Urban Sustainability

Artist Ken O’Toole's appearance is part of Mountain View College's Sustainability Speaker Series. O'Toole is an experimental artist working in various media. His works include “Cultural Ghosts,” a monograph of photos exploring the unintended beauty of refuse on our nations highways and “Quintina,” which is constructed of hundreds of pieces of recycled cardboard, reclaimed from discarded pizza boxes, soda pop cartons, and frozen TV dinner boxes.

11 a.m.: Tour begins at Scrap Denton for registration, networking and browsing the facility.
11:30 a.m.: Lunch at Banter Bistro of Denton (219 W. Oak St, Denton) sponsored by CDM Smith, along with two presentations. Order at the bar and identify yourself with the WE event.

Presentions by:
1. Amanda Austin, co-founder and Director of Cardos Farm Project
2. Katherine Barnett, city of Denton's Sustainability Plan

1 p.m.:  Tour of the Querencia Community Bike Shop (219 W. Oak St., Denton)    

Free to current members. Non-members can join on the WE website or pay cash/check for membership at the door. Info: www.womenintheenvironment.org.

Register by Feb. 26 at 5 p.m. at the link below:

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mastering-the-3-rs-reduce-reuse-recycle-registration-10423201075

Dr. Ed Gilman discusses proper pruning techniques and “Replanting The Urban Forest."

Steve Huddleston and Kathleen Cook, of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, will lead participants in a swale tour and discussion of parking lot plantings as well as an optional tour of the Japanese Garden.

CEUs will be offered for ISA Certified Arborists, Society of American Foresters, Texas Nursery and Landscape Association TCNP,TCMNP, and TCLP, and Texas Department of Agriculture licensed pesticide applicators.

Registration includes snacks and lunch. $85/in advance, $100/at event. $35/students.

Whether it is strategic marketing or public relations, conveying a message to customers and constituents has become a complex endeavor. This course demonstrates how to reach your target audience using sustainable strategies, as well as how to purposefully disseminate information about sustainability. Sign up today to increase your knowledge in:

Marketing Myopia / Greenwashing / Marketing Innovation / Social Media and Creating a Conversation / Engagement (Case Studies). 

$75.

UNTHSC is converting an unused piece of land into the campus' first community garden. You can help establish the garden on Feb. 15 by building the plots, regardless of whether you plan to get a plot of your own.

Build Day will be a group work-and-fun event. With guidance from experts, we'll build frames, fill them with soil, mulch pathways and share gardening wisdom. Weather permitting, if you've registered for a plot in the garden, you also could start your cold-season crop.

We especially need people with carpentry skills, but all hands will be appreciated.

At the site, a light breakfast will be provided as well as a Garden Ergonomics info session by Mike Richardson, PT, DPT, Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy. You'll also receive a goodie bag with small gifts.

An information/orientation session will be at 12 noon Tuesday, Feb. 11 in Everett 524. All who are interested in the garden - Build Day volunteers, plot registrants and "undecideds" - are urged to attend. You may bring your lunch.

Take a plant walk all over the land to gather the specific wild edibles of late winter in North Texas. You will learn about them and be able to taste them as we go.

Wear comfortable walking shoes or boots (the farm may be muddy if it rains). Bring a canvas bag to collect edibles, your own bowl and utensils to enjoy a wild green salad we will create from our bounty and a camera if you'd like to photo the edibles we discover.

$30. Children 8 and under/free. We are also open to partial or full barters (contact us for details). Ask about family pricing.

In this 80-minute DVD, Geoff Lawton takes viewers from the basic concept of a natural forest all the way through year seven of an actual food forest. He teaches the interactions of form, pattern, design and function to grow a do-it-yourself food forest in his best DVD. 

You can have a forest garden, regardless of the size of your land, using minimum efforts to establish and maintain it, which is the hallmark of permaculture.

Free.

The only thing Molly likes more that chocolate cake is to see a gigantic pile of privet, so let's give her her wish. You may come and go, work or goof off; you decide. Lunch and cake at Mijo's at 12:30 pm. 

What to Bring - If you have loppers, bring them. What to Wear - Long sleeves and pants, gloves, hat and a smile.

The event will feature green vendors, entertainment, raffle and prizes. Learn ways to invest in a sustainable future, improve daily living and save money by going green. K thru 6 graders can bring juice pouches for a chance to win an Apple iPad.

Free. info@texasgreenfest.com

Feb. 2 is known in the U.S. as Groundhog Day. Well, the FWNC does not have Puxsatawney Phil or General Beauregard, but they have prairie dogs and they are declaring it Prairie Dog Day at the Nature Center. Learn about these social animals. Hike through their habitat and learn about the prairie and visit with the dogs of the Prairie. Free with paid admission ($3-$5).