Location: Will be DM'ed to attendees for security precautions All volunteers will receive a free vegan pizza. Join us for a beautiful morning of giving back at a local sanctuary! Expect to get dirty, sweaty, and covered in love from the animals! This is your chance to help rescued animals, support the sanctuary, and connect […]
Summer is here and it's the perfect time to indulge in vegan frozen treats. Precisely for this reason, Vegan Donut & Gelato is holding another free community event to cool things down, with an emphasis on free ice cream. You read that right the event is free-entry and attendees will enjoy vegan gelato, foods and […]
Laura Marcinkowski Join us to honor one of our cherished Houston Peace & Justice(HPJC) members and supporters. HPJC expresses its most sincere condolences to one of our leaders, Joe Marcinkowski, and his family. Saturday, August 9, 2025Service: 10:00 AM (Lunch to follow)Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church17503 El Camino Real, Webster, TX 77058 The service can […]
Tickets to KPFT’s Soirée with Thom Hartmann and Grant Peeples, including Q&A and a book signing session, at Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church on August 9, 2025 are available now! If you got your tix at the $60 level on KPFT’s website, a copy of Hartmann’s most recent book, The Hidden History of the American Dream: The Demise of the […]
The 3rd HPJC Board meeting for 2025 will be held over Zoom. The Zoom Invitation and Agenda will be sent by email to all board members no later than August 9.
Join Karla Klay, Executive Director of Artist Boat, to learn about Artist Boat’s effort to conserve 1,400 acres on West Galveston Island. Since 2010, 1,039 acres have been conserved through 15 transactions totaling $25 million dollars. This effort has taken a village of partners at Federal, State, and local levels. Bringing together these partners, as […]
Are you having trouble quieting the noise around you? Step into a morning of music and poetry that invites stillness, reflection, and peace, Join us for a contemplative morning of music and poetry, presented in collaboration with Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) Houston. This special gathering will weave together the rich traditions of Indian classical music […]
Join the Texas Observer in Houston on September 10 The Lingering Storm: 20 Years After Katrina—Stories of Hope and ActionJoin us in Houston on Wednesday, September 10, for an evening of reflection, storytelling, and conversation. Two decades after Hurricane Katrina reshaped the Gulf Coast and the country, we're gathering to reflect on the storm's legacy […]
You are invited to a rain barrel workshop. Join us on Sunday, September 21 to learn about the benefits of rain barrels, get one for your home/house of worship and learn how to install it on your property. Rain barrels not only conserve water, a precious natural resource, they also help to keep water clean […]
Sunday, September 21 is a day of action to celebrate solar and wind power, and the widespread adoption of renewable energy sources in Texas and worldwide. Sun Day Houston 2025 will feature inspirational speakers at 2 p.m., exhibits throughout the event, workshops at 3 p.m. (Rain Barrels for the Houston Area Community), 3:30 p.m. (Tips […]
Sophy Ashworth, a long-time solar homeowner and volunteer with the non-profit Solar United Neighbors (SUN), will share from her and SUN's experience how best to invest in solar, avoid scams, and hedge against rising electricity costs. Bring your questions and between Sophy and SUN's great Help Desk, we will help take down the barriers to […]
The climate crisis is already here in Houston — and so is the power to fight back. The 2025 Houston Community Climate Summit is a community-led gathering bringing together organizers, youth, elders, artists, frontline residents, and advocates to build a shared vision for climate justice in the Greater Houston Area and Texas Gulf Coast. A […]
What is integral ecology, and how can we put it into practice? Join Sr. Damien Marie Savino as she addresses these questions, focusing on the notion of integral ecology introduced by Pope Francis in his environmental encyclical, Laudato Si’ and explored in her new book Learning the Language of Creation, to be released in January […]
The online People’s Ecochallenge offers you the opportunity to care for the earth by taking on a challenge(s) in: community, energy, food, health, nature, simplicity, transportation, waste, and water. You can learn about these topics, take action in your personal life, advocate or create a new environmental justice/stewardship habit over the course of the month […]
Facing directly into the devastation of climate chaos and biodiversity loss, Earth and Soul takes readers on a soul journey through grief and loss to also claim the beauty, joy and possibilities available when we reconnect with Earth. As we follow the author’s compelling personal experiences and engagingly lyrical stories of whales, cedars, sparrows, and […]
Join Alenka Cardenas and Clara Goodwin of Bayou City Waterkeeper for an overview of the Clean Water Act's permitting programs. Alenka and Clara will teach attendees how to use a variety of monitoring and reporting tools to identify and correct water permit violations. They will also share best practices for advocating through the permitting process to […]
Think there is no solution to climate change? Nothing could be farther from the truth. Effective climate solutions are available now! Climate Solutions 101 is the world’s first major educational effort focused solely on climate solutions. Rather than rehashing well-known climate challenges, these materials from Project Drawdown concentrate on game-changing climate action based on rigorous […]
Gain a richer appreciation of the great mystery of God’s creation in this guided walk in Hermann Park, using the park’s beautiful natural setting to prayerfully ponder this mystery and praise our Creator for the marvels of Creation. The Via Creationis (the way of creation) commemorates the mystery of Creation by reading side by side […]
The Houston Peace & Justice Center is excited to announce the Peacemaker Awardees who we will recognize at our annual Peacemaker Awards Ceremony on Sunday, Nov. 9, and encourage you to make your reservations soon for this event - which is also the primary fundraiser for the year, for all of HPJC's activities. Peacemaker Awardees […]
You may know that there are many possible solutions to combat climate change. But, how do we focus our efforts, create the most effective plan and really make a difference on climate before it’s too late? The Drawdown Roadmap is a science-based strategy for accelerating climate solutions, pointing to which climate actions governments, businesses, investors, […]
