The winners of the Design Waller Creek: A Competition have been announced!...


 

Green companies continue to make waves in Austin and beyond. Shortly after the 2nd annual SXSW Eco Conference, the Regional Cleantech Open was held last week with six semifinalists vying to move on to the National Cleantech competition...

Green Business

 

A storm is coming after the November elections. On the evening of Thursday, October 4th at the UT Belo Center for New Media, journalist and activist, Bill McKibben, delivered a stirring preview of his forthcoming campaign to take down...
Climate Change

SXSW-Eco Oct. 4-5th, was an eye-opener for me - but not for the reasons I'd expected!

NOTE: Check-out the phenomenal Multi-Media Show "BELLA GAIA" at the Paramount - Feb. 23rd (tickets on-sale). Caught clips of this game-changing...

Local Economy

This digest is chock-full. On the negative side, it's time we enviros who are focused on global issues look at a new phase. The fossil fuel economy has won out over the timeline to save the world from global warming. On the positive side, maybe our new phase can mean we'll continue to...

Climate Change

Personal transportation accounts for a big part of our fossil-fuel consumption here in the United States. We (everyday people) can make the world a greener place very quickly through our transportation choices. But not everyone can afford to go out and buy one of those cute little electric/...

Local Economy

I was at the dog park walking my Corgi named Marlo last week and I told the people I was with that I was going to the Belo Center for New Media at UT to hear US author and founder of 350.org, Bill...

Climate Change

New ImagineSolar Course - PV250e: Online Solar PV Economics & Technical Sales 
Use ImagineSolar's Triple-O online LIVE platform to learn Solar PV Economics & Technical Sales from anywhere in the U.S. 

October 5, 2012, Austin,...


 

In general this SXSW conference had great content, but was lacking in a few other areas. Below I grade the sessions and events I attended, and then list some of the significant "take-away" messages for me.
 
Evaluation...
Green Business

 

Can something smaller than 2.5 inches long affect almost 6000 acres of land?   In Central Texas it can and provokes 450 angry residents and 3 different school districts to cry foul.
The reason for such commotion is four candidate species of salamander; the...
Government & Policy

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