The family-friendly offerings with hands-on-topics are free with regular admission. Enjoy a fun, educational outing; then stay to picnic, bird, hike, fish or just relax.

Editor –

Throughout the Greater Houston area our waterways are at risk.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) recently approved the City of South Houston to remove safeguards on how much mercury is allowed to enter Berry Creek, which flows into Galveston Bay. Until now, the TCEQ regulated mercury that entered our waterways through wastewater in the City of South Houston’s treatment facilities.

Tell the City of South Houston to protect our communities!

Mercury poses a serious health risk due to its ability to easily enter the food chain from the fish we eat. Regulations on testing for mercury help keep treatment facilities accountable for their actions, keeping our waterways clean and our communities healthy. 

Bayou City Waterkeeper challenged the change in regulations and is urging  the City of South Houston and the TCEQ to require mercury testing in our local waters.

Tell TCEQ that you want your waters tested for mercury! Sign the petition today to keep mercury out of our bayous and Galveston Bay.

As Texans, we know we are stronger and louder together! Let’s submit as many signatures and comments as possible, using our power to make positive change.

The Brays Bayou Association meets the third Monday of each month at The Gathering Place. Brays Bayou Association does not currently have a website.

All are welcome to Houston Renewable Energy Group’s monthly meetings! They will have a presentation on an interesting aspect of renewable energy in Houston, review HREG business, progress, and plan events. After the meeting, they usually spend some time socializing and finding out what is happening on the renewable scene in Houston from each other. Monthly Meetings are the best place for members to learn about HREG, ask questions, and provide suggestions.

If you are interested in volunteering or becoming a voting member, attending this meeting would be a great opportunity for you to learn more about what HREG does and how you can help. For more information, contact HREG.

Join Mayor Sylvester Turner and Sustainability Office as they present recommended strategies for the City’s Climate Action Plan.

The strategies will highlight actions across four key areas:

1. building optimization,
2. decarbonization,
3. transportation, and
4. materials management.

The City of Houston has set an ambitious goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050, which means that we must reduce or offset any carbon dioxide that we release into the atmosphere.

The Climate Action Plan will outline goals, strategies, and actions that we as a City and community plan to take to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the impacts of climate change. The proposed plan is the result of a data- and stakeholder- driven process, organized in partnership with the Houston Advanced Research Center.

Experts are alarmed that climate disruption could collapse our global civilization. In July 2018, U. K. sustainability professor Jem Bendell published the academic paper “Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy”. In it, he predicts the “near-term collapse in society with serious ramifications for the lives of readers”. He asks us to shift our focus to Deep Adaptation, that is, resilience, relinquishment, restoration and reconciliation.

Our speaker, Tim Mock, will summarize this academic paper.

Citizens took Bendell’s warning seriously. They dowloaded his paper 500,000 times. A growing movement of visionaries have repeated the call to action. In April, David Attenborough said in a special BBC TV program “… if we have not taken dramatic action within the next decade we could face irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies. … if we better understand the threat we face, the more likely it is that we can avoid such a catastrophic future.”

In May, Australian experts issued a similar paper “Existential climate-related security risk”. They predict collapse of agriculture in the tropics and a billion climate refugees. They warn that unless we take serious action in the next decade, there’s a good chance society could collapse as soon as 2050.

On May 1, the UK Parliament declared an environmental and climate emergency. On June 14, Pope Francis declared a climate emergency.

The cloud of collapse has a silver lining. Only twice since 1970 have emissions dropped: the 1990 collapse of the Soviet Union and the near-collapse of the global economy in 2008.

The future is calling us to greatness says Reverend Michael Dowd.

Visit their website to register for this event.

The Brays Bayou Association meets the third Monday of each month at The Gathering Place. Brays Bayou Association does not currently have a website.

All are welcome to Houston Renewable Energy Group’s monthly meetings! They will have a presentation on an interesting aspect of renewable energy in Houston, review HREG business, progress, and plan events. After the meeting, they usually spend some time socializing and finding out what is happening on the renewable scene in Houston from each other. Monthly Meetings are the best place for members to learn about HREG, ask questions, and provide suggestions.

If you are interested in volunteering or becoming a voting member, attending this meeting would be a great opportunity for you to learn more about what HREG does and how you can help. For more information, contact HREG.