Urban Sustainability

Event:  "No Impact Man " Documentary Film Screening
Date:  Friday, February 10, 2012
Time:  7:00 PM
Location:  Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, 901 Page Avenue, Fort Worth, TX
Contact:  tkb2101@columbia.edu or
http://www.westsideuu.org/misc/calendar.html

About the film:

"A guilty New York liberal decides to practice what he preaches for one year.  He turns off the electricity, stops making garbage, gives up TV, taxis and take-out, and becomes a walking, bicycling, composting, tree hugging, polar bear saving, local food-eating citizen, all while taking his baby daughter and caffeine-obsessed, television-addicted wife along with him."

For the trailer, see http://www.noimpactdoc.com

Organic gardening replenishes the resources as it makes use of them. An example is feeding depleted soil with composted plants, or planting legumes to add nitrogen to an area that had been planted with heavy feeder. The bigger picture involves working in cooperation with nature, viewing the garden as a small part of all the natural system. Now, combine that with companion planting and you have the perfect garden. Companion planting exists to benefit certain plants by giving them pest control, naturally without the need to use chemicals, and in some cases giving a higher crop yield. 

*Part of Irving’s Urban Farming Lecture Series 

Tuesday, March 20
6 to 7:30 p.m.
West Irving Library
4444 W. Rochelle Road

Speaker:   Julie Whitis, Certified Square Foot Gardening Instructor and Gardening Presenter

To register online click here.

For more information, call Corporate Communications at (972) 721-2533.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR FEB. 18 - Mark Winne to discuss state of U.S. community food systems, food policy and food security

Learn how a small, sunny space helps put fresh, organic food on your plate!

No Registration Required!

3rd Saturday of every month:

Christ United Methodist Church

3101 Coit Rd

Plano, TX 75093

9:00am-11:00am

Come visit us this Saturday! Drop off your electronic items, household, office, or personal. We recycle it all!

There is a $.15 per pound convenience fee for all recycled electronics & a disposal fee of $5.00 per CRT monitor and $10.00 per glass TV. 

These fees are pre-arranged and agreed to by the City Of Plano.

Feel free to call us if you have any questions 972-487-6800, or go to www.erecycler.net for a list of all accepted items.

Come visit us this Saturday! Drop off your electronic items, household, office, or personal. We recycle it all!

 There is a $.15 per pound convenience fee for all recycled electronics & a disposal fee of $5.00 per CRT monitor and $10.00 per glass TV. 

 These fees are pre-arranged and agreed to by the City Of Plano.

 Feel free to call us if you have any questions 972-487-6800, or go to www.erecycler.net for a list of all accepted items.

2nd Saturday of every month:

St. Andrew Methodist Church

5801 West Plano Parkway

Plano, TX 75093

9:00am-11:00am

1st Saturday of every month:

First United Methodist Church

3160 East spring Creek Parkway

Plano, TX 75074

9:00am-12:00pm

Come visit us this Saturday! Drop off your electronic items, household, office, or personal. We recycle it all!

There is a $.15 per pound convenience fee for all recycled electronics & a disposal fee of $5.00 per CRT monitor and $10.00 per glass TV. 

 These fees are pre-arranged and agreed to by the City Of Plano.

 Feel free to call us if you have any questions 972-487-6800, or go to www.erecycler.net for a list of all accepted items.

Is your yard suffering from the drought doldrums? Do you want to find out if you are watering wisely or irrigating irrationally? Come to this program to learn how to maintain a healthy yard with less cost, work, money, and water.  All participants will receive an efficient irrigation kit and a chance to win door prizes, including a personal landscape consultation valued at $150.

 Date: April 21st, 2012

Location: Environmental Education Center, 4116 W Plano Pwky, Plano, TX  75093

Time:

An affordable workshop for tree care professionals.

DOWNLOAD:    brochure

REGISTER:       online (see below)
                        mail - CTUFC, P.O. Box 69, Granbury, Texas 76048
QUESTIONS:    817.926.8203, cblevins@tfs.tamu.edu or 972.952.9242, mpace@tfs.tamu.edu

The Sixth Annual Oak Cliff Earth Day 2012 will take place, rain or shine, on Sunday, April 22, from noon to 5 PM at Lake Cliff Park in the Rose Demonstration Garden in north Oak Cliff.  The free, family and pet friendly event will feature a farm animal petting zoo, pooch parade aka the Mutt Strutt, dog and cat adoptions, low cost veterinarian services, art and handicrafts sales, entertainment through out the day, childrens’ activities, exhibits, food service, recycling, water conservation, pollution prevention, plant society,  and  garden club information booths.