Wednesday, July 18
Bay Area Community Center in Clear Lake Park
5002 NASA Parkway, 77586

Bay Area meetings are on 3rd Wednesday of the month, and start at 6:30pm for social hour; speaker and discussion from 7-8:30 pm.

July Meeting Program: 
Trees & Their Care
Speaker: Bill Wyatt, owner of Grace Outdoors  
Bill Wyatt, owner of Grace Outdoors, an organic landscape and fertilization nursery, will speak about trees.  Bill Wyatt is partnering with nature to give you a healthy and safe landscape.  

Directions: Driving east on NASA Parkway, go past the stop light immediately beyond the Hilton at Space Center Blvd. At the next stop light, turn left away from the lake into the park. It's the building with the blue roof.

Updates for July 18 will be posted at our Meetup site:
https://www.meetup.com/Houston-Sierra-Club-Outings/events/251109751/ 

A REPORT ON THE JUNE BAY AREA PROGRAM:
On a stormy Wednesday night in June, 25 Bay Area Sierrans braved the ominous weather to hear Dr. Brandon Reddell describe the conditions for a planetary habitable zone.  These include liquid water, UV, photosynthetic, ozone, rotation, obliquity, tidal,  astrosphere, electric field,  space weather, and quantity of water.    All of these conditions must to be present at the same time.  Also, depending on a stars' size, some planets are excluded. For example, the flares from stars smaller than the sun would kill any living creatures on its planets.

Pictured in the photo are:
First row:  Candy Anderson, Peter Bowman
Second row: Dr. Kevin Beard, speaker Dr. Brandon Reddell, and meteorologists Steve Allen 
and Don Rhorer