2025 Earth Day

DFW Airport Earth Month 2025

April 1-30, 2025

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Residential Food Waste Composting Program

Fort Worth Composting Pilot Program Residential Food Waste Composting Program – Recognizing the city’s landfill is filling up with materials that do not belong there, Fort Worth is advancing initiatives intended to divert materials away from the landfill that can be either re-used, recycled, mulched or composted.

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composting basics

Composting Basics: Time to Recycle

Nature’s way of recycling organic materials Time to Recycle – The natural process of the decomposition of organic material into a soil amendment is known as composting. Composting, and then using that compost, is also good for the environment because it is a natural alternative to commercial

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Campus Composting Benefits the Circular Economy

Sustainable Living as a College Student Plant Based Products Council – The circular economy is a method of production and consumption management that ensures everything is used to its maximum potential, having consumers reusing their everyday necessities until the product gets efficiently recycled or composted into a

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urban heat island effect

A Study of Dallas’ Urban Heat Island Effect

Urban Heat Island Management Study Texas Trees Foundation – Cities do not cause heat waves – they amplify them. Human activities on climate at the city/regional scale, accounting for both land surface changes and emissions of greenhouses gases, may be twice as great as the impacts of

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Urban Conservation

Creating Bird Friendly Communities in Texas

Urban Conservation Audubon Texas – Long characterized as a land of wide open spaces, the Lone Star State is increasingly defined by its burgeoning cities and suburbs. Texas is currently the 3rd-fastest growing state in the nation and this unprecedented growth is taking a heavy toll on

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Protecting Our Planet Starts with You

Ten Simple Things You Can Do to Help Protect the Earth

Protecting Our Planet Starts with You National Ocean Service – Here are just a few of the things you can do: Reduce, reuse, and recycle. Cut down on what you throw away. Follow the three “R’s” to conserve natural resources and landfill space. Volunteer. Volunteer for cleanups

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Smarter fertilizer use could shrink our agricultural carbon footprint

A new study shows how fertilizer emissions could drop 80 percent by 2050. Popular Science – From methane in beef production to synthetic fertilizers, it’s no secret that agriculture is a huge source of climate-change inducing greenhouse gasses, and there’s a lot of work to be done

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