City leaders discuss Dallas’s Zero Waste by 2040 Plan and reviving the single-use carryout bag ordinance. 

Is the bag ban movement over in Dallas or are there new plans for the future? What is the city of Dallas doing to achieve its goal of zero waste goal by 2040? Come hear from some of the main players in these city debates on the future of our city!

Earth Day Texas, TEDxSMU, and bcWORKSHOP present this environmental documentary screening.

5:30 Reception with Cash Bar

6:30 Film

7:00 Panel discussion with filmmakers and Dallasites featured in the film: 

    •    Shirley Davidson, neighbor to the Deepwood Dump;

    •    Laura Beshara, attorney, Daniel & Beshara, P.C.;

    •    T Hanson, former Director of Operations, Trinity River Audubon Center;

    •    Craig Weflen, Media Associate, bcWORKSHOP. 

Former state representative (D-Fort Worth) Lon Burnam is running for the Texas Railroad Commission. There are profound problems with the way the oil and gas industry controls the Commission and we need to have some balance in the way the Commission operates. Lon will represent homeowners who are not currently represented because of the heavy hand of the oil and gas industry.

Please join Lon for a “Brunch with Burnam”. He has two challengers in the Democratic primary and needs to spend resources fighting Republicans, not on a run-off.

The Texas Drought Project, a non-profit founded in 2008 to educate Texans on climate change, will announce that they have succeeded in obtaining the signatures of more than 220 organizations for their resolution on climate change. The resolution calls for climate negotiators at the U.N. Climate Conference in Paris, set to begin Nov. 30, to heed the recommendations from the world’s top scientists in setting emissions cuts and asks that negotiators quickly move to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

A community meeting has been organized at the Park in the Woods Recreation Center with District 3 Councilman Casey Thomas to express opposition to zoning application change (z 145-357). The proposed zoning change is from Residential Zoning (PD 521 S-2a) to Industrial Zoning (PD 521 S-1c,d) on the property south of I-20 and to the east of Mountain Creek Parkway and north of Camp Wisdom Rd. The zoning change would allow a 1.8 million square foot warehouse, the size of 31 football fields, in the entrance/gateway to the Mountain Creek community of 2,000 homes.  

We're moving ahead on a wide variety of exciting plans and opportunities ramping up to expand our outreach and engagement throughout North Texas this year ahead, so if you've been interested in joining the local efforts but haven't known when to jump in, this Saturday is a perfect opportunity!

Here's a few of the highlights from the past month and coming up: