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North Texas River Runners Club Meeting - Arlington

 Potluck dinner and social starts at 6:30 PM Program and business meeting starts at 7:00 PM.

Each month the club meeting includes a raffle -- visitors recieve a free coupon -- prizes are cool river gear or paddling and camping accessories. There is always discussion on upcoming activities, environmental action, and issues related to safe paddling.

REMEMBER: Please bring a simple or gourmet pot luck dish.

Contact: commodore@river-runners.org.


Trinity River Audubon's Free Third Thursday - Dallas

Take a hike, listen for frogs, watch the river roll by, enjoy the LEEDs building..

Free all day and evening.

Outdoor Events

5:30p.m. Guided Hike & Texas Turtle Watch

6:00p.m. Animal Encounter

8pm Chimney Swift Monitoring Join Master Naturalist Natha Taylor of this citizen science project

8:15pm Amphibian Watch with TRAC Volunteer Naturalist Mel White

Indoor Events

Multi-purpose Room

6-6:15 Audubon Dallas interns review TRAC summer projects

6:30-6:45 Dr. Patty McGill introduces our newest Audubon Center, Dogwood Canyon.

Conference Room

6-8pm Book club.  Please stop by and pick up our fall reading list as we launch our seasonal book club. We'll be reading mostly non-fiction nature titles that contain local interest. 

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6:30 pm Eco-origami with recycled paper artist Alicia Colina-Ashby  $15.  Please call front desk to register. 214-309-5891

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12-Day Permaculture Class - Dallas

We welcome a 12-day Permaculture class from experienced Permaculture Design instructors Patricia Allison and Dick Pierce to our area. This is a hands-on, part lecture, part outside trips, part outside speaker experience that will change your life and your approach to sustainability and green living forever.

Patricia Allison is a founder of Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina and is coming from NC to teach the first 7 days of class.

Dick Pierce is a Permaculture instructor from Austin and will come up from Austin to teach the last 5 days of the course.

These two have teamed up to bring a Permaculture Design Certificate course to DFW over three long week-ends this fall. Oct 7-10, Oct 21-24, Nov 4-7.

Price of this 12-day course is $675. A deposit of $120 is due to hold your place in the class; the remainder is due the first day of class.

Ecovillage Community Overview - Dallas

Find out about an ecovillage starting outside of Rockwall that will be off-grid with solar electricity, solar hot water, rainwater harvesting, and graywater recycling--all designed to Permaculture principles and practices. Zero energy homes will be built to your design and size specifications. Grow all your own food organically and grow additional produce to sell if you wish. In other words, live sustainably in an intentional commuity. Everyone owns a home and crop area in his/her/their own name. Other land (community buildings, pond, workshop, barn, play areas, wooded area, etc.) is held in in the community's name. This free talk will cover all aspects of the village via Power Point and then allow ample time for your questions. 

For more information, email updates@digitex.net or call Terry at 972 251-1532 or 817 545-0140

Collin County Greenweavers Kickoff Meeting - Plano

Collin County Greenweavers is a meetup in Collin Country that is based on the wildly popular and successful DFW Greenweavers group.

Businesses that market to the "green" and sustainable marketplace are welcome to attend our monthly meetings.

We are dedicated solely to helping each other grow our businesses by trading referrals and leads and developing our skills for marketing and business growth.

Moving Planet "Flash Mob" - Dallas

It is obvious that the City of Dallas and its surrounding suburbs lack an efficient public transit system; transportation in Dallas is ineffective and impractical without the use of an automobile. Given the high number of commuters that travel in and out of the city every day, it is clear that Dallas must incorporate a better public transit system in order to become a more sustainable city.

On September 24, we, the residents of Dallas, will gather at the DART Rail Forest Lane station and sign a petition to government demanding better and more sustainable public transportation. We will ride the DART train towards the Shops at Park Lane plaza (in a "flash mob") and gather in the famous "350 formation" (http://earth.350.org/big-pictures/) so a photograph can be taken from a top story floor. From there, we will  ride on the DART rail to Texas Discovery Gardens (Fair Park), where the Dallas Green Festival will be held. At the park, we will host a speaker to communicate the importance of sustainable transportation.

Veggie Garden Grand Opening & Vegetarian Tabling- Richardson

Join Vegetarian Network of Dallas (VegNoD) in supporting the grand opening of Veggie Garden which includes the following:

  • Tabling:  Vegetarian Network of Dallas will table for animal advocacy and vegetarianism.    NOTE:  VegNoD needs volunteers for tabling.   Please email (contact info below) me if you will give any amount of time (even 30 minutes to 1 hour) to support our easy tabling effort for animal advocacy/vegetarianism during which you will meet and talk with interesting people
  • Animal Adoption: 
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