Earn CPE Credits while learning how to bring plants into your classroom and curriculum. Plants in your social studies lesson and botany in your math lessons will help your students appreciate the natural world while they learn. Appropriate for elementary educators. $15. Register online or at 214-428-7476 x343.
Learn how to install drip irrigation tubing from your faucet or how to convert an existing zone to drip. Drip irrigation is the most efficient irrigation method and essential to sustainable landscapes. Drip irrigation for foundation watering will also be covered. Presented by Patrick Dickinson, urban water program coordinator for the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Dallas. Free. Register: 972-874-6165 or FMPL@Flower-Mound.com.
Dr. Armendariz is a former SMU professor and EPA administrator and currently with the Sierra Club, as senior campaign representative for the Beyond Coal Campaign. Info: MortonIsis@aol.com.
Trammell S. Crow, who transformed Earth Day Dallas into the largest Earth Day celebration in the world, will talk about Earth Day Texas, its purpose, its importance and plans for the future. He supports various non-profit organizations that are active in family planning, education, the environment, community initiatives and political causes. All welcome. Info: Kirk Miller, 972-699-1687, KirkMiller@DallasSierraClub.org.
Author Joel Greenberg will bring the story of the passenger pigeon to life and speak about his new book, A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction. Greenberg has been a birder/naturalist for 45 years, and has shared his love and knowledge of nature and conservation by authoring three books, writing numerous articles, co-hosting a radio show, blogging on Birdzilla.com and lecturing widely. He has also written the first book on the species in more than 50 years. Joel uses his passion and humor in telling the poignant story of this species, which also includes the interesting human characters that populate the bird’s history. But this is not just about the past: What happened to the passenger pigeon is relevant to us and those who come after.
Sponsored by the Blackland Prairie Master Naturalists and Prairie & Timbers Audubon Society.
$10. Available beginning Aug. 4. Limited seating.
Screening of the award-winning documentary, which follows one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Free. Info: Karl at 817-451-1505 or administrator@firstjefferson.org.
Learn where our current sources of energy stand and what our energy future looks like in the U.S. Find out more about the pros and cons of those sources and what concerns that they pose to our air, water and the environment. Experts and academics from around the country and state will speak.
Topics include:
Geothermal, wind, solar, coal, natural gas, oil & tar sands, nuclear.
Info: Rita Beving, rita.beving@gmail.com.
Celebrate the life and death of the great legendarily terrible idea in the Bishop Arts District. A slow jazz funeral procession will begin on the patio at Oddfellows
Beth Schmitt, global manager for sustainability and recycling for Alcoa, will speak. $20/members, $15/members. Lunch included. RSVP by 6/19.
The city of Plano is hosting its inaugural Water-Wise Landscaping Tour this Saturday, June 7, from 9am-3pm.