Event Details — Visions for a Greener Houston - Citizen’s Environmental Council

Please plan to join us in a participative, collaborative process, through a series of working sessions, in a group effort to envision the year ahead.

Thursday, February 9, 2012
1:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
United Way Community Resource Center
50 Waugh Drive
Houston, TX 77007

**** Space Limited! RSVP/Registration Required! ****

Purpose:
• To picture where our environmental community hopes to see itself by the end of 2012
• To identify attainable goals for several environmental areas
• To produce a visionary document that summarizes these group goals, capturing the essence of this collaboration
• To share this vision with our local governments and the community at large
• To facilitate efforts among environmental agencies to realize joint short-term goals
• To introduce a wider spectrum of our citizens into the environmental conversation

Dinner by Georgia’s Farm to Market served at 5:30 p.m.
Welcome by Elizabeth Love of the Houston Endowment. Event Host: Yolanda Green. Discussion leaders will include Matt Tejada (Air Alliance Houston), Jim Lester (HARC), Roksan Okan-Vick (Houston Parks Board), Jaime Gonzalez (Katy Prairie Conservancy), David Crossley (Houston Tomorrow), Bob Stokes (Galveston Bay Foundation), Peter Brown (Better Houston), Jim Blackburn (Blackburn and Carter), Tyson Sowell (Texas Campaign for the Environment), Patsy Gillham (Plastic Pollution Texas), Ed Allday (Fondren Foundation), Lora-Marie Bernard (U.S. Green Building Council), Linda Knowles (Native Plant Society of Texas), Ralph Parrott (Houston Renewable Energy Group), and other CEC member group representatives.

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