Next meeting: Monday, April 9,
Potluck at 6:30 pm
Meeting at 7:00 pm

Location: 9511 FAIRCREST DR,
 Dallas 75238
 
The mission of the Nuclear Free World Committee is to educate and advocate for a nuclear free world in our lifetime and change the culture that supports and sustains nuclear technologies.

Registration required. For fun facts on the cowtown cleanup as well as to register visit the link below -

http://fortworthtexas.gov/applications/cowtowncleanup/ 

 
We can only benefit by understanding better the available routes to clean energy. PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THE DATE CHANGE!!!!

Casey will be sharing with our group not only how Solar systems work, how to price them, how to size them, but will also talk to us about his company and how they are trying to make it affordable for regular folks to get them installed.

We are looking forward to meeting you and helping you find new markets, or customers and expanding your knowledge (and being expanded by you as well!). 

Don't forget to contact Jon early if you would like to order lunch from The Texas Harvest Pie Company!

RSVP for this event by going to the website below:

Photovolatics in the 21st Century

Jim Duncan, owner of North Texas Renewable Energy, Inc., will be able to give you the latest information and answer your questions. Check the website www.arlingtonconservationcouncil.org for the announcement.

Fort Worth Prairie Fest is the annual fundraiser for Friends of Tandy Hills Natural Area. Learn more about how funds are plowed back into Tandy Hills HERE.

Prairie Fest grew from a small neighborhood event in 2006 to become the “Best Outdoor Cultural Event in 2010”, according to the Fort Worth Weekly. By 2011, Prairie Fest had attracted hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of visitors to Tandy Hills.

For 2012, Prairie Fest has been re-imagined and re-focused back to discovery and enjoyment of Tandy Hills, itself. Instead of a single event, there will be three festivals throughout the Spring on the last Saturdays of March, April and May. Event hours will be from 4 PM - Dusk.

http://tandyhills.org/fest

When: Saturday, March 10, 2012
Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon
Topic: "FIELD TRIP! Want to See How Solar Panels are Made?"
Hosted By: 1SolTech, 1920 Diplomat Drive, Farmers Branch, Texas

1SolTech is a leading US manufacturer of quality, cost-effective solar solutions.

The March 2012 meeting of the North Texas Renewable Energy Group will be a tour of the facilities of 1SolTech, manufacturer of solar electric panels. We will not meet at REI on IH635 in Dallas this month only. 

Instead, here is a map. Please go directly to 1SolTech. They are located east of the President George Bush Turnpike, and north of I-635 near Luna Road and Valley View Lane.

Who: Dallas County Community College District 
What: 2012 Sustainability Summit
When: Thursday, April 5 from 10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Where: Eastfield College, 3737 Motley Drive, Mesquite, Texas 75150

Hold On to Your Hats Eco Amigos....

The year is going to start off with a bang.....including a new environmental hazard which is imminently threatening our backyard (you have to come to find out about it).

Catch the scoop of what it is and how fast it is coming by joining me at Picasso's off Forest and Inwood (across from Jesuit's soccer fields) in Dallas this Thursday night at 6:30.

Smitty and I will be hot off an DMNews ed board meeting to expose this new threat to DFW's water and air quality....and we need your help.

When you get there, we'll also let you know what is going on with the Keystone Pipeline (it's still not over despite the President's decision), gas drilling, the Exide plant, and more.

Thanks and PLEASE forward to friends/places that can announce this meeting.

Rita Beving, Public Citizen organizer & Sierra Club member

Dallas Sierra Club General Meeting Tuesday, January 10

We have two great programs for you at our January General Meeting.  Our first program is a short presentation about the controversial subject of climate engineering.  Our main program will look at native plants of North Texas.

Climate Engineering
Geoengineering, also called climate engineering, is the term used to describe activities designed to intentionally alter the earth's natural environment to counteract the effects of climate change.  Almost everyone agrees that use of geoengineering methods would be very risky and quite likely to have significant unintended consequences.  Should research be undertaken?  Is geoengineering the Plan B in the event that current efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are unsuccessful?  Sierra Club member Paul Heller will discuss this controversial subject.  Paul Heller was trained as an electrical engineer at Purdue with an MBA from Wharton.

Native Plants of North Texas

Monthly Meeting of the Dallas Sierra Club

January's Topics:

Climate Engineering
Geoengineering, also called climate engineering, is the term used to describe activities designed to

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