Do you know where the electricity in your house comes from? Coal? Solar? Nuclear? The answer impacts everything from climate change to environmental justice. That’s why we write stories about the local effort to make Austin’s energy supply more sustainable.
By the second quarter of 2015, Austin Energy residential customers who live in apartments, condos and houses will be able to purchase clean, renewable energy by tapping into a new Community So
Now we've all heard of EcoTourism, you go to a foreign country and check out all of their sustainability and farming initiatives and leave no trace in the process.
The Texas Wild Rice Festival is a community project dedicated to educating the community about and preserving one of the longest inhabited areas in the United States, the San Marcos River.
The subject of Austin's toxic coal plant at Fayette – now ranked as the 5th highest greenhouse gas emitter in Texas – and a major emitter of health related pollution such as airborne lead, NOx,
The debate swirls about retiring Austin/LCRA's massive coal plant at Fayette – now the 5th largest greenhouse gas emitter in the entire state of Texas – and we are looking for leadership.
I attended the "Our Power, Our Generation" event last Saturday and got a bit more steeped in the conversation around the development of Austin Energy's new Energy Generation Plan.