Guest Post - from the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club Written by Shane Johnson, Clean Energy Distributed Organizer with the Sierra Club For community advocates and policy wonks alike, Austin Energy’s recently-announced Working Group to Update the Resource, Generation, and Climate Protection Plan (Resource Plan) for early...
It started out simply enough. Joanna Tychowski was helping to organize a breakfast event for her Toastmasters group and being environmentally-minded, she wanted to keep it zero waste (aka - no disposable plates or silverware). But she quickly found it to be more difficult than she'd imagined....
Community. And local action. This is how Emma Galbraith and Matthew Kim fight off the climate scaries. You know the feeling. That scary, depressed, funk that is so easy to fall into when reading article after article about how bad climate change really is. "I don't lie about...
Guest Post - from Eileen McGinnis Eileen McGinnis is an Austin-based writer, college instructor, and activist who founded The Parents' Climate Community in Summer 2019. You can follow her blog about inspirational caregivers and creators in history at eileenmcginnis.com Nearly 40 years ago, my mother-in-law stood in the back...
Sponsored Post - Smart Charge America Been thinking about making the switch to electric for your next car? A little unsure because you have no idea what it's actually like to own an electric car? Get all of your questions answered (and have a little fun doing...
Stressing because all of the world's problems seem so big? Feel like there's nothing you can do to make a positive impact? Here's one simple way you can make a difference...
Sponsored Post - from Austin Resource Recovery Written By: Andy Dawson and Bailey Grimmett If you haven’t heard, there’s a colorful way to reuse in Austin. The Diverting Resources for Artistic Works program (DRAW) is an Austin Resource Recovery service aimed at reusing and extending the lives of art...
Nature In The City Podcast, Season Two, Episode 7: American Music And Rivers Each year, we follow along with Dr. Kevin Anderson, a geographer and philosopher managing the Environmental Research Center for the City of Austin, as he shares his knowledge about the world around us....
You've read the headlines. You've seen the photos. The Amazon is burning. But what exactly does that mean? Earlier this week, we sat down with Marshall Huggins, chief of staff with the Rainforest Partnership, and asked him this exact question. (The Rainforest Partnership is an Austin-based nonprofit...
Sponsored Post - from the Earth Repair Corps Interested in creating a food system that's actually beneficial to people, animals, and the planet? Want to learn how to do it right here in central Texas? Then the Earth Repair Corps'"Permaculture Design Course" is just the thing for you! During the six-weekend intensive course, participants...