Kingwood Development News

Recently awarded with the LEED Silver Certification (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design), the Kingwood Branch Library is now a recognized green building. A building must earn more than 50 points, out of 100 possible points, to receive this honorable Silver Certification. “We recycle and there are cans around so customers can join in helping us. The library is in a green belt to provide a connection to nature and reduce the heat island effect. The roof is white to reduce the amount of heat that enters the building, important in Texas summers,” states a library official.

So come enjoy the clean, cool air inside your local public library for many of their summer activities including:

Event Type: Story Time

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Bring the wonderful sight and smell of fresh grass indoors this summer with your very own potted wheatgrass garden. It’s the latest trend in floral arrangements and is easy to use as everyday décor or as an entertaining accent.

All you need is a few small containers (colorful bowls, geometric trays or even baking ramekins), potting soil and a pad of pre-grown wheatgrass from your local Home Depot or Lowes store. Place the potting soil into your container and cut the grass into appropriately sized pieces with gardening scissors.

Place a row of your grass containers down the middle of your dinner table as an unexpected spring centerpiece.

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Although I have never been known as a Green Thumb, when my 4 year old asked if we could have our own garden, I felt a parental - and eco – obligation to make it happen. As we talked about all the things we might like to grow, I had a flashback to my childhood and filling buckets with berries that grew wild on our back fence. We had so much fun picking then and could devour a whole bowl in one sitting at our picnic table. 

So, I did a little research, and was happy to find out that blackberries are pretty easy to grow in the Southern region. Before we bought them, I did a little more reading to see what they would require and here is what I found:

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Christmas has now passed and many residents are slowly taking down their Christmas trees, saying adieu to Christmas decorations until next year’s holiday season when the lights and festivities ring in another new year. As you take down your Christmas tree you might be wondering if there is anything else you can do besides put it on the curb – and this year you can keep it green by donating your tree for recycling to save the sand dunes along the Texas Gulf Coast.

Association Management, Inc. (AMI) Kingwood is collecting trees through January 9, 2010 for the annual Dunes Day project which helps to rebuild sand dunes along Brazoria County beaches, which were devastated this year by Hurricane Ike.

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