A Green Travel Glossary

A glossary of definitions pertaining to the field of Green Travel

"...Carbon Offset Displacing the impact of carbon/greenhouse-gas emissions by doing something for the environment to reduce..."

May 25, 2007 Features Feature

Cool City: Water Utility Flows Green

Daryl Slusher hops from Austin Energy to Austin Water Utility to serve as first assistant director of environmental affairs and conservation

"...more than $10 million to meet an exacting national certification process for the new $330 million Water Treatment Plant..."

May 25, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Retired Teachers Preach the Gospel of Green

Won't you be my green neighbor?

"...Yet in 2003, the city recognized them with a Green Garden award, and in February, the Jester Homeowners Association,..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature by James Scott Bankston

SBOE: A Green Challenge?

Green Party candidate Lesley Ramsey aims to bring progressive values to the right-wing State Board of Education.

"...not a thong-wearing transvestite in a tiara. As the Green Party candidate for the State Board of Education's District..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

UT Gets Its First Green Building

"...in Energy and Environmental Design program of the U.S. Green Building Council. In order to become LEED-certified, the project..."

Nov. 15, 2007 News Post by Michael May

Greens On The Ballot (For Now) UPDATED

TX supremes grant stay on earlier ruling

"...The Texas Supreme Court has just ruled that the Green Party of Texas can certify their controversial ballot petition,..."

July 2, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Developing Stories: Greening the Neighborhood

Mueller development wins LEED for Neighborhood Design

"...now certifiably special. That's the word from the U.S. Green Building Council, which in a pilot program just designated..."

Nov. 20, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Food-o-File

Mark and Melanie McAfee set the Barr high

"...in a call to gather information about how that certification had been accomplished. "She was very helpful, and she..."

July 27, 2007 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Naked City

Faith-based environmentalism ... and we don't mean the kind W practices

"...Universalist Church at 4700 Grover Ave. will celebrate its certification as a "Green Sanctuary" by the Unitarian Universalist Association,..."

April 15, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Naked City

Administrators and program participants say UT's training program for science and math teachers is as crucial as ever.

"...exam, or they are teaching outside their field of certification...."

May 5, 2000 News Feature by Jonathan David Carroll

Cool Austin, Cool Planet

This Earth Day, the ambitious Austin Climate Protection Plan celebrates a first year of slow, quiet, but impressive progress

"...its progress publicly, engage the broader community in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, or broadcast Austin's work as an inspiration to..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Home's a Brewin'

First Gold LEED-certified brewery in the world is an Austin brewpub

"...like the recent So-LEED Gold Party celebrating their historic certification, the Black Star Co-op brewpub produces less than one..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Food Column by Ivy Le

Building Utopia

After years of pipe dreams, politics, and planning, the new Mueller Neighborhood is rising at last

"...Mueller Airport embraces the city's declared progressive social values: Green Urbanism, affordable housing, neighborhoods that build community, and environmental..."

Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

SXSW Panels: Woke Food

SXSW food track navigates contemporary food systems

"...can look for various types of sustainability and health certification. While certification might not be perfect, it least it..."

March 14, 2017 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Opinion: Our Love of Guacamole is Killing Monarchs. But There’s Hope for Deforestation-Free Avocados.

Grocery stores and consumers must commit to ethically sourced avocados

"...Mexico to the U.S. come from, presented the first certifications to companies participating in the Pro-Forest Avocado program...."

March 7, 2025 Column by Stephanie Feldstein

The Hightower Report

Smarting Over 'Smart Choices'; and Afghanistan's Biggest Loser

"...private regulation for a nutritional label. It's a snappy green-and-white logo to designate certain edibles as nutritionally desirable. A..."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Eco-Currents

A green (and blue and brown) grab bag of enviro tids and bits

"...UT-Austin and Texas A&M approved tuition increases establishing campus green funds for sustainability efforts. Those schools have since been..."

May 14, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Cast Away

Pure Castings, Zavala Elementary, pollution, jobs ... and the neighborhood

"...for a Zero-Waste City," July 31) revolves around attracting green-collar manufacturing and recycling. At the moment, the city sells..."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

World, Interrupted

Saving the world, one Web warrior at a time

"...Last year, South by Southwest went green with an investment in wind energy. In 2008, WorldChanging.com..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Lucia Athens Named Chief Sustainability Officer

Will lead Green initiatives

"...positions with the board of directors for the U.S. Green Building Council and the International Green Building Certification Institute...."

June 18, 2010 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Their Reputations Precede Them

Run-off rivals Galindo and Morrison set the record straight

"...a Repub­lican dynasty, cloaked his developer plans in groovy green building and New Urbanist garb from his perch on..."

June 6, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Texas Tea

Three local purveyors search for an ethical cup

"...But as environmentally, socially, and health-conscious consumers demand organic certification, sustainable practices, and Fair Trade stamps of approval, tea..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Food Feature by Adrienne White

Mobile Food

Some tips on getting a foot in the door of the trailer business

"...permit waiting list 10,000 people long and a new Green Cart program that shortens the wait if a licensee..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Food Feature by Mick Vann

The Austin Climate Protection Plan

An update on the state of the city's ACPP

"...securing enough new wind power to reopen its popular GreenChoice program to the general public. For 1,000 kilowatt-hours, the..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...a stack of milk crates – and recognized the green Subaru he was driving as a car that had..."

June 9, 2006 News Feature

Casual Kosher

HEB Serves Up a Kosher Cafe, Austin Style

"...both in cooking and as components of meals. Kosher certification, such as on select goods, identifies foods inspected as..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Food Feature by Ronna N. Welsh

Public Notice: Planning for Better Plans

What's been going on at the local Planning and Zoning Department?

"...The inaugural Austin Green Awards were presented Nov. 9 to "specifically highlight outstanding..."

Nov. 18, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Civics 101

"...as City Council debates Trammell Crow's proposal for the Green WTP site. 5:30pm. Austin City Hall, 301 W. Second,..."

May 25, 2012 News Column

Food-o-File

Restaurants are coming and going, but the peaches are still in their heyday

"...of local restaurants that have been recognized as Certified Green Restaurants by the Green Restaurant Association, a national nonprofit..."

July 23, 2010 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Naked City

"...• It's hard to say when green became the new black or how extensively the eco-chic..."

Feb. 1, 2008 News Feature

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