Austin reached a big milestone this year. The 10,000th electric vehicle hit the road in our city. That's significant, especially since Austin has a goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Add onto that the fact that more than a third of our emissions currently...
Guest Editorial - by Al Braden Al Braden is a local environmental activist and photographer. He is also a member of the Electric Utility Commission Resource Planning Working Group, which is helping to advise Austin Energy and City Council on where Austin should get its energy...
Maybe you've seen the news stories about the 16-year-old from Sweden who's demanding climate action from our world leaders. Or you've watched a video on Instagram of one of the hundreds of marches taking place across the globe. Perhaps you've even attended a recent climate...
Guest Editorial - from Al Braden Al Braden is a local environmental activist and photographer. He is also a member of the Electric Utility Commission Resource Planning Working Group, which is helping to advise Austin Energy and City Council on where Austin should get its energy...
Guest Post - from the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club Written by Shane Johnson, Clean Energy Distributed Organizer with the Sierra Club For community advocates and policy wonks alike, Austin Energy’s recently-announced Working Group to Update the Resource, Generation, and Climate Protection Plan (Resource Plan) for early...
Austin is about to get more than half its energy from renewables. And that's a pretty big deal. Austin Energy, our city's electric utility, just announced a new wind power contract that will allow Austin to get 61 percent of its energy from renewables (once the wind farm is complete...
Hosted by the City of Austin - To help customers manage and lower utility bills this summer, City of Austin Utilities is hosting several community events! The months of June through September account for 45 percent of all the electricity used by residents. Residents typically use the...
From Solar Austin - Energy in a Smart City – What is going on in Austin? For our April happy hour, Karl Popham will share Austin Energy’s innovative efforts in the utility’s alignment with the city’s goals of Mobility, Affordability, and Health/Environment. This will include an update...
From 350 Austin and the First Unitarian Universalist Church - Gil Starkey, a co-founder of 350 Austin, will present an update on the state of the global climate, climate change trends, and some opportunities to participate locally in the vital and growing global climate change movement. This...
I live in Austin, Texas, a relatively eco-friendly city with a tree hugging, hippy reputation. I work as an environmental reporter at the Austin EcoNetwork. And in my free time, I enjoy camping, hiking, and rock climbing. In other words, I’m pretty much the stereotypical electric...