Austin Climate Protection Plan

The five components

"...ACPP's Five-Point Plan1) Municipal operations..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature

Austin Climate Protection Plan Year One Highlights

A progress report on Austin's war on global warming

"...status of its initiatives. Download the report here. MUNICIPAL PLAN..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature

Austin Climate Protection Plan

"...The five components of the city's plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions:..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Feature

A New Plan for Austin ISD?

School board elections tee up calls for change – and rebuilding broken trust

"...The district has already gone through changes in recent years, and the fallout from..."

Oct. 16, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Can Austin Become Carbon Neutral by 2050?

The city stepped up its game, but it'll need your help

"...the city is on track to meet key sustainability goals, according to a January 2020 report released by the..."

Feb. 14, 2020 News Post by Francesca D'Annunzio

How Cool Is Austin?

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

"...climate change crisis and the new Austin Climate Protection Plan. Embodied in a resolution adopted unanimously by City Council..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Slow Burn

City's climate protection plan sputters in 2010

"...this would be the year we would really get going and show success, and the team would be all..."

Sept. 24, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

ACPP Update

Municipal & Utility Progress

"...The Austin Climate Protection Plan includes five areas: Municipal; Utility; Homes and Buildings; Community;..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

How Cool Is Austin

2010 snapshot of the ACPP 'five plans'

"...Municipal Plan Make all city of Austin facilities, fleets, operations carbon..."

Sept. 24, 2010 News Feature

Cool City: Acting Locally, Cooling Globally

The Austin Climate Protection Plan takes form

"...since City Council unanimously approved the Austin Climate Protection Plan Feb. 15, city staff has steadily begun tackling the..."

May 11, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Not So Cool

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

"...with that, people want to know – how's it going?..."

June 19, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

"...critics oppose it claiming it would encourage smoking?" – Gov. Rick Perry, defending his executive order to provide HPV..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Feature

RG4N Questions City's Legal Wisdom

Anti-Wal-Mart group wants to know why city hired outside legal staff in Northcross case.

"..."assistance related to the filing of a second site plan by Lincoln Properties, as well as the initiation of..."

Feb. 21, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

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

Is the plan just daring enough to work?

"...A few weeks ago, Mayor Steve Adler delivered a brief pitch on the..."

Oct. 28, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

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

"...experts agreed [yesterday on] a statement that called on governments to act before the planet becomes an unrecognisable –..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Cool City: The Leffingwell Lens

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

"...the City Council unanimously adopted the Austin Climate Protection Plan. Conceptually, it's perhaps the most aggressive and well-rounded local..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Council OK's Motel Purchase to Help Homeless

Also on the dais: parks, trains, trails, diapers

"...City Council approved unanimously on Thursday, Nov. 14, $8..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

It's Not Easy Being Green

The city's Office of Sustainability is still trying to find a sustainable mission

"...of other things green. She inherited a pile of good intentions and such programs as the ambitious Climate Protection..."

April 5, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Biomass: A Question of Wood, Not Could

Council will vote this week on a proposed wood-waste-fueled power plant, but just because it's carbon-neutral doesn't mean it's perfect

"...buy 100 megawatts of energy from a waste-wood-fueled power plant located outside Nacogdoches in East Texas. The plant will..."

Aug. 22, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Unrealized Opportunities: Ester Matthews on the Austin Climate Protection Program

Ester Matthews reflects on the progress of the ACPP

"...lately. I want to say all of my staff got better paying jobs, and that's why they left. That's..."

Sept. 24, 2010 News Feature

'An Independent Person'

A Conversation With Randi Shade

"...to look at the percentages [of the vote]; you've got to look at raw votes. And there were just..."

June 3, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

Back to the Trenches

AMD tightens its hold on Lantana – and the enviro opposition digs in

"...India – all of which play into AMD's long-range goal of hammering arch rival Intel and claiming the title..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Know When to Hold It

New website initiates a guide to Austin's gender-neutral loos

"...Late last summer, the Austin City Council approved a gender-neutral restroom resolution to require gender-neutral signage for single-occupancy restrooms..."

Feb. 2, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Blake McCoy

American Dreamer

Jim Gaffigan shows a flair for darkness, but this rideshare thriller stays in neutral

"...the comedian Jim Gaffigan), has seen his American dream go kaput. Canned from his job, divorced from his wife..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

"...the Chicks when Maines criticized President Bush four years ago. Headlines• Neighbors of the beleaguered Northcross Mall, still fighting..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...O'Connor Neutral on Project..."

April 16, 2004 Column

Neighborhood Soup

"...15, as 13 community groups made pitches to the Planning Commission for the two open slots in the city's..."

Aug. 1, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Tovo and Casar Unfiltered on CodeNEXT

The Council members' full conversation with the Chronicle

"...start with that. A lot of the answers we got yesterday to our questions were, wait until next week..."

Sept. 14, 2017 News Post by Nick Barbaro

From the Archive: Welcome to Chaos

Originally published on Nov. 12, 1993: ATCEMS saves lives every day, but the stresses of the job have high costs

"...from the vehicle's mobile emergency room, and grins. "We go in quick, buddy," he says, "tag and bag 'em."..."

May 8, 2015 News Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Roger Duncan's Night Visions

Austin Energy's GM invites us to wrestle with the conundrum of clean energy

"...responsibility for keeping the city's lights on, Duncan has good reason to wander his house in an insomniac funk...."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

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