Rodeo 80

The 2007 Legislature in a quick-step roundup

"...bills – meet-and-confer for Emergency Medical Services providers and changes to Austin's police retirement fund – passed.) The city's..."

June 8, 2007 News Column

Yellow Bike Project Turns 10

Although Yellow Bike boasts more volunteers, community-benefiting programs, and grassroots momentum than ever, a cloud of uncertainty looms over group's East 51st shop, set for demolition by early 2008

"...Bike Project, has been taking issues of oil-dependence, pollution, climate change, and transportation equity directly to the streets now..."

May 18, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Reefer Madness

But DEA still refuses to admit hemp and pot are different crops

"...make a positive contribution to the issues of global climate change and carbon sequestration."..."

March 16, 2007 News Column by Jordan Smith

Our Continuance Depends on It

"...a form letter pertaining to her unconvinced stance on climate change. Everyday I am more hopeful that we will..."

March 9, 2007 Postmarks

Clean Air Ellis Rides Again

Democratic dynamo has three unrelated measures in Lege grabbing attention for their ambitious attempts to reform Texas' air quality

"...been touted as one of the state's first proposed climate-change remedies. At the end of January, the bill picked..."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Dirty Coal Update: Fast-Tracking Slowed Down

Travis Co. district judge issues temporary injunction instructing state administrative hearings judges to ignore Perry’s 2005 executive order fast-tracking coal-plant permitting as hearings were set to begin Wednesday on six TXU plants.

"...the air in hopes of profiting from anticipated federal climate change emissions cap and trade laws. Sussman says he..."

Feb. 21, 2007 News Post by Daniel Mottola

Point Austin: Act Against the War

Doggett:"We have to do everything we can"

"...said, "as with so many other problems: the debt, climate change, and so on." He was also critical of..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Page Two: Red-State Specials

In the current political climate, reasoned debate turns too easily to ideological hate

"...current fad. Historically, our political and social interactions haven't changed that much, and when they have, the shifts have..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Better Energy Solutions

"...will cause to the environment in the form of climate change. We learned from the last election that clean..."

Dec. 19, 2006 Postmarks

Texas Coal Rush Update

Planned coal power plants loom large, get political

"..."TXU does not condone that type of behavior." About climate change, Morgan said there's "still debate going on in..."

Oct. 13, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Sustainable Living

Renewable Energy Roundup and Green Living Fair is the place to learn about cutting-edge clean-energy technologies, as well as a one-stop shop for people wanting greener homes and natural backyard gardens

"...fossil energy sources and wanting to do something about climate change. Smith, who heads up the Texas Renewable Energy..."

Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

The Greenest Zine in Town

The new Austin Environmental Directory – part investigative environmental reports, part encyclopedia of sustainability, and part yellow pages of everything green in Austin – is out

"...After constructing a gloom-and-doom scenario of oil wars, climate change devastation, and toxic pollution, the directory moves into..."

Aug. 25, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Naked City

"...long time to come and accelerate impacts from global climate change," said Peter Galvin, Conservation Director with the Center..."

April 14, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...It should come as no surprise that two key climate change programs were shortchanged while requests for nuclear weapons..."

Feb. 24, 2006 News Feature

Hustle and Snow

At Sundance, the proving ground just got a lot more slippery

"...Gore's traveling presentation about the long-term effects of global climate change and his personal search for meaning in the..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Why Not Continue to Vote Republican?

"...the oil industry, has lied to you about global climate change for three decades. It isn't as though they..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Postmarks

Letters at 3AM

We take cars for granted, yet people have been living like this only a short time, and, when this era exhausts itself, people may never live like this again. What will they think of us, I wonder.

"...million miles. ... A million miles requires 250 oil changes adding up to 300 to 400 gallons of oil,..."

June 10, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Battling the Toxicity of Coal-Burning Power Plants

'Clear Skies' gets shot down, and Legislators try to cut the crud in Texas

"...address carbon dioxide emissions, the main culprit in global climate change...."

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Get Visionary With Me Here

We are no longer pioneers of the digital age. We're miners.

"...the halcyon days of free-market narcotics. Except for the climate change – it's scarcely stopped raining since I got..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Bruce Sterling

Letters at 3AM

Stanley Crawford's new book, The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays, reminds us that we must all do our part.

"...era of imminent catastrophe -- whether from human motive, climate change, or primeval force -- that's a scary realization..."

June 27, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

With inaction, inattention, cowardice, and stupidity, Americans are watching tyranny take shape in plain sight before our eyes, while the overwhelming majority say and do nothing.

"...predicted a disastrous future for American agriculture due to climate change. Bush said merely that he'd read the report..."

June 28, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Bush League lambasting, locally-grown concerns, and a side of jazz.

"...to "take a leadership role on the issue of climate change." Moments later, out of the other side of..."

June 22, 2001 Column

Corporate Takeover

Walter Prescott Webb Told Us So

"...against them. The MAI threatens workplace laws, environmental laws, climate change agreements, fishing treaties, and a whole range of..."

March 13, 1998 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Out-Gunned?

Sierra Blanca Dump Proponents Divide and Multiply

"...World report. This year's effort has studies on global climate change, the decreasing amounts of arable land, ozone depletion,..."

Jan. 31, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

EUD's Self-Help Program

Cutting Down Never Hurt So Much

"...the air. That's the gas primarily responsible for global climate change. If there's a direct correlation between funding and..."

Dec. 20, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

Spanked All Over

Top Ten Environmental Stories of 1995

"...do something about it soon. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that warming will cause "widespread economic, social,..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

Cool City: Water Utility Flows Green

Daryl Slusher hops from Austin Energy to Austin Water Utility to serve as first assistant director of environmental affairs and conservation

"...national model for energy efficiency, environmental protection, sustainability, and climate protection? City Manager Toby Futrell says she's determined to..."

May 25, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Big, Contentious Austin Energy Rate Hike Finally Arrives at Council

Power for the people?

"...Austin Energy revealed a big ask: It wants to change its base rate structure for the first time since..."

Nov. 25, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Travis County 'Death Spiral'

Facing a personnel dilemma, the commissioners respond: Fire everybody!

"...try to resolve the problem – first with a "climate assessment report" of the HR depart­ment and later a..."

Oct. 2, 2009 News Feature by Amy Smith

Letters at 3AM

Hot news about global warming.

"...thermometer registered higher, but that the heat itself had changed. A more harsh and brutal heat. My friend and..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

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