From Environment Texas - Join our solar energy adventure at Austin High on December 15th at 11am for some family fun! We'll do a hands-on solar oven activity where kids use common reusable items to create cardboard and foil heating devices (cookies included), learn about the power...
From Solar Austin - This month we are partnering with the Solar Business Festival for a panel on how to make the solar industry more inclusive, equitable, and diverse for our November 2018 Happy Hour. The panel will examine barriers to systematically make businesses, nonprofits, and the...
Guest Post - from the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club On Thursday, October 18th in a 9 -1 vote, Austin City Council approved an Austin Energy utility-scale solar contract for a 144 MW solar power plant to be located southeast of Pflugerville. When completed...
From Environment Texas - Join us on October 20th to see school-top solar in action. Austin High is doing their part in the clean energy revolution. Learn how your school can join the party in an exclusive tour of Austin High's rooftop solar facilities. Hear from students,...
Sponsored Post - from the City of Austin Office of Sustainability René Geneva has a long history of entrepreneurship. Back in the late 1990s, she started an eco-fashion line called René Geneva Design. She sold in several stores, including Whole Foods Market, and won Austin Fashion Week’s First...
From Solar Austin - The explosive growth of renewable energy throughout the US, including here in Austin, continues thanks to technological and policy innovations such as the value of solar tariff incentive used here in Austin. Nevertheless, funding and implementing wide-scale storage of renewable energy remains...
The future is here. Electric buses have arrived in Austin… and more are coming. Last week, Capital Metro (our city's public transportation provider) began testing out an electric bus, with the hopes of adding 40 to our city's fleet by 2024. Over the next few months, Cap...
The amount of solar energy installed within Austin city limits grew 27 percent last year, making Austin 17th in the nation in terms of local solar capacity. That's according to a new report from the Environment Texas Research and Policy Center, entitled, "Shining Cities 2018: How Smart Local Policies Are Expanding Solar Power In...
From the City of Austin - In this Imagine Austin Speaker Series event, we are teaming up with the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, Office of Sustainability, Austin Energy, and the Energy Institute at the University of Texas to bring in the founders of the Land...
Sponsored Post - from CleanTX Spend an evening with some fellow clean tech nerds at CleanTX's "Member Night" party on Tuesday, March 20th from 6pm to 10pm at Antone's Nightclub. The event is a great opportunity to relax, have a drink, hear some great music, and network with people in the Texas clean tech industry....