Featured Katy Prairie Conservancy looks to take next step (Leah Binkovitz – Houston Chronicle, 10/13/2015) “As developers continue to carve out master-planned communities in the Katy area, Mary Anne Piacentini has other plans. The executive director of the Katy Prairie Conservancy is that hoping her nonprofit conservation group, which now covers some 20,000 acres, will soon join the growing ranks…
CEC is excited to be participating in several upcoming events that are being presented by coalitions of our member groups. One of these events is coming up next week: the first ever People + Nature Conference, being presented October 20-22, 2015, by the Katy Prairie Conservancy, Houston Tomorrow, the Shell Center for Sustainability, the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Texas…
The City will consider the following agenda items at the October 14, 2015, Houston City Council Meeting: 21. ORDINANCE giving notice of intent to establish a program under Texas Property Assessed Clean Energy (“PACEâ€) Act of 2013 for City of Houston and its extraterritorial jurisdiction. PACE is a voluntary financing program that allows owners of commercial, industrial and multi-family residential properties (with…