Featured Re-Plant Houston Begins Reforestation (Pat Hernandez – KUHF News, 01/06/2012) “Re-plant Houston” is a program that will use the help of volunteers to plant over 25,000 trees in four Houston parks: Memorial, Hermann, MacGregor and Mason Parks. These four parks have removed an estimated 10,000 trees due to the drought. The Houston Parks Department has started by replanting a…
Featured Houston moving forward with longtime Luce Bayou project (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 12/26/2011) Plans are moving forward with the Luce Bayou project, a nearly $300 million pipeline and canal that will move water from the Trinity River about 30 miles to Lake Houston. This project will help to provide water to the expanding city and suburbs. The Luce…
Featured Tiny Algae Could Be a Big Source of Power (Mose Buchele – StateImpact News, 12/09/2011) Dr. Robert Hebner, director of the UT’s Center for Electromechanics and at the forefront of algae research, does not see algae as pond scum but as “fuel, cures for cancer nutricuticals, sources of chemicals that are greener than we’ve ever had before.” Last summer,…