The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Climate Communications Initiative (CCI) aims to coordinate efforts across the Academies to successfully address public questions about climate change, develop innovative approaches for communicating and disseminating climate information, and provide easy access to evidence-based findings and explanations of climate change to various audiences. The CCI will enable the Academies to advise the nation in more nimble and responsive ways, pulling from the deep and diverse body of work from the institution’s seven programmatic divisions and three honorific societies.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have put in place an Advisory Committee to provide expert oversight and guidance for the plan; part of their process is to convene an in-person meeting (to be held on March 6) to gather input. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine welcomes you to join their meeting via webcast, and participate in this full-day meeting!

To register for the webinar or for more information, visit eventbrite.com.

Join the Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) for the Parks and Natural Areas (PNA) Roundtable on Monday, March 12, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at H-GAC Conference Room A, Second Floor. The PNA Roundtable is open to anyone interested in participating.

The topic of the meeting is Maintenance and Beyond. Speakers will discuss parks as flood mitigation and park maintenance before and after large-scale events. H-GAC staff will discuss upcoming PNA activities. A roundtable discussion will follow the presentations.

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.

Register to attend in-person or to attend via webinar.

For more information, visit h-gac.com.

H-GAC is hosting a series of seminars and hands-on workshops to learn to use H-GAC’s interactive web applications for community and transportation planning. Participants will have access to computers to participate in an interactive session to master the use of these online applications.

A webinar option is also available; however, hands-on activities will be presented to in-person attendees only.

• Seminar 1: Demographic Explorer and Snapshot - Thursday, March 22
  
• Seminar 2: Regional Employment Snapshot & Commute Patterns - Thursday, April 26
• Seminar 3: Activity-Connectivity Explorer - Thursday, May 24

Seminar 1 focuses on the Demographic Explorer and Snapshot which provides quick and easy access to US Census American Community Survey data

Learn how to customize the data displayed to fit your needs:

• Draw and select an area of interest
• Query the data for more information
• Perform market analysis
• Summarize and download data
• Directly use the demographic snapshot tool and maps for presentations

For more information, visit h-gac.com.

Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church invites you to a monthly environmental education web meeting series whose theme in 2018 is Stewardship.

At the March web meeting, the Church welcome John Ferguson, soil scientist & owner of Nature’s Way Resources, a Houston-based composting, mulch & recycling firm. John’s talk is an introduction to a new model of soil science and fertility management called the “Soil Food Web”. It explains how biological (organic) methods work and how they save you time and money in your gardening projects by preventing many problems. The biological methods are sustainable; greatly reduce water requirements, prevent problems, eliminate air and water pollution, sequester carbon, and lower total management costs from property management to erosion control. Learn from the man whose personal garden has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens and several gardening books. After John’s talk, there will be time for Q&A.

For more information, visit eventbrite.com or contact Lisa Brenskelle at gcs.lrc@gmail.com.

1. On April 8, 2018, at 2:30 p.m., the Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston invites you to learn how you and/or your house of worship can go solar for less by leveraging Solarize Houston, a program of the Houston Renewable Energy Group, a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting renewable energy solutions and businesses. PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy), a very attractive financing option for houses of worship and other commercial properties, will also be covered. You may attend this event in person or online via web meeting. Please register for this event at eventbrite.com. For more information, please contact Lisa Brenskelle at gcs.lrc@gmail.com.

The Marine Technology for Teachers and Students (MaTTS) Project invites you to participate in its upcoming webinar series. This series of three webinars (see below) will focus on how to incorporate marine technology builds, ocean exploration expeditions, and live content into your classroom curriculum.

During each webinar, Inner Space Center (ISC) staff and MaTTS Project Teacher Leaders will present an overview of the MaTTS Project, ocean exploration activities, and various marine technology builds.  Learn how to incorporate these topics into your classroom curriculum.

Webinar Series Schedule

Monday, December 18, 2017, 3-4pm Eastern

Ocean Exploration Topic: Connecting Your Classroom to Live Expeditions
Technology Build: Basic Observation Systems

Monday, February 5, 2018, 3-4pm Eastern

Ocean Exploration Topic: Recent Technological Advancements
Technology Build: Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs)

Thursday, April 12, 2018, 3-4pm Eastern

Ocean Exploration Topic: 2018 Expeditions
Technology Build: Hydrophones/Oceanographic Sensors

Please use this link to register for one or more of the webinars in this series. Once registered, information on how to connect will be sent, via email, within a week of the scheduled webinar.

Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability is hosting a new five-webinar series — “Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience Leadership Series.” The series is co-hosted by the American Society of Adaptation Professionals and the University of the District of Columbia’s College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences.

The free series will introduce participants to climate change adaptation and resilience leaders working in policy, innovation, and technology, and climate justice and social equity from across various scales of government and other sectors. These experts will share cutting-edge examples of how they are putting effective innovation and equitable climate adaptation into practice.

The first webinar will discuss Climate Adaptation Policy at the State and Local Level. Deliberate, proactive climate action is a deviation from business-as-usual and requires boldly challenging the status quo. At the heart of climate action are individuals: courageous leaders who may come from any part of society. Climate action requires revising, or creating new, law, policy, or regulation to incentive adaptation action and penalize maladaptation. In this webinar, hear from individuals who exemplify visionary leadership and are moving their jurisdictions forward through groundbreaking climate policy. Register for the webinar at register.gotowebinar.com.

Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability is hosting a new five-webinar series — “Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience Leadership Series”. The series is co-hosted by the American Society of Adaptation Professionals and the University of the District of Columbia’s College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences.
The free series will introduce participants to climate change adaptation and resilience leaders working in policy, innovation and technology, and climate justice and social equity from across various scales of government and other sectors. These experts will share cutting-edge examples of how they are putting effective, innovative and equitable climate adaptation into practice.

The first webinar in the new series focuses on Climate Policy.

Panelists for the first webinar include

Michael McCormick, California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
Guy Williams, President & CEO of Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice and Project Director of the Detroit Climate Action Plan.

This session will be moderated by Elizabeth Graffy, Professor of Practice at the Arizona State University’s Center for Science, Policy & Outcomes and Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.

Subsequent webinars will address Innovations in Climate Solutions, and Climate Justice and Adaptation plus other timely and impactful subjects.

More details about this webinar and the entire series will be posted over the next several weeks.

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.

Revitalization Roundtables

H-GAC hosts quarterly roundtables to help local governments, chambers of commerce, and economic development interests promote the economic and revitalization of downtown areas.

For more information, visit h-gac.com or contact Clint McManus at clint.mcmanus@h-gac.com or 832-681-2513.

H-GAC is hosting a series of seminars and hands-on workshops to learn to use H-GAC’s interactive web applications for community and transportation planning. Participants will have access to computers to participate in an interactive session to master the use of these online applications.

A webinar option is also available; however, hands-on activities will be presented to in-person attendees only.

• Seminar 1: Demographic Explorer and Snapshot - Thursday, March 22
  
• Seminar 2: Regional Employment Snapshot & Commute Patterns - Thursday, April 26
• Seminar 3: Activity-Connectivity Explorer - Thursday, May 24

Seminar 1 focuses on the Demographic Explorer and Snapshot which provides quick and easy access to US Census American Community Survey data

Learn how to customize the data displayed to fit your needs:

• Draw and select an area of interest
• Query the data for more information
• Perform market analysis
• Summarize and download data
• Directly use the demographic snapshot tool and maps for presentations

For more information, visit h-gac.com.