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Texas Conservation Alliance Annual Meeting - Dallas

Join us for the 2011 Texas Conservation Alliance
Annual Meeting Saturday, September 24, at the
Trinity River Audubon Center in Dallas.  

David Marquis will perform an excerpt from his acclaimed play, The Land.  We'll also celebrate the Conservation Hero of the Year and discuss cool new conservation initiatives.

Before the annual meeting, Bobette Brasfield,
coordinator of Smarter Water for North Texas,
will teach a session in how to give the Smarter
Water program to interested groups.

Annual Meeting Schedule:

11:30 - 1:45  Training Session Smarter Water
      Sandwich Lunch Provided
      Bobette Brasfield
 
 2:00 - 4:00 Annual Meeting
     Featured Speaker TBD
     Election of Board Members
     Other Big Fun 

Dallas Green Festival - Dallas

Dallas Green Festival at Texas Discovery Gardens and the inaugural Texas Discovery Gardens Green Exhibit at State Fair of Texas®!

Texas Discovery Gardens is once again hosting the Dallas Green Festival, a celebration of environmentally positive living! And this year we're extending it into the first ever Texas Discovery Gardens Green Exhibit at the 2011 State Fair of Texas®!

That's over a month of environmental seeing, learning and doing!

These two fantastic events in one will feature activities and demonstrations on:

Product Stewardship Strategies for Local Governments Conference - Webinar

 Seattle Public Utilities, the Northwest Product Stewardship Council, and U.S. EPA Region 10 are hosting a day-long conference to look at how local and state governments can use product stewardship strategies to reduce waste and increase recycling. The conference will provide an overview of product stewardship policies and regulations currently in use in the U.S. and Canada and will provide examples of local and state product stewardship programs, describing how they were developed and funded.
The conference will feature presentations by experts with hands-on experience in developing and managing product stewardship programs at the local government level. Each presentation will be followed by discussions and Q&A sessions led by Puget Sound area policymakers. In-person attendance is by invitation only – please contact Dick Lilly at Seattle Public Utilities (dick.lilly@seattle.gov).

Build an Aquaponic Garden Unit - Dallas

I recently installed a 500 gallon, 80 sq ft super-efficient aquaponic unit at Paul Quinn College (pics to be posted soon). This Meetup will be used to go over the design and construction of that unit, with hands-on training on the various steps in building it out. The same basic design (with minor changes) can be built using one, two, three or four totes depending on the size unit you wish to build, your energy budget, etc. These designs will be discussed and the differences will be explained in full. The unit at Paul Quinn utilizes four 275 gallon IBC totes, and has four gravel grow beds and two raft sections. The unit is simple enough to be built in a day using readily available, low cost components.

Greenweavers Networking Meetup - Keller

“It's good for businesses, consumers, neighborhood, and our environment.”

This meeting's speaker will be Jackie Peal, Master Gardener from Calloway's nursery, and will be speaking on the topics of landscaping with native species and the organic/natural fertilizers. Come out to meet one of the most influential residential landscape design companies, learn something new and meet other folks in the Sustainable culture that can help your business to grow!

Free.

Greenweavers Networking Meetup - Dallas

“DFW Greenweavers is a power group of local, sustainable businesses that have been operating in the Metroplex as experts in their given Green fields.”

We will be following our synergizing format that we did last time. When people arrive you will be broken into three groups:

1) Home and Buildings 

2) Food and Gardening

3) Health and Lifestyle 

The first part of the meeting will be spent socializing with the people in your industry. There has been a great response from people spending time with others that are in their given fields.

After that you will draw a business card from the hat. You will then have a 5 minute 1-1 with that person and you will be giving their 30 second commercial! This was a HUGE success last time. Lots of FUN!

Each meeting will be sponsored by a different business every month. The sponsor will have 10 minutes to talk to the group about what they do. There will be several other perks that go along with sponsorship. The sponsor is paying the $75 room fee so that we can have our own private room that's quiet. Finally!

Water Quality Standards as the core of the Clean Water Act - Dallas

Learn about water quality issues at a series of three Sunday presentations at Unity of Dallas, 10:00 to 10:45 on July 3, 10 and 17. The speaker will be Michael Bira, water quality expert with the US EPA.

Topics:
- July 3: Fundamental aspects of pollution, and why it is harmful
- July 10: Water Quality Standards as the core of the Clean Water Act
- July 17: Plastics in the environment and their worldwide impacts


All classes are free and open to the public. Location is 6525 Forest Lane in Dallas, upstairs in the Adult Classroom.


Michael Bira is an Environmental Scientist for the Water Quality Protection Division of the US EPA Region 6 in Dallas. He coordinates the Clean Lakes Program, works on nonpoint source water pollution, and does water quality outreach. He has Marine Biology and Chemistry degrees from University of Tampa and an MS in Aquatic Biology/Limnology from Southwest Texas State University.

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