Here's 8 green gift ideas for kids
Teach your children how to care for the planet by giving them gifts with an eco-friendly twist.
This is the third in a five-part series, making up our 2025 Green Gift Guide by Andrea Ridout.
Around the State
Texas-made gifts make sustainable stocking stuffers
Andrea Ridout has gathered some carefully crafted products thoughtfully made by Texans in Texas.
This is the second in a five-part series comprising our 2025 Green Gift Guide.
Symposium to inspire Texans to rewild historic cemeteries
The Constellation of Living Memorials’ inaugural symposium is set for Dec. 2 in Dallas. The Dallas-based nonprofit hopes to encourage thought leaders across the state to transform forgotten historic cemeteries into beautiful native landscapes and places of respite.
Central Texas farm grows fresh produce while helping the disabled
GrowOn at AGFarm in Bryan, Texas, started by Sharon Wells in 2013, grows fresh produce using aquaponics while empowering individuals with disabilities through volunteer work. The farm, operating sustainably without synthetic chemicals, sells produce directly and trains volunteers in various skills to foster mental and physical growth.
Self-taught botanist launches crowdfunding campaign to commercialize rare Texas plants
The GoFundMe project launched by Fort Worth Master Naturalist Jeff Quayle this summer aims to expand native plant selection in the nursery trade.
Texas trail building school teaches the art of pathfinding
A program of Greenspace Dallas, the Lone Star Trail Building School is a two-day course held bi-annually at a Texas nature preserve.
Participants learn all aspects of trail building, including design concepts, corridor flagging and construction.
The fall session will be held Nov. 8-9 in Buescher State Park in Smithville, Texas.
As Endangered Species Act is weakened, shared values are key to reviving it
The Houston toad is an endangered species that is – or was – found from Harris County to Bastrop and a few nearby counties
Welcome to Green Source Texas!
Green Source DFW officially relaunched this week as Green Source Texas with expanded statewide coverage.
Fire on the Rim: Texas author reflects on summer’s natural disasters
Green Source Texas director Wendel Withrow reflects on the historic Grand Canyon Lodge, which burned the same month as the deadly Central Texas flood.
Texas nonprofit advocates for threatened turtles
Texas Turtles is devoted to the conservation and study of Texas turtles through research, the study of turtles in the wild and outreach education. The group was started by a former herpetologist at the University of Texas at Arlington.