Let Joppa Breath is a celebration of a recent environmental victory and a fundraiser for an air monitoring program in the southern Dallas community. Photo courtesy of Downwinders at Risk.
May 16, 2018
Now in its 8th year, the three-day environmental expo also features five days of conferences and a 10-day film festival.
April 18, 2018
EarthX changed its name last year from Earth Day Texas to reflect its ambitions to grow. This year, event-goers will experience that growth as the three-day festival now is held in conjunction with a five-day group of conferences and 10-day film festival.
The Dallas City Council hears the case for more heavy industry in a historic community today.
[Update: 3:30 p.m. Dallas City Council rejected concrete batch plants 9-5.]
March 28, 2018
Dallas-Fort Worth has poor air quality that keeps more kids off the playground and sends more respiratory patients to the hospital per capita than most U.S. urban centers, as local, federal and health association studies of recent years show. But in some neighborhoods, where heavy industry is placed out of view to most, the air is much, much worse.
UTA's Institute for Sustainability and Global Impact invites sustainability stakeholders to meet March 1 to create a Regional Center of Expertise. Courtesy of Storyblock.
Feb. 19, 2018
Environmental entities abound in North Texas and UTA’s sustainability director wants to unite them to boost their regional impact.
Dallas and Fort Worth are among 12 Texas cities that have signed the Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement. Above, City of Dallas Environmental Quality Department at a recent Clean Air Action Day. Courtesy of Green Dallas Facebook page.
Feb. 9, 2018