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The Houston Urban Conservation Summit will provide a unique opportunity to learn about the restoration, management, and monitoring of Houston’s diverse ecosystems and wildlife!
Location:Â Sheldon Lake State Park & ELS
What to bring: All participants should bring a reusable water bottle, notebook, and business cards.
Day-of-event contact:Â (281) 660-6683
Cost:Â $10 per person (includes lunch)
Rating: Intermediate to Expert
Registration: REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Please find registration details at prairiepartner.org and HoustonPrairie.org or click here to register now
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!
STS-AIChE – Third Friday Networking Lunch
Topic:  A Bold Vision: EHS Compliance in a Rapidly Evolving 21st Century World
Jed will walk us through regulatory compliance – past, present, and future—with a special focus on how to position yourself and your company to take advantage of some dramatic changes that appear to be coming in the regulatory compliance sector in the era of Trump. Come prepared with questions in your areas of concern. It promises to be extremely informative and relevant.
Speaker:Â Jed Anderson Esq
Mr. Anderson is recognized nationally and regionally as a leading expert in the areas of air quality and climate change law. He was formerly with the nationally prestigious law firms of Baker Botts, and Vinson & Elkins, and “of counsel†to the law firm of Bracewell & Giuliani. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Houston Law School.
Jed has given invited testimony to the Texas Senate Natural Resources Committee, and his work has caught the attention of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, as a catalyst for positive change on this complex issue.
Costs:  There is no registration fee. The lunch menu ranges from $8 to $12, and the South Texas Section will subsidize lunches by $3 per attendee. STS members, as well as non-members, are welcome to attend. We only request that you pre-register at the STS-AIChE.org website so we can get an accurate headcount for the restaurant.
Join the USGBC Gulf Coast Chapter and the GBRC for a celebration of these excellent Houston projects. Local Owners, Developers, and Architects will discuss their insights from pursuing the highest level of LEED Certification for Core&Shell, New Construction, and Commercial Interiors projects, followed by a tour of HOK Architects’ LEED Platinum Office. CEU’s available.
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. Â
Registration:
Do you want to know how it’s done?  Bill Swann, solar expert, leads this free workshop that addresses the basics on how to install and operate a solar system. Ideal for those with a technical background or DIYer in need of guidance or troubleshooting with their solar installation project. Hands-on experience will be provided with the installation of a ground-mount system.
This five-day (40 hour) intensive training course adheres to the Army Corp of Engineers (ACOE) Wetland Delineator Certification Program criteria, but has been updated and expanded upon by our team of skilled wetland scientists at the Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies (TRIES). Specifically, this course covers the wetland delineation protocol authorized by the ACOE as presented in the 1987 and Regional Supplement manuals. Our students will gain the legal, theoretical and technical skills necessary to proficiently delineate wetlands. Emphasis will be made on the identification and application of hydrologic, hydrophytic vegetation, and hydric soil indicators within inland and coastal wetland systems. This course will cover instructional use for both the 1987 ACOE and Regional Supplement (Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain) manuals.
The first three days of our course will be spent covering each of the wetland delineation parameters (i.e., hydrology, hydrophytic vegetation, and hydric soils) in detail; we’ll spend a day per parameter. The first half of the day will be lecture-based and the second half of the day will be field-based. The fourth day of class will be spent entirely in the field conducting a mock wetland delineation and clarifying student questions. The fifth day of class is a coastal component to our inland course and is entirely optional (payment for the coastal component is additional). That is, the fifth day of class will be spent in the Galveston area to allow student exposure and application of wetland indicators within a coastal system. Class will begin promptly each day at 8 AM and end at 5:00 PM (with some days beginning or ending earlier or later).
The Center’s 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.
Following Houston’s Future Breakfast Series:
August 8 – Follow the Construction: Development in the Post-Harvey World
September 12 – Follow the Big Ideas: Smart Cities
Re-imagine your campus as a laboratory for applied sustainability education! Explore how EcoRise curriculum, resources, and grant funds can be used to increase student engagement and cultivate eco-literacy and student innovation on your campus. This hands-on training will provide a deep dive into our curriculum and Eco-Audit Grant resources, and will allow you to explore and experience the resources that are most relevant to you.
Lunch will be provided by Green Mountain energy.
EcoRise teacher trainings are open to new and experienced EcoRise teachers across the country. If you are not already an EcoRise teacher, please enroll at ecorise.org/enroll.
Urban Harvest’s Waste Not, Want Not… Bokashi and Vermicomposting
Stop throwing your food scraps in the trash. Come learn the how tos and the benefits of bokashi and vermicomposting. Physical limitations, space limitations, deed restrictions – any number of things may limit a gardener’s ability to compost in bins or piles. However, ANY gardener or homeowner can practice bokashi and vermicomposting. Bokashi composting uses kitchen scraps of all kinds, including meat and dairy products, mixed with inoculated bran to make compost faster than bin composting. Vermicomposting uses composting worms to recycle kitchen, garden, and specific paper wastes. The worms turn the waste into worm castings that are nutrient rich.
Class is hosted by University of Houston/Downtown. There are no refunds on classes.
Directions:Â The entrance into the visitor parking garage is off Girard Street on the northwest corner of the campus. Upon entering the parking, press the button to receive an entry ticket. Parking is $8.00, except for those attending the class will have their ticket validated.