After more than a decade of virtually ignoring Texas’ growing water infrastructure needs, Rick Perry is guns a-blazing for Prop 6, a plan, if approved by voters on November 5,
With the release of yet another report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chronicling the dangers our planet is steaming toward, it’s easy to forget that global warming
Climate action in the U.S. will not come from some mass conversion of the largely white middle-class deniers, whose representatives even now hold the nation hostage in hopes of
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Prior to 2007, life in Constance Okollet’s small Ugandan village was tranquil. It was, as she told a gathering at SXSW ECO in Austin on Tuesday, an
Amid crisis of confidence in corporations, ‘The Naked Brand’ argues advertising should focus on transparency
(First published at Guardian Sustainable Business.)
“Traditional advertising, I think, is finished,” Patagonia’s founder
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Texas has a tough climate. Throughout human habitation here, people have regularly suffered through extended periods of drought followed by violent flooding and storms. But, with all things
Hector Zertuche’s first environmental crime occurred around 2009 when he discovered a truckload of oilfield drilling muds dumped on the banks of the Nueces River outside Sandia. “We matched
The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report’s summary for policy makers (pdf) released today — the first installment of the UN-affiliated body’s fifth report —
is in many
Frio County, Texas, Struggles with Fracking’s Leftovers
(First published at the Texas Observer.)
On a gravel road in rural Frio County, sheriff’s deputies are doing something they never
When The Population Bomb exploded on the scene in 1968 with breathless warnings that humans were breeding themselves into a global environmental catastrophe, it got a lot of people talking
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An explosion at a San Antonio power plant this week either bolstered the utility’s case for rate hikes to keep up with infrastructure maintenance demands or those
Upcoming and imminent events related to the sustainable path in San Antonio…
Tonight:
Public hearing on CPS Energy’s proposed rate hike
The first in what is likely to be
