Sponsored Post - from the City of Austin Office of Sustainability Written by Lucia Athens, Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Austin Earth Month brings warmer weather, blooming plants, and birdsong in abundance. It’s a great time to immerse ourselves in nature, and to consider ways...
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...
Wish you could do more to make a real difference in the world? Reverse the effects of climate change? Provide equitable access to parks and healthy food? Save Austin from traffic? Here's your chance to learn how...
Looking for ways to show your love for the planet this Earth Month? H-E-B and EarthShare of Texas have made it pretty easy. Their annual Earth Month Tear-Pad campaign is back in most H-E-B and Central Market stores. Here's at it works. In the checkout line throughout the month of April, you'll see a little...
What does WWE wrestling have to do with climate change? Ask the artists behind "Once There Were Six Seasons," a show about climate change premiering in Austin on April 19th. The show is a production of the Glass Half Full Theatre, an Austin-based group that uses puppetry and physical theater techniques...
“An artful fable that examines what it really means to save the world, Benedikt Erlingsson’s WOMAN AT WAR is the rarest of things: A crowd-pleaser about climate change.” – David Ehrlich, IndieWire "Is there anything rarer than an intelligent feel-good film that knows how to tackle...
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...
Partner Post - Earth Day ATX Have a business idea that could change the world? Been waiting for an opportunity to turn that idea into an actual company? Now's your chance. The first-ever EcoPitch Challenge is taking place on Saturday, April 13th at the Earth Day ATX festival on the campus of Huston-Tillotson University. The...
Sometimes climate change can seem so big, so scary, and so complicated. Don't you ever wish there was some kind of instruction manual or playbook out there that could just tell us all what to do? Turns out, there is. It's a book called "Drawdown: The Most...