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Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church invites you to a monthly environmental education web meeting series whose theme in 2018 is Stewardship.
At the May web meeting, we welcome Anja Machado, Executive Director, and Victoria Hepburn, Education/Outreach Coordinator, of the Texas Wildlife Rehabilitation Center (TWRC), who will discuss Care and Stewardship of Wildlife & EcoSystems in Our Communities. Anja will explain how the TWRC cares for wildlife brought to the center, and the role of rehabilitators who care for animals in their homes. She will also discussion volunteer opportunities at the center. Victoria will explain how to recognize if an animal is in need, how to assist animals in need, and how to bring injured or orphaned animals to the center for assistance. She will also highlight how attendees can be true stewards of our urban and suburban ecosystems, and the importance of doing so to the health & vitality of our city. After their talk, there will be time for Q&A.
To support the national week of action on EPA’s science restriction rule, Earthjustice and UCS are partnering to host a skills-based webinar on public comments. In this online training, you will learn: how to write an effective public comment, what types of comments are most meaningful, and how to weigh in on EPA’s proposed rule to restrict science in decision-making. If you want to learn about how to make expert comments on important issues, this webinar is for you.
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:Â Demographic Explorer and Snapshot -Â Thursday, March 22
- Seminar 2: Regional Employment Snapshot & Commute Patterns -Â Thursday, April 26
- Seminar 3: Activity-Connectivity Explorer -Â 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.
GOMA is hosting a Wednesday Webinar series, the last Wednesday of every other month at 2:00pm Central/3:00pm Eastern. Join us to hear about great resources and projects from around the Gulf.
The first webinar will be May 30th, on Gulf TREE with Mikaela Hemming from the Northern Gulf of Mexico Sentinel Site Cooperative. Gulf TREE (www.gulftree.org) is a new decision support search engine designed to help stakeholders confidently identify the best resilience tool for their individual needs. Download the GOMA Wednesday Webinars informational flyer.
There is no registration fee. The lunch menu is buffet style, and the South Texas Section subsidizes lunch cost by $5 per attendee. STS members as well as non-members are welcome to attend. They only request that you pre-register at the STS-AIChE.org website so they can get an accurate head count for the restaurant.
The amount of resources borrowed from our Earth to create the buildings in which we spend 93% of our lives is staggering. If we look at just the residential building industry, we see that we are building homes with a life span of 40-100 years, with the interior materials having an even shorter lifespan. Through this discussion,Caroline Kostak, secretary of the Texas Gulf Coast Region chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, will look at how we can meet the need to shelter and provide work space for a growing population while also being respectful of the resources given to us on Earth.  We will explore different strategies that can lead to efficient resource management and produce beautiful, healthy, and efficient buildings that celebrate the gifts and abundance of the Earth while also protecting them. Caroline draws from her experience as a NASA Flight Controller, constructing one of the highest performance structures ever built – the International Space Station – and many conversations with space travelers who have seen first-hand the fragility and beauty of our Earth from a distinct vantage point. Her work with space construction has led directly to her working in construction on Earth, as this broadened perspective helped her see the importance of being a good steward of the precious Earth we’ve been asked to care for. After Caroline’s talk, there will be time for Q&A.  Please register for this talk, and you will receive an invitation to the web meeting. Contact Lisa Brenskelle at gcs.lrc@gmail.com with any questions.
Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church invites you to attend Sunday Evening Conversations on Creation, an environmental education web meeting series whose theme in 2017 is Connections between People and Nature.
The Creation Care Team Mission Statement: Being earth keepers is foundational to our Christian vocation. The Creation Care Team encourages members of Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church to incorporate care for creation into the congregation’s full life and ministry.
This is the first of four webinars to assist permit reviewers in evaluating the potential for compensatory wetland mitigation proposals to achieve ecological objectives planned for the summer of 2018.
To register, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.
To register for the webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.
The webinar will start with introducing the primary components of a wetland, moving on to what makes wetlands distinctive from other types of waters and land. Next, the webinar will cover the variability of wetlands across the landscape, including across seasons and time and the benefits of wetlands.
Fecal pollution in recreational and drinking source waters can result in outbreaks leading to the transmission of disease. Recent advancements in the field of molecular biology have led to the development of microbial source tracking (MST) tools that can characterize fecal pollution from different animal groups.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is using tools developed by EPA scientists for environmental investigations of waterborne outbreaks. For this webinar, EPA’s Dr. Orin Shanks will provide an overview on EPA’s MST method development activities, and CDC’s Dr. Mia Mattioli will highlight a CDC response to a recent waterborne outbreak where an EPA developed human-associated MST procedure was employed to help confirm a source of norovirus. Register here.