Issues

Seminars sponsored by Dallas Water Utilities Conservation, City of Dallas Stormwater Management, and Mountain View College.

Speaker: Landscape designer and author Bonnie Rees

Water-Wise Landscape Design 101

9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Whether you have a new landscape or plan to update an existing area, it is critical to begin with a good design. This program teaches the principles of landscape design with an emphasis on how to create a beautiful landscape that will save resources - natural and financial!

Fantastic Plants for North Texas

Volunteers remove non-native plants, restore trails, and work in the butterfly garden. Repairing trails reduces erosion trouble spots and removing non-native plants clears crowded trail edges. We'll provide snacks, water, pruning shears, shovels, and work gloves. All you need to bring is sun screen and bug repellent. Rain or shine.

Free screening of the film Wildflowers: Seeds of History.

Wildflowers is a trip through the legends, facts, and ecological impact behind Texas Wildflowers.  Discover what wildflowers are really doing, their historical use for food and medicine, and how they grow.

Produced by KLRU Austin, the film was shot in breath-taking high definition video in the stellar wildflower season of spring 2010.

Space is limited, so please call the Library at 972-874-6165 and RSVP for this event today.

Dallas Sierra Club September General Meeting:

TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL project is designed to carry unrefined tar sands oil 1700 miles from Alberta, Canada southward through several states including Texas to be refined and shipped from Port Arthur.  Tar sand crude threatens landowners and waterways throughout the US as it is highly corrosive and acidic compared to Texas crude.  Tar sands represent an unstable blend of bitumen (which looks like asphalt) which needs to be liquified with natural gas and other chemicals, which is then highly pressurized to travel through a single wall pipeline.

Currently, the US has NO guidelines for tar sands pipelines posing serious threats and damage to their communities and drinking water.  In Texas alone, the pipeline crosses rivers and streams more than 32 times. The U.S. State Department is now under tremendous pressure to grant the pipeline's permit. Learn more about how this pipeline puts US taxpayers at risk while allowing Canada and foreign buyers of oil all the reward.

Celebrating Life ~ Embracing Balance ~ Fostering Peace

Presented by Earth Rhythms

Free – donations accepted.

HOW COMMUNITREE CAME TO BE

See Website for Speaker Details.

We are your warm, friendly and inclusive catalysts for the Dallas eco-community. Let us help you plug into the local social network of eco-conscious folks. Everything is Bigger in Texas - our hospitality included.

Watch the 30-second video of our recent gathering. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a video is worth a million!!! Our 2010 Holiday Party.

AT OUR FUN AND FRIENDLY MONTHLY GATHERINGS, YOU WILL:

In honor of the construction of our Perot Museum of Nature & Science Expansion Project, the Museum of Nature & Science is celebrating with a weekend all about building! Test your construction skills with the American Society of Civil Engineers, learn about the latest green building technologies and visit our expansion gallery to see what we’ve been working on.  You’ll even get the chance to meet some of nature’s best builders!  So grab your hardhat for your chance to see what it takes to build the world we live in!

Activities

Build a Gumdrop Dome

Domes have been around for almost 2,000 years, but there are still new ways to build them. How strong can you make your dome? Presented by American Society of Civil Engineers.

Amazing Arches

The arch is an incredible architectural discovery, dating back to ancient times but still in wide use today. Learn all about arches and build your own at this interactive station.