Community Calendar

Come and join us for a unique event offering some vintage tech. Typewriters will be available for attendees to sit down and manually type out a poem, a few thoughts, or perhaps a letter to a loved one. So come for a nostalgic throw-back or experience pre-PC tech for the first time. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

Come and join us for a unique event offering some vintage tech. Typewriters will be available for attendees to sit down and manually type out a poem, a few thoughts, or perhaps a letter to a loved one. So come for a nostalgic throw-back or experience pre-PC tech for the first time. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

Come and join us for a unique event offering some vintage tech. Typewriters will be available for attendees to sit down and manually type out a poem, a few thoughts, or perhaps a letter to a loved one. So come for a nostalgic throw-back or experience pre-PC tech for the first time. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

Come and join us for a unique event offering some vintage tech. Typewriters will be available for attendees to sit down and manually type out a poem, a few thoughts, or perhaps a letter to a loved one. So come for a nostalgic throw-back or experience pre-PC tech for the first time. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

Come and join us for a unique event offering some vintage tech. Typewriters will be available for attendees to sit down and manually type out a poem, a few thoughts, or perhaps a letter to a loved one. So come for a nostalgic throw-back or experience pre-PC tech for the first time. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

Come and join us for a unique event offering some vintage tech. Typewriters will be available for attendees to sit down and manually type out a poem, a few thoughts, or perhaps a letter to a loved one. So come for a nostalgic throw-back or experience pre-PC tech for the first time. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

Come and join us for a unique event offering some vintage tech. Typewriters will be available for attendees to sit down and manually type out a poem, a few thoughts, or perhaps a letter to a loved one. So come for a nostalgic throw-back or experience pre-PC tech for the first time. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

Gardening Volunteers of South Texas presents encore author Shaun McCoshum, Ph.D. to discuss his newest book
Monday, August 17, 2026
San Antonio Garden Center
3310 N New Braunfels Avenue
12:00 - 3:00 p.m.
11:30 Doors open to public
Lunch available, donated by GVST members.

Author books available for purchase:
+ Natural Habitats and Wildlife Gardening: Inviting Nature into Your
Backyard (limited availability). Please feel free to order from your
favorite bookseller and bring a copy.
+ Inviting Pollinators and Other Wildlife Into Your Garden (limited
availability, paperback only, please feel free to bring your own copy
for signing).

Forms of payment accepted: Venmo, cash. $30 per book

12 noon - 3 p.m. Encore author Shaun McCoshum presents from his most
recently published book, "Natural Habitats and Wildlife Gardening:
Inviting Nature into Your Backyard":
1. Ecological processes regulate habitats in healthy ecosystems. Native
plants are an essential part of habitats that support insects and
animals, but vegetation
alone does not provide the necessary resources for most creatures to
complete their life cycles. During this talk, natural regulating
processes of habitats and resource creation are broken down with easy
ways we can mimic those events in our own yards.

(15-minute break)

2. Creating robust habitats in our gardens should include ecology to
turn your backyard into a thriving haven for pollinators, birds, and
other wildlife. How-to integrate key resources into gardens will be
presented. Examples for specific species will also be provided
throughout the talk to illustrate ways we can recreate vibrant,
gorgeous, natural habitats in your own yard while appealing to neighbors
and friends.

Event ends at 3:00 p.m.

Gardening Essentials classes are open to public free of admisdion. Donations to Dr. Tom Harris Memorial Scholarship Fund are encouraged.

The Sierra Club Alamo Group meets on the 3rd Tuesday of most months (excludes November and December) to discuss timely and interesting topics pertaining to the natural and human environments. Always free and open to the public.

Meetings generally consist of a meet-and-greet followed by a presentation by an invited speaker, with discussion. For more information, visit https://www.sierraclub.org/texas/alamo

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/