HOUSTON TOMORROW’S DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES: JOHN NORQUIST

Date: Sept. 30

Time: 7:30 pm

Contact: http://www.houstontomorrow.org

RICE DESIGN ALLIANCE “GETTING HIGH” LECTURE
Date: September 30

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Contact: http://www.ricedesignalliance.org

Complete Description:

Rice Design Alliance (RDA) kicks off their annual fall lecture series. This year’s focus is Getting High: Towers in Architecture, and again includes a lineup of internationally renowned architects and designers. Established and emerging architects worldwide are rethinking vertical buildings. Though an often-disparaged building type, vertical buildings have fostered innovation in design, construction, program, and ideas of social order for over a hundred years. Now, the high-rise is going green and its density promotes urban patterns of sustainability and efficient energy use. By highlighting the most innovative practices and concentrating on architectural design at such a significant scale, this lecture series will explore broader issues at both global and local levels. Topics will include competitiveness through innovation and the impact of the current economic climate on future skylines of the world.

The Citizens’ Environmental Coalition will honor the following local activists and organizations for environmental service at the annual Synergy Awards celebration on Wednesday, November 4, 2009:  (more…)

Friends of Texas Wildlife supports the rehabilitation of native Texas Wildlife and promotion of co-existence of wildlife and humans through education. (more…)

Saturday, October 3, 9:00 a.m. In Spring 2008, a group of volunteers came to the park to help with the initial construction of a new butterfly/native bee garden on the southeast corner. (more…)

Saturday, October 3, 2009, 9 am – 1 pm, George R Brown Convention Center, Exhibit Hall E. (more…)

this Sunday Open Trails Sunday, October 4 from 2  to 6 PM Want to enjoy the first hint of fall? (more…)

October 10th and 11th. LyondellBasell Bike Around the Bay is a fun, two-day, 150 mile bicycle ride around Galveston Bay showcasing the natural beauty of the bay and benefiting the Galveston Bay Foundation. (more…)

The Friends of Texas Wildlife will hold our first, and only fundraiser of 2009. (more…)

for Planning and Analysis. The Houston Parks and Recreation Department, with SWA Landscape Architects, has received the “Award of Excellence” by the Texas Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for the Lake Houston Wilderness Park Master Plan.  (more…)

Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge along with the Friends of Trinity River Refuge hosted a trash cleanup day at the Hwy 105 Trinity River bridge on September 26th.  The cleanup event was part of a national effort for National Publics Lands Day.  (more…)

CONFERENCE: INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY FOR THE ENERGY COAST

Date: Sept. 30

Time: 1:30 to 5:00 pm

Location: New Orleans

Contact: http://www.americasenergycoast.org/registration.php

We missed out last November due to Ike’s visit, but we are now taking reservations for the GHASP/MfCA group tour of the Houston Ship Channel aboard Sam Houston Saturday, November 7 at 2:30PM. (more…)

The Hana and Arthur Ginzbarg Nature Discovery Center celebrates our 30 Year Anniversary at the 15th Annual Twilight Gala, Shoot for the Moon! Continue the Dream on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at the Westin Galleria. (more…)

November 14, 2009, 8:00 am to 1:00 pm. Volunteers are needed to plant 2,500 native coastal prairie grasses. (more…)

WATER AND ENERGY: THE YIN AND YANG OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA AND BEYOND

Date: Sept. 30

Time: 11:30 am

Contact: http://www.asiasociety.org/events-calendar/dr-saleem-ali-conocophillips-environmental-lecture

Complete Description:

Asia Society Texas Center presents The ConocoPhillips Environmental Lecture Series. Although Asia is home to more than half the world’s people, it has less freshwater than any other continent besides Antarctica. Dr. Saleem H. Ali, a professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont, will address the challenge of providing Asia’s growing population with life-essential water. Professor Ali’s talk will be the first in the two-part ConocoPhillips Environmental Lecture Series. The challenge of sustaining biodiversity in Asia will be the subject of the second lecture, scheduled for October 29.

Join Buffalo Bayou Partnership in celebrating the holiday season with 30-minute pontoon boat rides along Buffalo Bayou served up with plenty of decorations, brightly colored lights, song and cheer! (more…)