SGC Events

 
 
TCC, Sustainable Green Country, AEP-PSO, and Whole Foods present Eco-Fest 2010….click here to learn more

Northeast Oklahoma Beekeepers Association is holding the annual BIG BEE BUZZ on March 19-20, 2010 at the Eastside Christian Church near East 15th Street and Harvard Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  The cost is $25.00 per person, which includes meals.  Ray from Dadant in Paris, TX, will be there. If you place your orders now and [...]

Green Drinks is an informal opportunity for people interested in sustainability to network over cocktails.  Each month we feature a speaker who connects people with ideas, services, and issues that will grow awareness, develop momentum for change, and enhance the environmental community.  In April we will hold Green Drinks at Philbrook Museum of Art to [...]

Come explore the environmental, economic, and social benefits of Brownfields redevelopment; learn up-to-date information about technical and regulatory considerations and financial incentives; and hear Brownfields success stories in Oklahoma. Brownfields’ resources such as financial incentives and liability protection can be very important economic development tools for local governments, regional planning agencies, nonprofits, and the private [...]

Green Drinks is an informal opportunity for people interested in sustainability to network over cocktails.  Each month we feature a speaker who connects people with ideas, services, and issues that will grow awareness, develop momentum for change, and enhance the environmental community.  Speakers Kevin Stephens of Kevin Stephens Design, Land Legacy, and Sustainable Tulsa will [...]

[ July 30, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]  

Discussion afterward from Buy Fresh Buy Local and Whole Foods

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by [...]

[ October 9, 2008; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] What is the future of sustainable design? Architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Sam Mockbee founded design/build schools based on their personal philosophies on architecture that were tied to what we now see as environmentally-sound principles. But what are those schools doing now? Price Tower Arts Center presents a panel discussion including representatives from architecture programs across the U.S. as they discuss new approaches toward sustainable design topics. Panelists include Victory Side, Dean of Taliesin: The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture; Rusty Smith, Rural Studio Coordinator at Auburn University; and Macraw Rood, Chairman of the Board of Yestermorrow Design/Build School.
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[ October 3, 2008 to October 4, 2008. ]

This event has been canceled. Check Price Tower Arts Center website for further details.

October 3, 2008 12:30 – 4:30pm / October 4, 9am to 1pm
Location TBA, Tulsa

[ October 16, 2008; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Lecture Hall of Chapman Hall, University of Tulsa Campus

Please join us for a free screening of this informative documentary that explores the positive aspects of successful transit-oriented development in cities throughout the United States. Good design is good business, creating special places and yielding a higher return on investment than less thoughtful approaches. Transit-oriented development (TOD) can enrich active lifestyles, serve the elderly and disabled, increase property values, and bring vibrancy to communities. It improves…[more . . .]

[ June 10, 2008; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]

The left-for-dead Third Ward neighborhood in Houston’s inner-city stirs to new life when a group of African-American artists found Project Row Houses. A step ahead of city demolition crews, they clean up around a row of condemned shotgun houses and do a “Drive-by” exhibit. Eventually, they purchase 22 houses on two blocks for a song. Then they do something really unusual. They ask the community what it needs-and listens to the answers. Third Ward TX explores how this tidy little row of born-again houses, glowing in the Texas sun, has become home to cutting-edge public art and a home-grown challenge to traditional notions of community development. By 2006, big development moves in, threatening to destroy the very qualities that make the neighborhood so vital. The bold and creative response of Project Row Houses is a gambit that just might work. Third Ward TX: Art, Life & Real Estate.

Sustainable Green Country offer a free screening of this film at Circle Cinema on Tuesday, June 10th at 7:00 p.m. Film will be show in the Quad area near the concessions. After the film, representatives from INCOG (Indian Nations Council of Governments) will be speaking.