Dinner with Vice President Al Gore, Earth Day Texas, Karenna's new Center for Earth Ethics, & more

It was a lifetime honor to speak at the private dinner honoring former Vice President Al Gore at Union Theological Seminary that also celebrated the official opening of Karenna Gore's new Center for Earth Ethics (CEE). Great Plains Restoration Council is proud to be a partner of the CEE. Thank you to all the folks at Union.

We met Bill Moyers, Senator Bill Bradley, Mary Evelyn Tucker from Yale, Aliou Niang from Angola, and many others. While at Union we also met new colleagues and friends from around the country, from Alabama to New Mexico.

Conversations around critical intersectional work are hot and meaningful around the country right now, and GPRC looks forward to expanding our assistance with Ecological Health where needed, especially as GPRC prairie park projects in Fort Worth and Houston near maturity. (The prairie dog reintroduction in Santa Fe County, NM is complete for now.) GPRC is becoming a national epicenter for Ecological Health.

Karenna Gore's April visit to Earth Day Texas in Dallas was exciting and memorable. You can find her profound speech on Friday April 24th here. Thank you Karenna for such passion and caring for Earth and people.

"Integrity and Earth: Honoring Our Roots while Enhancing Progress"

Bob Ray Sanders, famous longtime columnist from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, wrote about the Earth Day Texas events.

"A Special Message for Texans about Protecting the Earth"

On Saturday April 25th, GPRC hosted a morning coffee with Karenna Gore and Fred Davie, who is Executive Vice President of Union Theological Seminary in NYC, and about 40 local grassroots leaders, artists, teachers, and some of GPRC''s youth. You can see our youth are growing up!

Below: Bob Ray Sanders, top row, third from left, standing next to GPRC Youth Director Lorenzo Wilborn and "GPRC Mom" Theresa Mayo.

Our work couldn't get done without the valuable assistance of Janine Cavasar, GPRC Business Coordinator. Here she is with Karenna Gore at our Earth Day Texas booth. Thank you Janine!

Trammell S. Crow, businessman, philanthropist, founder of Earth Day Texas and well-known scion of Texas, wrote an Op-Ed in the Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram about getting Republicans to care more about the environment.

"It's Not Easy Being a Green Republican"

Great Plains Restoration Council wholeheartedly believes in working to bring people together for the Earth from all walks of life, and GPRC is grateful to count Mr. Crow as such a good friend and fellow partner for the Earth.

Lastly, on a personal note, I wanted to share that I have recently signed with the legendary Marie Brown, who is one of the top literary agents in the publishing industry.

She will represent my just-completed novel Her Blue Watered Streets, which took me 7 years to complete, as well as the film rights for Ghetto Plainsman.

All of this is building a new culture of caring through words and work. GPRC's model of getting-our-hands-dirty, of preservation, teaching and healing on the land and in our communities, arose out of America''s most devastated landscape, her left-for-dead prairies and plains.

A deep national movement of Ecological Health is now growing, where, as Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard said in his endorsement of Great Plains Restoration Council, we take care of our own health through taking care of our special places on Earth".

Thanks for being on the journey with us.

Jarid Manos
Founder & CEO
Great Plains Restoration Council

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