Love nature and the outdoors? Want to make a difference in the world? Let’s put your passion to work. Join Coastal Prairie Partnership for the 2019 CEES forum to discover how to transition from college to a career in the environment. Local experts will share their career pathway experiences, offering tips and advice to help students navigate the transition to the working world. The forum will also host local environmental groups and agencies that have current volunteer, internship, and job opportunities. Job seekers, bring your resumes! This event is free, and open to all college and high school students.

Water Efficient Future: Planning, Tools and Best Practices

The Gulf Coast Water Conservation Symposium provides water utilities with the information needed to implement successful water conservation programs, effectively engage customers, and plan for the future. Learn from state and national experts about the latest approaches, what is coming next and best practices for maximum efficiency gains. This year’s symposium is focused on new and improved tools to help your utility meet its water conservation goals. The symposium will also feature case studies highlighting planning, redevelopment and water conservation implementation efforts from cities large and small.

Join the Rothko Chapel and University of St. Thomas for a three day symposium exploring the current climate crisis, its impact on vulnerable communities, and mitigation efforts being implemented locally and nationally.

Given the global interconnected-ness of the climate crisis, the symposium will explore how best to move to a zero emission, low carbon economy through the engagement of presenters from religious, Indigenous, public health, energy, government, philanthropic, academic and arts sectors and communities. A central focus will be on individual and institutional actions, practices and policies that must be taken to create a more livable and equitable future.

Online registration for this event is required.

Join Sisters of Charity for a morning of critical reflection on one of the greatest moral challenges of our time, stopping Climate Change and protecting our Common Home. What is the responsibility of the individual Christian and the role of the local Church? “TEDTalk”- style presentations and a panel of local Catholic leaders will discuss the responsibility of individual Christians and the role of the local Church to Care for our Common Home. For more information (e.g., the itinerary), visit eventbrite.com.

The 2019 Spring Symposium speakers will be:

• Shannon Brown – Ecosystems Regeneration Artisans (ERA) Landscapes, ‘Rainscapes’;
• Michael Eason – ‘Plants of the Chihuahuan Desert’;
• George Cates of Native American Seed – ‘Perspectives on Native Plants’;
• Claire Jenkins and Ariel Cummins of the Cibolo Nature Center will speak on the ‘Cibolo Nature Center’; and
• Ben Pfeiffer of Firefly.org, ‘Fireflies of Texas’.

Texas ASLA Conference is a platform to explore topics like the process, next: innovative/expanding markets, green/sustainable practices and principles, and landscape/case studies. For more information, visit www.texasasla.org.

The North American Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Conference, sponsored by Blank Rome, is designed to address the energy, environmental, natural resources legal issues that span Canada, the United States and Mexico. This year the conference will address issues surrounding energy infrastructure buildout, demand and integration of renewable energy, and updates on changes in energy, environment, and climate policy in North America and its effect on business.