Urban Roots Farm Launches Virtual Fundraiser

Purchase produce, cook a recipe, and help youth

"...East Austin farm non-profit Urban Roots launched a cook-at-home virtual series named “Let’s Get..."

June 23, 2020 Food Post by Irielle Wesley

The Future of Urban Agriculture

Will the City of Austin love its urban farms to death?

"...The Urban Farms Process and Code Coordination Working Group of the..."

May 17, 2013 Food Post by Anna Toon

Urban Farm Debate Intensifies

UPDATED: Council postpones vote on revised ordinance

"...has postponed discussion of the proposed changes to the urban farm code, pending another stakeholder process. A return to..."

Oct. 17, 2013 Food Post by Anna Toon

Urban Farm Redux

Community stakeholders address future of city’s urban farms

"...is now allowed to sell vegetables from their Eastside urban farm. This is good news for urban farmers and..."

May 3, 2013 Food Post by Anna Toon

Opinion: Austin’s Sustainability Efforts Need Anti-Displacement Tools

An environmental policy advocate explains why urban planning and increased sustainability efforts must address gentrification as Austin's people are just an integral to Austin as its infrastructure is.

"...increasing wealth of the city has enabled this ongoing urban "greening" but in turn has allowed the gentrification of..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Column by Chelsea Gómez

City's Urban Ag Effort Struggles to Take Root

Bureaucracy may be reason for program's stunted growth

"...2011, Council members created the position of a sustainable urban agriculture and community gardens coordinator within the city's Parks..."

April 12, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Austin’s Steady Strides Toward Climate Sustainability

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

"...on both ends," said Lucia Athens, the city's chief sustainability officer. "You have to be prepared for scarcity, and..."

Nov. 1, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Creating Sustainability

City plans Colony Park project as a long-term Eastside neighborhood

"...planning grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – to develop an environmentally driven master plan..."

Jan. 27, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Urban Planning: A Roundup

How Austin is working toward getting better by design

"...economic downcycle is the ideal time to invest in urban-planning efforts. Without the pressures of fast-paced development activity created..."

Dec. 26, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Share Some Truth, Justice, and Sustainability With These Civic-Minded Gifts

Keep the holidays real

"...between owners and renters, or landlords and tenants; and suburban sprawl that incentivizes working-class people to move away from..."

Dec. 4, 2020 News Feature by the News Staff

Seven Urban Markets to Cure Your Dinnertime Blues

Everything from prepared foods and local beer to artisanal meats and flowers

"...local beer to artisanal meats and flowers, these seven urban markets offer everything you need for an impromptu romantic..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Food Feature by Sierra Diaz

Permaculture

Local activists try to break free of oil-dependent lifestyle

"...south at the Rhizome Collective, the self-described center for urban sustainability, located in an industrial corner of Southeast Austin...."

Jan. 20, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

He's a Rebel!

The Rhizome Collective's Scott Kellogg

"...in 2000 as a center for community organizing and urban sustainability education. The founding members replaced asphalt with wood..."

April 18, 2008 Features Feature by Sofia Resnick

Next Target: Springdale

Eastside activists target another urban farm

"...weighing heavily on the owners of the East Austin urban farm. According to Glenn, the City Council meeting on..."

Nov. 14, 2014 News Feature by Anna Toon

No Home for Rhizome ... for Now

Rhizome Collective looks for a new location

"...space as for its work on environmental justice and sustainability issues, said goodbye last month to its home at..."

April 3, 2009 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Naked City

Anarchist collective scores federal grant to clean up Eastside brownfield

"...over at Rhizome Collective, the bustling progressive activism and "urban sustainability" complex housed in a couple East Austin warehouses...."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Happenings

March 27-April 3

"...RADICAL URBAN SUSTAINABILITY TRAINING This two-day workshop explores ways of creating..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature

Walking Waller Creek Is a Tour Through Wildlife, Wild Flora, and Wild History

Take this self-guided tour from UT's Office of Sustainability, and learn how much wildness this waterway is home to

"...$160 million underground tunnel (Waller Creek Tunnel); a trash-strewn urban eyesore inching toward a $250 million redesign and development..."

July 31, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Welcome to the Real World

Rhizome Collective brings activist ideals down to earth

"...the one hand, the scene represents exactly what gives suburban mothers nightmares when their young'uns start talking about a..."

Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Communication Breakdown

Does the closure of HausBar Farms spell trouble for the urban farming movement?

"...asked to revisit what it means to be an urban farm. For everything from increased access to locally produced..."

April 12, 2013 Food Feature by Anna Toon

The Way of the 'Food Forest'

Locavores planting seeds for the next phase of urban agriculture

"...the city of Austin maintains a complex relationship with urban agriculture. Many urban farm advocates viewed the controversial update..."

Feb. 14, 2014 News Feature by Anna Toon

Developing Stories

The Concordia redevelopment highlights the need for the city to do more than plan from the dais

"...controversial individual projects. That's a weak substitute for comprehensive urban planning, but doin' it at the dais is a..."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Upcoming Permaculture Events

"...Radical Urban Sustainability Training March 25-26. An intensive seminar presented by..."

Jan. 20, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Co. organizations through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; groups receiving funding include Youth and Family Alliance..."

Jan. 6, 2006 News Feature

SXSW Eco: A Better Death Through Recomposition

Urban Death Project wants your last act to be giving back to the Earth

"...it," says Katrina Spade, founder and executive director of Urban Death Project...."

Oct. 7, 2016 News Feature by Jessi Cape

Naked City

"...a proposal will be made to merge the city's sustainability project efforts with CAMPO's regional growth concept and some..."

Jan. 5, 2007 News Feature

Bicycle Nomads and the Winds of Change

Backers say winter migration to Mexico creates 'a whole new way of life'

"...and cultural arts. It also represents innovation in economic sustainability and cross-cultural relations. Since 2001, Bikes Across Borders (www.bikesacrossborders.org)..."

Dec. 3, 2004 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

'Farm-City, State' Documentary Film in Progress

Local filmmaker explores Austin's sustainable food movement

"...in a documentary focusing on Austin's vibrant and expanding urban farms, farmers' markets, and sustainability minded community...."

Jan. 8, 2013 Food Post by Carla Crownover

Naked City

"...Sunday evening with a call to police about a "disturbance with a gun" at 6220 Hyside in Northeast Austin...."

April 27, 2007 News Feature

Coyote Creek: Small Farm, Large Impact

Austin's growing web of local, organic, delicious

"...Discussions of organic food, agricultural sustainability, and humane farming abound in circles whose fortes range..."

April 25, 2012 Food Post by Jessi Cape

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