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San Antonio’s Poor Clean-tech Ranking Due to “Jockeying,” Lost Data Set
San Antonio’s standing nationally on the clean-tech scene could be better. But for a newcomer on the scene being ranked 42 among U.S. cities is still commendable, according to Bryce […]
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Threatened: World’s Largest Bat Colony Waits for Leaders to Digest the Science
As an estimated 10 million Mexican free-tailed bats — nursing mothers and their young — began to form into a swirling gyre and rise on a gentle South Texas wind, […]
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Martinez Creek Sewer Line May Limit Green Makeover Of Westside Creeks
Decades after channelizing vast lengths of San Antonio’s rivers and creeks as means of controlling floodwaters, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers engaged with the City of San Antonio and […]
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Fracking the Eagle Ford Poses Serious Air-Quality Challenge for San Antonio
You can call it bragging rights. For years, San Antonio policy makers and elected leaders have made a lot of hay out of the fact that San Antonio was one […]
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‘Toxic Triangle’ Residents Refuse To Go Quietly On Anniversary Of Kelly Closure
A dozen years since the closing of Kelly Air Force Base, ailing residents and community activists gathered to decry contamination, injustice. Victor San Miguel presents a proud and defiant image […]
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Ozone, Coal, and Efficiency in San Antonio: EDF’s Elena Craft Elaborates
I haven’t had time to follow up with Elena Craft (right), health scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund’s Austin office, who served to keep a recent air-quality panel at San Antonio’s Rackspace...
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Clean Water Act Settlement Follows San Antonio Water System CEO Bonus
Yesterday, the SAWS Board of Directors agreed to give its CEO, Robert Puente, a $72,000 “performance award” on top of his annual $325,187 salary. The bonus was given in part for his leadership […]
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San Antonio: Bring This Film To The Alamo Drafthouse
Dear Greater San Antonio residents: I just received notice via email that this film will be shown at the Westlakes Alamo Drafthouse at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5 — if […]
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LONE STAR GREEN: Climate change denial and Lamar Smith’s magical unicorn ride
The early Greeks knew a thing or two about unicorns. With elephant feet and a boar’s tail, these “Indian asses” were said to have a single horn that offered protection […]
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South Texas Project One Of The Most Vulnerable U.S. Nuclear Reactors
Years ago I had a semi-public disagreement (as much as Twitter snipes can be considered “public”) with another SA writer about what I considered the San Antonio Express-News‘ failure to consider...
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CPS Energy Rate-Hike Hearing, Climate Change, & Keystone XL Protest
Upcoming and imminent events related to the sustainable path in San Antonio… Tonight: Public hearing on CPS Energy’s proposed rate hike The first in what is likely to be a […]
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‘Dirty’ Deely Coal Plant Explosion Punctuates Rate-Hike Debate In SA
An explosion at a San Antonio power plant this week either bolstered the utility’s case for rate hikes to keep up with infrastructure maintenance demands or those of some critics […]
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Margo Tamez, Environmentalism Failures, and Indigenous Dignity
Climate action in the U.S. will not come from some mass conversion of the largely white middle-class deniers, whose representatives even now hold the nation hostage in hopes of preventing […]
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Texas Prop 6: Loved by Dow, The Koch Brothers, And The Sierra Club
After more than a decade of virtually ignoring Texas’ growing water infrastructure needs, Rick Perry is guns a-blazing for Prop 6, a plan, if approved by voters on November 5, […]
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Questions for San Antonio’s Calumet Refinery
Consider this my spring cleaning, late as it is. The subject: the mangle of flares and flanges known as the Calumet (or NuStar, or AGE) refinery in South SA. While some […]
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Interfaith Forum Tackles Texas Water
FROM THE TAG-TEAMING INTERFAITHS TO WATER-AWARE SAN ANTONIANS (AND REGIONAL COLLABORATORS): “Water management has emerged as one of the most critical natural resource issues of our time. ‘Water is the...
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Native runners bring message of community and healing
It’s considered the fulfillment of a prophecy dating back 500 years: the reuniting of indigenous communities from the north and the south, peoples fractured by the forces of colonization. The […]
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Standing Rock solidarity action at Alamo Plaza, San Antonio
Standing Rock solidarity action at Alamo, Plaza, San Antonio, September 10, 2016. #NoDAPL #NoDAPLSolidarity #StopDAPL #NoTransPecosPL #WaterIsLife #AyoyotesOnTheGround #SacredStoneCamp #StayWoke...
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Saving ‘natural resources’ won’t save us
For most of middle America—or most of America, actually—protests of any sort demonstrate questionable behavior. People are suddenly “out of their place,” different kinds of people, people made strange...
View ArticleVoices: #SATX Energy Transfer action
Around 20 area residents gathered outside Energy Transfer Partners offices in San Antonio, Texas, today to stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux in their struggle against the Dakota […]
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