Blog posts from around the country
North Star Chapter
As the 2016 session convened in March, environmental advocates approached with very modest expectations. Last year, the Legislature took a number of steps backward on the environment, rolling back protections for clean water and weakening clean…
Lone Star Chapter
Somewhere off the east side of the Franklin Mountain Range adjacent to Northeast El Paso lays a field colored with Mexican poppies and native grasses. This land, left nearly untouched by humanity for the past half century, is known as Castner Range…
North Star Chapter
For many years the Honduran indigenous group, Lenca, has suffered human rights abuses including land and natural resources exploitation by illegal development projects as reported in the New York Times and other media sources. Under international…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
2016 is a pivotal election year with key elections from the White House through your local county court house. Key environmental issues from climate change to the Trans Pacific Partnership/TPP, and from Texas air and water issues to Houston area…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Proposed Sanctuary Expansion
Upcoming Public Meetings in Galveston, July 12, and in Houston, July 13
Building on more than 30 years of studies and numerous reports released in the last decade calling for additional protections, NOAA’s Flower…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
The Texas Landscape Project: Nature and People, is a newly published environmental history atlas for the state. The book presents more than 40 chapters on land, water, energy, wildlife, air quality, and the built world. It provides an accessible,…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Jaime Gonzalez (Community Conservation Director at Katy Prairie Conservancy) has recorded an informative and nicely illustrated lecture, now available on You Tube, to discuss the reasons why planting native plants, instead of exotic plants, is…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Your help needed! The Houston Bike Plan final draft has been presented to Houston City Council and will be voted on later this summer. Please join citizens across Houston in asking City Council to vote YES on the Plan (sample letter below). Even…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
For residents, curbside glass pick up is not an option under the City of Houston’s current contract with Waste Management. However, you can recycle your glass at the Westpark Recycling Center off of Westpark south of 59. There is no cost to drop…