Green Source DFW | A Dallas/Ft. Worth Environmental News & Community Resource

By Rita Cook Sustainability is cultivated in many forms by the 2000 Roses Foundation. The Dallas-based organization has grown from a nonprofit that provides transitional housing for formerly incarcerated women to operating an upscale resale store that supports occupational training for the women to promoting community preservation. Together its objectives give new purpose to people, products...

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Festivals Abound as Dallas Ft. Worth Gets Into the Earth Day Spirit

(Correction: The article originally stated that Kids K-6th grade would receive a ticket for a drawing for an Ipad for every ten juice cartons they bring in. The correct item to be brought for a ticket is a juice pouch. ontact event organizers for details.) By Julie... Read more...

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Green Source Conversation: The Boomer Green Corps' Volunteer Opportunities

By Brandolon Barnett The senior source has been around for over 50 years, helping to make life easier for DFW seniors through services ranging from detecting Medicare fraud to providing advice and aid on finding work and dealing with crises. An organization... Read more...

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Weekly Green Roundup

Published 03/14/2012 Our weekly Green Roundup will let you know about deals going on at businesses in our green business directory (check it out if you haven't already). We'll also be detailing volunteer opportunities with local non-profits. It's one more way... Read more...

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Trash Transforms to Luxury at Walleska Ecochicc

(Photo: Cans transform into high fashion at Walleska Ecochicc) By Jada Brazell Walleska Ecochicc strives to improve quality of life for people and planet, one aluminum can at a time. Founded five years ago by Walleska Tepping, Walleska... Read more...

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Clean Air Lawn Care - The Sustainable Lawn Service in Dallas

( photo of Clean Air using solar panels to charge batteries for electric lawn mowers) By Rita Cook While lawn care might seem just another task that has to be done come spring, there is one Carrollton man, Rick Hauser, who makes it his job to not only... Read more...

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Shark Stewards Brings Conservation Message to DFW

(Photo: A Carribean Reef Shark, image courtesy of Shark Stewards) By Julie Thibodeaux Anna Clark has long had a fascination with sharks. As a young girl, she decorated her room with inflatable toy sharks and rooted for the Great White at the... Read more...

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Commentary: Dallas Gas Drilling Task Force Recommendation Is A Step in the Wrong Direction

By Downwinders at Risk Re-Published Wednesday, March 8, 2012 It was the entirety of the last ten years of the Barnett Shale compressed, geologic-like, into one meeting. There were the traditional clean air allies melting into the woodwork when... Read more...

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Weekly Green Roundup

Our weekly Green Roundup will let you know about deals going on at businesses in our green business directory (check it out if you haven't already). We'll also be detailing volunteer opportunities with local non-profits. It's one more way we're hoping to support and... Read more...

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Grier Observes: The Age of Man

By Grier Raggio of We Consume Too Much Re-Published March 8th, 2012 Bill McKibben’s 1989 book, The End of Nature, made a novel argument; that civilization had altered the processes of life everywhere as man converted more and more of the... Read more...

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SMU Fights for Victory in 'RecycleMania'

By Rita Cook With over 202 schools competing in the Recyclemania national competition, SMU is once again a part of the challenge, which also enables students to take easy steps toward waste reduction and a greener campus in this friendly recycling... Read more...

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