Featured First ‘Bayou Greenway Day’ highlights Houston’s waterways (Katherine Driessen – Houston Chronicle, 4/4/2015) “For the Houston Parks Board and city officials, the first-ever Bayou Greenway Day offered a glimpse of the 150-mile network of bike and cycling paths they hope will weave through Houston’s nine bayous by 2020. Voters approved a bond package in 2012 that will provide $100…
Earth Month is in full swing, and CEC will have booths at many of the events including Earth Day Houston this Saturday at Discovery Green. CEC has a long history of involvement in Earth Day. In fact, before CEC was incorporated, we hosted the first Houston celebration of Earth Day in 1971. Here’s some info from the Earth Day Network…
Featured HARC launches project to encourage more energy efficiency in buildings (Katie Haugland – HARC, 3/30/2015) “Texas ranks first among the states as the biggest commercial and residential energy consumer and is outpaced by only other five states per-capita energy consumption, according to federal statistics. At the same time, state policies and programs for energy efficiency receive just middling grades…