Expo presented by the city of Bedford featuring vendors and exhibitors from energy-saving retailers and renewable energy providers, along with natural gas and other alternatives. Free. 

Free three-day event featuring screenings at six venues with almost 40 documentaries and children’s films. Films focus on issues such as food, water, natural resources and people making a difference.
For a complete listing of films, locations, times and film summaries, visit website.
Contact: Fran Witte at fwitte@cityofirving.org.

Learn about Southlake Green Fest to be held April 6 from one of its organizers.

This documentary film by Ben Evans and Mark Dixon follows three young friends as they take a year-long environmental road trip across all 50 United States, tackling peak oil, eco-vehicles, sustainable farming, wind energy, piles of garbage and a category they call, simply, “the weird.” Part of SMU's Sustainability Film Festival. Free. 214-768-7654. CobbK@SMU.eduwww.yert.com

Presented by the Sustainability Forum of the Dallas Institute's Center for the City. Featuring Thomaas Homer-Dixon, energy expert, and Eric Klinenberg, authority on cities, culture and politics. $30/members, $45/nonmembers, $10/teachers. DallasInstitute.org

Green Source DFW and the Memnosyne Foundation hosts our second annual award ceremony for outstanding volunteers, nonprofits, business leaders and entrepreneurs in the North Texas environmental community. Details to be announced.

Networking and educational group for advocates and professionals interested in sustainability. The meeting is cancelled for February.

Free one-day event. Choose from among five tracks of sessions: 1) Healthy Living; 2) Urban Agriculture; 3) Resource and Energy Efficiency; 4) Smart Cities; 5) Green Careers and Jobs. Keynote speaker: Joel Salatin, a third-generation alternative farmer whose family's farm, Polyface, Inc. has been featured in Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, Gourmet and in radio, television and print media. Exhibitors will also be on hand to share their green products and services.

Dr. Wes Jackson of The Land Institue to speak. Part of BRIT's lecture series “Reimagining American Landscapes.”

One of the largest Earth Day celebrations in the U.S., this annual free two-day festival showcases green vendors and organizations. Hours from 10 am to 6 pm. Parking is $10.

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