SXSW Panels Explore What’s Next for Sustainable Food

How to transition from “eco-depressed” to “making regenerative living sexy”

"...turned to 11, but good news exists, and these industry experts believe everyone can help. Quick Facts..."

March 8, 2024 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Debate Heats Up Over How to Wean Austin Off Fossil Fuels

Electric Utility Commission and Austin Energy at odds

"...AE faces a hard road ahead in getting off fossil fuels in time to meet its 2035 goal, while..."

Feb. 16, 2024 News Feature by Lina Fisher

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Enviro-thriller reinvents direct action as a commando mission

"...dying from a rare cancer linked to the petrochemical industry, and Alisha will follow her through the gates of..."

April 7, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Texas Feels Ripple Effects From Green Investment Ban

Blocking environmentally minded investment is harder than it may seem

"..."woke" financial firms that seek to limit investments in fossil fuels, firearms, and the like are starting to be..."

Sept. 9, 2022 News Feature by Isabel Maney

Sharing the Planet

"...may be because it is a primary byproduct of fossil fuel use in powering homes and fueling cars. But..."

March 31, 2022 Postmarks

Lizzo, Beck Announced as SXSW Keynotes

Festival also adds cyberpunk pioneer Neil Stephenson

"...has changed the ultra-serious, exclusionary nature of the fitness industry – a sea of lookalike brands running the same..."

Feb. 15, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Climate Plan Hopes to Reduce Texas’ Carbon Emissions

Plan would also regulate the state's fossil fuel industry

"...and increase regulation of its large, venerable, and powerful fossil fuel industry...."

April 16, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Record Turnout in Run-Off Election Pushes Democratic Party Toward Change

State and local races show the blue getting bluer

"...Commissioner Brigid Shea, sharply questioned Rodriguez campaign donations from "fossil fuel industry" sources – although under the Dome, fossil..."

July 17, 2020 News Feature by the News Staff

Opinion: Capitalism Has Failed Americans in This Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed longstanding structural problems. This is an opportunity to rethink our systems before they collapse.

"...our energy system out of the hands of the fossil fuel industry. The people running capitalism won’t do this..."

April 10, 2020 Column by Marina Roberts

Democratic Frontrunner Bernie Sanders Energizes Crowd at Austin Rally

Sanders voices “absolute confidence” his campaign will win Texas

"...as a human right, and standing up to the fossil fuel industry is the establishment’s worst nightmare, Sanders said,..."

Feb. 24, 2020 News Post by Mary Tuma

COP25: Members of Frontline Communities Describe Life in a Sacrifice Zone

VIDEO: Permian Basin residents on how the landscape has altered

"...by environmental damage. In particular, they discuss how the fossil fuel industry has impacted the Permian Basin...."

Dec. 4, 2019 News Post

Austin’s Steady Strides Toward Climate Sustainability

How are we doing and how effective can local policies be at mitigating a worldwide crisis?

"...government, which persists in its centurylong fealty to the fossil-fuels industry and which shares the Trump administration's determination to..."

Nov. 1, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Public Notice: Think Global

Act local: Flooding and more

"...City of Austin MUST divest all monies from the fossil fuel industry by 2030...."

Sept. 20, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Fossil Fuel Monstrosity

"...Legislature at this moment, turns impeding the construction of fossil fuel infrastructure into a third-degree felony. How convenient for..."

May 21, 2019 Postmarks

Point Austin: Signing On to a Green New Deal

Doggett in defense of concrete steps, not “absolute purity”

"...the transition," as is already happening to the coal industry. "We need to identify the concrete steps we can..."

March 1, 2019 News Column by Michael King

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Upcoming Legislative Session

Lawmakers set to tackle immigration, education, legalization, transportation, and more

"...floods and storms. There's renewed concern that the nuclear industry will be pushing to expand radioactive waste deposits in..."

Dec. 14, 2018 News Feature by the News Staff

Travis Duncan Enters Mayor Race

Candidate says he’ll bring “people’s power plan” to Austin

"...climate change and the need to move away from fossil fuel energy – and said he will speak “the..."

March 14, 2018 News Post by Michael King

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

"...of the end" of reliance on coal and other fossil fuels, he continued, noting the persistently low natural gas..."

Dec. 16, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Those Who Sow the Wind

The national GOP continues to perpetuate its permanent culture of extremism

"...any politically awkward science, originally in defense of the fossil fuel industry but by now largely detached from any..."

Sept. 25, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Who Loves the Sun?

"...powerful enough to push past the resistance of the fossil fuel industry to a renewable and sustainable economy. So,..."

Jan. 20, 2015 Postmarks

Pioneers or Settlers?

Balancing renewables and affordability at AE

"...costs of new technologies become more competitive with traditional fossil fuels. A chorus of national headlines throughout 2014 stoked..."

Jan. 16, 2015 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Council Endorses EPA Emissions Rule

Supporters hope to set precedent for Texas

"..."It's important because the fossil fuel industry and their support in campaign contributions are..."

June 27, 2014 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen

Bill McKibben Visits UT

Climate change leader promotes higher ed sustainability

"...could start to match the money power of the fossil fuel industry with people power.” The web campaign, which..."

April 9, 2014 News Post by Lizzie Jespersen

Prop. 6: Rainy Day Flows Downhill

State Water Implementation Fund wins in landslide

"...don't always agree with each other," such as the fossil fuel energy industry and environmental groups. (Case in point:..."

Nov. 8, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Eco: The Culture War to Save the World

Punk, hip-hop and literature sign up for the eco fight

"...the world. The genius of Ronald Reagan and the fossil fuel right was to appropriate the iconography of America..."

Oct. 9, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Keeping Busy

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

"...very important for Texas – the people and the industry in Texas. Climate change is by far the most..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Cool Cities: Dispatches From Copenhagen

Climate change, clean energy ... and bicycles

"...area." ... The partners include: the Confederation of Danish Industry, the Danish Construction Association, the Danish Energy Association, the..."

Oct. 16, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Cool City: Solar Subtleties

Cost of solar array depends on how you look at it – and when

"...the 25-year contract cost would roll into the overall fuel charge; if it weren't offered at all, AE would..."

March 6, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

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

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

Aug. 22, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Money and Big Oil

"...up the kids and drive to work, the oil industry recently celebrated record quarterly profits in the billions. Again...."

Aug. 19, 2008 Postmarks

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