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• Educational Resources for Teachers and Students from the Edwards Aquifer Authority
  The Authority’s Education Program is designed to work with students and teachers throughout the region to educate them on the issues of water and water conservation. This is accomplished through classroom and school presentations, educational materials, teacher workshops, and teacher field trips.
  
• Edwards Aquifer Location Map
  
• GEAA's educational documents section
  
• Movie - Edwards Aquifer, Ezells Cave, and Search for the Blind Monster!
  A rare view of Ezell's Cave (the first cave preserve in Texas), the Edwards Aquifer, and an underwater view of the Texas Blind Salamander were filmed. This video documents the most complete picture to date of the life of the Texas Blind Salamander in the wild. Also included is a bonus DVD slide show of some of the invertebrates that have rarely been seen from the aquifer including a bizarre endemic troglobitic leech. contact GEAA about checking out a copy of this film to show your class, or order your own copy for $20 + S&H.
  
• Michigan Environmental Education Curriculum
  Excellent source for teachers seeking resources for classroom education. Great slideshow for presentation to students. Very informative without being over complex.
  

• Save Our Springs Alliance
  
• Aquifer Guardians in Urban Areas
  
• Alamo Group of the Sierra Club
  
• Austin Regional Group of the Sierra Club
  
• Hays Community Action Network (Hays CAN)
  
• Helotes Heritage Association
  
• Medina County Environmental Action Association
  
• San Antonio Conservation Society
  
• San Geronimo Watershed Alliance
  
• San Marcos River Foundation
  
• Save Barton Creek Association
  
• Smart Growth San Antonio
  
• Sustainable Energy & Economic Development (SEED) Coalition
  
• West Texas Springs Alliance
  
• Wimberley Valley Watershed Association
  
• Cibolo Nature Center
  
• Environmental Stewardship Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas
  
• Environment Texas
  
• Friends of Canyon Lake
  
• Fuerza Unida
  
• Kinney County Ground Zero
  
• Texas Water Alliance
  
• First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Antonio
  
• San Marcos Greenbelt Alliance
  
• Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation
  
• Guardians of Lick Creek
  
• Sisters of Divine Providence
  
• Bexar Audubon Society
  
• Preserve Our Water
  
• Scenic Loop/Boerne Stage Alilance
  
• Preserve Lake Dunlap Association
  
• Friends of Government Canyon
  
• Northwest Interstate Coalition of Neighborhoods
  
• Preserve Castroville
  
• Santuario Sisterfarm
  

• B & B: From the Texas Hill Country: Politics, Science, etc.
  
• San Antonio Express News Earth Matters Blog
  Informative and entertaining news source about environmental issues in San Antonio and throughout the state.
  
• WaterCheck.biz
  Business committed to transforming the human relationship to water. Lots of neat stuff, including rainwater harvesting barrells and more.
  
• The San Antonio Virtual Nature Center
  Includes a calendar of events for the San Antonio area.
  
• Failure likely in Del Rio's bid for water district organization in 2007
  Now, a valiant attempt to create a democratically elected protective mechanism – a Val Verde County Groundwater Conservation District (GWCD) – grows in importance, inverse in relation to its likelihood of success. Three factions – ranchers, municipalities, and environmentalists – may be failing in their last-ditch effort to shield the region’s most precious natural resource from the predations of inside greed and outside water markets. Is the GWCD effort stagnant?
  
• The Ranch Woman
  Express-News editor Glenda Wolin, a lifelong suburbanite, moves to the Hill Country, trading the convenience of pizza delivery on demand for 64 acres outside Blanco.
  
• Art of Chris Jordan- Running the Numbers, An American Self Portrait
  This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
  
• Interview with Laura Dunn on the Unforseen
  This week NOW's David Brancaccio talks with filmmaker Laura Dunn about her new documentary, "The Unforeseen," which captures the drama, passion, and heartfelt convictions on all sides of the conflict without making easy targets of any of them.
  
• Helotes News On-Line
  Catch up with the latest doings in Helotes, North Bexar County, and the gateway to the Hill Country.
  
• Boerne Together Home Page
  See what citizens in Boerne are up to in their efforts to preserve the quality of life in their part of the Hill Country.
  
• Boerne Together Blog
  Folks in Boerne building virtual community through discussions on this blog.
  
• Dance Exchange
  Dancers who appreciate the aquifer. Looks like lots of fun!
  
• Environmental Mover and Shaker Elyzabeth Earnley of AGUA chats with Directions Magazine
  
• Greg Harman Blogg
  
• Wild Wonderings Blog
  Wild Wonderings is published to provide landowners, land managers, and conservation enthusiasts with relevant, research-based information for land, water and wildlife conservation. Authors and articles provide timely information and advice on natural resource conservation for landowners and the flora and fauna that inhabit their property.
  

• Learn gardening techniques to protect your watershed and conserve water
  Environmental Stewardship is the primary focus of educational activities within Texas Cooperative Extension's Horticulture program. Our "Earth Kind" emphasis focuses on conserving and protecting natural resources through the use of environmentally friendly practices. This can involve everything from conserving water in the landscape to the safe handling and use of pesticides in commercial fruit and vegetable production.
  
• The Edwards Aquifer Home Page
  
• Edwards Aquifer Location Map
  
• Yoysearch
  search engine for water and other information.
  
• DirPedia
  DirPedia.com - combining a dictionary, an encyclopedia and a web directory
  
• Visit Government Canyon State Natural Area
  This beautiful and historic treasure of the Texas Hill Country just outside of San Antonio was purchased for the express purpose of protecting the Edwards Aquifer
  
• Texas at OyMap.com - a world directory
  Interesting information on regional organizations.
  
• National Park Service Water Page
  Lots of great information about water, watershed protection and much, much more.
  
• Karst Glossary
  Great reference! Terms defining different aspects of karst aquifers.
  
• National Groundwater Association
  Useful site with ample reference material and conferences on groundwater systems.
  
• The Karst Conservancy
  National site dedicated to disseminating information on karst aquifers.
  
• Environmental Science Institute at UT Austin
  University of Texas at Austin delineates the hydrology and composition of the delicate Edwards Aquifer.
  
• US Fish & Wildlife South West Region Ecological Services
  Information about what is being done to protect the endangered species of the Travis/Williamson and Bexar county karst zones.
  
• American Farmland Trust - Cost of Community Services, Bexar County
  
• Local Harvest
  Find farms in your area for fresh grown produce. Many farms offer produce subscriptions, where buyers receive a weekly or monthly basket of produce, flowers, fruits, eggs, milk, coffee, or any sort of different farm products.
  
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
  What is Conservation Development? Conversation development is a method of developing land for housing in a way that preserves open space for future generations. Typically, it involves building homes in groups with smaller lot sizes, protecting natural features and open space for use by all the residents.
  
• Directory of Texas Land Trusts
  this list compiled by the Land Trust Council provides organizations that secure and hold land for permanent preservation of wild life and our natural resources.
  
• Green Organizations in San Antonio
  A handy list, with links, of San Antonio's environmental activists.
  
• Protecting Your Groundwater-Educating for Action
  Publication of the League of Women Voters of the United States offers case studies and a complete "how to" instructions for taking action to protect groundwater resources.
  
• Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Process
  The web site of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Process (RIP) - a voluntary, multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to balance water use and development with the recovery of federally listed species.
  
• Texas Water Development Board
  The Texas Water Development Board's mission is to provide leadership, planning, financial assistance, information, and eduacation for the conservation and responsible developmentment of water in Texas.
  
• Texas Water Matters
  Great source of info for Desired Future Conditions and GMAs (Ground Water Management Area) process.
  
• Recreation, Park & Tourism Sciences
  Access and infomation on various types of tourism in Texas and beyond.
  
• Environmental Protection Agency Code of Federal Regulations
  
• TCEQ water quality and storm water