendola, Office of Facilities Planning and Construction, UT System; Ellen Mitchell, sustainable design coordinator, HKS; Jennifer Blount, LEED coordinator, Jacobs Engineering; and Keith Schobert, assistant director, UTA College Park Center ­ will lead a discussion of green building elements, both visible and stealth, and other environmentally aware features of the state-of-the-art venue and how the entire 20-acre College Park District is accelerating a growing synergy between the university and downtown Arlington.

Subject: Area Environmental Groups Meet About Natural Gas Task Force – March 27
There will be a city-wide meeting on Gas Drilling on Tuesday March 27, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Center for Community Cooperation at 2900 Live Oak in East Dallas. The Texas Campaign for the Environment, Mountain Creek Alliance, Downwinders at Risk, Dallas Area Residents for Responsible Drilling, Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability Project and the Sierra Club will host the meeting. 

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