Join David Allen Sibley, an American ornithologist, author, and illustrator of The Sibley Guide to Birds, for a bird walk, presentation and book signing at Dogwood Canyon. 

Bird walks: 6:30, 7:30, 8:30am. $40/hike, $65/hike and Sibley's new book. Advanced payment required.

Book signing: 10:30 am.  Free.

RSVP required: 469-526-1980.

The Dallas Sierra Club and the Dallas Young Sierrans need volunteers to help pick up bottles and cans at the St. Patrick's Day parade for recycling. Get the Dallas Sierra Club Recycling Team T-shirt.

Documentary, produced by Dallas-based Dolphin Blue, “Cry Heard ‘Round the World: The Journey to DC to Take a Stand for Mother Earth,” follows college students and other Texans on a bus trip to Washington, DC for the largest climate rally in the history of the United States to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. The documentary also chronicles the effects of the pipeline on ordinary people. Limited seating. Reservations required on website. Free.

Trailer. 

Private tour of BRIT starts at 10:00 a.m. followed by an optional lunch next door at the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens Restaurant (3220 Rock Springs Rd) 11:30 a.m.-noon. The tour is $7.50. (Arrive early to pay on entry).

Learn more about Keep Denton Beautiful's young leaders group and tour Apogee Stadium and the Zero Energy Lab. Gather at 5:30 p.m. Tour from 6-8 p.m.

Networking event for green professionals and anyone interested in recycling and green living. Appetizers and drink tokens for soda, beer and wine included. No golf experience necessary. $45/nonmembers, $25/members. 

Through this collaborative effort of local jurisdictions, utilities, industry representatives and interested parties, NCTCOG hopes to use this program to achieve more streamlined and standardized solar practices, resulting in measurable improvements to the North Texas solar market.

This meeting is intended to introduce the Solar Ready II program to local governments and interested parties.

Topics to be discussed include: 

• Establishing solar obstacles and goals in the DFW Region;

• Prioritizing areas of focus; and

• Implementing strategies to streamline solar implementation.

Info: NCTCOG.org/Solar or contact Marissa Fewell, transportation planner, at [email protected] or 817-695-9226.

Mike Renner and his family live in a grid-connected home, yet they use no power from the utility company. Sixteen months ago, they made the decision to turn off their main circuit breaker and live exclusively with solar energy. Why did they make this choice? What steps did they take to go "off-grid"? How do they feel about living in an exclusively "solar" home .. especially when they know they've got utility power right there at the meter, available at the flip of a switch? 

In this update presentation, Mike will discuss the rewards and challenges of total off-the-grid living.

Free.

Fort Worth entrepreneur Joan Meeks, president of Commodity Recycling Solutions, will be speaking about the importance of recycling for the health of the environment.

Jason Hardin, an upland game bird specialist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, will be the March speaker. He is heavily involved with the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative, an organization that is committed to restoring wild populations of the bobwhite quail. 

Learn about the management influences, decline hypothesis and the potential for habitat restoration benefiting bobwhites. Info: BringBackBobwhites.org