Sustainable Leaders Roundtable is a group that was started in June
to bring together the leaders of all of the green and sustainable groups in the
Metroplex.  Over 50 different organizations, including non-profits,
governments, business groups, advocacy organizations, and universities are
members.

Free and open to community leaders.

Email Mitch Fine at mitchphine0770@gmail.com for more information.

North Texas Renewable Energy Group (NTREG) announces the  DFW Solar Home Tour, October 1^st, 2011  www.dfwsolarhometour.org

The 2^nd annual DFW Solar Home Tour is a part of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) National Solar Tour www.nationalsolartour.org
. It offers the public the opportunity to tour innovative green homes
and buildings and learn how homeowners and businesses can use renewable
energy, energy efficiency, and other sustainable technologies. 

Several distinguished speakers have agreed to present information on the supplies and delivery of water in our region and will answer questions from the audience. They include Lewis McMahan, a Director of the Texas Water Development Board, Tod Maurina of the North Texas Groundwater Conservation District, Denis Qualls of Dallas Water Utilities, and Tyson Broad of the Sierra Club. A talk on the basics of Texas water law will be given by Simone Kiel of Freese and Nichols, a consulting firm to the State of Texas.

Take a hike, listen for frogs, watch the river roll by, enjoy the LEEDs building..

Free all day and evening.

Outdoor Events

5:30p.m. Guided Hike & Texas Turtle Watch

6:00p.m. Animal Encounter

8pm Chimney Swift Monitoring Join Master Naturalist Natha Taylor of this citizen science project

8:15pm Amphibian Watch with TRAC Volunteer Naturalist Mel White

Indoor Events

Multi-purpose Room

6-6:15 Audubon Dallas interns review TRAC summer projects

6:30-6:45 Dr. Patty McGill introduces our newest Audubon Center, Dogwood Canyon.

Conference Room

6-8pm Book club.  Please stop by and pick up our fall reading list as
we launch our seasonal book club. We'll be reading mostly non-fiction
nature titles that contain local interest. 

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6:30 pm Eco-origami with recycled paper artist Alicia Colina-Ashby  $15.  Please call front desk to register. 214-309-5891

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We welcome a 12-day Permaculture class from experienced Permaculture
Design instructors Patricia Allison and Dick Pierce to our area. This is
a hands-on, part lecture, part outside trips, part outside speaker
experience that will change your life and your approach to
sustainability and green living forever.

Patricia Allison is a founder
of Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina and is coming from NC to teach
the first 7 days of class.

Dick Pierce is a Permaculture instructor
from Austin and will come up from Austin to teach the last 5 days of the
course.

These two have teamed up to bring a Permaculture Design
Certificate course to DFW over three long week-ends this fall. Oct 7-10,
Oct 21-24, Nov 4-7.

Price of this 12-day course is $675. A deposit of
$120 is due to hold your place in the class; the remainder is due the
first day of class.

Collin County Greenweavers is a meetup in Collin Country that is
based on the wildly popular and successful DFW Greenweavers group.

Businesses that market to the "green" and sustainable marketplace are welcome to attend our monthly meetings.

We are dedicated solely to helping each other grow our businesses by
trading referrals and leads and developing our skills for marketing and
business growth.

Please plan to attend the Texas Conservation Alliance training session for Ambassadors in our Smarter Water for North Texas program. TCATexas.org.

Drop off your electronic items: household, office, or personal, we recycle it all! 

Here are just some of the items that we recycle: 

-Computers

-Televisions

-Monitors

-Circuit Boards

-Servers

-Cellphones

-Radios

-Hard Drives

-Cds

-Networking Equipment

-Back up Tapes

Drop off your electronic items: household, office, or personal, we recycle it all! 

Here are just some of the items that we recycle: 

-Computers

-Televisions

-Monitors

-Circuit Boards

-Servers

-Cellphones

-Radios

-Hard Drives

-Cds

-Networking Equipment

-Back up Tapes

And much more!!

Drop off your electronic items: household, office, or personal, we recycle it all! 

Here are just some of the items that we recycle: 

-Computers

-Televisions

-Monitors

-Circuit Boards

-Servers

-Cellphones

-Radios

-Hard Drives

-Cds

-Networking Equipment

-Back up Tapes

And much more!!