Sponsored Post - from Austin Resource Recovery Written by Susanne Harm Today’s backyard chickens are pampered pets… especially when compared to my Grandma’s hens. My Gram raised chickens out of necessity to feed her family. Raising chickens was about not going hungry. Gram’s chickens did not have...
Sponsored Post - from the City of Austin Office of Sustainability Meet Caroline Reck, Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Glass Half Full Theatre. Caroline is a puppeteer, and her theatre company creates original works about global issues using puppets and performers. To be clear, when we say...
Sponsored Post - from Earth Day Austin This blog was written by Janis in collaboration with the entire Earth Day Austin team (Liz Belete, Shane Johnson, Fatima Mann, and Jeff Dye). Janis Bookout is the Executive Director of Earth Day Austin. The Earth Day ATX festival will...
Sponsored Post - from the City of Austin Office of Sustainability Meet Nhat Ho, our newest Net-Zero Hero! Nhat is an engineer and Vice President at Civilitude, a local engineering and planning firm located in Austin’s Mueller district. Nhat uses his skills and expertise in engineering to serve...
Sponsored Post - from Earth Day Austin Written by Janis Bookout. Janis Bookout is the Executive Director of Earth Day Austin. The Earth Day ATX festival will take place on Saturday, April 13th at the campus of host and sponsor, Huston-Tillotson University. Production of the festival has...
Guest Post - from Sasha Ashton Sasha is 16 years old and a junior at Headwaters School in Austin, Texas. On March 15th she joined with thousands of other students from around the world in skipping school and participating in a School Strike 4 Climate event....
"What am I going to do today to care for others, self, and the earth?". It's a question Lesa Walker asks herself every morning when she wakes up. For Lesa, it's all about practicing compassion, an effort she's dedicated her life to. Lesa is the founder of Compassionate...
Sponsored Post - from MOD Bikes The MOD Bikes Mantra at SXSW? “Wow, thats beautiful. Man, that’s cool.” Each day of the SXSW Mobility Showcase we heard those words as the movers and shakers of the tech world admired the design of two MOD Bike Models in...
Sponsored Post - from the City of Austin Office of Sustainability In the United States, 27 percent of greenhouse gas emissions is from transportation. That makes transportation the second leading source of GHG emissions in the U.S. — just behind electricity. The simplest way to avoid these emissions would...
Especially here in Austin, we talk a lot about local food. It seems like there's a farmers market or a farm-to-table restaurant everywhere you look. But the truth is, less than 3 percent of what we spend on food in the Austin area (which includes the...