The Memorial Park Conservancy has generously offered Katy Prairie Conservancy use of their greenhouse while the Native Seed Nursery at KPC’s field office in Waller is being renovated. Volunteers will help grow plants that will be used for various Katy Prairie Conservancy spring projects and for the Great Grow Out. The Memorial Park Conservancy Greenhouse is located in Memorial Park on the south side of Memorial Drive. All are welcome, no experience necessary.

Workdays are scheduled for the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month from 9:00 a.m. to noon.

If passed, the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act would benefit all of us, bringing more than $63 million per year to Texas for at-risk wildlife and habitat conservation, research, nature education, and outdoor recreation.

Please join Texas Alliance for America’s Fish & Wildlife and their partners at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to learn more about the need for, and benefits of this bipartisan legislation, specific benefits to the Greater Houston area, 2018 Texas successes, and the many ways you can get involved in the months ahead.

Space is limited, please email info@txwildlifealliance.org to RSVP.

Workdays are held once a month, October through March on the second Saturday of the month. We start work around 8:30 AM and work until about noon, when we break for lunch, provided by Houston Audubon and prepared by the lunch crew. Lunch at the picnic area of Boy Scout Woods is a good chance to visit with other volunteers and recharge from a morning of exercise and work. After lunch, we take about an hour to tie up any loose ends and clean up.

Come be a part of sanctuary maintenance, habitat restoration, and Houston Audubon’s amazing volunteer workforce. Email Pete Deichmann at pdeichmann@houstonaudubon.org for more information or to be put on the email list.

• November 10
• December 8
• January 12
• February 9
• March 9

Do you live in Houston and want to go solar? Now’s your chance! Neighbors have formed the The Houston Central Solar Co-op with the help of Solar United Neighbors to make it easier to save money on the purchase of solar panels, while building a community of local solar supporters.

Join HREG for an information session to learn about solar energy as well as how solar co-ops simplify the process of going solar while providing a discount through their bulk purchasing power.

Volunteers meet the second and fourth Thursday of every month to propagate plants from locally collected native seed. A typical workday may include seeding pots, bumping up trays into 1-gallon containers, separating seedlings, and weeding pots. They will also have special seed collecting trips, invasive species removal workdays, and planting events in restored prairies.

If you’re interested in volunteering for the Natural Resource Management Program, email kelli.ondracek@houstontx.gov or visit houstontx.gov/parks/naturalresources.html.

Despite being thousands of miles from civilization, plastic pollution from Asia and the Americas constantly washes up on the pristine shores of Midway. Plastic is found in the stomachs of the many birds that call the atoll home. Midway has since become the heart of the plastic pollution movement and is inspiring cities far away, like Houston, to do better.

This event is free and open to the public. Houston Audubon will begin the night socializing/ networking at 7 p.m., which the presentation will follow at 7:30. To register or to learn more about Anna Vallery, visit houstonaudubon.org.

Join Sisters of Charity for a morning of critical reflection on one of the greatest moral challenges of our time, stopping Climate Change and protecting our Common Home. What is the responsibility of the individual Christian and the role of the local Church? “TEDTalk”- style presentations and a panel of local Catholic leaders will discuss the responsibility of individual Christians and the role of the local Church to Care for our Common Home. For more information (e.g., the itinerary), visit eventbrite.com.

Do you live in Houston and want to go solar? Now’s your chance! Neighbors have formed the The Houston Central Solar Co-op with the help of Solar United Neighbors to make it easier to save money on the purchase of solar panels, while building a community of local solar supporters.

Join HREG for an information session to learn about solar energy as well as how solar co-ops simplify the process of going solar while providing a discount through their bulk purchasing power.

Katy Prairie Conservancy (KPC) is partnering with Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) to install the first 9 Natives Showcase Garden. The 9 Natives Showcase Garden will be located near the HMNS Cockrell Butterfly Center and in close proxmity to the METRORail line on San Jacinto Street. This “showcase garden,” featuring nine Texas native plants, will demonstrate how individuals can incorporate native plants in their own gardens or yards in the Houston area. Volunteers interested in assisting with the 9 Natives Showcase Garden installation are welcome to attend the event, as well as those who wish to observe how to create a garden with native plants. The address for HMNS is 5555 Hermann Park Dr. Look for KPC and Garden Club of Houston representatives near the Cockrell Butterfly Center in proximity to San Jacinto Street.

Michael Eason, author of Wildflowers of Texas, works in the private sector as a conservation botanist for Texas Flora. Texas Flora is a Facebook group devoted to plant identification in Texas and adjacent states in Mexico. He performs botanical inventories and rare plant surveys on private and public lands, primarily in the Chihuahuan Desert ecoregion. To learn more about Michael, visit houstonprairie.org.

Join HNPAT at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments, followed by the presentation at 7. This event is open to the public.