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Fall Symposium: Conserving Native Plants of the Texas Coastal Prairies
6:00 pm
Fall Symposium: Conserving Native Plants of the Texas Coastal Prairies
@ South Shore Harbour Resort & Conference Center
Oct 3 @ 6:00 pm – Oct 6 @ 8:00 am
![]() The 2019 annual symposium will focus on conserving native plants in the upper Texas coastal prairies, also known as the Northern Humid Gulf Coastal Prairies in the EPA Level IV ecoregion map. Quaternary-age deltaic sands, silts, and clays underlie much of this gently sloping coastal plain. The original vegetation was mostly grasslands with a few clusters of oaks, known as...
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An Evening for Educators
4:00 pm
An Evening for Educators
@ Houston Museum of Natural Science
Oct 4 @ 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Shell Educators’ Preview: Start your evening at 4 p.m. and earn one hour of CPE credit while viewing our newly renovated George W. Strake Hall of Malacology. HMNS’ Educator Members will have an opportunity to speak to Tina Petway, the Museum’s Associate Curator of Malacology, during the Shell Educators’ Preview. As a special treat, all guests will also be able...
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Vegan Society of P.E.A.C.E. Monthly Meeting
6:00 pm
Vegan Society of P.E.A.C.E. Monthly Meeting
@ Houston Community College Conference Center
Oct 12 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
![]() Join Vegan Society of P.E.A.C.E. for their “Vegan 2nd Saturdays†Monthly Meetings, Presentations & Vegan Potlucks 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...
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Going Green Sustainability Lecture
7:00 pm
Going Green Sustainability Lecture
@ HARC
Oct 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
![]() The Woodlands G.R.E.E.N. is sponsoring a FREE Going Green Sustainability lecture: “Mycophile or Mycophobe–we all need mushrooms†with guest speaker, Teri MacArthur, Certified Texas Master Naturalist. This event is free and open to the public.
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Cooling Our Planet by Restoring the Water Cycle
12:00 pm
Cooling Our Planet by Restoring the Water Cycle
@ First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, Museum District Campus
Oct 27 @ 12:00 pm
Rain is as important as carbon dioxide in cooling our planet. People must restore trees and soil to restore the water cycle. The image above shows how trees pump huge amounts of water back into the air and create more rain further inland. It is a river in the sky. When folks started climate modeling, to simplify, they ignored water...
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