Title: Urban Harvest: An Introduction to Permaculture
Location: 2311 Canal St., Suite 200, Houston, TX 77003
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Description: Learn about Permaculture and the way it affects and improves quality of life.
This class is highly recommended, but is not a required prerequisite for all other Permaculture classes offered by Urban Harvest.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2010-01-12
End Time: 21:00

Title: Urban Harvest Farmers Market Class 1: How to Start a Community or School Garden
Location: 2311 Canal St., Suite 122, Houston, TX 77003
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Description: This class teaches you how to set goals for your garden, begin organizing volunteers and looking for funding, and set priorities for what the garden will do. Review vegetables you can grow.
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2010-01-11
End Time: 16:30

Title: 7th Annual Buffalo Planting on the Parkway
Location: Buffalo Bend Nature Park
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Description: The Bayou Buddies and Trees for Houston Redbuds will be planting native trees on the Parkway. There is a suggested donation of $10 for nonmembers.
For more information about the 7th Annual Planting on the Parkway, email jgaines@buffalobayou.org
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2010-01-09
End Time: 15:00

Title: Urban Hrvest Fruit Tree Sale
Location: Rice University Football Stadium Concourse
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Description: This annual sale brings together far more types and varieties of fruit trees than can be found anywhere else in the greater Houston area.
Start Time: 08:00
Date: 2010-01-09
End Time: 12:00

Title: RDA Initiatives for Houston Exhibition Reception
Location: Architecture Center Houston at 315 Capitol, Suite 120, Houston, Texas 77002
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Description: The Rice Design Alliance is holding an exhibition of previous winning projects of the Initiatives for Houston grant program. The exhibition will run from January 14 – February 26, 2010 at the Architecture Center Houston (ArCH). The public is invited to attend the opening reception on Thursday, January 14, 2010 from 6-8pm at ArCH.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2010-01-14
End Time: 20:00

Title: RDA Initiatives for Houston Exhibition Reception
Location: Architecture Center Houston at 315 Capitol, Suite 120, Houston, Texas 77002
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Description: The Rice Design Alliance is holding an exhibition of previous winning projects of the Initiatives for Houston grant program. The exhibition will run from January 14 – February 26, 2010 at the Architecture Center Houston (ArCH). The public is invited to attend the opening reception on Thursday, January 14, 2010 from 6-8pm at ArCH.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2010-01-14
End Time: 20:00

Title: Galveston Baykeep Fundraiser: Folk n’ Oysters
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Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-12-30
End Time: 23:00

Title: TAEP Young Professionals Networking
Location: Red Onion: Mexican Grill at 13147 Northwest Freeway #140, 77040
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Description: This is the monthly meeting in which young environmental professionals meet and network with other young professionals in a relaxed atmosphere.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2010-01-07

Title: HANC Winter Break Camp: A Sense of Nature
Location: Houston Arboretum and Nature Center
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Description: The Winter Break Camp is full of exploration for kids ages 5 to 12. Each day students investigate one of the five senses and explore how animals and plants use these senses.

This is a four day camp from December 28 through Thursday, December 31.
Start Date: 2009-12-28
Start Time: 09:00
End Date: 2009-12-31

Title: Houston Audubon/ONC present Bringing Nature Home -How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens by Doug Tallamy
Location: Rice University, Hamman Hall
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Description: Houston Audubon and the Outdoor Nature Club are teaming up to present Doug Tallamy. Tallamy will discuss how native plants sustain wildlife in our gardens. Doug Tallamy is a professor and the chair of the Entomology and Wildlife Ecology department at the University of Delaware, where he has been studying insects and their role in the environment for over 20 years. His book, “Bringing Nature Home: How Native plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens,” has been featured in the New York Times. More about Mr. Tallamy and his book can be viewed at http://bringingnaturehome.net/lectures/about-doug. Sponsored by Houston Audubon (http://www.houstonaudubon.org) and the Outdoor Nature Club (ONC– http://www.outdoornatureclub.org).
Date: 2010-03-31

Title: Houston Children and Nature Coalition present Robin Moore
Location: Marathon Conference Center
Link out: Click here For More information, e-mail elizabeth@asakurarobinson.com.
Description: Through a partnership with National Wildlife Federation and support from Marathon Oil, the Houston Children and Nature Coalition is hosting a lecture by noted landscape architect Robin Moore. As Director of the Natural Learning Initiative in North Carolina, Mr. Moore has developed an expertise in integrating environmental design and child development. More information about Robin Moore can be found at http://www.naturalearning.org/aboutus/rmoore.htm or http://www.houstonsyh.org
Start Time: 5:30 pm
Date: 2010/01/22

Title: NPSOT Monthly Meeting: Plant Propagation Workshop
Location: Bayland Community Center
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Description: The Houston Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT) will be hosting a Plant Propagation Workshop for its January meeting on Wednesday, January 21, 2010. Tom Solomon will talk on plant propagation and Jaime Gonzales will give an update on Project Blazingstar, a project of the Coastal Prairie Partnership, restoration of a prairie at Hermann Park! We will have an opportunity to grow plants for the Hermann Park project. Please Join Us, we will have great doorprizes & snacks! Note: NPSOT-Houston meetings are normally held on the third Wednesday of each month at the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center. This month, please join us at the Bayland Community Center this month only.

Start Time: 7:00 pm
Date: 2010/01/21

Title: TCEQ Hearing: Severe Ozone Nonattainment Area Failure to Attain Fee
Location: Houston-Galveston Area Council at 3555 Timmons, Room A
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Description: The TCEQ will hold a public hearing on this proposal in Austin on January 5, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. in the TCEQ Campus, Bldg E, Room 201S, at 12100 Park 35 Circle. A second hearing will be held in Houston on January 6, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. in the Houston-Galveston Area Council at 3555 Timmons, Room A.

For further information, please contact Kathy Pendleton, Emissions Assessment Section, at (512) 239-1936.
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2006-01-06

Houston Audubon will offer owl prowls at the Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary, 440 Wilchester Blvd., on Friday evenings, January 29 and February 26, 2010, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. (more…)

FEDERAL POLICY IN METROPOLITAN REGIONS: NEAL PEIRCE SPEAKS

Date: Wednesday, December 3

Time: 7 pm (Pre-lecture reception at 6:30 pm.)

Location: United Way Community Resource Center 50 Waugh Dr

Fee: Free with free parking

Contact: RSVP wendy.natt@houstontomorrow.org or 713-523-5757

Complete Description:

Neal Peirce, syndicated columnist, explores what the Obama election means for federal policy in metropolitan regions.

Neal Peirce is a pulse-taker of change in how America governs itself. His column has repeatedly broken fresh ground in identifying vital new trends state and local governments and the dynamics of federal/state/local relations. Time magazine called Peirce “the only national chronicler of grass-roots America.” His weekly column, syndicated through The Washington Post Writers Group since 1978, appears in over 50 newspapers.

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