Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Circle Grill (3701 N. Buckner Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 75228)
Cost: FREE
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Trinity River Audubon Center (6500 South Loop 12, Dallas, Texas, 75217)
Website: http://www.trinityriveraudubon.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Explore_SpecialEvents
Phone: (214) 398-TRAC
Cost: FREE
Admission to Trinity River Audubon Center is FREE on the Third Thursday of every month! Nature’s beauty shines when the sun goes down. Join astronomers from the University of Texas at Arlington for a seminar on the night sky, then practice your stargazing using a variety of telescopes on the elevated deck overlooking our wetland ponds from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to enjoy nature crafts, animal encounters, and guided hikes on over 4 miles of accessible trails.
Join us for guided hikes throughout the day. Bring your lunch, and enjoy our shady new riverbend picnic site, overlooking the Trinity River. Evening activities include night hikes, kids’ crafts, and amphibian watch. Starting at 7:30 p.m., we’ll participate in “Swifts’ Night Out,” where we monitor our chimney swift tower.
Explore the amazing resources of the 6,000-acre Great Trinity Forest. As the largest urban hardwood forest in the United States, this forest supports a diverse community of plant and animal species and contains a unique mixture of bottomland hardwoods, wetlands and grasslands.
The Trinity River Audubon Center, located eight minutes from downtown Dallas on 120 acres, opened October 2008 and is part of the City of Dallas-Trinity River Corridor Project. The land, formerly an illegal dump site, has been reclaimed by the City of Dallas and beautifully demonstrates how a municipal liability can be transformed into a major asset for people of all ages to enjoy.
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: L. E. R. Schimelpfenig Library (5024 Custer Road, Plano, Texas, 75023)
Website: http://www.wfaa.com/projectgreen/calendar/
Phone: (972) 769-4200
Cost: FREE
Please contact the Schimelpfenig Library for more details.
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Starbucks (3216 Knox Street, Dallas, Texas, 75205)
Cost: FREE
Anyone is welcome to attend this meeting, even non-members who are interested in joining EGB.
Emerging Green Builders are young professionals 5 years or less out of school, dedicated to becoming and recruiting the future leaders of the green building movement. Our mission is to create a network of emerging green building leaders and to develop opportunities for involvement through the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC ) North Texas Chapter to further generate momentum for the green building industry. Our vision is to integrate young professionals into the green building movement in North Texas.
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Location: Mustang Park Recreation Center (2223 Kinwest Parkway, Irving, Texas)
Website: http://www.txses.org/NTREG/events.htm
Cost: FREE
Presenters: Chris Miles and William Peck
In response to numerous questions about green building, residential renewable energy, and energy efficiency, our November program focuses on the U.S. Department of Energy’s “Building America” program, and is highlighted by a field trip to see the “Timber Creek Zero Energy Home”. We’ll meet at the Mustang Park Recreation Center at 10:00 a.m. (as usual), have a very brief meeting for announcements, then carpool to the Timber Creek Home. Builder Chris Miles and architect William Peck will meet with NTREG attendees for an overview of the Net-Zero Energy Home project, and will provide a guided tour of the house.
The NTREG Executive Committee will meet at the Recreation Center at 9:00 a.m. (before the general meeting). All NTREG participants are welcome to attend.
Our November meeting is part of NTREG’s ongoing series of member-driven presentations, where at each meeting, attendees select topics for future meetings.
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: North Central Texas Council of Governments (616 Six Flags Drive, Arlington, Texas, 76011)
Website: http://www.nctcog.org/trans/clean/cities/H2Flier.pdf
Cost: FREE. Lunch included.
Registration: Please email h2101@harc.edu to register for this event. Please include your contact information.
Texas produces more hydrogen than any other state, enough to fuel over two million cars and trucks. However, interest and awareness has waned somewhat in recent years, at a time when informed decision making is particularly needed.
More than 130 new hydrogen applications are coming to Texas in 2009, including (more…)
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Location: Texas Discovery Gardens (3601 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 75210)
Website: http://www.texasdiscoverygardens.org/upcoming_events.shtml
Cost: FREE
Join staff horticulturist Randy Johnson on this annual tour of native trees. Learn proper planting and care techniques. You’ll finish the tour just in time to go to the Fall Plant Sale! Program appropriate for ages 8 and up.
Time: Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. Bike ride starts at 10:30 a.m.
Location: The Bath House Cultural Center (521 E. Lawther Drive, Arlington, Texas, 75218)
Website: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=113361
Cost: $10.00 for adults, $5.00 for students and children 12 and over. FREE for children under 12.
Registration: Go to the website above to register and buy tickets.
Bring your bike and your kids, have some fun, and make a stand for clean energy and clean air. We can roll beyond burning coal for electricity in Texas!
Join us for a fun-filled event supporting renewable energy, green jobs, and clean air with a brighter energy future beyond coal. Bike the 9.4-mile route around White Rock Lake with (more…)
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Just opposite The Dallas Theatre Center (3636 Turtle Creek Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 75219)
Website: http://data.memberclicks.com/site/tca/Turtle_Creek_Cleanup_Flyer%5B10-24%5D.pdf
Cost: FREE
Registration: Contact Janet Watts at (214) 395-2577 or email lbrigati@yahoo.com.
Park at The Dallas Theatre Center (entrance off Blackburn Street)
Weather Policy: If it is raining, the Turtle Creek Clean-Up will be canceled for October 24th, and will be rescheduled for Saturday, November 14th.
This is a team event. Groups of 10 to 12 individuals compete against one another for (more…)
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: NCTCOG Offices – Transportation Council Room (616 Six Flags Drive, Arlington, Texas, 76011)
Website: http://www.nctcog.org/trans/clean/vehicles/news/EVNT/rsvp.asp
Cost: FREE
Registration: RSVP required by October 23rd. Go to the website above to register.
This workshop begins the initial steps toward the development of a regional collaborative stakeholder group to plan for the transition to electric vehicles. Guidance from industry leaders, planners, and utilities will be introduced to local governments and businesses to assist in determining the most (more…)