For the third time, on January 26 & 27, 2017, the CEC will host the Wild & Scenic Film Festival on Tour at the River Oaks Theatre. WSFF provides a selection of about 75 short films, from which CEC will choose about 20 for the two night showing in January. While most of the films that the CEC chooses to…
I was all set to lead off this week’s newsletter by featuring the fabulous work of the Galveston Bay Foundation. Last week, GBF released the 2016 Galveston Bay Report Card and launched their Galveston Bay Water Brigade campaign, and tomorrow they have their annual membership meeting. GBF’s work is still amazing–and highlighted below and in the photo above. First, though, I’d like to tell…
 While the Perseids meteor shower is an annual occurrence, the display this year should be especially dazzling, with about 160-200 meteors–rather than the 80-100 of a regular Perseid shower–igniting in earth’s atmosphere each hour on Thursday night and Friday morning, according to the New York Times. We’ll be seeing debris left behind by the Comet Swift-Tuttle during orbits in 1862,…