Tucson Botanical Garden – Butterfly Exhibit
OCTOBER 12, 2009 – APRIL 30, 2010
About the butterflies
All of the butterflies in the Gardens’ exhibit are hatched from eggs and live as caterpillars in butterfly farms in tropical parts of the world. When the caterpillars change into the pupae or resting stage, they are carefully counted, labeled, and packed. In the pupae [...]
Watershed Management Group
Watershed Management Group is a Tucson-based non-profit with the mission to improve people’s lives by integrating community development and conservation. We provide people with the knowledge and skills necessary to sustainably manage their natural resources.
Our work includes: increasing vegetation in neighborhoods through stormwater harvesting, making conservation technologies affordable, using rainwater and greywater to irrigate [...]
Tucson Nature Conservancy Rainwater Harvesting Tours – weekly, various dates throughout the year
The Nature Conservancy’s Tucson office, at 1510 E. Fort Lowell Rd. is continuing its rainwater harvesting tours by popular demand, to help educate the public about a variety of active and passive water harvesting techniques that can be implemented at homes and businesses.
Call 622-3861 x 3437 for more information and to sign up for upcoming [...]
Ironwood Tree Experience
Ironwood Tree Experience, a project of Prescott College, connects kids with their community through experiences in nature. Southern Arizona teens are exposed to their community through backcountry and urban activities that integrate ecological principles with physical and intellectual process that utilize a place-based education approach to learning.
Learn more at www.ironwoodtreeexperience.org
Prescott College www.prescott.edu
Get Water Smart!
WaterSmart workshops teach landscape water-conservation techniques. Free sessions at the Pima County Cooperative Extension, 4210 N. Campbell Ave., on Sept. 27 and Oct. 25 cover Hands-On Drip Irrigation 9 a.m.-noon, plus Irrigation Timers 1-3 p.m., and on Oct. 8 explore Principles of Xeriscape noon-2 p.m., and Harvesting Rainwater 9-11 a.m.
Reserve your spot by phoning 626-5161.
Visit [...]
HabiStore- Tucson
Habitat for Humanity Tucson’s HabiStore is a retail business that sells surplus new and used building and home improvement materials to the general public. By doing this, the HabiStore keeps more than 150 tons of material out of the landfill each year and supports the green building efforts of Habitat for Humanity Tucson.
3840 S. [...]
Tucson Clean and Beautiful
Tucson Clean & Beautiful strives to preserve and improve our environment, conserve natural resources, and enhance the metro Tucson-Pima County area quality of life. Non-profit programs include Adopt a Park litter cleanup, Recycling Education, Trees for Tucson, Children’s Memorial Park, Commemorative Tree Parks, and Hot Topics/Cool Solutions sustainability workshops.
http://www.tucsoncleanandbeautiful.org
Fill Your Plate!
From the Arizona Farm Bureau
The Arizona Farm Bureau invites you to forge a relationship between Arizona’s farmers and ranchers through our Fill Your Plate matrix. You benefit by knowing where to purchase Arizona-grown and -raised produce and products. From apples to watermelons, and everything in between, Fill Your Plate will fill you up with the [...]
PAG- Pima Association of Goverments
PAG’s Environmental Planning Division – made up of Clean Cities (reducing
the region’s dependence on foreign oil, mostly through clean-fuel
technology), Air Quality Planning and Watershed Planning – advances
awareness of regional solutions to regional environmental challenges.
Sustainability is a key concern given the surrounding desert environment and
the region’s rapid growth.
http://www.pagnet.org/Programs/EnvironmentalPlanning/tabid/76/Default.aspx
U.S. Green Building Council- Arizona Chapter
The distinguishing characteristic of the USGBC Arizona Chapter is a focus on green building techniques, technologies and philosophies appropriate to the arid bio-region that encompasses the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Whether in the pine forests of Show-Low, the lush desert of Scottsdale and Tucson, or the low desert of Yuma, the common characteristics [...]
