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City of Irving: The Edible Landscape - Irving

Why water and mow what you can’t eat? Using areas in your landscape to grow edibles is a way to add food on your table and reduce your grocery bill. This program teaches you how to incorporate edible plants into your home garden and landscape. You will learn how herbs, fruits and vegetables can add to the colors and textures of your permanent landscape combining both aesthetics and functionality.

Free. Register on website. Info: fwitte@cityofirving.org 

City of Irving: Fall to Spring Gardening - Irving

Learn about fall to early spring gardening chores, including soil preparation, weed control, pruning, fertilization and more. This class also includes instructions and recommendations for winter-to-spring vegetable gardening in North Texas. 

Speaker: Brad Sandy, Dallas County Master Gardener since 2003, has been a business consultant, with most people referring to him as a “coach.” Sandy discovered the art of taking care of a garden when, many years ago, he took over the care of his church’s overgrown garden. He found that learning to garden is as tough as any project in business. What the garden teaches is to enjoy and relax, and to enjoy the outcome whatever it may be.

Free. Register on website.

City of Arlington: Grease for Greens Cooking Oil Collection - Arlington

Frying a turkey on Thanksgiving and wondering how to turn your used cooking oil into free golf? Store your used cooking oil in a sealed plastic container like a bottle and bring it to Tierra Verde Golf Course on Saturday, Dec. 6,  from 8 a.m.-noon. We will use your used cooking oil to create biodiesel to fuel the lawnmowers at Tierra Verde Golf Course, and we will raffle off free rounds of golf for participants. For more information, visit http://ceasethegreasentx.com/roundup.asp.

City of Fort Worth: Rethinking Waste: Towards a Greener Fort Worth Open House - Fort Worth

The city of Fort Worth is undertaking one of the largest green initiatives yet with the development of a comprehensive solid waste management plan. 

The plan will serve as a blueprint for how waste is handled and managed in Cowtown for the next 20 years. The previous plan – created in 1995 – addressed a number of issues, including ensuring adequate landfill space. This time around, the city is looking to involve all residents of Fort Worth to answer tougher questions:

• What is waste, and what part of waste is a resource?

• Which resources can we recapture for value, and what’s the best way to do that?

• What behaviors are Fort Worth residents and businesses willing to adopt to make a greener city?

 

Just the facts

Fort Worth is growing

• It’s grown by 50 percent over the last 20 years.

Arlington, Texas - Proud to Call it Home: Tiny Homes & Micro Apartments - Arlington

Are you interested in creating sustainable homes to spark redevelopment in our neighborhoods? Would you be interested in living, designing and building micro apartments, tiny homes and their eco-system? Passionate about solar power, organic gardening and sustainable landscaping? If you answered yes to any of the above, please join us to see how you could get involved in our work redeveloping neighborhoods in Arlington, Texas. Nuts and Bolts Hardware is located at the corner of S. Collins and Arkansas Ln.

City of North Richland Hills: Public Hearing on Solar Ordinance - North Richland Hills

The city of North Richland Hills Planning and Zoning Commission is hearing public comments in regard to the city's plan to update the solar ordinance. 

Solar advocates are encouraged to attend and show up early around 6 p.m. to ensure they get a time to speak.

Solar advocate info: Dan Lepinski, dan@ntree.org

City info: John Pitstick, jpitstick@nrhtx.com

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