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"...needs correction. The article states that, "[Austin Energy's] green power remains essentially virtual." In fact, the GreenChoice program sells..."

June 28, 2002 Column

Naked City

Local news this week in Austin.

"...her bills as an attempt to "increase the state's power to protect citizens from converted use pipelines, such as..."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Naturally Nader

Consumer Advocate Mounts Green Party Presidential Campaign

"...orator and statesman who said, "Freedom is participation in power" -- was right...."

April 7, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...Mike McMahan unleash their latest animated series for Hulu, Solar Opposites...."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Welcome to the Real World

Rhizome Collective brings activist ideals down to earth

"...the same time, the group just got 30 180-volt solar panels 80% paid for by the city, and their..."

Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Envision South Austin

"...for Peace Pipe." Developers will use hemp to construct solar powered windmills atop each South Congress Avenue merchant. We'll..."

Dec. 8, 2003 Postmarks

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...hearing of the budget season to focus on the power company. The Solar Austin Campaign will take the opportunity..."

Aug. 8, 2003 News Feature

The Hightower Lowdown

Bush's insane energy policy, Greenwashing on Earth Day, and the Washington Legal Foundation moves in on the White House

"...36% overall cut in W.'s budget. R&D funds for solar, wind, geothermal, and hydrogen technologies are cut by half,..."

April 20, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 5-11

"...the decimation of the environment? Will we neutralize the power of fundamentalism as it fights to quash our imaginations..."

April 5, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Madeleine Leigh, HONK TX, and Eclipse Mania Leads Our Crucial Concerts

Find some sounds to match the celestial sights this week

"...Flyin’ A’s, as well as a Sunday presentation by solar scientists from the University of Hawaii. On Monday, local..."

April 5, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...a sexual boundary is crossed and the balance of power is shifted, what will happen to their peaceful and..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Energy: Rate Cuts Solve Everybody's Problems

Council votes to approve utility rate reduction

"...Coun­cil's previous decision to phase out the coal-burning Fayette Power Project, beginning in 2022. Under the terms negotiated by..."

Sept. 2, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Council Considering AE Settlement [UPDATE]

Agreement would cut overall utility rates by $42.5 million

"...Council’s earlier decision to phase out the coal-burning Fayette Power Plant by 2025. Under the terms negotiated by the..."

Aug. 29, 2016 News Post by Michael King

Headlines

"...Council Com­mit­tee on Austin Energy, with a session on solar energy policy, among other things. See "Then There's This."..."

Jan. 10, 2014 News Feature

Measuring the Footprint

"...It doesn't include "community demand driven services" such as power plants, the city's now-shuttered landfill, and wastewater treatment plants..."

June 19, 2009 News Feature

Getting Warmer

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

"...A long decade after the first powerful warnings had sounded, it seemed that humans were finally..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Bill Mckibben

Apocalypto

The ever-astonishing filmmaker Mel Gibson continues his (probably unintentional) study of the mortification of the flesh through the ages.

"...Mel Gibson. One conclusion, however, is undeniable: He's a powerfully effective filmmaker. The films Gibson has directed demonstrate an..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Serenity

Joss Whedon’s Western/sci-fi hybrid (which was canceled from TV but greenlighted for the movies) evinces the kind of swashbuckling bonhomie that made so many of us fall in love with the original Star Wars films.

"...the future. A massive civil war has splintered the solar system, but the Alliance eventually squashed the insurrection and..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lege Notes

Odds and ends – mostly odds – from beneath the pink granite dome

"...generated from renewable sources (mainly wind turbines, but also solar, biomass, and geothermal) to 5,880 megawatts by 2015, a..."

Aug. 5, 2005 News Column

State Energy Plan: Dependent and Dirty

The Texas Energy Policy Council goes backward into the energy future

"...of energy generated from renewable sources such as wind, solar, or biomass, and less use of fossil fuels like..."

Dec. 3, 2004 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

The Rage: Carrie Two

"...at birth on the foreheads of the execs and power brokers of Los Angeles as surely as is that..."

March 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Phenomenon

"...boy dying from botulism, he invents all manner of solar energy devices, he tries to share his thirst and..."

July 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground

Austin slowly thaws out from an unprecedented – but not entirely unexpected – disaster

"...and cold for three full days, residents dependent on power-driven medical equipment were forced to call 911 to be..."

Feb. 19, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

What’s Happening, What’s Being Done, and How We Got Into This Cold Weather Catastrophe

More chaos with continued power outages, calls for water conservation

"...largely because most of Texas is on a different power grid than the rest of the U.S. The other..."

Feb. 17, 2021 News Post by Lina Fisher

Why Austin Can’t Seem to Quit Its Despised Coal Plant

Locals continue to get coal for Christmas

"...have been calling for the closure of the Fayette Power Project, the coal plant responsible for about a quarter..."

Dec. 1, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

PUC Gathering the Western Wind

A new source for electricity is on the wind

"...plan to build nearly 5 billion dollars' worth of power lines to carry wind-generated electricity from West Texas' booming..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Having a Plan for When Shit Hits the Fan: A Journey in Prepping

What disaster preparedness experts have to say about best-laid plans for worst-case scenarios

"...A natural disaster? Catastrophic power grid failure? A deadly, uncontrollable pandemic? A solar flare..."

April 26, 2024 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin

Naked City

"...cops caught fishing on the job at the city power plant -- even as APD has remained curiously passive..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

AE's Nuclear Option

The seduction of the South Texas Project

"...that ... Garza has taken a job promoting nuclear power with New Jersey-based NRG Energy," wrote Public Citizen's Tom..."

Jan. 21, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

AE Defends Biomass Plant

Biomass likely to go forward despite some public opposition

"...(Thursday) to approve a $2.3 billion contract with Nacogdoches Power LLC to provide Austin with 20 years' worth of..."

Aug. 29, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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