Featured Solar Panel Keeps Man’s Electricity Bill Cool (Damali Keith – My Fox Houston, 08/03/2011) The summer heat usually spikes residents’ electricity bill. One man found a way to reduce what he pays. By using solar energy in his home, Abdimalik Abu has been able to run his air conditioning as cool as he wants, and his electricity bill is…
Featured $1.5M project to increase salt water flow to NOAA (Chris Paschenko – The Galveston Daily News, 08/03/2011) Galveston beaches are undergoing construction as part of a $1.5 million project to help quadruple the amount of salt water being pumped to the National Marine Fisheries Service. The project will allow the fisheries service to fill about 150,000 gallons of seawater…
Featured Life abounds in Texas’ last surviving bit of coastal prairie (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 07/26/2011) The Nash Prairie, located about 60 miles southwest of Houston, is the last part of a 9 million acre landscape that used to stretch from Louisiana to south of Corpus Christi. The Nash Prairie was recently purchased by the Nature Conservancy to become…