Community Calendar

LaTEAda Tea House offers fun, free, and friendly networking open to everyone. We will have monthly speakers and a chance to introduce yourself, your business, and make lasting connections that will propel us all forward.

Arrival time is fluid and the speaker will begin at 9:45 followed by introductions and conversation. As always, bring a friend and come hungry and thirsty and ready to discover something new!

Bill Barker, FAICP, FITE, of San Antonio and longtime member of the Sierra Club Alamo Group, will discuss how we must adapt to the climate-related hazards already facing our region of south Texas.

Program topic:
The 13-county Alamo Region faces intensifying climate-related hazards that demand coordinated adaptation planning across all levels of government. These hazards are not abstract future risks; they are already reshaping infrastructure vulnerability, water availability, ecosystems, military readiness, and public safety. The region’s greatest climate threats are four interrelated hazards: flooding, drought, extreme heat, and wildfires.
While reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions remains a moral and global responsibility, local resilience in our region will depend far more on adaptation investments than on local emissions reductions alone, since even immediate worldwide elimination of GHG emissions would not reverse accumulated atmospheric warming possibly for centuries.

About our presenter:
Bill Barker (BA in physics and MA in urban affairs) is passionate about helping San Antonio prepare for the challenging realities that changing climate is already bringing to our area. Having moved here in 1997 to be Planning Director for VIA Metropolitan Transit, he is currently an advisor to the Great Springs Project, and has served as Executive Director of Solar San Antonio, as a Project Manager in the City’s Office of Sustainability, and as Adjunct Associate Professor in the UTSA graduate urban and regional planning program. He is also on the Executive Committee of the Sierra Club Alamo Group.
Bill’s career started in mission simulation at NASA (Houston) for the Apollo lunar mission, and then took a terrestrial turn with the US Department of Transportation and North Central Texas Council of Governments. Bill has served as a consultant for public and private clients in seven states, Canada, and Mexico as well as the US DOE, DOT and USAID, and many other organizations. Bill is a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Read stories by Bill in the San Antonio Report at: https://sanantonioreport.org/author/bill-barker/

Bill Barker, FAICP, FITE, of San Antonio and longtime member of the Sierra Club Alamo Group, will discuss how we must adapt to the climate-related hazards already facing our region of south Texas.

Program topic:
The 13-county Alamo Region faces intensifying climate-related hazards that demand coordinated adaptation planning across all levels of government. These hazards are not abstract future risks; they are already reshaping infrastructure vulnerability, water availability, ecosystems, military readiness, and public safety. The region’s greatest climate threats are four interrelated hazards: flooding, drought, extreme heat, and wildfires.
While reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions remains a moral and global responsibility, local resilience in our region will depend far more on adaptation investments than on local emissions reductions alone, since even immediate worldwide elimination of GHG emissions would not reverse accumulated atmospheric warming possibly for centuries.

About our presenter:
Bill Barker (BA in physics and MA in urban affairs) is passionate about helping San Antonio prepare for the challenging realities that changing climate is already bringing to our area. Having moved here in 1997 to be Planning Director for VIA Metropolitan Transit, he is currently an advisor to the Great Springs Project, and has served as Executive Director of Solar San Antonio, as a Project Manager in the City’s Office of Sustainability, and as Adjunct Associate Professor in the UTSA graduate urban and regional planning program. He is also on the Executive Committee of the Sierra Club Alamo Group.
Bill’s career started in mission simulation at NASA (Houston) for the Apollo lunar mission, and then took a terrestrial turn with the US Department of Transportation and North Central Texas Council of Governments. Bill has served as a consultant for public and private clients in seven states, Canada, and Mexico as well as the US DOE, DOT and USAID, and many other organizations. Bill is a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Read stories by Bill in the San Antonio Report at: https://sanantonioreport.org/author/bill-barker/

Bill Barker, FAICP, FITE, of San Antonio and longtime member of the Sierra Club Alamo Group, will discuss how we must adapt to the climate-related hazards already facing our region of south Texas.

Program topic:
The 13-county Alamo Region faces intensifying climate-related hazards that demand coordinated adaptation planning across all levels of government. These hazards are not abstract future risks; they are already reshaping infrastructure vulnerability, water availability, ecosystems, military readiness, and public safety. The region’s greatest climate threats are four interrelated hazards: flooding, drought, extreme heat, and wildfires.
While reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions remains a moral and global responsibility, local resilience in our region will depend far more on adaptation investments than on local emissions reductions alone, since even immediate worldwide elimination of GHG emissions would not reverse accumulated atmospheric warming possibly for centuries.

About our presenter:
Bill Barker (BA in physics and MA in urban affairs) is passionate about helping San Antonio prepare for the challenging realities that changing climate is already bringing to our area. Having moved here in 1997 to be Planning Director for VIA Metropolitan Transit, he is currently an advisor to the Great Springs Project, and has served as Executive Director of Solar San Antonio, as a Project Manager in the City’s Office of Sustainability, and as Adjunct Associate Professor in the UTSA graduate urban and regional planning program. He is also on the Executive Committee of the Sierra Club Alamo Group.
Bill’s career started in mission simulation at NASA (Houston) for the Apollo lunar mission, and then took a terrestrial turn with the US Department of Transportation and North Central Texas Council of Governments. Bill has served as a consultant for public and private clients in seven states, Canada, and Mexico as well as the US DOE, DOT and USAID, and many other organizations. Bill is a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Read stories by Bill in the San Antonio Report at: https://sanantonioreport.org/author/bill-barker/

Bill Barker, FAICP, FITE, of San Antonio and longtime member of the Sierra Club Alamo Group, will discuss how we must adapt to the climate-related hazards already facing our region of south Texas.

Program topic:
The 13-county Alamo Region faces intensifying climate-related hazards that demand coordinated adaptation planning across all levels of government. These hazards are not abstract future risks; they are already reshaping infrastructure vulnerability, water availability, ecosystems, military readiness, and public safety. The region’s greatest climate threats are four interrelated hazards: flooding, drought, extreme heat, and wildfires.
While reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions remains a moral and global responsibility, local resilience in our region will depend far more on adaptation investments than on local emissions reductions alone, since even immediate worldwide elimination of GHG emissions would not reverse accumulated atmospheric warming possibly for centuries.

About our presenter:
Bill Barker (BA in physics and MA in urban affairs) is passionate about helping San Antonio prepare for the challenging realities that changing climate is already bringing to our area. Having moved here in 1997 to be Planning Director for VIA Metropolitan Transit, he is currently an advisor to the Great Springs Project, and has served as Executive Director of Solar San Antonio, as a Project Manager in the City’s Office of Sustainability, and as Adjunct Associate Professor in the UTSA graduate urban and regional planning program. He is also on the Executive Committee of the Sierra Club Alamo Group.
Bill’s career started in mission simulation at NASA (Houston) for the Apollo lunar mission, and then took a terrestrial turn with the US Department of Transportation and North Central Texas Council of Governments. Bill has served as a consultant for public and private clients in seven states, Canada, and Mexico as well as the US DOE, DOT and USAID, and many other organizations. Bill is a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Read stories by Bill in the San Antonio Report: https://sanantonioreport.org/author/bill-barker/

Looking for support and community? Join the PFLAG San Antonio chapter for their bi-monthly a support meeting for the LGBTQ+ community and their families, friends and allies on the 1st and 3rd Thursday every month from 7-9 pm. PFLAG is the nation's largest organization uniting people who are LGBTQ with those who love and care about them. PFLAG is a non-profit organization and is not affiliated with any religious or political institutions. PFLAG leads with love.

LaTEAda Tea House offers fun, free, and friendly networking open to everyone. We will have monthly speakers and a chance to introduce yourself, your business, and make lasting connections that will propel us all forward.

Arrival time is fluid and the speaker will begin at 9:45 followed by introductions and conversation. As always, bring a friend and come hungry and thirsty and ready to discover something new!

Don't worry about the ants and the Texas heat: This picnic is indoors at the beautiful, air conditioned Aggie Park Event Center!

North East Bexar County Democrats (NEBCD) is holding its 27th Annual Labor Day Picnic to celebrate the contributions of all of us who work for our families and communities every day. Former Mayor Ron Nirenberg will be the featured speaker. NEBCD will honor a Labor Woman and Labor Man of the Year who have given a life time of service to unions for the advancement of all workers. Jim Chesnut, local indie musical artist, will perform.

Donations to the Labor Day Picnic support volunteers involved in getting out the vote in November 2026 mid-term elections.

To donate, sponsor or get an exhibit table for your business or candidate, go to ActBlue https://secure.actblue.com/donate/2026ldp

Tickets may be purchased online or by check. For details on submitting a check, call Madeleine at (210) 884-3766.

Looking for support and community? Join the PFLAG San Antonio chapter for their bi-monthly a support meeting for the LGBTQ+ community and their families, friends and allies on the 1st and 3rd Thursday every month from 7-9 pm. PFLAG is the nation's largest organization uniting people who are LGBTQ with those who love and care about them. PFLAG is a non-profit organization and is not affiliated with any religious or political institutions. PFLAG leads with love.

LaTEAda Tea House offers fun, free, and friendly networking open to everyone. We will have monthly speakers and a chance to introduce yourself, your business, and make lasting connections that will propel us all forward.

Arrival time is fluid and the speaker will begin at 9:45 followed by introductions and conversation. As always, bring a friend and come hungry and thirsty and ready to discover something new!