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
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
Are you aware that North Central Texas is one of the largest residential water users in the world?
The national average residential water use is 69.3 gallons per capita, and the DFW area uses as
much as three times more.  By eliminating massive lawns and exotic plants from other continents
and replacing with native plants, we can conserve water, give Texas a sense of place; and equally
important, create biodiversity that protects our pollinators which is our food supply.
 
Gailon Hardin will explain why we need to use native plants and their benefits to our environment.
She is the past president of the Native Plant Society of Texas.
 
Free and Open to the Public.
 
From 6:30 to 7:00, you can enjoy snacks and refreshments as you wander among various issue booths to pick up information and talk with Sierra Club members and leaders.  The Dallas Sierra Club meets at the REI store on the west-bound LBJ/I-635 service road between Welch Road and Midway Road on the second Tuesday of every month.  The address is REI, 4515 Lyndon B Johnson Freeway, Dallas, TX 75244.  http://www.dallassierraclub.org/index.htm?c=home
 
Contact Kirk Miller,
 
 
Event Location: 
REI, 2nd Floor Guadalupe Peak Room
4515 LBJ Fwy
75244 Dallas , TX
Date and Time: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm