Please join the Center for the Healing of Racism and Houston Community College for Session 3 of our six-part virtual conference, "A Way Forward: Dismantling Institutional Racism," on Friday, April […]
In a generation, much of the U.S. will resemble the lower Galveston Bay Watershed, a 10-county region surrounding Houston which Bayou City Waterkeeper (BCWK) serves. Home to the most diverse […]
Members of Citizen's Climate Lobby explain the ins and outs of carbon fee & dividend as an economic policy tool to address climate change. Learn about the positive impact not […]
Please join the Center for the Healing of Racism to remember the second anniversary of George Floyd’s murder on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 6:30 to 8:30pm (CDT), at First Unitarian […]
Houston Muralist Daniel Anguilu uses life itself as his subject matter. Painting abstract shapes, animal imagery, and vibrant color, his style is inspired by his Mexican heritage and the celebrated Mexican muralists. His […]
Groundwater is, as famously quoted by the Texas Supreme Court in 1904, “secret, occult, and concealed.” Sometimes referred to as “hidden water,” it is out of sight and, therefore, unfortunately, […]
The air quality in Harris County is influenced by multiple sources of pollution, including extensive road traffic, concrete batch plants, proximity to the largest petrochemical industrial complex in the United […]
Join Professor Robert Mace of Texas State University for a discussion on freshwater scarcity. Growing populations, the ever-present threat of drought, aquifer over-pumping, reservoir sedimentation, and climate change are creating […]
Join Professor Hyun-Min Hwang of Texas Southern University as he examines the issue of plastic pollution. Plastic is a polymeric material, not biodegradable, and may last hundreds of years in […]
Join Professor Gunnar Schade of Texas A&M University to learn about the issue of air pollution. Air pollution is a major factor for public health throughout the world. An increasing […]
Join Professor Sylvia Dee of Rice University to consider climate change, its causes, impacts, and solutions. There is now a long-established global scientific consensus that climate change will damage human […]
Gardening and growing fruit, vegetables, and herbs organically is easy when recreating systems of nature to incorporate plants for wildlife and for people. Gardening in the gulf coast climate […]
Join Professor Kerri Crawford of the University of Houston for a talk on the issue of biodiversity loss. Our planet is home to millions of species that rely on each […]
Interested to connect your Christian faith to care for the earth? Want to learn how your church can live the faith through caring for creation? Or, want to improve your […]
Heat is the greatest weather-related disaster in the U.S., killing more people than any other kind of natural disaster. And, Texas is one of three states with the highest heat-related […]
WEB DuBois’ collection of essays found in The Souls of Black Folk illustrates the complexities of being an “African in America” at the beginning of the twentieth century. This event, […]
Texas Impact, an interfaith justice advocacy organization based in Austin (https://texasimpact.org/about-us/), is coming to see you here in Houston! Faith in Democracy is your opportunity to reflect with Houston faith […]
Texas' fight over the Election Integrity Protection Act of 2021, known as SB1, and the problems it led to in Texas' primaries this spring have drawn national attention. Long before […]
It is well known that global warming and associated climate changes are linked to the increase of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. Humans generate […]
The Houston Youth Voters Conference (HYVC) is a student-led, nonpartisan collaboration between Campus Vote Project, Rice University, University of Houston, and Houston area high schools with a mission to enact […]
Lt. Col. (retired) Alexander Vindman, the man of conscience who reported President Trump’s “perfect call” that led to presidential impeachment, will discuss his book, Here, Right Matters: An American Story, […]
The Center for the Healing of Racism will present Dialogue: Racism, a two-day intensive workshop that educates participants about racism and facilitates the process by which they can begin to counter […]
These days we have all experienced consequences of the climate crisis on top of dealing with challenges of day to day living. How can the resulting big changes and projects […]
The Center for the Healing of Racism, Holocaust Museum Houston and Texas Tribal Buffalo Project invite you to an IN-PERSON presentation about a landmark project created to restore the relationship […]
Whether celebrating in your home or your house of worship, people of all faith/spiritual traditions would like their occasions to be sustainable. Sustainability is frequently defined as fulfilling the needs […]
As John Muir famously wrote in 1911: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” This expression of oneness, […]
The Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston invites you to hear multiple faith perspectives on the relationship between people & the planet, from a justice viewpoint. A panel of speakers of […]
PLEASE NOTE: TIME CHANGED TO 12:00-2:00 PM Please join us for a program in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, January 27, 2023, 12:00-2:00 pm at the Center […]
Confronting climate change will require interconnected efforts to improve technologies, policy, and diplomacy. Professor Dan Cohan of Rice University will explore the interconnections between domestic and international efforts and market-based […]
Join Dany Millikin, Director of Education at the Houston Botanic Garden, to learn how to convert the lawn at your home or house of worship to a native vegetable garden. […]
