Join USGBC Texas’ Gulf Coast Region for a celebration of Houston’s latest LEED Platinum Projects! Local Owners, Developers, and Architects will discuss their insights from pursuing the highest level of LEED Certification for Core & Shell (CS), New Construction (NC), and Commercial Interiors (CI) projects. The presentations will be followed by a tour of HOK’s LEED Platinum Office.  

Registration:

• Emerging Professional – $15.00
• Member – $25.00
• Non-Member – $35.00
• Student – $15.00

Held on the “2nd Saturdays” of each month, they will enjoy a delicious vegan potluck and meeting, along with a discussion, film screening, food demo or speaker presentation on intersectional issues of veganism, animal rights, environmentalism, nonviolence, health and more. Each month will be something new! Their new venue is at the HCC Conference Center.

They are asking for a donation of $5 per person to help cover our facility rental expenses. All attendees must bring a vegan entree to share at the potluck (serving size to feed 10 people)!

Please remember to bring a vegan dish to share with the group! Their events are always vegan, so please only vegan or raw vegan foods (no animal-derived ingredients). Also bring reusable dinnerware and plates to keep the event earth-friendly. If you have questions on ingredients, feel free to contact them.

They will also feature a new discussion topic on inter sectional issues each month, such as: animal rights, ethical vegan living, vegan health & nutrition, cooking, world hunger solutions, eco-friendly living, nonviolence and more! Some months will also include film screenings and/or guest speakers and food demos.

Houston Community College Conference Center is located at 3100 Main St, 3rd Floor, Houston, TX 77002. See below for map. Free Parking is available on level 7 & 8 of the HCC Administration parking garage at Main & Elgin. Use elevator from parking garage to 3rd floor breezeway, which leads to the Conference suites. You must enter the building through the parking garage and not street-level.

All attendees must sign in at the Security Desk.

RSVP is appreciated for seating!

Houston Food System Collaborative’s
Chef’s Panel on Local Agriculture

WHAT: Join us for a lively discussion on how chefs work with local agriculture producers
WHEN: 12–1 pm, Tuesday, August 28, 2018
WHERE: Houston-Galveston Area Council
2nd Floor Conference Room A
3555 Timmons Lane
Houston, Texas 77027

MODERATOR: Scott Snodgrass- the Edible Group

CHEF’S PANEL:
Felipe Riccio- Goodnight Hospitality
Soren Pedersen – Currant Kitchen
Shaun Carroll – Melange Creperie

Co Chairs
Josh Owens, Houston-Galveston Area Council
Linsi Broom, Houston Health Department

Action Group Leads
EBT Access at Farmers Markets; Linsi Broom, Houston Health Department
Fair Agriculture Valuation; Scott Howard, Urban Harvest
Land Access for Urban Agriculture; Josh Owens, Houston-Galveston Area Council

One year after the devastation from Hurricane Harvey, Houston and Harris County remain vulnerable to the threat of widespread flooding. The existing floodplain map is outdated, and the frequency and severity of major flood events are likely to increase in the years ahead, putting Houstonians’ livelihoods at risk. Addressing the threat of flooding requires a transparent and collaborative re-evaluation of the city’s infrastructure to improve flood mitigation while ensuring equity for communities throughout the region. While positive efforts are currently under way, creating a more flood-resilient Houston will require new ideas and a willingness to innovate.

At this event, Jim Blackburn, Baker Institute Rice faculty scholar and founder of the Bayou City Initiative, and a panel of experts will examine the ongoing challenges of flooding in Houston and possible policy solutions.

This event is sponsored by the Baker Institute and the Bayou City Initiative. Follow @BakerInstitute on Twitter and join the conversation online with #BakerHarvey.

Agenda

5:30 p.m. — Reception
6:30 p.m. — Presentation

Featured Speaker

Jim Blackburn
Founder, Bayou City Initiative; Professor in the Practice of Environmental Law, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and co-director, Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disaster (SSPEED) Center, Rice University; and Rice Faculty Scholar, Baker Institute

The Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University will present a program on making Houston a safer, healthier and more economically vibrant city. One of the panel discussions, including Dr. Bakeyah S. Nelson of Air Alliance Houston, will focus on equitable recovery from Hurricane Harvey. The event will be held at Ripley House, 4410 Navigation Blvd. For more information and to register, visit bakerinstitute.org.

Held on the “2nd Saturdays” of each month, they will enjoy a delicious vegan potluck and meeting, along with a discussion, film screening, food demo or speaker presentation on intersectional issues of veganism, animal rights, environmentalism, nonviolence, health and more. Each month will be something new! Their new venue is at the HCC Conference Center.

They are asking for a donation of $5 per person to help cover our facility rental expenses. All attendees must bring a vegan entree to share at the potluck (serving size to feed 10 people)!

Please remember to bring a vegan dish to share with the group! Their events are always vegan, so please only vegan or raw vegan foods (no animal-derived ingredients). Also bring reusable dinnerware and plates to keep the event earth-friendly. If you have questions on ingredients, feel free to contact them.

They will also feature a new discussion topic on inter sectional issues each month, such as: animal rights, ethical vegan living, vegan health & nutrition, cooking, world hunger solutions, eco-friendly living, nonviolence and more! Some months will also include film screenings and/or guest speakers and food demos.

Houston Community College Conference Center is located at 3100 Main St, 3rd Floor, Houston, TX 77002. See below for map. Free Parking is available on level 7 & 8 of the HCC Administration parking garage at Main & Elgin. Use elevator from parking garage to 3rd floor breezeway, which leads to the Conference suites. You must enter the building through the parking garage and not street-level.

All attendees must sign in at the Security Desk.

RSVP is appreciated for seating!

The Center for Houston’s Future Summer Salons are a series of casual breakfast conversations, bringing big-picture thinkers and regional experts together with broader audiences, for an extended deep-dive discussion of issues that matter most to our future, with a focus on the next steps for creating a sustainable and competitive Houston region.

September 12 – Follow the Big Ideas: Smart Cities

Moderated by:

Travis Bubenik, Energy and Environment Reporter, Houston Public Media

Panelists:

Martin Powell, Global Head of Urban Development, Siemens

Clinton A. Vince, Partner, Dentons

Paula Gold-Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer, CPS Energy

On Wednesday, September 12, HARC will continue its People & Nature Speaker Series hosting an evening conversation with six national thought leaders on the topic of innovative resilience financing and the role that the public and private sectors can play to develop new community partnerships and diversified resilience funding mechanisms in Greater Houston.

More people are moving to the Houston-Galveston region every year while a decade of hurricanes, floods and historic drought underscores the risks to the region’s future prosperity. Implementing strategies and projects to make Houston economically attractive, while increasing resilience requires local investment. Public funds from federal, state and local government source play an important role in rebuilding communities and infrastructure. However, they are limited in their ability to support innovative resilience strategies to create a more livable, nature-based and equitable Houston.

HARC will host an evening “fishbowl dialogue” event with experts in resilience financing, infrastructure and global and climate change:

• Shannon Cunniff – Director of Coastal Resilience, EDF
• Jose Peralta – Director, AON Risk Solutions
• Jamie Rubin – CEO, Meridiam North America
• Peter Schultz, PhD – Vice President, ICF
• Stacy Swann – CEO and Founding Partner, Climate Finance Advisors
• Shalini Vajjhala, PhD – Founder & CEO, re:focus partners

The event, to be held at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Brown Auditorium, will begin at 6:00 pm. Guests are invited to continue the conversation at the post-event reception. The reception, featuring light appetizers, beer, and wine, will conclude at 8:30.

Please contact Events@HARCresearch.org for information on group reservations or for any additional questions you may have.

This is a joint event of the German Consulate General in Houston, the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) and Ecologic Institute’s EFEX program in the context of the second annual European Union Climate Diplomacy Week, two weeks after the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.

The Energy Future Exchange – Houston Dialogue focuses on renewable energy and its role in the future energy system with particular focus on resilience, equity and economic impacts.

For more information, visit eventbrite.com.

51 inches of rain in four days devastated Houston in August 2017, inflicting injuries, infectious diseases, chemical exposures and mental trauma on residents. What are Harvey’s lessons for leaders? On September 27, 2018, 6-8 p.m., join David E. Persse, Public Health Authority, City of Houston, and Joshua M. Sharfstein, Vice Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, for a special discussion, followed by a networking reception.

Space is limited. To RSVP or for more information, visit globalhealthnow.org.