World Wear Project of Dallas is one of the companies that will be featured at the third annual Degrees of Recycling Conference hosted by UTA and NTCRA on May 18. Courtesy of World Wear Project.
May 17, 2017
Jennifer Stuart debuted her rolling eco-friendly classes at the Twelve Hills Nature Center in April. Photo by Stacey Potter Jemison. Additional photos by Andrea Ridout.
May 15, 2017
Jennifer Stuart is using a repurposed bus to introduce kids to a world she says a growing number of children are unfamiliar with – the outdoors.
Students test irradiance outside the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center in Dallas. The class was participating in Good Faith Impact's solar installation training held last month. Photos courtesy of Good Faith Impact.
May 1, 2017
Students planted seeds in an aquaponics lab in January and harvested the organic lettuce last month. Photos courtesy of Lancaster Middle School.
April 11, 2017
LANCASTER – Elsie Robertson Lancaster Middle School STEM students dined on food they grew in the classroom at their Lettuce Harvesting Luncheon in March. The organic produce was grown using aquaponics; a skill that combines STEM disciplines – science, technology, engineering and math – and farming in order to raise fish and grow fresh produce without soil.
Vanessa Barker, left, and Taylor Willis created the Welman Project to repurpose material and help underfunded schools.
March 29, 2017
Surplus material from offices and events that would have gone to a landfill is being repurposed into much-needed classrooms materials, thanks to a new Fort Worth nonprofit.
Brite Divinity School's annual conference on Feb. 20-23 is free and open to the public.
Feb. 3, 2017
For the first time since the event’s founding in 1888, Brite Divinity School’s annual Ministers Week will focus entirely on environmental themes.
The event to be held Feb. 20-23 on TCU campus is a partnership between Brite Divinity School, TCU and University Christian Church. The presentations are free and open to the public.
The Alpha Zeta Eta Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society at North Lake College has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for improvements to its 8-year-old community garden. Donation deadline is Jan. 31. Photos courtesy of North Lake College.
Jan. 16, 2017
