The Bayou Banner
December 2017 Edition
December 14, 2017 — Food, Fun, and Friendship — Indoor Snowball fight and Environmental Jeopardy
On Thursday evening, December 14, help us end 2017 in a big way. We are having our annual holiday party, and we need a few things to make the party a success. We need donations and volunteers. Bring a dish to pass, hot or cold, preferably with minimal single use plastic packaging. We’ll provide paper plates, real forks, and cups for both hot and cold drinks.
The event is free and open to the public at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 1805 West Alabama, Houston. Main program starts 7:30 PM. Doors open 7:00 PM.
Later this month Houston Group members will receive an Executive Committee Election notice, either by email or postcard (by email if Sierra Club has a member’s email address on file, and by postcard if not). This year the Group intends to have an online ballot, and the election notice will direct members to the website for access to that ballot
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Do Houston’s mega freeways contribute to regional flooding problems? Would more diversified transportation options allow the region to accommodate growth with fewer negative environmental impacts and create a more livable community?
The Houston Galveston Area Council (HGAC) has announced the beginning of their next Regional Transportation Plan process.
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We are Bay Area Sierra Club leaders and are honored to be featured in Spotlight.
To preserve, enjoy and protect the environment, we focus on education at our monthly meetings, learning more about our diverse and unique local ecosystem as well as far-reaching global issues.
Some recent highlights included Mark Kramer, chief naturalist at the Armand Bayou Nature Center.
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Get Outdoors!
For information on upcoming outings in the Houston area, check out our MeetUp site or our Outings Calendar on our website.
By Tom Douglas
Even though our group of paddlers was large, the sign-in and other preliminaries went so smoothly that we launched our boats from White Park a few minutes ahead of schedule. Almost immediately, we began seeing signs of the high water level that had been reached during Hurricane Harvey, such as debris hanging high in trees and severe erosion of the bayou’s banks.
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