Austin EcoNewsletter
Location:
Austin City Hall Lobby and Council Chambers
Cesar Chavez and Lavaca Streets
Welcome Austin’s New City Council in an: Eco-Change Exchange
Thursday, June 25th from 5:30–9:00 PM at City Hall
Help Chart A New Direction for A Sustainable Future in Austin!
Join dozens of Austin environmental groups in welcoming the newly inaugurated Austin City Council. In this time of economic and environmental crisis, we have an opportunity to reshape our future, now. Our community is coming together to make Austin a model of a sustainable city, and we want our elected officials to be leaders in this effort.
If You Care About:
• Healthy Food
• Clean Water
• Clean Energy and Reducing Carbon Emissions
• Landfill Expansions and Reducing Waste
• Alternatives to More Highways and Sprawl
• Participatory Democracy
• Climate Change
• Environmental Justice
Come on Thursday evening to learn, engage, and build momentum for making Austin the national environmental leader we ought to be!
Program for the Evening:
5:30 – 6:30 Sustainable Future Fair and Reception with new City Council Members. Enjoy some delicious local, organic food from the Barr Mansion, learn about great work being done in Austin, and help create a vision for the sustainable future you want to see in Austin.
6:30 – 7:00 Opening Presentations: Building a Sustainable Future in Austin
7:00 – 8:00 Eco-Priorities Sessions: Breakout on Key Issue Areas
8:00 – 9:00 Charting Our Future including reflections from City Council Members.
Please walk, bike, or bus to City Hall. If you have to drive, parking in the City Hall garage will be validated.
For more information, contact colin@sosalliance.org
Host(s):
Participating Groups include: Alliance of Community Trainers, Austin Eco-Network, Austin Permaculture Guild, Austin Sierra Club, Central Texas Zero Waste Alliance, Coal Block, Design~Build~Live, Ecology Action, Environment Texas, Greenpeace, League of Bicycling Voters, Northeast Neighbors Coalition, PODER, Public Citizen, PowerSmack.org, Resolution Gardens, Save Barton Creek Association, Save Our Springs Alliance, SEED Coalition, Travis Audubon Society, Solar Austin, Tecolote Farm, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Texas Environmental Democrats, Texas Green Network, American Youthworks, Texas Green Network, Wheatsville Gro-op, Austin Green Art, Texas Climate Emergency Campaign, Sustainable Food Center, National Wildlife Federation, Austin Car Share, Restaurant Recyclers, Citizen Gardener, Transition Austin, and Uplift Austin.
