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Dec. 16, 2009 News Post by Katherine Gregor
Dispatches From Denmark
Katherine Gregor blogs daily from Copenhagen as the city prepares to host the U.N. Climate Change Conference
"...blogging from Copenhagen, where she's checking out the city's climate initiatives as it gears up for the United Nations..."
Oct. 9, 2009 News Feature
Travis County 'Death Spiral'
Facing a personnel dilemma, the commissioners respond: Fire everybody!
"...try to resolve the problem – first with a "climate assessment report" of the HR department and later a..."
Oct. 2, 2009 News Feature by Amy Smith
Groundwork: Active Austinites
What's doing at the grassroots level
"...city may do (or not do), creative energy for climate action is also rising from the community. Austinites Jon..."
June 19, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
"...• CLIMATE PROTECTION AND YOU The city is co-sponsoring a Climate..."
April 10, 2009 News Feature
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
"...Fund. He'll be working on energy policy in the fund's Climate & Air Program, helping to get climate-protection legislation –..."
April 3, 2009 News Feature
SXSW Interactive Bytes
Comedy on Television and the Web panel recap
"...Saturday's panel by suggesting that in the current media climate, comedy seems to be leading the way in shaping..."
March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
"...• Where are the city of Austin's climate-change allies? The city hasn't built a strong community network..."
June 20, 2008 News Feature
Power Plant Pollution Battle Still On
TXU's Oak Grove lignite-burning facility gets state approval.
"...Oak Grove's massive emissions of the neurotoxin mercury and climate-changing CO2 will devastate taxpayer-funded efforts to minimize the substances...."
June 15, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Naked City
"...nation and the world, at the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit in New York on Wednesday. His message to..."
May 18, 2007 News Feature
How Green Is the Music?
Festivals, bands, and musicians seek environmental harmony
"...trucks and is donating $100,000 to nine organizations doing climate-change-reform activities, while shooting for net-zero emissions from tours and..."
April 20, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Naked City
"...and Elizabeth Kolbert to town for a panel on climate change, a topic especially timely here given Mayor Will..."
March 16, 2007 News Feature
Global Warming
By the numbers
"...57 million Americans) who have signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement pledging to meet or beat Kyoto goals..."
March 9, 2007 News Feature
It's the Carbon, Stupid!
Texas leaders continue to drag their boot heels on global warming
"...the air, most acrimonious is the plants' contribution to climate change – the impending catastrophe caused by fossil-fuel combustion..."
Dec. 1, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...organizations advocating sustainable businesses, warns of rising threats from climate change to U.S. insurers and their customers. The report,..."
Sept. 16, 2005 News Feature
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...in 37 states by signing the Kyoto Protocol-like Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement, thereby pledging to reduce Austin's emissions of..."
July 8, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...sound ominous, threatening, and worrisome? Certainly, and the U.S. Climate Action Network would have us believe that greenhouse gases..."
Aug. 16, 1996 News Feature
With Six Seats Up in the Air, City Council Could Look Very Different Next Year
Ready to rumble?
"...D7 race. He is running a campaign centered on climate action, which he says has not been emphasized enough..."
Jan. 5, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders
We Have an Issue: This Is Fine?
In this week's issue, fun ways to grapple with the ongoing heat... and more sobering thoughts on the state we're in
"...incidentally, is the name of a new book on climate change and extreme heat, The Heat Will Kill You..."
July 21, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones
Big, Contentious Austin Energy Rate Hike Finally Arrives at Council
Power for the people?
"...in the face of AE's 2020 Resource, Generation, and Climate Protection Plan for divesting from coal by 2035, which..."
Nov. 25, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher
We Have an Issue: Election Post-Mortem
"...The climate crisis is the most urgent threat we face, which..."
Nov. 11, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones
TribFest Recap: Can Texas Plan Properly for Droughts and Floods to Come?
Are we "thinking as preciously about water as we can"?
"...meant the most existential: Texas’ and the world’s worsening climate crisis. The panelists – Robert Mace of the Meadows..."
Sept. 25, 2022 News Post by Lina Fisher
Patti Smith: “I don’t claim to be a progenitor of any particular movement – I just did my work”
Ever-evolving singer, writer, & artist communes at ACL Live Saturday
"...cultural changes she inadvertently wrought, her admiration for young climate change activists, and her Instagram page, among other topics...."
May 2, 2022 Music Post by Tim Stegall
Lizzo, Beck Announced as SXSW Keynotes
Festival also adds cyberpunk pioneer Neil Stephenson
"...plethora of ongoing issues ranging from political divisions to climate change – all in Hawley’s uniquely incisive voice...."
Feb. 15, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker
Don't Look Up
Apocalyptic comedy is Adam McKay at his most Adam McKay-ish
"...to demolish bear striking resemblance to both the impending climate catastrophe and the public’s reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic...."
Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur
Opinion: Austin’s Sustainability Efforts Need Anti-Displacement Tools
An environmental policy advocate explains why urban planning and increased sustainability efforts must address gentrification as Austin's people are just an integral to Austin as its infrastructure is.
"...Assessment Report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came out, but its grim findings were mostly..."
Sept. 24, 2021 Column by Chelsea Gómez
Escape from Extinction
The important issue of global eco collapse becomes a PR push for zoos
"...the film explores the countless species threatened by human-made climate change. With narration from the always-dependable Helen Mirren, the..."
Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
In 1990, We Predicted What 2020 Would Look Like. Did We Get Anything Right?
And since we're here, why not place some bets on 2050?
"...a society that doesn't respond dramatically to a changing climate. Infernal heats, bone-dry droughts, more flash flooding, and general..."
Jan. 10, 2020 Features Feature by Kimberley Jones
Public Notice: Here Comes the Vote
Council preps for marathon Land Development Code hearing and first reading
"...This year's United Nations Climate Change Conference COP25 is ongoing in Madrid (Dec. 2-13),..."
Dec. 6, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro
Public Notice: Think Global
Act local: Flooding and more
"...Taking the larger view, the student-organized Austin Climate Strike takes place this Friday, Sept. 20, inviting concerned..."
