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April 28, 2008 Postmarks
Happenings
March 20-27
"...MEETINGS ON CAPITAL METRO PARATRANSIT CHANGES Capital Metro has proposed some changes to its paratransit..."
March 21, 2008 News Feature
Harold and Kumar and Vaginas in Louisiana
The big stars arrive for tonight's big premier
"...to say politically. It just uses the current political climate to make vagina jokes.'..."
March 8, 2008 SXSW Post by Joe O'Connell
Why Doggett Picked Obama
Austin's congressional superdelegate explains why he's pledging Obama, and what he could mean in state-level races.
"...not just on fossil fuels when it comes to climate change, but fossilized ideas." While he was very clear..."
Feb. 20, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Bryce's Response Was an Overreaction
"...of many looming difficulties, if the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's regional models are at all correct, we are..."
Dec. 22, 2007 Postmarks
Naked City
"...by the U.S., a new international agreement to combat climate change was signed in Bali last week, with hopes..."
Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature
Bryce's Contradictory Questionable Tough-Guy Views
"...he is an "agnostic" on the "science of global climate change." But a few words later, he states that..."
Dec. 14, 2007 Postmarks
Wal-Mart Case Could Take Several Weeks to Decide
Complexity of Wal-Mart case, not to mention Thanksgiving, could delay judge's decision
"...those floodwaters or if he considered the health or climate-change effects of the extra pollution. No, Zapalac replied, because..."
Nov. 23, 2007 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Is RG4N in Trouble?
Testimony seemed to go poorly for anti-Wal-Mart forces Wednesday.
"...those floodwaters, or if he considered the health or climate change effects of all that extra pollution. No, Zapalac..."
Nov. 14, 2007 News Post by Lee Nichols
Ashes, Ashes
In UT's staging of this postapocalyptic fairy tale, we can't help be sucked into the magic of the infinite hole
"...be left to grapple with the greater conflicts of climate change and the stark reality determined by current public-policy-makers...."
Nov. 9, 2007 Arts Review by Patti Hadad
Energy News: New Ethanol, Electric Power Reports
One warns of unintended consequences of rapidly rolling out domestic biofuels; other focuses on energy efficiency, renewables
"...converting too many acres to corn farmland could be climate-change counterproductive. ED recommends keeping proposed soil and grassland conservation..."
Oct. 26, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Letters @ 3AM
An economy of speculation is an economy of debt
"...Time passed; things changed. How they changed is all too well-known; no need..."
Oct. 12, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura
Naked City
"...president, "but since 2005, federal and state policies have changed." In 2006, the HSUS-backed Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards..."
Sept. 7, 2007 News Feature
All Hail Texas!
Texas emits more globe-warming carbon dioxide than any other state in the nation, by a long shot
"...Despite recent trends toward greenness and climate-change consciousness being at an all-time high, the fact remains..."
Aug. 3, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Solar Is Crucial Energy Source for Now and the Future
"...Energy Society to discuss our ability to address both climate change and big utility bills through solar technology available..."
July 2, 2007 Postmarks
More Oil, Anyone?
The Texas delegation to the US Senate has a solution to the energy crisis: more oil.
"...on gas producers. Of course, the terms global warming, climate change, efficiency standards, renewables, and pollution don't turn up..."
June 22, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Jeff Williams: Thickly Settled
For his exhibit 'Thickly Settled,' artist Jeff Williams has blanketed an array of everyday objects in an electrostatic flocking fiber that looks a lot like dust from an AC window unit
"...by fantasy writers? Could a polar shift or irreversible climate change trigger massive storms of household dust that eventually..."
June 8, 2007 Arts Review by Amanda Douberley
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..."
