TribFest Recap: Can Texas Plan Properly for Droughts and Floods to Come?

Are we "thinking as preciously about water as we can"?

"...meant the most existential: Texas’ and the world’s worsening climate crisis. The panelists – Robert Mace of the Meadows..."

Sept. 25, 2022 News Post by Lina Fisher

Lizzo, Beck Announced as SXSW Keynotes

Festival also adds cyberpunk pioneer Neil Stephenson

"...written on an Austin napkin in 2018, Bala has changed the ultra-serious, exclusionary nature of the fitness industry –..."

Feb. 15, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: Here Comes the Vote

Council preps for marathon Land Development Code hearing and first reading

"...the draft Code text and Zoning Map, plus the changes contained in two supplemental reports, plus the Planning Commission's..."

Dec. 6, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Martin Luecke's "Campaign to Save Humanity"

Independent eyes Congressional District 25

"...global warming crisis – the imminent threat of “abrupt climate change,” he reiterates – and that’s why he’s running..."

June 12, 2018 News Post by Michael King

Point Austin: The Best of Times …

Remaining optimistic in a world spinning into darkness

"...opposition, beginning Inau­gu­ra­tion Day and continuing through last weekend's climate change protests. A large mass of people continue to..."

May 5, 2017 News Column by Michael King

SXSW Film Review: Bill Nye: Science Guy

TV science-maker is called into battle against willed ignorance

"...of the film are his public disputes with anti-evolutionists, climate-change deniers, and the general suspicion of scientific knowledge that..."

March 13, 2017 SXSW Post by Michael King

Getting Warmer

A leading environmentalist on the growing threat to the planet and the future

"...it would be at least another decade before anything changed. Ten Years Warmer..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Bill Mckibben

Point Austin: Locally Cool

Austin embarks on a long but hopeful journey

"...new initiative – under the unglamorous heading, the Austin Climate Protection Plan – to address global warming at the..."

March 9, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

City leaders announce plan to push hybrid cars here and nationwide

"...this mafia will tell automakers that the time for change is now...."

Aug. 26, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

RZA, NASA, and Captain America for South by Southwest

New keynotes, speakers added with days to spare

"...• Climate Justice and Unlearned Lessons of the Day the Levees..."

March 3, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW, Tribune, CNN Present the Rest of the 2020 Presidential Pack

Six candidates in search of the voters, plus a Trump surrogate

"...pretty well, be they more issue-focused (Jay Inslee, the climate-change candidate) or more biographical (Julian Castro, who us townies..."

March 11, 2019 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

Dispatches From Denmark

Katherine Gregor blogs daily from Copenhagen as the city prepares to host the U.N. Climate Change Conference

"...blogging from Copenhagen, where she's checking out the city's climate initiatives as it gears up for the United Nations..."

Oct. 9, 2009 News Feature

Power Plant Pollution Battle Still On

TXU's Oak Grove lignite-burning facility gets state approval.

"...Oak Grove's massive emissions of the neurotoxin mercury and climate-changing CO2 will devastate taxpayer-funded efforts to minimize the substances...."

June 15, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Bag Ban

"...rather than the facts surrounding plastic bag pollution and climate change ["What Future for Flying Plastic Bags?" News, Jan...."

April 2, 2018 Postmarks

The Odds on Mayor Adler’s $720 Million Mobility Bond

Is the plan just daring enough to work?

"...been to do what the city can to reduce climate change, locally as well as internationally. But if Austin..."

Oct. 28, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Letters at 3AM: A Jog in the Smog

What we know is increasingly disconnected from what we do

"..."Virginia lawmakers had to omit any reference to 'climate change' and 'sea-level rise' in funding a study of..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

The Re-Energizer Revival

Students from across state descend upon UT for global warming conference

"...the lips of nearly every speaker came the pronouncement: Climate change will be the modern equivalent of the civil..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature by Andrea Grimes

Naked City

"...Austin's African-American population dwindles due to gentrification. "We're making changes as we speak, in order to be a paper..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature

The Last Last Sunday?

Austin organizing project contemplating its future

"...included a UT-Austin economist's discussion of the economics of climate change and an explanation by Workers Defense Project organizers..."

June 22, 2007 News Feature by Robert Jensen

Enviro-Rentalism

Saving the planet when you don't even own your own (low-flow) pot to piss in

"...thing you'll find to an easy fix: No lifestyle changes required. This simplicity perhaps makes it the most important..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Plans in Play

The Big Eight

"...Plan; Downtown Austin Plan; Austin Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan to 2020; transit-oriented development and corridor plans..."

July 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Austin at Large: This Road’s Gone On Forever

Is it wrong, or dumb, or evil to spend billions to fix I-35?

"...commitment among U.S. cities to address the impact of climate change. That's ... nice!..."

May 17, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Top 10 Environmental Stories

We've only got one planet

"...that signed a new international agreement to act against climate change, adding the "C40" agreement that promises more substantial..."

Dec. 30, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Heed the Experts

"...Dear Editor, Council Member Don Zimmerman recently asserted to climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe that CO2 cannot warm the Earth..."

May 5, 2015 Postmarks

Under the Big Tent

Does working from home help save the environment?

"...could kill. Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gave a dire warning that nations must act..."

Oct. 3, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

An Exceedingly Poor Understanding of Science

"...“commonsensical” maybe, based on the public’s disconnected understanding of climate science, “poleaxed by the fear … that we are,..."

Nov. 22, 2010 Postmarks

World, Interrupted

Saving the world, one Web warrior at a time

"...of what our green techno-future might hold.Building a Worldwide Climate Movement March 10, 3:30pm, Room 19AB..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Automation Is the Future of Food, and the Future Is Now

AI on your plate

"...plays a major role in perpetuating its biggest challenge: climate change...."

Jan. 14, 2022 Food Feature by Jessica Zuniga

Austin at Large: Help Is Not on the Way

By design, decadence, and default, Austin and Texas have entered a DIY era

"...was inevitable and will almost surely happen again as climate change warms and weakens the polar vortex that has..."

Feb. 26, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Vortex Repertory Company's Last: An Extinction Comedy

The magic cast by the company of this devised show pulls laughs from the impending demise of the planet

"...The news from climate scientists is now dire. The political reality is even..."

April 12, 2019 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

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