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Recently, I had the pleasure of attending Earth Day ATX 2024 at Huston-Tillotson University, and it was an enriching experience celebrating our planet and exploring sustainable innovations. Here’s a recap of my day at the event.
On April 27, I swung by the rescheduled Earth Day ATX 2024 at Huston-Tillotson University to celebrate Earth Day and immerse myself in the festivities dedicated to our environment. Here are the highlights of the event.
I recently had the pleasure of attending EarthX 2023, an event that continues to inspire and educate on environmental issues. This conference holds a special place for me, as it’s been a consistent highlight over the years.
EarthX has become a must-attend event for me, and I highly recommend it to others who are passionate about environmental sustainability. The speaker sessions and documentary film series are particularly enlightening, offering deep dives into critical environmental topics and solutions.
This year, I headed to Dallas for EarthX, held at the Texas State Fair Grounds. The anticipation was high, and I was eager to immerse myself again in the latest innovations and discussions surrounding environmental conservation.
EarthX is one of my favorite environmental events in Texas! I’ve attended EarthX years prior to the pandemic and loved every experience. This environmental conference is held in Dallas, Texas, and invites people and organizations from across the world. Its part educational in-person conference and exhibitor hall, and part film festival.
This year EarthX was held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center downtown. Usual the event is hosted at the State Fairgrounds, but was relocated for in-person attendance during the pandemic. I met up with a friend and we took the DART rail to the convention center as a greener travel method.
We started off looking at international environmental art submissions. A lot of these art pieces were beautiful and represented environmental and regional concerns. We had the opportunity to publicly vote on our favorites too.
After my eco-inspired road trip, I had a hard time getting involved with sustainability initiatives in the Dallas Metroplex area compared to my time in Oregon. However, during Earth Day weekend, April 20-22 (with Earth Day on April 22), Dallas hosted its annual EarthX Expo, and I was excited to attend for my second year in a row!
“The festival, formerly called Earth Day Texas, is the world’s largest environmental festival, having drawn as many as 130,000 people. The main festival costs $5 and runs from Friday through Sunday at Fair Park.
But there are also two weeks’ worth of events, including a film festival and professional conferences that aren’t open to the public.
The three-day expo draws the general public with a tiny house village, a petting zoo, goat yoga, a scuba diving pool and about 1,000 exhibitors. At the same time, the festival is hosting conferences to discuss sustainability initiatives in the oil and gas industry and the E-Capital Summit to link investors with clean technology startups.” – Dallas Morning News Article
Last year in 2017, I went to EarthX for networking purposes and to drum up new business for the marketing agency I was working at. And the experience was more than inspiring getting to talk with hundreds of vendors/exhibitors, touring the tiny house community, watching some award-winning documentaries, and seeing cutting-edge sustainability initiatives and technologies!