Get with the PLANet: 5 Awesome Talks about Stuff You Should Care About

This April, as part of The Grove Dallas’ Sustainability Month, we invite you to join Grove community members for an afternoon of stories and ideas on how we can not only sustain the lives of future generations, but also make our city and the planet a better place.

Come for the inspiration, stay for the food, drinks, and passionate people!

4:00 - 4:30 Meet & Greet

4:30 – 5:30 Program: Five Awesome 5 minute Talks with Q&A

Good Water Business: How to Economize Your Water Use in Dallas - Rita Beving, Dallas Sierra Club Conservation Co-Chair, is an environmental veteran, an activist for more than 20 years in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where she has made her mark battling cement kilns and fighting oil pipelines.

Green Buildings & Healthy Workplaces - Amy King, Chief Eternal Optimist of Nested Strategies, a creative branding studio focused on building purposeful brands grounded in the triple bottom line. She started Nested Strategies with the belief that the sustainability movement has critical branding and messaging challenges. Prior to Nested Strategies, Amy spearheaded the incubation of 80 USGBC chapters for the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

Urban Agriculture – Aaron de Leon, founder of The Urban Farmist, is a rebel, an artist, a musician, a writer and most importantly, a Dad. His kids inspire him daily to press beyond what is considered normal to find ways to live the best life we possibly can.

Urban Rewilding - Landscaping for BioDiversity - Gary Gene Olp, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD +C, is an Environmental Architect and Founder of GGO Architects, a general practice established in 1987 to effect a fundamental change in the application of the craft of Architecture based on an understanding of environmental stewardship.

Sustainability & Citizenship – Tony Robinson, MS, President of FLUX Environmental, author of High-Performance Buildings, Adjunct Professor - SMU, has over 25 years of experience with resource efficiency and clean technology.

5:30 – 6:30 Networking, Drinks, Snacks & Fun!