This
session explores two LEED credit categories, Water Efficiency and
Innovation in Design, in a credit by credit format, reviewing the
overall category intents and the individual intents of the prerequisites
and credits within it. Learn the technical requirements of the credits
and, through real-world case examples shared by USGBC LEED Faculty,
strategies that work to achieve them.

Celebrate & shop for your upcoming holiday gifts at the lavish Auction & Design Auction. Help International Interior Design Association of Dallas Forth Worth City Center raise money for a non-profit organization benefetting Dwell with Dignity.

Seminars sponsored by Dallas Water Utilities
Conservation, City of Dallas Stormwater Management,
and Mountain View
College.

Speaker: Landscape designer and
author Bonnie Rees

Water-Wise
Landscape Design 101

9 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.

Whether
you have a new landscape or plan to update an existing area, it is critical to
begin with a good design. This program teaches the principles of landscape
design with an emphasis on how to create a beautiful landscape that will save
resources - natural and financial!

Fantastic Plants
for North Texas

Celebrating Life ~ Embracing Balance ~ Fostering Peace

Presented by Earth Rhythms

Free – donations accepted.

HOW COMMUNITREE CAME TO BE

We are your warm, friendly and inclusive catalysts for the Dallas eco-community. Let
us help you plug into the local social network of eco-conscious folks.
Everything is Bigger in Texas - our hospitality included.

Watch the 30-second video of our recent gathering. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a video is worth a million!!! Our 2010 Holiday Party.

AT OUR FUN AND FRIENDLY MONTHLY GATHERINGS, YOU WILL:

The Fifteenth Annual Recyclers’ Golf Tournament is coordinated by the Greater DFW Recycling Alliance and the North Texas Corporate Recycling Association.

Through leadership and education, the mission of these groups is to help preserve the Texas environment by encouraging the reduction, reuse, and recycling of goods and to promote the use ofrecycled content goods and materials.

Proceeds from the tournament are divided between the two non-profit organizations and used to help promote recycling and waste reduction activities in local communities.

Tour 18 —Imagine yourself playing on carefully simulated holes from some of the greatest courses in America. This collection of incredible replicas offers one fantastic challenge after another, creating a uniquely memorable experience.

The tournament format is a 4-person Scramble. This allows everone from beginners to seasoned players to have a great time.

$125/player includes green fes, range balls, golf cart & dinner.  Sponsorship info online.

Contact Jeff Crew at 214-912-7974 or jcrew@trex.com.

The second Saturday of every month is Second Saturday Shoreline Spruce-Up at

White Rock Lake Park. Join the clean-up effort put on by For the Love

of the Lake and our Adopt-A-Shoreline groups, never missing a month

since April 1996!

Newcomers are welcomed and all meet between 8 to 9 a.m. at the FTLOTL

office in Casa Linda Plaza, Buckner & Garland Road (facing

Buckner). Come on out nice and early on Second Saturdays, have some

refreshments, get some exercise, meet a great group of folks (if we do

say so ourselves), and help us keep the shores of White Rock Lake clean

and sparkling! Here are all the facts you should need to know …

We’ll have a yummy “continental breakfast” for you featuring hot

Starbucks coffee, goodies from Great Harvest Bread Co., Highland Park

Cafeteria, and Marsue’s Kitchen, delicious orange juice and rich

chocolate milk from Schepps Dairy, and refreshing Rain Fresh bottled

water.

The second Saturday of every month is Second Saturday Shoreline Spruce-Up at
White Rock Lake Park. Join the clean-up effort put on by For the Love
of the Lake and our Adopt-A-Shoreline groups, never missing a month
since April 1996!

Newcomers are welcomed and all meet between 8 to 9 a.m. at the FTLOTL
office in Casa Linda Plaza, Buckner & Garland Road (facing
Buckner). Come on out nice and early on Second Saturdays, have some
refreshments, get some exercise, meet a great group of folks (if we do
say so ourselves), and help us keep the shores of White Rock Lake clean
and sparkling! Here are all the facts you should need to know …

We’ll have a yummy “continental breakfast” for you featuring hot
Starbucks coffee, goodies from Great Harvest Bread Co., Highland Park
Cafeteria, and Marsue’s Kitchen, delicious orange juice and rich
chocolate milk from Schepps Dairy, and refreshing Rain Fresh bottled
water.

We also provide all of your Spruce-Up supplies, including trash bags
(courtesy of Keep Texas Beautiful), recycling bags (courtesy of City of
Dallas Recycling Department), and latex gloves.

Join us for the 2011 Texas Conservation Alliance
Annual Meeting Saturday, September 24, at the
Trinity River Audubon Center in Dallas.  

David Marquis will perform an excerpt from his acclaimed play, The Land.  We'll also celebrate the Conservation Hero of the Year and discuss cool new conservation initiatives.

Before the annual meeting, Bobette Brasfield,
coordinator of Smarter Water for North Texas,
will teach a session in how to give the Smarter
Water program to interested groups.

Annual Meeting Schedule:

11:30 - 1:45  Training Session Smarter Water
      Sandwich Lunch Provided
      Bobette Brasfield
 
 2:00 - 4:00 Annual Meeting
     Featured Speaker TBD
     Election of Board Members
     Other Big Fun