Fort Worth Could Become Home To Environmental Museum, But It Needs To Fight For It

Arlington TX

03 October, 2021

1:25 PM

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By Kristen Barton, Fort Worth Report October 2, 2021 Joseph Horn wants to bring leaders together to enhance sustainability and environmentalism, and he wants to do it in Fort Worth. Horn is an attorney, mediator and the president of EcoPlex, a think tank and accelerator for the environmental non-governmental organizations and corporate sustainability. The paperwork to get nonprofit designation for EcoPlex was filed in 2019, Horn said, but the concept was developed three or four years before that. Building the EcoPlex in Fort Worth always was the plan, he said. "Having it in Fort Worth, which is considered an oil and gas town, is transformative," Horn said. "There's a strong sense of culture, community, people who are entrepreneurial, and it has a manufacturing base." Building EcoPlex in Fort Worth can attract other companies, such as electric car manufacturers, he said. The city is currently a finalist for a new Rivian Industries Inc. site. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.