STAR invites you to share your expertise and information at 

the 14th Annual Recycling & Sustainability Summit!

Click Here to Submit Your Abstract or Panel Discussion Proposal Today!

Abstract Deadline: May 27, 2011

The State of Texas Alliance for Recycling presents its 14th Annual Texas Recycling & Sustainability Summit with exhibitors, speakers, and more!  Details at www.recyclestar.org.

COST: members: $325, nonmembers: $425, one-day registration with meals: $175.

Come to this interesting, fun, informative, and free talk by noted Permaculture Instructor and Consultant, Dick Pierce. Permaculture is sustainable agriculture, organic gardening, and green building/living at its best. Dick has taught Permaculture Design Courses in Austin and Martha's Vineyard for many years and will introduce Permaculture from 7-8:30 pm. Come early (6 pm) for light snacks and to talk to various nonprofit groups that will have tables here: DFW Ecovillage, Transition Dallas, Dallas Cohousing, Slow Money, Feed Texas First, and several other nonprofits. REI, 972 490-5989, Guadalupe Peak room, 2nd floor, 4515 LBJ Fwy, Dallas, 75244, located between Midway and Welch on the north access road to I-635 between Guitar Center and Haverty's.

Hear about the air quality in North Texas and meet with agency, transit and corporate partners doing their share for cleaner air! Special guest speaker - Brian Tulloh, VP Public Affairs, TXU Energy.

Please join us for this free special lunch event.

RSVP at: http://april2011cleanairlunch.eventbrite.com

Space limited.

For more information contact Jennifer W Cohen at jennifer@workingforcleanair.org.

The North Texas Clean Air Coalition Let’s Do Lunch program is a monthly outreach event designed to educate employers about air quality issues including EPA standards, transit solutions, telecommuting and flex-time as well as designing energy conservation measures for their businesses and utilizing sustainable practices to reduce their impact on the environment. The NTCAC works in conjunction with the Founding Member Partners to provide information on clean air initiatives including facts and figures and what they mean for the region now and in the future.

Farm Skilling event in Mount Pleasant, Living from the Ground Up presented by the local community college for $75. Hear speakers on everything from funding to vegetable farming to starting a CSA to wine production. Brochure for more information. Must register by March 21 (by mail) for this event. 9 am - 5:30 pm, all-day event.

Learn how to generate or increase revenue with your small farm...

Living from the Ground Up is designed to provide those interested in producing income with their small acreage a chance to learn from area “veteran” producers already running small farms and sustainable agricultural operations through the sharing of their personal experiences.

Keynote speaker Howard Garrett, The Dirt Doctor, is a leader in the
natural organic marketplace and provides advice on natural organic
gardening, landscaping, pet health, pest control and natural living via a nationally-syndicated radio talk show and in his column, Organic Answers which appears in the Dallas Morning News.

Earth Day Dallas hopes to catalyze a "green" movement in North Texas by staging a two-day event on April 22nd and 23rd over several city blocks in the Dallas Arts District.  We anticipate 500 civic, corporate and non-profit participants engaged in an event that will be the biggest and best Earth Day celebration in this part of the United States.  Sponsors currently include:

    * The Environmental Protection Agency
    * D Magazine
    * The Nature Conservancy
    * Chevrolet
    * Dallas Independent School District
    * Half Price Books

This will be the seminal event in an ongoing movement to showcase green business and civic efforts that improve North Texas and the lives of North Texans.  Events will focus on entertaining, inspiring and educating attendees with various ways to think, work and live green by showcasing emerging green technology and providing eco-friendly activities. 

    * Up to 50,000 visitors in the downtown Arts District (accessible by DART).

DIY Gardener: Rainwater Harvesting
Thursday, March 10th, 7:00pm-8:30pm—Are you new to gardening or just looking for ways to be more successful in the garden? The Do-It-Yourself Gardener classes are a great introduction to the essentials of gardening. This class will cover rainwater harvesting.

Environmental Education Center (City Of Plano)
4116 W. Plano Parkway
Plano, TX 75093
Register online @planoparks.org, Class #118532
$5 for Plano residents, $9 for non-residents

For more information visit www.livegreeninplano.com or contact Erin Hoffer at
erinhof@plano.gov or (972)769-4228

More than 20 exhibitors and five presentations in each of the following four
tracks:
 
Sustainable Homes
Sustainable Landscapes and Agriculture
Sustainable Businesses
Sustainable Careers
 
We'll also have two keynote speakers:

Anna Clark, author of Green, American Style
Mabrie Jackson, president/CEO of the North Texas Commission
 
All of this is open to the public and there is no charge for attending. However, we
do request that people pre-register, if possible.
 

APRIL 28, 2011
10 A.M. – 8:30 P.M.
Presented by Eastfield College and

SO SAVE THE DATE
 
Oak Cliff Earth Day 2011
Sunday April 17, 2011
Noon to Five (12 - 5)
Lake Cliff Park
 
The registration forms are being put on the web site, so stay tuned.
The cost of the event remains the same: free for non profits; 25.00 for
businesses or for profit groups; 30.00 for food vendors.
If you have attended OCED in the past you should be pre approved, all new
vendors must complete a simple pre approval form before you can register.
Thanks
Roger Bolen, Co Chair
Oak CLiff Earth Day, 2011
www.oakcliffearthday.com <http://www.oakcliffearthday.com/> 

The Greater Fort Worth Real Estate Council to Host 2nd Winter Sustainability Summit
February 16, 2011
"Show Me the Money" Breakfast Offers Expert Panel on Financing and Funding Sustainable Development

The Greater Fort Worth Real Estate Council (GFWREC), a unified voice for the commercial real estate industry in the Fort Worth area, announced details today about the 2nd Winter Sustainability Summit to be held on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. The "Show Me the Money" breakfast roundtable summit will continue the GFWREC Sustainability Series that kicked off last spring, and it will be held at the TCU Cox Banquet Hall in the Dee J. Kelly Alumni and Visitors Center.