Environmental attorney, author and Dallas Sierra Club president Wendel Withrow wears a lot of hats in the DFW green community but says his first foray into living green was when he began reading the works of Edward Abbey in 1989.
Memnosyne Institute presented the second annual “Green Source DFW Environmental Leadership Awards” at an evening reception on March 19 at Sean Fitzgerald Photography Inc. in Deep Ellum Dallas, TX 75226. Over 100 people from environmental groups, businesses, colleges and universities, garden enthusiasts and just interested individuals were at the event.
The Memnosyne Institute’s Interfaith Service Network focuses on collaborative community service and interfaith dialogue. Its Hunger Task Force is in the food sharing and saving business, providing food to needy people in the DFW area.
Hundreds of people from all over the country converged on Dallas for the Frack Attack Summit, March 2-3. There were people from Philadelphia to San Francisco, and from Wyoming to Texas. Their common interest was the effect of hydraulic fracturing for gas on the environment: water, air, health, community.
By Brandolon Barnett 
New wheels in Cowtown • Austin-based nonprofit seeks DFW volunteers for home energy app By Julie Thibodeaux
