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Water Resilience
6:00 pm
Water Resilience
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Aug 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
 Join Professor Robert Mace of Texas State University for a discussion on freshwater scarcity. Growing populations, the ever-present threat of drought, aquifer over-pumping, reservoir sedimentation, and climate change are creating a perfect storm to challenge the resiliency of our water supplies. Since water is needed for human health, agriculture, industry, energy, recreation, and the environment and it takes decades to...
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Plastic Pollution
6:00 pm
Plastic Pollution
@ online
Aug 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
 Join Professor Hyun-Min Hwang of Texas Southern University as he examines the issue of plastic pollution.   Plastic is a polymeric material, not biodegradable, and may last hundreds of years in the environment. Substantial fractions of plastic waste are disposed of improperly, and are found everywhere, even in the middle of the ocean and deep-sea floor.  Small plastics, known as microplastics,...
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Air Pollution: Past, Present & Future
6:00 pm
Air Pollution: Past, Present & Future
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Aug 23 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
 Join Professor Gunnar Schade of Texas A&M University to learn about the issue of air pollution. Air pollution is a major factor for public health throughout the world. An increasing human population, increasingly clustered in urban areas, is exposed to a variety of air pollutants. Among the common pollutants, fine particulate matter and ozone exposure dominate health effects, which have...
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Climate Change: Simple, Serious, Solvable
6:00 pm
Climate Change: Simple, Serious, Solvable
@ online
Aug 25 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
 Join Professor Sylvia Dee of Rice University to consider climate change, its causes, impacts, and solutions. There is now a long-established global scientific consensus that climate change will damage human and natural systems at high expense. Climate change-induced disruptions to human-environment interactions occur via impacts such as sea level rise, storm surge, tropical cyclones, and degradation of ecosystems and resources. ...
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Ecological Gardening: Fruit and Veggies for Summer to Fall
6:00 pm
Ecological Gardening: Fruit and Veggies for Summer to Fall
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Aug 28 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
 Gardening and growing fruit, vegetables, and herbs organically is easy when recreating systems of nature to incorporate plants for wildlife and for people. Gardening in the gulf coast climate allows us to grow year around. Carol Burton, Director of Garden Education at Urban Harvest will explore the seasons from Summer gardening strategies to Fall transitions for a bumper cool season...
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Biodiversity Loss
6:00 pm
Biodiversity Loss
@ online
Aug 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
 Join Professor Kerri Crawford of the University of Houston for a talk on the issue of biodiversity loss. Our planet is home to millions of species that rely on each other and provide important ecosystem services. Humans, too, rely on nature — but we take a disproportionate amount of the resources and modify the environment in ways that negatively affect...
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