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."
Environmentalism
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.