Aug. 27, 2014
By Minnie Payne
Behind the scenes at the Dallas County Community College District, there’s a Sustainability Team pushing students and staff to new heights of sustainability.
• Last year, the U.S. Forest Service locked the gate to significant areas of Lake Fannin Park, a wilderness gem on the Red River
• As a result, volunteers who restored the historic park have been unable to continue.
• Efforts are underway to transfer the land to county control.
Dallas activist leader and Green Source DFW Sustainable Leadership Award winner Rita Beving speaks outside a Texas Water Development Board hearing in Arlington in May against the proposed Marvin Nichols Reservoir. Photo courtesy of Texas Green Report.
July 29, 2014
Full-time eco-activist Scott Parkin has worn many hats in the environmental movement. Currently he works for the Rainforest Action Network in San Francisco. Photo courtesy of Wildplaces.Net.
July 23, 2014
Scott Parkin wants you to raise a ruckus. Maybe even break a few laws.
Zac Trahan, director of Texas Campaign for the Environment's Dallas office, explains to the Dallas City Council in January why the city needs to ditch plastic bags. Bag makers behind him sport "No Bag Ban" shirts. Courtesy of the Dallas Morning News.
North Texas residents can order 50-gallon rain barrels for $75 each until Sept 7 through the Botanical Research Institute of Texas in Fort Worth. Above, colorful rain barrels at the Common Grounds Community Garden in North Richland Hills. Photo by Karl Thibodeaux.
June 23, 2014
Above, DFW Citizens' Climate Lobby activists Swetha Kannan and Shawn Reeder along with Ricky Bradley of Houston will be among 500 CCL volunteers talking with Congress members and staff on June 24 to propose a carbon tax on the fossil fuel industry.
June 23, 2014
The Greater DFW Recycling Alliance and the North Texas Corporate Recycling Association are accepting nominations for the inaugural North Texas Recycling Awards until June 30.
June 10, 2014
By Julie Thibodeaux
Alexandria Beck has accepted a summer internship at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, DC, a nonprofit organization that promotes a vegan diet and alternatives to animal research.
Left, Beck with family pet chicken.
Photo courtesy of Alexandria Beck.
May 20, 2014
