Food Events

Enjoy cooking demos, feasts, and cocktails to benefit many good causes

"...important work at its Trash Makeover Fashion & Art Reuse Challenge at the Highland Mall: a runway fashion show,..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Point Austin: Bag It

Proposed plastic bag ban will be popular – and under assault

"...alternative, paper bags – sturdy, with handles, to encourage reuse. The best choice is permanently reusable (e.g., canvas) bags,..."

Aug. 5, 2011 News Column by Michael King

More to the Water Treatment Plant No. 4 Story

"...of persistent drought conditions – investing in conservation and reuse. Now is the time to stop throwing good money..."

June 21, 2011 Postmarks

Clearly Stating the Sierra Club's Position

"...our water conservation programs, including onsite wastewater capture and reuse in new construction, will save water; create hundreds of..."

June 10, 2011 Postmarks

Off the Record

Seaholm Power Plant reboots, reuses, recycles

"...art deco-style former municipality was deemed ready for public reuse in January 2006, after a nine-year, $13 million remediation..."

May 13, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Daily Hustle: 12/3/10

Marshall arms race heats up

"...envisioned and agreed to when the community created specific reuse objectives and other project controls for each block of..."

Dec. 3, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Daily Hustle: 9/13/10

Live-blogging the budget business

"...says his office will soon offer a resolution encouraging reuse of demo materials that could offset the increase...."

Sept. 13, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Sweet Homes, Alabama

KLRU debuts Rural Studio doc 'Citizen Architect'

"...Alabama – set the standard for affordable structures, material reuse, and, oh yeah, vernacular beauty...."

Aug. 23, 2010 Screens Post by Cindy Widner

The Spa at Hancock and 41st?

Developer has eye on historic Central Austin property

"...generally supportive; they see it as a good adaptive reuse," he said. "Nearly everyone recognizes the value of preserving..."

July 23, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Real Story Here

"...Rather, we'll use decentralized treatment units with local-area nonpotable reuse, eliminating the cost and liabilities of all the infrastructure..."

June 1, 2010 Postmarks

City Hall Hustle: It Ain't Xmas Yet

Council closing in on a raft of unfinished business

"...Resource Recovery Association, a nonprofit devoted to recycling and reuse. He'll have a challenge in turning over the compost..."

Dec. 11, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Point Austin: A Green and Democratic Place

Local activists kick off co-op project with a visit from Omar Freilla

"...Source, calls itself "the first worker-owned building materials and reuse center, a self-sustained cooperative and alternative source of building..."

Oct. 2, 2009 News Column by Michael King

More From Omar Freilla

"...well across the country. There are lots of these reuse stores that have actually done better than the average..."

Oct. 2, 2009 News Column

Can This District Be Saved?

The revival of the Warehouse District is rooted in Austin's history – and its popularity is also its peril

"...place provided a magnet for all the surrounding adaptive reuse that followed. In a sense, it offers a metaphor..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Ending the Water War

What if enviros and the city partnered on water conservation?

"...those that foster water conservation, catchment, reuse, decentralized treatment, biological..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Cast Away

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

"...If the city can encourage businesses to recycle and reuse locally produced waste here in town, Solid Waste Advisory..."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Plan to Plan for a Zero-Waste City

Leadership will determine the success of long-range strategy

"...it gets turned into something here, and then we reuse it here."..."

July 31, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

No Home for Rhizome ... for Now

Rhizome Collective looks for a new location

"...water plants, constructed wetlands that filter household wastewater for reuse, a room built from straw bales, and an electricity-generating..."

April 3, 2009 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Water Treatment Plant No. 4 Is a Colossal Waste of Money

"...to stop this waste? City efforts to substitute nonpotable reuse water for peak summer irrigation and commercial cooling demands..."

Feb. 24, 2009 Postmarks

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...on first reading, to recommend historic zoning and adaptive reuse of the 44-acre Levander Loop site, overruling the city..."

Jan. 2, 2009 News Feature

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...Martinez presented the city's interim study on its Reduce, Reuse & Recycle initiative. Both encouraged more businesses to join..."

Nov. 21, 2008 News Feature

One Sneaky Grandma

The story behind Carole Keeton Strayhorn's election eve phone call

"...Council enacted a new campaign finance ordinance, prohibiting the "reuse of funds raised elsewhere for a city election." Council..."

Nov. 14, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Choice Is Yours

Rubber Repertory's Casket of Passing Fancy makes you 500 offers you can't reuse

Oct. 10, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

City Hall Hustle: It Will Be Mayor May Before you Know It

Plugging the holes in the city's campaign finance ordinance

"...one of the new finance ordinance's manifold provisions prevents reuse of funds raised elsewhere for a city election. "Only..."

Sept. 26, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Before the Well Runs Dry

The city moves toward conservation, but is it moving fast enough?

"...city may look to large-scale rainwater harvesting and storm-water reuse tactics now being researched by the Water Utility...."

Aug. 22, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

In Dreams

Camera in hand, D'Ette Cole makes images to bridge the gaps between night and day

"...a very cool mix of timely ingenuity and savvy reuse when it comes to interiors. Collaborating with local craftsmen..."

July 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

Johnston Seniors Bid Final Farewell

A bittersweet occasion for Johnston's last graduating class

"...has asked the district to create a plan to reuse the Johnston campus, a plan that could go to..."

June 13, 2008 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Lasting Commitments

The 2008 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...for something new, and his philosophy of rescue and reuse has granted a second life to many an Austin..."

May 23, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tarrytown Farmers' Market

Talulah Bleu Tarrytown Florist hosts the West Austin Tarrytown Farmers' Market on Saturdays

"...been a gigantic rehab project, an exercise in adaptive reuse," she says. "It's like a little wild world in..."

May 2, 2008 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Dynamics

"...Version Excursions follows in this timeless tradition – reduce, reuse, recycle. The French-based quintet reworks a dizzyingly diverse collection..."

April 25, 2008 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett

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