Posts Tagged ‘Ecology and Environmental Conservation’
By Bruce Felps School’s out now, and families and family members probably need a little something to do together and apart. People with non-gangrenous green thumbs can compare notes on bountiful gardening from 9-10 a.m., tomorrow, at Promise of Peace Community Garden. Speaking of gardening, Dallas Water Utilities conducts its annual Water-Wise Landscape Tour from [...]
By Bruce Felps Dallas Water Utilities this weekend presents the 17th annual Water-Wise Landscape Tour, which highlights 22 landscapes heavy on native Texas plants that go light on water use. The self-guided tour takes place from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., June 4. The water department will set up three base points — at which 30-minute “MicroTalks” on [...]
By Bruce Felps Amy “Moonlady” Martin and Earth Rhythms plan a going away party for the weekend in honor of a century old elm tree along the shore of White Rock Lake. The city marked the tree for removal because of its age and failing health, evidently, and Marin and friends don’t want to see [...]
By Bruce Felps With the Woodrow spring musical, “Grease,” in the record book, it’s time to prepare for grease II. This one, though, doesn’t involve song and dance. It’s all about cooking and the residual fatty runoff. The city’s Water Utility department recently launched its Cease the Grease campaign to remind residents that pouring grease [...]
By Bruce Felps The original date for this year’s installment of A Peep at the Coops: The Urban Coop Tour turned into a spin in the cold cycle — rainy, chilly, with a forecast of wicked weather — which forced organizers to put the event on hold. It’s back on the docket, however, for May [...]
By Bruce Felps Speaking of Tietze Park, and we just were, you might have noticed fences surrounding most, if not all, of the trees out there. Angela Hunt, in whose District 14 the park is located, said the fencing is there to protect the trees when work crews set about the path improvements coming soon [...]
Community Contribution The YMCA at White Rock recently received a $5,000 Eco-Start grant from Constellation Energy that will allow six area teens to attend eco-conservative and outdoor recreation camps this summer free of charge. Camp scholarship recipients can choose from several camps including: a “go green” camp, introduction to rowing clinic, canoeing camp, and an [...]
By Bruce Felps Whew, that was close. I’m pretty sure I saw the torches and pitchforks at the edge of my lawn the last few nights. The bravest among them would creep forward, tape measure in hand, and gauge the length of the … well, you can’t really call it grass because it’s not really [...]
Community Contribution The coolest “home” — for chickens, that is — tour in Dallas is back. The second annual A Peep at the Coop: The Urban Coop Tour takes place May 1, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., in East Dallas. Those interested in the growing passion for keeping backyard chickens can join this free self-guided tour through [...]
By Bruce Felps An e-mail message from For the Love of the Lake arrived earlier today bringing word of a free document shredding event set for next weekend. Comerica Bank — which seems to pop up about everywhere you look with a sponsorship of one event or another, notably the White Rock Lake Centennial Celebration [...]
