Title: Artist Boat Eco-Art/Eco-Tour Kayak Adventure: Galveston Island State Park
Location: Galveston Island State Park
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Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2009-11-01
End Time: 14:00

Title: Artist Boat Eco-Art/Eco-Tour Kayak Adventure: Armand Bayou Moonlight
Location: Armand Bayou
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Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2009-10-31
End Time: 19:00

Title: Book Signing by John P. O’Neill (Great Bids of Texas)
Location: Houston Arboretum
Description: Reservations at 713-681-8433

Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2009-10-31
End Time: 13:00

Title: Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary Halloween Night Hike
Location: Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary
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Start Time: 17:00
Date: 2009-10-30

Title: Simran Sethi to speak at UH Downtown Student Leadership Conference
Location: Unviersity of Houston–Downtown, Wilhelmina Cullen Robertson Auditorium
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Description: Simran Sethi is an award-winning freelance journalist, focusing on social and environmental sustainability. She is an associate professor at the University of Kansas School of Journalism and Mass Communications, where she teaches courses on environmental communications. Sethi is currently writing a book on eco-elitism to be published by Harper Collins in 2010 and is the contributing author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, winner of the bronze 2008 Axiom Award for Best Business Ethics book. The book is the companion guide to the first PBS series on sustainable business, “Ethical Markets,” for which Sethi served as host and writer. She is New York University’s inaugural Goddard Fellow and an Associate Fellow at the Asia Society. She will speak on the topic of social justice, sustainability and leadership.

Start Time: 11:30
Date: 2009-10-30

Title: ECOnnections: Kids and Critters
Description: Some folks believe that teaching children can either be a trick or a treat. This Halloween, discover how teaching children in the outdoors can be an enjoyable and highly meaningful experience. You’ll learn how to manage groups more effectively, how to build discovery learning into a children-oriented tour, and why exposure to nature is so critical to a child’s development. This course will be taught by KPC Volunteer Lesli Edge who is a seasoned, highly effective science education specialist with Katy ISD. Her insights will help you construct challenging and enjoyable experiences. Registration limited and required. Free to all current and future KPC volunteers.

Contact: Call 713.523.6135 or e-mail info@katyprairie.org

Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2009-10-31
End Time: 13:00

Title: Trees For Houston Planting in Stude Park
Location: Stude Park
Description: Keep Heights Green, a local non-profit organization whose mission is to replant trees in the Greater Heights area lost during Hurricane Ike, is hosting a planting event. The organization, which was formed in October 2008, has plans to put 100 trees in the ground this year and maintain them. Eighty percent of all funds raised through Keep Heights Green go directly into planting and maintaining what is placed in the ground.

Contact: RSVP to Christina Moreland at ctmoreland@sbcglobal.net or on the Keep Heights Green Facebook page
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2009-10-31
End Time: 15:00

Title: Trees For Houston Workshop
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Start Time: 09:00
Date: 2009-10-31
End Time: 12:00

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

Many of you may have already heard that the great naturalist John Tveten passed away Monday, October 12. A memorial for John will be held at Armand Bayou Nature Center on October 29 at 6:30 pm. (more…)

Keep Heights Green, a local non-profit organization whose mission is to replant trees in the Greater Heights area lost during Hurricane Ike, is hosting a planting event at Stude Park on Saturday, October 31, from 1 to 3 p.m. (more…)

ECOnnections: Kids and Critters, Saturday, October 31 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Some folks believe that teaching children can either be a trick or a treat. This Halloween, discover how teaching children in the outdoors can be an enjoyable and highly meaningful experience. (more…)

The Waterborne Education Center (WEC) will continue the Fall season of the Public Wetlands Education Project on Saturday, November 7. The general public is invited to participate in on-the-water, hands-on environmental education on the Trinity River. (more…)

In Partnership with Project GRAD-Houston, Houston A+ Challenge, Communities in School-Houston, The Greater Houston Partnership, One Voice Texas, and the Texas Association of Parent Educators. (more…)

Houston Audubon is please to annoucne the creation of a new young profressionals group. (more…)

Armand Bayou Nature Center volunteers invite you to its 28th annual Martyn Farm Fall Festival on Nov. 14 and 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.  (more…)

What do Carlos Mata, Beth Miller, Jim Olive, and the Girl Scouts have in common?  They are among the latest recipients of the Mayor’s Proud Partners Awards. (more…)