From the Urban Co-Lab - Part I of Urban Co-Lab's Idea Incubation & Action Workshop Series Adding Color to Your Green Agenda: Exploring the Role of Diversity in Sustainability Urban Issue of Focus: Social Inclusion for Impact From the Dakota Pipeline to Community Parks, Austin has been recently involved...
The Standing Rock protests have come to Texas. What is the Standing Rock protest all about? For those that have not been following along, for the past few months, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota (along with environmentalists from around the country) have been waging...
From the Sierra Club's Austin Environmental Justice Team (ATXEJ) - The environmental justice movement in Texas is vibrant and growing. From supporting the Dakota Access Pipeline fight and Native-led resistance to coal mining on sacred burial sites along the Texas-Mexico border, to arts-led outreach in urban...
Guest Post - from Janis Bookout (Outreach Manager for Earth Day Austin) As a mother committed to the end of the climate crisis and as the Outreach Manager for Earth Day Austin, I attended both SXSW Eco and Huston-Tillotson’s Building Green Justice Forum with two objectives...
From the Sierra Club's Environmental Justice Team (ATXEJ) - Join us on the 3rd at Pan Am Park on E. 4th street for our next general meeting! We'll be on the stage area. Bring a chair, pillow, or blanket to sit on, and if you're hungry,...
From the Sierra Club's Austin Environmental Justice Team - Feel free to bring a dish or drink to share (no alcohol please). Thx to the organizing working group for pulling together this agenda: Facilitated by Victoria Jara & Ben Hirsch Ground rules and conversation contract (5 mins) Introductions (10 mins) Discussion...
The controversial Dos Republicas coal mine has been given permission to expand. At a hearing in Austin on Wednesday, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality voted to renew and expand a wastewater permit that will allow the mine to grow its operations in Texas near the...
From the Sierra Club's Environmental Justice Team (ATXEJ) - **RSVP http://bit.ly/ATXEJmtg so we can order enough food** Join us for our July 2016 general meeting! We're meeting in Room #2 of the Cepeda Library on N. Pleasant Valley Rd on July 11th at 6:30pm. We'll be disucssing the...
Food for Black Thought is hosting the following event - "Eating While Young and Black: Dispatches from a Gentrifying City." In Austin and in cities across the United States, Black youth and their families face gentrification, outmigration, displacement, and rebuilding. However, their food experiences are often...
From the Austin Environmental Justice Team (ATXEJ) - Join us for our June 2016 general meeting! These are held the first Monday of the month at 6:30 pm. We're meeting at the Willie May Kirk Library on June 6th at 6:30pm. Agenda coming soon...