February 2016
Grow Zones and Carbon Offsets: Lunchtime Lecture
The Grow Zones & Carbon Offsets lunchtime lecture will go in depth into Austin's Grow Zone riparian restoration program and it's goals of enhancing creeks and improving associated climate mitigation benefits deriving from these restoration sites. Ana González is a plant ecologist working as an…
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Lunchtime Lecture: The Invention of Modern Nature
From the City of Austin - Wednesday June 15th | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm One Texas Center | 505 Barton Springs Road - Room 325 Austin, TX 78704 This is the 6th installment of the The Unity of Nature: The Creation, Discovery, and End…
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Lunchtime Lecture – Austin’s Tree Census
From Nature in the City/ City of Austin Urban Forest Division - Join us to learn more about a fantastic online data-driven tool called My City's Trees, new from the Texas A&M Forest Service. You'll learn how to manipulate the data to discover real information…
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Agriculture in a Changing Environment: Farmer Adaptations in the Peruvian Andes and Central Texas.
From the City of Austin, Nature in the City - Nature in the City is proud to present a new lunchtime lecture. Join us for Agriculture in a Changing Environment: Farmer Adaptations in the Peruvian Andes and Central Texas. Based on fieldwork done in southern…
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Urban Wild: Wilderness, Wildness, and the American City
From the City of Austin - Urban Wild: Wilderness, Wildness, and the American City Brown Bag Lunch and Learn One Texas Center | Room 325 Visitor parking is available – surface and garage Full 2017 Calendar at One Texas Center A Note From Nature in the…
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Urban Pastoral: Farms, Gardens, and Parkland in the City
From the City of Austin - This Month | The American Agrarian myth celebrates the beauty and benefits of pastoral nature on farms and ranches, and it is grounded in an older Arcadian myth in Western culture, especially in the work of the Roman poet…
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Water Forward Public Workshop
Austin Water is developing a water plan for the next 100 years. The plan will identify future water needs and strategies to meet those needs such as conservation, technological innovation, and additional supply options. Since Austin Water is a publicly-owned utility, public feedback and input…
Find out more »The Elemental City: Cycles, Services, and Urban Ecology
From the City of Austin - Austin Nature in the City is proud to present The Elemental City: Cycles, Services, and Urban Ecology With Kevin Anderson *This is a Brown Bag Lunch and Learn A city is a built landscape designed to support dense populations…
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Urban Habitats and the Degradation Myth
From the City of Austin's Nature in the City program - Austin Nature in the City is proud to present Nature in the City: Urban Habitats and the Degradation Myth With Kevin Anderson *This is a Brown Bag Lunch and Learn Since the 19th century,…
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The Aquatic City: The Ecology of Urban Waterways
From the City of Austin - Brown Bag Lunch and Learn Thursday June 15th | 12:00 pm – 1:00 PM One Texas Center | Room 325 505 Barton Springs Road, Austin Tx 78704 Free surface and garage parking available. This Month | Urban aquifers, creeks, rivers,…
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Global Solutions to Global Problems
From the City of Austin - Austin Nature in the City is proud to present A New Era | Global Solutions to Global Problems with Chris Searles This is a Brown Bag Lunch and Learn Free garage and lot parking available Climate change. Biodegradation. These global…
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Resilient Nature: Discordant Harmony and the New Ecology
From the City of Austin Development Services Department/ Nature In The City - This year Dr. Kevin Anderson will take us on an exploration of “Nature and the American Mind”, examining the complex story that threads throughout our history and shapes our beliefs, policies, science,…
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Nature In The City: American Ecology
From Austin Nature In the City – American Ecology: Stability, Integrity, and Leopold’s Legacy Join us for an untangling of the history of American ecology and an assessment of how the idea of the balance of nature has shaped our American ideas of nature. How…
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