Houston Environmental News Update October 29, 2013 CEC NOTES Office Warming Open House I recycled. I voted. What’s Next? A Collaborative Primer on Civic Engagement for Houston’s Environmental Community Welcome New Subscribers Environmental Summit Call for Presentations and Sponsors Workplace Giving Season COALITION NOTES Public Forum: Master Planning Process for Memorial Park USGBC Construction & Demolition UnConference 21st Annual Houston…
Featured Texas industries’ climate-changing pollution far surpasses other states’ (Texas Climate News, 10/25/2013) Texas industrial facilities led all other states by a huge margin in their release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases in 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week. The EPA report, based on data provided by about 8,000 facilities across the nation,…
Featured Midtown street a sign of things to come (Robin Foster – Memorial Examiner, 10/15/2013) Street construction in Houston has reached a crossroads, and a project in Midtown was at its center on Thursday, Oct. 10. The project, which rebuilt portions of Bagby and Pierce streets in Midtown, is the first in Texas to be certified by the Greenroads Foundation…