In collaboration with the 2024 Food and Nature Education Conference, the Food Systems Social is aimed at continuing to coalesce the industry stakeholders.

Attendees can expect to cross pollinate with local foodies, snack on some delicious hors d’oeuvres, hear updates on food policy, and learn about collective impact with a highly distinguished panel!

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Conference Purpose

The 2024 Food & Nature Education Conference is a live AND virtual event focusing on the actions being taken by local organizations in San Antonio, Texas to address food insecurity and climate change. The conference’s goal is to raise awareness of those goals and demonstrate simple solutions that can be implemented right now to ensure that future generations are able to lead happy and healthy lives.

Virtual Speakers

Speakers will be given 10-15 minutes to talk about how their organization is addressing food insecurity and or climate change.

On-Site Workshops :

Educational workshops will be short demonstrations on how to grow food and protect the environment. Vermicomposting, bokashi composting, Canning, healthy cooking, mycology, hydroponics, chickens, rainwater harvesting, composting, seed starting, microgreens, aquaponics. This effort aligns with the City of San Antonio’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan’s Adaptation Goal of Protecting Local Food Security, Strategy #36 – Pursue Urban Agriculture Opportunities.

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​Location: The Center for Science and Innovation at Trinity University. 1 Trinity Pl. San Antonio, TX 78212

For more information or sponsorship inquiries please contact us at info@gardopiagardens.org

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Join us at Hot Wells for Birding the San Antonio River with Mark Menjívar on Sunday, May 19, 9:00 – 11:00AM and learn about local and migrating birds seen along the San Antonio River!

Birding is about so much more than just birds. It is about looking, listening, and exploring. It is about imagination, color, texture, songs, movement and more! Mark Menjívar has partnered with the San Antonio River Foundation to provide a bird walk to teach adults and children of all ages how to identify birds found in habitats surrounding Hot Wells and the Mission Reach.

Register now to reserve your spot! Birding the San Antonio River with Mark Menjívar is free and open to the public with free parking provided at Hot Wells. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable, close-toed shoes and bring a reusable water bottle. Binoculars will be provided.

About Mark Menjívar

Mark Menjívar is a San Antonio based artist and Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University. His work explores diverse subjects through photography, archives, oral history and participatory project structures. He holds a BA in Social Work from Baylor University and an MFA in Social Practice from Portland State University. For more information about Mark, please visit www.markmenjivar.com.

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Join Pat and Becky McGuire on a tour of an 80-foot diameter native pollinator garden, the Circle of the Springs Garden, located on the Upper Field in the Headwaters Sanctuary. The garden structure was inspired by an image on the White Shaman Panel on the Lower Pecos Rock Art. Composed of 16 planting beds and 16 crushed limestone paths, the garden contains 42 native pollinator species. Color, texture, and proportion were considered in the pollinator plant selection. Its planting scheme offers a broad range of colorful blooms, foliage colors, mature growth heights from groundcovers to plants reaching 5-6 feet, interesting textures, and varying blooming/berrying seasons. The garden nurtures birds, bats, and insects. In June 2023, 31 butterfly species were surveyed in and near the garden.

Participants should wear closed-toe shoes, comfortable attire, and a hat. Do bring a bottle of water.

This walk will be limited to 25 guests.

Registration is required.

Free Admission

Donations support the Ewers Earth Care Education Fund for guide stipends.

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CPS Energy’s Board of Trustees meet the last Monday of every month (w/ some variations due to holidays, etc.). Deceleration will maintain this page with the current agendas and updates. For more about the City-owned electric and gas utility, see Deceleration’s CPS Energy Resource Page.

LIVESTREAM: Catch meetings online here.

PUBLIC COMMENT: Requests to make public comments must be received the week before the meeting (ie. Wedesday to Friday). Details at the CPS Energy Public Comment FAQ page.

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Bandera Market is a state-certified farmer’s market open every weekend Saturdays 10 am-5 PM, Sundays 11 am-5 PM, and the third Friday night of every month 2-6 PM for a special event. The market offers to produce, eggs, honey, artisan bread, German & Puerto Rican baked goods, plants, planters, custom wood products, CBD, boutiques, artisan crafts, jams, jellies, and much more. Come support small and local San Antonio businesses.

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Our general meetings are on the third Tuesday of each month at William R. Sinkin Eco Centro. They are free and open to everyone. Socializing begins at 6:00 p.m., program at 6:30 p.m.. Presentations last about an hour. 

Nature-based Agriculture

Our May General Meeting features Bryan Hummel, biologist, from the US Environmental Protection Agency.

When

Tuesday, May 21^st
6:00 pm

Meeting schedule

Venue

This meeting will not be webcast on Zoom.

Program topic

Nature-based principles often improve the health of our food, our water, our air, the broader ecosystem, and can convert flooding liabilities into agricultural abundance and resilient groundwater assets. This presentation will focus on “teaming with nature” to benefit People, Planet, and Profits.

About our speaker

Bryan Hummel is a native Texan and a biologist. Bryan has incorporated nature-based green-infrastructure biomimicry practices into renewable energy, watershed restoration, and habitat regeneration projects across private, state, and federal lands.

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The Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance is pleased to introduce our 2024 Water Wonks Lecture Series. Mark your calendars for 3:30 p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of each month.

Water Wonks will feature a host of experts sharing innovative ideas and details about their work in the world of water. The series is a free community education opportunity.

Topics

Lecture #4: Wednesday April 24, 2024 | 3:30pm CST

Comparative Analysis of Assured Water Supply Policies and Regulations Across the Western United States and Texas at the Municipal, County, and State Level. Presented by Brenda Chapa (Earthshare Texas Green Leaders Fellow)

Lecture #5: Wednesday May 22, 2024 | 3:30pm CST

The Regional Flood Planning Process and Why Conserving Floodplains are Important. Presented by Annalisa Peace (GEAA Exec Dir) and Debbie Reid (GEAA Tech Dir) with a video by David Skuodas (Director of Design, Construction, and Maintenance at the Mile High Flood District) that was presented to the San Antonio River Regional Flood Plan Group.

Lecture #6: Wednesday June 26, 2024 | 3:30pm CST

Transportation, Growth, and Planning in the Greater San Antonio Region. Presented by Isaac Gonzalez (Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Short-range Transportation Planner II)

Register: https://aquiferalliance.org/water-wonks-series/

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March details to come.

If you plan to attend the meeting in person at Alamo Colleges District, 2222 N. Alamo Street, San Antonio, TX 78215 at 6:00 PM, please sign-up here.

Approved for AAMN AT hours.

Click HERE to Join Zoom Meeting at 6:30 pm
Meeting ID: 875 9545 8655
Passcode: 333691
Find your local number to call in here.

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Meeting Spot – Govt. Canyon SNA Vistors Center. Please arrive by 8:45am.

Entrance Fee is $6/car to enter the park. Note: They do accept Texas State Parks Passes ($70/year) Reservations can be made in advance online.

To Bring: Water, Snacks. Insect Repellent. Avoid open toe shoes.

Level of Difficulty: Easy. Walk takes place rain or shine.

Guests are allowed but please register each attendee so we have a headcount.

Qualifies for 3 hrs AT and Water Saver Rewards.

Point of Contact: Bob Morris, 210-505-2936, bxxmorris@frontier.com

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Rainwater harvesting has so many benefits, from happy plants to money in your wallet. With so many things to consider, it can be hard to know where or how to start. This short workshop will touch on all of the basics of Rainwater Harvesting, and questions to ask yourself.

This ONLINE workshop is good for those looking to “dip their toes” in rainwater harvesting. If you decide to learn more, our “Rainwater Harvesting: Medium to Large Scale” workshop on June 5 is a GREAT follow up to this one!

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Degrowth is a multi-faceted response to the many crises we face around the world. This sub-field of ecological economics turned social movement argues that we cannot maintain infinite economic growth on a finite planet. The pursuit of growth at all costs, a central feature of capitalist systems, has come at the expense of people and planet. Unlike ‘green growth’, degrowth recognizes that infinite economic growth is not possible on a finite planet, so instead of just ‘greening’ the current economic system, we need a planned contraction of production and consumption in overdeveloped countries. 

It is time for a new approach, one that shifts attention from short-term profits, over-production and consumerism, towards sufficiency, redistribution, social and ecological well-being, and autonomy. This movement and scholarship explore the possibilities for greater quality of life and social justice that open up when we recognize limits to economic growth and exploitation of the land and prioritize wellbeing over profit.

Our general meetings are on the third Tuesday of each month at William R. Sinkin Eco Centro. They are free and open to everyone. Socializing begins at 6:00 p.m., program at 6:30 p.m.. Presentations last about an hour. 

Nature-based Agriculture

Our May General Meeting features Bryan Hummel, biologist, from the US Environmental Protection Agency.

When

Tuesday, May 21^st
6:00 pm

Meeting schedule

Venue

This meeting will not be webcast on Zoom.

Program topic

Nature-based principles often improve the health of our food, our water, our air, the broader ecosystem, and can convert flooding liabilities into agricultural abundance and resilient groundwater assets. This presentation will focus on “teaming with nature” to benefit People, Planet, and Profits.

About our speaker

Bryan Hummel is a native Texan and a biologist. Bryan has incorporated nature-based green-infrastructure biomimicry practices into renewable energy, watershed restoration, and habitat regeneration projects across private, state, and federal lands.

Go to Deceleration’s Regeneration Events Calendar.

Sign up for Regeneration by email.

Bandera Market is a state-certified farmer’s market open every weekend Saturdays 10 am-5 PM, Sundays 11 am-5 PM, and the third Friday night of every month 2-6 PM for a special event. The market offers to produce, eggs, honey, artisan bread, German & Puerto Rican baked goods, plants, planters, custom wood products, CBD, boutiques, artisan crafts, jams, jellies, and much more. Come support small and local San Antonio businesses.

Visit Deceleration’s Regeneration Events Calendar.

CPS Energy’s Board of Trustees meet the last Monday of every month (w/ some variations due to holidays, etc.). Deceleration will maintain this page with the current agendas and updates. For more about the City-owned electric and gas utility, see Deceleration’s CPS Energy Resource Page.

LIVESTREAM: Catch meetings online here.

PUBLIC COMMENT: Requests to make public comments must be received the week before the meeting (ie. Wedesday to Friday). Details at the CPS Energy Public Comment FAQ page.

Go to Deceleration’s Regeneration Events Calendar.

Sign up for Regeneration by email.

The Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance is pleased to introduce our 2024 Water Wonks Lecture Series. Mark your calendars for 3:30 p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of each month.

Water Wonks will feature a host of experts sharing innovative ideas and details about their work in the world of water. The series is a free community education opportunity.

Topics

Lecture #4: Wednesday April 24, 2024 | 3:30pm CST

Comparative Analysis of Assured Water Supply Policies and Regulations Across the Western United States and Texas at the Municipal, County, and State Level. Presented by Brenda Chapa (Earthshare Texas Green Leaders Fellow)

Lecture #5: Wednesday May 22, 2024 | 3:30pm CST

The Regional Flood Planning Process and Why Conserving Floodplains are Important. Presented by Annalisa Peace (GEAA Exec Dir) and Debbie Reid (GEAA Tech Dir) with a video by David Skuodas (Director of Design, Construction, and Maintenance at the Mile High Flood District) that was presented to the San Antonio River Regional Flood Plan Group.

Lecture #6: Wednesday June 26, 2024 | 3:30pm CST

Transportation, Growth, and Planning in the Greater San Antonio Region. Presented by Isaac Gonzalez (Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Short-range Transportation Planner II)

Register: https://aquiferalliance.org/water-wonks-series/

Go to Deceleration’s Regeneration Events Calendar.

Sign up for Regeneration by email.

March details to come.

If you plan to attend the meeting in person at Alamo Colleges District, 2222 N. Alamo Street, San Antonio, TX 78215 at 6:00 PM, please sign-up here.

Approved for AAMN AT hours.

Click HERE to Join Zoom Meeting at 6:30 pm
Meeting ID: 875 9545 8655
Passcode: 333691
Find your local number to call in here.

Go to Deceleration’s Regeneration Events Calendar.

Sign up for Regeneration by email.