KBR KIDS DAY ON BUFFALO BAYOU

Date: Saturday, June 6, 2009

Time: 10am-2pm

Location: Downtown’s Sabine Promenade (Sabine Street between Memorial Drive and Allen Parkway)

Fee: FREE

Contact: 713.752.0314 http://www.buffalobayou.org

Complete Description:

Buffalo Bayou Partnership will be hosting our third annual KBR Kids Day along Buffalo Bayou. Join us for a FREE day of adventure and bayou-rific activities.

Family fun festivities include:

* hands-on activities with over 20 Houston
non-profit organization partners

* Bird shows from Last Chance Forever Raptor Rescue
(including hawks, eagles, and falcons)

* bayou boat rides and kayak demonstrations

* bat games and sunprints

* bayou scavenger hunt

* Up close with birds and bugs on the bayou

* live music, park performers, balloon artists and much more!

Free parking available at City Lot H and C
(Memorial Drive between Sabine Street and Houston Avenue)

Buffalo Bayou Partnership, a non-profit organization that is revitalizing and transforming Houston’s greatest natural resource, is seeking a part-time summer employee to handle data entry. (more…)

TYKE HIKE – BAYTOWN NATURE CENTER

Date: Wednesday, May 27
Time: 10 – 11 a.m.

Location: 6213 Bayway Drive, Baytown, TX.

Fee: Admission is free.

Contact: 281-420-7128 or 281-424-9198

Complete Description:

Nature adventures for pre-schoolers and parents, grandparents or guardians. Every Wednesday through May from 10 – 11 a.m.

Unveiled by Houston Wilderness on February 25, 2009, The Brazos River Trail runs through Fort Bend and Brazoria Counties and stretches approximately 120 miles on the longest river in Texas, serving as a critical ingredient of the Columbia Bottomlands ecosystem, a major stopover habitat during migration for millions of species of birds. (more…)

The City of Houston’s newest recycling jewel, The Building Materials Reuse Warehouse, is a little rough around the edges now but there are big plans ahead.  (more…)

Green Bank has two new programs for CEC-member agencies.  When you open a checking or money market account or a certificate of deposit at Green Bank, the bank will make a $50 or larger donation to a CEC agency. (more…)

Nancy Pelosi, the first woman Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, will appear at The Progressive Forum Friday, June 12, at The Wortham Center at 7:30 p.m.   (more…)

CHILDREN AT RISK will hold the CLE to educate the legal community on the important issues of Environmental Justice, the legal remedies for children in environmentally undesirable areas, and the impact of water and air quality on children in the Houston area.

Announcing new “After Camp” summer classes!  Extend the day with enrichment classes from 3-5 p.m. New, after camp enrichment classes have just been finalized. Arboretum members have first priority in registering for these classes which immediately follow the Nature Trekkers Summer Camps. (more…)

Houston Wilderness, Texas Agrilife Extension, and Texas Forest Service invite you to participate in Mission: Possible – Nature Challenge 2009.  Accept the Challenge and Explore the Nature of Southeast Texas! (more…)

Winnie Burkett has been appointed to the Environmental subcommittee of the Bolivar Peninsula Long Term Recovery Committee. The initial phase of this project will last just 6 weeks and the goal will be a Blueprint for the Bolivar Peninsula. (more…)

On May 15, Mayor Bill White, Council Member Sue Lovell and the Houston Parks and Recreation Department celebrated the Grand Opening of New Urban Forestry Facility located at 12025 Sowden. (more…)

Register now to secure your space in Galveston Bay Foundation’s nationally-recognized, signature community-based wetlands restoration and education event. (more…)

More info at http://www.blackwoodland.org/nature_camp/.

1. The Student Conservation Association is seeking full time Program Coordinator for its Houston office by May 20! More info at http://www.thesca.org/green-jobs/program-coordinator-high-school-programs/houston-tx
2. The Student Conservation Association is currently recruiting for paid interns. To get a list of the most current Houston-area openings email Chelli Hill at chill@thesca.org. To browse the list of all SCA internships go to http://www.thesca.org/serve/internships/browse. (more…)

• 22 May

• Texas Healthy Habitats Grant Webinar
  http://txcsl.org/

• State Applications for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program
  http://www.eecbg.energy.gov/#lg7 (more…)

• 5 May

• Hutchison Receives Center for Coastal Conservation’s Lifetime Achievement Award (Guidry News)
  http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000017459

• Contract awarded for Seabourne Creek drainage improvements (Houston Chronicle)
  http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/fortbend/news/6410340.html
• Critics: Toxics bill a lot of hot air (Houston Chronicle)
  http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6411815.html
• Keep Pearland Beautiful has entered into a 90-day ‘pilot program’ for an additional recycling (The Journal of Pearland)
  http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2009/05/06/pearland_journal/news/5-7_trial_recycle.txt
• Rice University Students Give Sneak Peak of Zero-Energy House (Guidry News)
  http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000017492 (more…)