Featured Houston Vies For Bloomberg’s $5 Million To Help Create ‘One Bin For All’ (KUHF News, 11/21/12) Houston was selected out of 300 U.S. cities to be named as one of 20 finalists for Mayor Bloomberg’s Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge for the “Total Reuse: One Bin for All”. The idea is there will be one bin where you throw everything: food…
Featured Sustainability is silver bullet for Texas coast (Chris O’Shea Roper and Tom Linton – The Daily News, 11/17/2012) A long-term vision is created to reverse coastal degradation and sustain our rich coastal resources. Restoration and protection projects create a level of resiliency in our communities that prevent further degradation of systems. Sustainability, then, requires all those with a vested…
Featured Texas looks to motorists to cover industry’s pollution bill (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 11/09/2012) Houston’s 260 chemical plants, oil refineries and other large facilities may avoid tens of millions of dollars in penalties for the region’s failure to achieve federal clean-air goals. TCEQ argues that it should not have to collect those fines because it already is raising…