The annual STAR membership meeting, will take place at Moody Gardens Hotel in Galveston on Tuesday afternoon during the Texas Recycling Summit. Meet their Board, staff, and your fellow STAR members as well! For more information and ticket purchase, visit Evenbrite page.

As landfill space and raw materials become scarcer, recycling of used materials becomes a more cost-effective and sensible option. Periodically H-GAC hosts workshops to bring new ideas and knowledge to local governments on a wide range of recycling-related topics.

Regional Recycling Roundtable

The next roundtable will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, November 15, 2018, in H-GAC Conference Room A, Second Floor.

The topic is Composting as a recycling strategy. Presentations will include:

• Trends and Status in Commercial Composting
• Municipality Case Study
• Master Composter Overview

Registration is requested.

For more information about the roundtable, please contact Becki Begley at becki.begley@h-gac.com or 713-993-2410.

Texas Children in Nature will host the annual Summit and Champions Luncheon this year on December 6 & 7, 2018 in Corpus Christi. The Summit will bring together leaders from the health, education, conservation, faith and built-environment for two days of learning and turning inspiration into action.

An annual tradition of the NPSOT Houston Chapter is its holiday dinner party. On Thursday, December 20, 2017, at 7:00 pm you can join fellow NPSOT Houston Chapter members and friends at Maggiano’s Little Italy at 2019 Post Oak Blvd. Houston, Texas 77056. Festivities start promptly at 7:00 pm. It is said that dining at Maggiano’s with their Italian–American cuisine is reminiscent of a Sunday dinner at grandmother’s house, The recipes are mostly simple, authentic classics, but some are over the top. At the event, everyone orders from the menu and covers their own expenses for meals and drinks. RSVP required.

The City of Angleton will host the next Bringing Back Main Street Revitalization roundtable meeting at the Brazoria County Historical Museum. During this roundtable, participants will hear information on meeting building codes and regulations when renovating older buildings in downtowns. The presentation will be followed by a tour of two renovated buildings in downtown Angleton. H-GAC hosts quarterly roundtables to help local governments, chambers of commerce, and economic development interests promote the economic revitalization of downtown areas. Online RSVP is requested.

The Bringing Back Main Street initiative offers local communities a place to share best practices and engage in a regional dialogue about revitalizing and supporting vibrant downtown spaces. Each quarter, community leaders gather for a roundtable on topics ranging from small business support to sidewalk infrastructure. These ongoing roundtables add to the knowledge shared during a 2015 workshop series.

Save the date for H-GAC’s next Bringing Back Main Street Roundtable. The location and topic are to be determined.

Texas Solar Energy Society (TXSES) meets once a year and this year they will journey to Georgetown, a city that has made a commitment to be a 100% renewably powered city. Refreshments will be provided. The meeting is free and open to the public.

Join Citizens’ Environmental Coalition as they visit the Hannah and Arthur Ginsbarg Nature Discovery Center in Bellaire. There will be a guided tour outside and a chance to view major renovations that were completed recently. They will visit the pocket priarie, deciduous woodlands, prairie wetland, and cypress pond in Russ Pitman Park; nature play area; and Critter Classroom. On the tour, you will learn about environmental education initiatives at a mainstay of environmental education inside the loop. The last part of the meeting is our traditional EEE Round-table Forum where members and attendees introduce themselves, their programs, make announcements and discuss challenges and successes in environmental education.

The PNA Roundtable serves as a forum for discussion of issues related to parks and natural areas, promotes the PNA Award Program, and maintains a regional inventory of parks. The PNA roundtable facilitates information exchange and planning efforts between various stakeholders and collaborators to protect and preserve parks and natural areas across the region. For more information, visit www.h-gac.com.