Title: HSC Lone Star Hiking Trail Workday
Location: Sam Houston National Forest
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Description: The Houston Sierra Club will conduct trail maintenance on the scenic Winters Bayou Section of the Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Call Jane Prentiss at 713-201-5755 or email her at lshttrailboss@yahoo.com so that your name and phone number can be taken. The information will be used in case the hike is canceled due to inclement weather.
Details at http://houston.sierraclub.org/events/index.htm.
Start Time: 8:00
Date: 2010-01-16

Title: Houston Sierra Club Monthly Meeting
Location: Pecore Hall of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 1805 West Alabama, Houston, TX
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Description: January Program: Water Source Protection
Brenda Templeton will provide a brief history of Houston’s drinking water and its current water resources. She will review the city’s initiatives to address surface water quality and discuss ways that individuals, communities, environmental organizations, and industry can protect our surface water resources to ensure a safe water supply for the future.
Join for a brief social period at 7:00 p.m with the program beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-01-14

Title: Houston Audubon Meeting
Location: United Way Center, 50 Waugh, Houston, TX 77007
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Description: The January membership meeting will focus on The Great Alaskan Birding Adventure. Speakers will include Winnie Burkett and Julia Garrett as they give highlights of their birding adventure in Alaska.
Social at 7:00 PM, meeting at 7:30 PM
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-01-13

Title: Gulf Coast Master Naturalist Meeting
Location: Judson Robinson Community Center in Hermann Park
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Description: Social time begins at 6:30 pm, the business meeting at 7:00 pm, and the program at 7:30 pm. The naturalist meetings usually occurs the first Thursday of each month.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2010-01-07

Title: Mercer Arboretum Bird Walk
Location: Mercer Arboretum – 22306 Aldine Westfield Rd, Humble, Texas, 77338
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Description: Take a guided walk through Mercer to discover the abundant bird life in the park. Bring binoculars, water, and comfortable walking shoes.
Available the second Saturday of every month from 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM.

Start Time: 08:30
Date: 2010-01-09
End Time: 11:30

Title: Lunch Bunch: Gardening 101
Location: Mercer Arboretum – 22306 Aldine Westfield Rd, Humble, Texas, 77338
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Description: This program offers beginner gardeners all the details they need to becoming a gardening guru. From preparing beds to selecting plants this class teaches all beginner gardeners what they need to know to get their garden started. Bring a sack lunch to enjoy during the program. Please call ahead for reservations at (281)443-8731.

Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2010-02-10
End Time: 14:00

Title: Mercer Lunch Bunch: Beginning Taxonomy
Location: Mercer Arboretum – 22306 Aldine Westfield Rd, Humble, Texas, 77338
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Description: What’s in a name? Beginner gardeners are invited to attend this program to learn about plant families and they are grouped. Bring a sack lunch to enjoy during the program. Please call ahead for reservations at (281)443-8731.
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2010-01-13
End Time: 14:00

Title: Environmental Flows for Galveston Bay Estuary
Location: Hana and Arthur Ginzbarg Nature Discovery Center, 7112 Newcastle, Bellaire, TX 77401
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Description: Scott Jones will lecture about the importance of fresh water inflows to Galveston Bay. Learn about the Senate Bill 3 environmental flows process that provides you an opportunity to help protect these inflows.
Adult Lecture Series are held the first Wednesday of every month from 7 – 8:30 PM free of charge.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-01-06
End Time: 20:30

Title: The Nancy Stallworth Thomas Horticulture Lecture
Location: St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, 717 Sage Road, Houston, Texas, 77056
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Description: The Garden Club of Houston is hosting a lecture with speaker Tony Avent; owner of Plant Delights Nursery, an international mail order business featuring rare and unusual perrenials, hostas and US natives. As a well-known speaker, his reputation is for irreverent humor and “absurd” content all in pursuit of nuturing a love of plants and horticulture. The lecture is titled Hot Plants for Hot Climates. It is located in the Bagby Parish Hall at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-01-12

Title: Water for the People and the Environment
Location: United Way Community Resource Center, 50 Waugh Drive Houston, Texas, 77007
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Description: Join us for the Sierra Club Regional Water Conference regarding your water future. Topics to be covered can be found on the website provided. Pre-registration: $30 (deadline: Jan. 11th) or $40 at the door. Students w/ ID get in free w/RSVP or $10 at the door. Registration includes lunch. Call (522)477-1729 or RSVP by registering online at http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=126561.
Start Time: 9:00
Date: 2010-01-16
End Time: 16:00

Title: Third Annual HISD Sustainability Education Summit
Location: One Main Street, Houston, Texas, 77002
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Description: The event, co-sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, Houston Independent School District, and the Environmental Educators’ Exchange (EEE), will be exploring how the growing national movement to “green up” our schools can help students achieve at their highest levels. Come see how you can help educate our children for the challenges of this century. Speakers include Kevin Coyle, Jim Blackburn, and Robin Moore, Ph.D. Hands-on activities and exhibits will be available as well as field tours after the summit. Attendance is free. Link to registration and summit agenda (available mid-December): http://online.nwf.org/houstonee09 or visit www.houstonsyh.org.
Start Time: 08:00
Date: 2010-01-23
End Time: 4:00 pm

Title: Houston Food Policy Workgroup
Location: Upper Kirby District 2nd floor board room
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Description: The Houston Food Policy Workgroup is voluntary group open to the public, but generally population with leaders from many diverse organizations in the Houston region working on food issues. The group meets to discuss and encourage the advancement of local food production and consumption.
The group meets the second Wednesday of each month. All are welcome, as long as you RSVP. Send an email to wendy.natt@houstontomorrow.org
Start Time: 11:30
Date: 2010-01-13
End Time: 13:00

Title: Urban Harvest: Hands-On Fruit Tree Series Class 4 of 4
Location: TBA
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Description: Grapes, Muscadines & Persimmons. It is highly recommended that prior to this class you take the Care of Fruit Trees class which is part of Backyard Orchard Package.
This class is part of the Hands-On Fruit Tree Pruning Package of four classes that will provide hands-on demonstration of successful pruning techniques.
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2010-02-05
End Time: 18:00

Title: Urban Harvest: Hands-On Fruit Tree Series Class 3 of 4
Location: TBA
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Description: Pomegranates, Pears & Citrus. It is highly recommended that prior to this class you take the Care of Fruit Trees class which is part of Backyard Orchard Package.
This class is part of the Hands-On Fruit Tree Pruning Package of four classes that will provide hands-on demonstration of successful pruning techniques.

Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2010-01-29
End Time: 18:00

Title: Urban Harvest: Hands-On Fruit Tree Series Class 2 of 4
Location: TBA
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Description: Peaches & Figs. It is highly recommended that prior to this class you take the Care of Fruit Trees class which is part of Backyard Orchard Package.
This class is part of the Hands-On Fruit Tree Pruning Package of four classes that will provide hands-on demonstration of successful pruning techniques.
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2010-01-22
End Time: 18:00

Title: Urban Harvest: Hands-On Fruit Tree Series Class 1 of 4
Location: TBA
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Description: Apples & Blackberries. It is highly recommended that prior to this class you take the Care of Fruit Trees class which is part of Backyard Orchard Package.
This class is part of the Hands-On Fruit Tree Pruning Package of four classes that will provide hands-on demonstration of successful pruning techniques.
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2010-01-15
End Time: 18:00

Title: Urban Harvest: Permaculture Basics
Location: University of Houston, Oberholtzer Hall all purpose room (for parking use entrance 10 on Wheeler St. & park in lot 9c)
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Description: Learn what kind of containers, soils and varieties of plants to use when growing fruit trees, herbs, vegetables and flowers.
Start Time: 09:30
Date: 2010-01-13
End Time: 17:30