Obama's Address at COP15

The president's address to the U.N. Climate Conference

"...Pres. Barack Obama urged international action today on a climate agreement, as COP15 closes: "We are running short on..."

Dec. 18, 2009 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Encounters at the End of the World

Werner Herzog, contemporary cinema's most consistently lyrical examiner of the (in)human condition, returns to the documentary form in yet another wonderfully improbable locale: Antarctica.

"...travels to a place where compasses are useless, the climate is negative 70 degrees Fahrenheit and white all over,..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pete Buttigieg Is Thinking Big

Transportation secretary considers climate change in SXSW keynote

"...goals for the Department of Transportation, he eschews incremental change and points to a massive infrastructure overhaul on the..."

March 18, 2021 SXSW Post by Benton Graham

Learning from Copenhagen

Upcoming blogs on climate action in Denmark

"...from Copenhagen, Oct. 5-10. I'm providing coverage of Denmark's climate action in advance of COP15; Copenhagen is the host..."

Sept. 29, 2009 News Post by Katherine Gregor

City Vehicle Fleet Getting More Alternative

City of Austin four months away from being halfway to a biofuel vehicle fleet.

"...city council. The move was prompted by the Austin Climate Protection Plan’s carbon-neutral city fleet by 2020 goal. A..."

Feb. 8, 2008 News Post by Daniel Mottola

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Humanity's scarring of Earth mapped out in graphic, terrifying detail

"...all natural processes combined to become the source of change in the Earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and other environmental..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Wind Power

Learning From Copenhagen: Post #3

"...morning I'll be interviewing the executive director of the Climate Consortium Denmark. CCD is working to solve some of..."

Oct. 5, 2009 News Post by Katherine Gregor

COP27: Harsh Words for the Host Country

Egypt earns Thursday's Fossil of the Day Award

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

Nov. 11, 2022 News Post

'Arise' Screens Tonight at Alamo Slaughter

Award-winning film documents women working for social change

"...despite their shared message of the necessity for urgent change...."

Sept. 24, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

“Nick Schnitzer: Inevitable Reckoning” at Dimension Gallery

Structures degraded by time and other materials provide a pointed view of dramatic change at work in the world

"...keyboard and requests that they type a secret in exchange for the revelation of another's entered secret. We are..."

April 20, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

COP27: Fossil of the Day Award

Turkey honored as the country that's "the best at being the worst"

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

Nov. 21, 2022 News Post

COP27: Ride a Bike, Save the Planet

The role of cycling in the new mobility paradigm

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

Nov. 16, 2022 News Post

COP25: We Can’t Keep Global Warming Capped at 1.5 Degrees Celsius If Oil & Gas Don’t Do Their Part

VIDEO: There’s no wiggle room for adding more fossil fuel production

"...world’s eyes turn to Madrid for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Austin-based Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy/Texas..."

Dec. 10, 2019 News Post

Lightbulb Moment at City Hall

Get yer free bulbs at City Hall, HEB …

"...at 10 a.m. Saturday. “After the Mayor released his Climate Protection Plan, I wanted to find a simple way..."

April 13, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

COP25: The Fossil of the Day Award

VIDEO: Another day, another ignominious win for America

"...world’s eyes turn to Madrid for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Austin-based Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy/Texas..."

Dec. 10, 2019 News Post

COP25: The Fossil of the Day Award Goes to...

VIDEO: Who’s the best at being the worst? Grab a mirror.

"...world’s eyes turn to Madrid for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Austin-based Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy/Texas..."

Dec. 6, 2019 News Post

Point Austin: It Ain’t Easy Being Weird

Welcome to Austin – accept our gift of the spirit of change

"...shift its 2019 spring break one week later, a change then followed by local school districts. (Predictably, UT officials..."

March 15, 2019 News Column by Michael King

Worldbuilding With Science-Fiction Author Charlie Jane Anders

Signing for The City in the Middle of the Night at BookPeople

"...When 2020 presidential hopeful Kamala Harris stated that climate change called for “science fact, not science fiction,” she..."

Feb. 19, 2019 Arts Post by M. Brianna Stallings

COP25: Youth Behind the Fridays for Future Movement Speak

Greta Thunberg's #Climatestrike continues to inspire

"...world’s eyes turn to Madrid for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Austin-based Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy/Texas..."

Dec. 6, 2019 News Post

Helpful Resources: COP15 and Beyond

"...the UNFCCC, aka the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. With a bit of Web-surfing, it's fairly easy..."

Dec. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

A More Urgent Warning

"...Warning [News, Nov. 30], according to many pre-election polls, climate change is way down the list of voter concerns..."

Dec. 2, 2018 Postmarks

Public Citizen Tom “Smitty” Smith Looks Back on a Life Well Lived

The man in the white hat's relentless hard work and willed optimism

"...reducing its carbon emissions, with updated Resource, Generation, and Climate Protection Plans intended to reduce carbon emissions to zero..."

Dec. 16, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Hot and Bothered: Austin’s Record-Hot Summer Affects Pepper Harvesting

The hottest peppers are most threatened by increasing temperatures

"...that ultimately fuel our lives? And ultimately, how could climate change potentially affect our beloved hot sauces, down to..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Food Feature by A. Richmond

Defining the Eco Message

Is the enviro movement due for a branding makeover?

"...movement has lost traction in the battle against professional climate change deniers and anti-green energy lobbyists. However, there seemed..."

Oct. 14, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Opinion: Musk – Make Austin an Ecological Paradise

Time for Tesla to lead the green charge in Austin

"...its headquarters to Texas. As a practicing physician and Climate Health Equity Fellow, I was especially glad to learn..."

July 29, 2022 Column by Jessica Edwards

Drought, Heat, Fires ... Repeat

The plague of wildfires reflect conditions beyond a temporary drought

"...that led to them are dramatic symptoms of global climate change and could signal a feedback loop that helps..."

Sept. 16, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

On the Case

The Green Detectives

"...portal for people just tuning in to basic U.N. Climate Change Conference (or COP15) terminology and issues. Austinites Kevin..."

Dec. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Hightower Report

Hiding the Facts on Global Climate Change; Lloyd Blankfein's Big Hair

"...Hiding the Facts on Global Climate Change..."

May 8, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Keeping Busy

Armendariz moves from the EPA to the Sierra Club, still defending the environment

"...Texas – the people and the industry in Texas. Climate change is by far the most significant environmental challenge..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Misleading Textbooks

"...in your article “Science Groups Demand Textbook Publishers Remove Climate Change Denialism” [Daily News, Nov. 12, 2014], that it..."

March 31, 2019 Postmarks

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