From Solar Austin - As solar and other renewable energy technologies spread further throughout society, effectively connecting these distributed means of generation to current transmission infrastructure and expanding and modernizing the grid become ever more pressing issues. Solar Austin is excited to present our July Happy...
Affordability. Gentrification. Traffic. These are some of Austin's most pressing problems... but how do we fix them? That's what we'll be discussing at our July Civics 101 Happy Hour, designed to teach millennials in Austin how to engage with and participate in local government. This...
From 350 Austin - Join 350-Austin for a pub quiz designed to challenge your knowledge of climate change and the key fights happening now in the Texas climate justice movement! This quiz is locally focused, with rounds on the impact of climate change in the...
From Earth Day ATX - As Austin expands its capacity to reduce our food waste, how do we maximize local solutions while learning from and sharing with other cities to amplify solutions that work? Join us for a live roundtable discussion with local experts, leaders...
From the Talk Green to Me Book Club - It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight. We're reading, Stuffed And Starved: Markets, Power And The Hidden...
From the Natural Gardener - Saturday, July 29th at 10am – “Caring for Houseplants” with Heather Kendall. Heather has an extensive background in gardening, having gardened and lived in several different parts of the world. Giving your house plants the correct amount of light and...
From Brite Ideas - Free Class from Brite Ideas: Plant Tissue Culture, Polyloidy, Seedless, Feminized Seeds, Gender and Breeding GMO is a term that is often conflated with artificial selection and hybridization. This technology along with many others can enhance plant traits, but are not GMO....
From TreeHouse - To be Tiny you need to think differently...not all Tinys are built with wood or on wheels. Come check out this amazingly inexpensive building material called Papercrete - 65 percent paper pulp (recycled) and 35 percent cement = 100 percent awesome! Papercrete is...
The City of Austin is planning for the future… and it needs your help. Our city’s water utility, Austin Water, is currently in the process of developing Water Forward, a 100-year plan that will ensure that Austin has a diversified, sustainable, and resilient water future into the...
From EarthShare of Texas - The second event of our anniversary series is Bats, Birds and Barbecue: A Dinner Discussion of Wildlife and Habitat Conservation Beneath a Bat-Filled Sky. Did you know that the Mexican free-tailed bats play a hand in making your after-work margarita?...
