This year, ocean health will be a focus of the festival with keynote speaker oceanographer and environmentalist Sylvia Earth, along with exhibits, film screenings and a dive pool from Go Dive Now.
April 19, 2017
Starting Friday, Earth Day Texas will once again descend on Dallas with a few things you'll remember from past years and a number of things new as well. Here is a snapshot:
Former Dallas resident B.A. Norrgard Breen will be leading a workshop on tiny houses on April 21 and 22 at Earth Day Texas in Dallas. Courtesy of EDTX.
April 17, 2017
Maranda Haschke of Decatur brought her prize-winning Belgian d'Uccle rooster, Billy, to compete at the North Texas Poultry Showcase at Fair Park in Dallas on April 8. Photos by Andrea Ridout.
April 17, 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.
In 2016, Wild Rescue rehabbed over a thousand cottontails. Photos courtesy of Wild Rescue unless otherwise noted.
April 11, 2017
When it rains, it pours… bunnies. Spring deluges wash young cottontails out of their nests. Often found suffering from hyperthermia or gravely battered, they must be rushed to treatment if to survive, then raised to adulthood and released.
Jason offers some water saving tips for washing your car. Remember to use eco-friendly soap!!