Sponsored
April 1, 2024
A Global Impact
Texas Tech’s Katharine Hayhoe continues to break new ground and lead the way in climate science.
Environmentalism
Energy
September 5, 2023
Hundreds of Abandoned Oil Wells Are Rotting Away in Texas Bays
Defunct companies have left behind energy facilities that leak toxins into fragile coastal ecosystems. And guess who has to clean them up?
Art
May 10, 2022
“Nature Cult” Is a Thicket of Remarkable Art on Ecological Themes
In the captivating show, on view at the McNay, San Antonio native Donald Moffett remixes the museum’s collection alongside his own work.
Business
January 10, 2022
Regenerative Ranching Is Better for the Environment, but Can It Be Profitable?
These Texans think so.
Business
January 21, 2013
Fightin’ Words: Scott Brown v. Whole Foods
The Republican senator from Massachusetts calls the Austin supermarket chain's sustainability standards "political correctness ... based on uncertain science."
Green Guinea Pig
May 31, 2008
So Lawn, Farewell
Lawn of a new day.
Energy
March 31, 2008
This Old House
Jim Atkinson changes out his insulation.
Green Guinea Pig
February 1, 2008
The New Conservative
Can Jim Atkinson change the world?
Feature
February 1, 2008
Bruce McCarl
Al Gore may be the public face of climate change, but all around the world, researchers are toiling in semi-obscurity to deepen our understanding of the challenge it poses. One of these is McCarl, a Texas A&M University professor who has spent the past twenty years studying the potential effects
Feature
February 1, 2008
Susan Hovorka
Here’s a convenient truth for you: All those greenhouse gases polluting the atmosphere—the result of burning and combusting oil and gas and coal—can simply go back where they came from, and the environment, not to mention the world, will be better and cleaner for it. That’s the theory behind the
Feature
February 1, 2008
Pliny Fisk III & Gail Vittori
Long before concepts like “green building” and “sustainability” were fashionable, this husband-and-wife team envisioned a future in which architectural design and renewable resources worked together. The nonprofit Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, which they co-direct, has collaborated on projects as wide-ranging as the eco-friendly renovation of the Pentagon to
Business
May 1, 1984
High Noon at the Circle C
Gary Bradley, a hot young land speculator in Austin, was in the middle of a $50 million deal when he ran into an outraged environmental movement and a lobbyist with some powerful clients. The fight was on.