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The 2023 Last Minute Green Gift Guide offers a variety of eco-friendly, locally sourced gifts perfect for the holiday season. Highlights include Crazy Water experiences, Half Price Books finds, unique coffee and pastries, Texas craft beers, quality tools, and vegan treats—all easily accessible from local businesses.

The 2023 Green Gift Guide for Pets recommends eco-friendly gifts that prioritize sustainability and pet well-being. Suggestions include natural treats, durable toys, stylish beds, and innovative pet care products—all aimed at reducing environmental impact while delighting your furry companions.

The Amon Carter Museum exhibit "Trespassers: James Prosek & the Texas Prairie" highlights endangered Texas prairies through immersive, exquisitely detailed art. Watercolors, sculptures, and multimedia works illustrate prairie fragmentation and wildlife displacement, stirring awareness of this vital ecosystem's plight.

The 2023 Green Gift Guide for Kids highlights eco-friendly gift ideas, including a Made in Texas onesie, bird workshops, gardening kits, and STEM toys. The guide features unique offerings like Lump of Coal products, dragon playsets, and recycled material toys, promoting sustainability and creativity for young eco-conscious gift recipients.

The 2023 Green Gift Guide features eco-friendly gifts such as Farmer’s Defense sleeves, reMarkable 2 tablets, organic fruit baskets from Harry and David, and Lomi composters. It highlights sustainable products like Confetti Snacks, Crystal deodorant, and Susan’s Own CBD products, promoting gifts that align with environmental and health-conscious living.

The EarthX Film and Music Festival, now in its seventh year, is rebranded to include films, music, and immersive experiences. Taking place in Oak Cliff, Dallas on Oct. 20-22, the three-day event aims to inspire environmental activism and community engagement through films, performances, and educational discussions.

The Irving home of Bill Byrom, part of the National Solar Tour, features groundbreaking urban sustainability innovations, including a 14.4 kW DC solar system, geothermal HVAC, rainwater collection, and zero-energy design.

The text provides eco-friendly ideas for fall gatherings, emphasizing the use of paperless invitations, sustainable decorations, and reusable or compostable dinnerware. It suggests natural party venues and green games, encourages meatless dining, and highlights local, eco-conscious products.

Four 60-year-old live oaks were relocated to an Addison park by AMLI, a developer building a mixed-use community aiming for LEED Silver certification. Environmental Design executed the move using ArborLift technology to preserve the trees, part of a sustainability effort that includes planting 350 new trees.

On a hot day at Sheri Capehart Nature Preserve in Arlington, dragonflies performed acrobatics, highlighting their role as natural pest control, consuming hundreds of mosquitos daily. Despite being resilient, habitat destruction, climate change, and pollutants threaten their survival, emphasizing the need for wetland preservation.