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Lunch Bunch: Don’t Lose Your Plants This Winter!
12:00 pm
Lunch Bunch: Don’t Lose Your Plants This Winter!
@ Mercer Botanic Gardens
Sep 11 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
![]() Jacob Martin, greenhouse manager at Mercer Botanic Gardens and owner of Old School Produce, will teach participants how to preserve tropical plants in your garden over the wintertime. He will demonstrate how to cut and cover large tropicals and give tips for storing smaller plants when the temperatures drop. Lunch Bunch is recommended for ages 12+. Bring lunch and enjoy...
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The Progressive Forum Introduces World’s Most Famous Environmentalist
7:30 pm
The Progressive Forum Introduces World’s Most Famous Environmentalist
@ Congregation Emanu El
Sep 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
![]() A principal creator of the climate movement, Bill McKibben returns to The Progressive Forum on the eve of worldwide climate demonstrations scheduled in September, while the City of Houston develops its Climate Action Plan for year-end. Furthering the importance of the event, McKibben will be joined onstage by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner for a brief Q&A on climate change and...
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History of Nash Prairie and other Dumb Luck Stories
6:30 pm
History of Nash Prairie and other Dumb Luck Stories
@ Houston Red Cross Building
Sep 25 @ 6:30 pm
![]() Susan’s presentation will address the 5 W’s (who, what, where, when, and why) and the one H (how) the Nash Prairie came to be owned by The Nature Conservancy. Susan became a Cradle of Texas Master Naturalist in 2001 and have been a volunteer land steward for the Nash Prairie since 2010. Recently she have completed an 11-month job as...
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Meanwhile: Making Abolition Geographies
5:15 pm
Meanwhile: Making Abolition Geographies
@ The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, Univ of TX School of Law
Sep 26 @ 5:15 pm – 6:30 pm
The Rothko Chapel and Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice present the 5th Annual Frances Tarlton “Sissy†Farenthold Endowed Lecture Series in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights, which honors Sissy for her relentless pursuit of social justice. The 2019 lecture will feature Ruth Wilson Gilmore, a renowned activist and public scholar known for her work on prison abolition. Gilmore...
USGS Annual Groundwater Table Data How Are We Doing?
7:00 pm
USGS Annual Groundwater Table Data How Are We Doing?
@ Houston Advanced Research Center
Sep 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
![]() The Woodlands G.R.E.E.N. is sponsoring a Going Green Sustainability Lecture. The USGS has been monitoring groundwater table levels in hundreds of water wells in our region for more than 40 years, including wells that are pumping water from the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers–sources of drinking water for much of Montgomery County. At September’s Woodlands G.R.E.E.N. lecture, speakers Chris Braun and...
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