Cool Cities: Dispatches From Copenhagen

Climate change, clean energy ... and bicycles

"...blogging from Copenhagen, where she's reporting on the city's climate initiatives as it prepares to host the Dec. 7-18..."

Oct. 16, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

SXSW Eco Wrap

“Nature doesn’t need people, People need nature”

"...with the focus increasingly upon the human cost of climate change...."

Oct. 9, 2014 News Post by Jessi Cape

Glass Half Full Theatre's Once There Were Six Seasons

Using innovative puppetry, Glass Half Full Theatre dukes it out with climate change in an invigorating way

"...I wrote: "I'm reviewing an interactive puppet show about climate change. Keep Austin Weird."..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Pelosi Plugs Local Energy Plan

Nancy Pelosi does Austin.

"...solar photovoltics and biodiesel, also giving props to Austin's Climate Protection Plan and Mayor's Will Wynn's role as Energy..."

Oct. 30, 2007 News Post by Daniel Mottola

Zimmerman and Flannigan Face-Off in Candidate Forum

Zimmerman doubles down on opposing climate change, living wage

"...few punches amid questions about traffic congestion, community policing, climate change, lobbying, and the Mobility Bond...."

Sept. 16, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

Point Austin: Back to the Future

GOP officials take opportunity to demagogue on heels of Obama clean air plan announcement

"...his soapbox, noted President Obama's virtually boilerplate statement concerning climate change – "No challenge poses a greater threat to..."

Aug. 7, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Youth Keep Up With Kandidates Personally and Politically

Climate change forum focuses on young voters

"...week's Keeping Up With the Kandi­dates – a hybrid climate forum/personality showcase for Austin's young voters – candidates answered..."

Oct. 14, 2022 News Feature by Leila Saidane

Dougherty Arts Center Relocation OK'd and Affordable Housing Program Gets Pushed Through at Council

And more notes from the May 9 City Council meeting

"...Affordable housing, climate change, and the Dougherty Arts Center took center stage..."

May 10, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Point Austin: Saved by Billionaires?

The fight against climate change gathers allies high and low

"...last year about the dim prospects of action on climate change in TrumpWorld, Smitty was defiantly optimistic. "It's in..."

May 19, 2017 News Column by Michael King

The Hightower Report

Climate change, drought, beer, and me

"...Okay, climate change deniers – you've gone too far. You've gone..."

March 7, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

Once There Were Six Seasons

Glass Half Full Theatre employs puppets to show us a series of visions of the Earth transformed by climate change

"...sign of strength, sometimes it is only natural for change to rock you to your core. When one character..."

May 30, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Smith

Tackling Food Waste as a Social Justice Issue at SXSW

Various communities look to “feed the soil and starve the incinerator”

"...racism in addition to being a major contributor to climate change...."

March 16, 2022 SXSW Post by Melanie Haupt

April and the Extraordinary World

Animated French steampunk fantasy is delightfully imaginative

"...beautiful traditional (non-CGI, that is) animation, both tree-huggers and climate change-deniers should, for once, unite in being swept up..."

April 8, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Carbon Nation

Carbon dioxide emissions will be the death of us all unless we take steps to counteract the harm already done, says this new eco-doc.

"...start of his documentary proving that global warming and climate change are, indeed, actual facts of life and constitute..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

COP27: A Handful of Corporations and Countries Are Responsible for the Mess We're In

VIDEO: Harjeet Singh (CAN International) on loss and damage

"...world’s eyes turn to Egypt for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), Austin-based Texas Impact/Texas Interfaith Power &..."

Nov. 8, 2022 News Post

U.S. Senate Debate Closes Upbeat Texas Dem Convention

M.J. Hegar and Royce West seize the center

"...disputes and staked out the middle ground on guns, climate change, and racial reconciliation...."

June 8, 2020 News Post by Michael King

Song/Book: Grapes of Wrath vs. 1984

Rob Halverson and friends wrap live music around some heavy fiction

"...pretty fucking creepy, too. And what about – hello, climate change – what about John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath?..."

July 18, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Hightower Report: Help Oust Junk Science From Our Public Science Museums

Climate change denialism comes for natural history museums

"...filthy reputations and to spew the self-serving balderdash that climate change is a natural phenomenon, not one caused by..."

April 10, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

SXSW Film Review: 'Seeds of Time'

A complex subject yields a compelling documentary

"...future of global food production in the face of climate change is not the sexiest topic for a filmmaker..."

March 13, 2014 SXSW Post by Amy Smith

Austin@COP15

Local participants, activists in Denmark for U.N. climate summit

"...eyes are upon Copen­hagen, during the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference Dec. 7-18 (aka "Conference of the Parties"..."

Dec. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Two Years Gone – How Many Left to Save the Planet?

This Earth Day, urgent evidence of global warming should kick the Austin Climate Protection Plan into higher gear

"...places, impossible – place to live. At an emergency climate summit in Copenhagen, scientists agreed that 'worst case' scenarios..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Point Austin: A More Urgent Warning

National Climate Assessment amplifies the alarm

"...Reading through the summations in the latest National Climate Assessment, I found my mind drifting inexorably to the..."

Nov. 30, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Obama Going to COP15

The pres finally commits to UN Climate Talks

"...Obama announced today he'll appear at the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen Dec. 9; he receives the Nobel..."

Nov. 25, 2009 News Post by Katherine Gregor

The 11th Hour

Leonardo DiCaprio narrates this well-constructed – but oddly calm – documentary on global climate change aimed at the fence sitters, not the true believers.

"...seeking to dismiss or obfuscate the factuality of global climate change. It went like this: "If the babysitter you..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Not So Cool

Austin's 2009 Climate Protection Program update confirms progress on energy – but reflects a feeble citywide effort

"...Asked what they think of the Austin Climate Protection Program, most Austinites respond with a befuddled look...."

June 19, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Opinion: Wake-Up Calls for Our Fossil Fuel Addiction

Kicking our fossil fuel addiction is good for the climate, our health, our economy, and geopolitical stability

"...just geopolitics. Alarms are also ringing for Earth's warming climate, as they have for over 30 years. The latest..."

May 13, 2022 Column by Bob Hendricks

Austin Moves Up Target Date for Net-Zero Emissions Goal

City emphasizes equity as it ramps up climate action

"...City Council is set to adopt a Climate Equity Plan today, Sept. 30, that would move up..."

Oct. 1, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Cool City: The Leffingwell Lens

One council member's view of the Austin Climate Protection Plan

"...now since the City Council unanimously adopted the Austin Climate Protection Plan. Conceptually, it's perhaps the most aggressive and..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

How Cool Is Austin?

With a deep, collective breath, the city rolls out a world-class – but as yet unproven – climate-protection plan

"...Wynn is blunt when he talks about the global climate change crisis and the new Austin Climate Protection Plan...."

March 9, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Bringing the Enviro 'Entourage' to SXSW Eco

Adrian Grenier, UN policy creators getting green in Austin

"...was just cheesecloth and hacky sacks, maybe this will change your mind. Adrian Grenier, star of HBO's Entourage, will..."

Aug. 21, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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