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Join Us for a Repair Cafe! Recycle/Reuse/Repair Your Stuff!

TXRX Labs 6501 Navigation Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

A Repair Cafe celebrates fixing through a fun, collaborative, hands-on, fix-n-learn, community event. People bring us their broken items for assessment, disassembly and repair. Bring your toolkit and join us to have fun and learn while helping others troubleshoot and fix their broken stuff! Volunteers assess, take apart, and hopefully -- REPAIR. Transition Houston is partnering with TX/RX Labs, Houston […]

Interconnections with the Environment: Ecosystem Services & Us

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Join Professor Kerri Crawford of the University of Houston to consider more deeply the interconnections between humans and our environment, through the lens of ecosystem services. As biodiversity is lost through anthropogenic changes, it is becoming increasingly clear how much we rely on the natural world. Nature provides us with many services, including water purification, […]

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Plastic Free EcoChallenge

Online TX

Plastic pollution now contaminates the deepest trenches in the ocean, the highest mountain peaks, and even the air we breathe. Microplastics have been found in human blood, lungs, breast milk and placentas.  Plastic has entered the food chain, killing wildlife, and causing the average person to eat tens of thousands of microplastic particles every year. […]

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BANNER RALLY TO FREE JULIAN ASSANGE!

This Monday, July the 3rd, is not only our day of national celebration of independence from the British Empire.  Monday is also the 52nd birthday of JULIAN ASSANGE, imprisoned for over four years in London, for defending the freedoms of speech and freedom of press which our Founders enunciated in our Declaration of Independence and Bill […]

The Letter: Screening & Discussion

Online TX

Join us for a screening and discussion of The Letter, a gorgeously filmed story featuring scenes from around the world that puts a human face on climate change. The Letter tells the story of the Laudato Si’ encyclical letter by Pope Francis through the eyes of frontline leaders battling the ecological crisis across continents. A […]

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Medicare Anniversary Celebration

Carnegie Neighborhood Library 1050 Quitman, Houston, Texas, United States

Film Showing : American Hospitals - Healing a Broken System Healthcare for All Texas (HCFAT) and allies are celebrating 58 years of Medicare! Cake! Treats! Co-sponsors! Tabling! Speakers! Film.

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American Hospitals film screening  7/30/23 – 12:30 to 2:30 at Bay Area UU Church

Bay Area Unitarian Church (BAUUC) 17503 El Camino Real, Houston, Texas, United States

The BAUUC Service and Justice team is screening the acclaimed documentary, “American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System,” in our church Sanctuary after service on Sunday, 7/30, from 12:30-2:30 pm. The documentary not only points out what’s broken but also explores how it can be fixed. A light lunch will be served beforehand (the plan is […]

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Life’s Better Outside – Your Texas State Parks

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Join Lisa Reznicek of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) for a discussion of how you can connect to Texas State Parks. We know many ways humans are happier, healthier, and smarter for playing outside. TPWD is extending an invitation to join us for some fun as we celebrate 100 years of your Texas […]

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Virtual Summer Book Study-August

Online via Zoom

Are you looking for an inspiring way to spend your summer days? Compassionate Houston’s Summer Book Studies return and registration is open! Our summer reading studies are a great way to meet people of our rich community once a week over a 4-week period, bringing together a multitude of perspectives on topics aimed to foster a […]

HUMANITY FOR PEACE INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION

Hermann Park 6001 Fannin Street, Houston, Texas, United States

The danger of nuclear war has escalated to a point that no thoughtful person can ignore it any longer. There are still some who think thereshould be more weapons, more sanctions, and who think that a nuclear war can be won against Russia. This is a blueprint for extinction. OnSUNDAY, AUGUST 6th, the anniversary of […]

HPJC Social-Mixer-Luncheon for Non-Profits

Haven's Center 1827 W Alabama St, Houston, TX, United States

The Houston Peace & Justice Center is inviting representatives of non-profits in our area to our mixer/social/luncheon on Saturday, October 7 at 12 noon.

Eating Plant-Based for Our Climate and Health. Your Faith Community Can, Too!

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A year ago, our ministers directed church staff to change the Sunday lunch menu to plant-based food. What inspired them to act?   For a year, our church’s Climate Action Team has hosted monthly plant-based potlucks.   The potlucks turn out five times as many participants as the monthly lectures that we used to hold. That’s inspiration! […]

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Preventing Youth Hate Crimes and Identity-Based Bullying Prevention Virtual Symposium

Virtual

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) will host its Preventing Youth Hate Crimes and Identity-Based Bullying Prevention Virtual Symposium on October 17-18, 2023 from 12:00 to 5:15 PM ET. This two-day virtual symposium coincides with Bullying Prevention Month and will focus on how to prevent extremist hate groups from radicalizing youth and […]

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Weelaunee Worldwide: Block Cop City Speaking Tour

Montrose Center 401 Branard Street, Houston, TX, United States

This is an invitation to join a powerful collective action. After more than two years of struggle to defend the Weelaunee forest in southeast Atlanta from the construction of a militarized police training facility, the movement is at a crucial crossroads. This November, there is a call for a mass action to halt construction on […]

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Drawdown Roadmap

Online TX

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, […]

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Book Release | A Master Class on Being Human: A Black Christian & A Black Secular Humanist on Religion, Race, and Justice

Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St., Houston, TX, United States

Beginning in 2020, Brad Braxton and Anthony Pinn exchanged a series of email conversations that together form the basis for the book A Master Class on Being Human: A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist on Religion, Race, and Justice (Beacon Press 2023). In this time of marked polarization in our communal life, the authors embarked […]

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Guided Prayer Walk in the Park

Hermann Park 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston

Connect with God as revealed through creation at Hermann Park in this guided prayer walk in the park, using the park’s beautiful natural setting to stimulate prayer and reflection.  At each stop along the walk, there will be a theme, an accompanying Bible verse, and reflection questions for you to ponder.  Deepen your Christian spiritual […]

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Guided Prayer Walks in the Park

Hermann Park 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston

Connect with God as revealed through creation at Hermann Park in this guided prayer walk in the park, using the park’s beautiful natural setting to stimulate prayer and reflection.  At each stop along the walk, there will be a theme, an accompanying Bible verse, and reflection questions for you to ponder.  Deepen your Christian spiritual […]

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Interconnections with Soil, Human Health and the Environment

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Soil is essential to all life and is important to human health in many ways. It can filter water, provide nutrients and food, store carbon, and supply us with antibiotics to fight diseases. However, soils are often mistreated by industrial agriculture and contaminated by environmental pollutants like oil spills which can directly affect human and […]

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