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ReEnergize Texas Hits the Big Times over Green Fee Bill

Posted in Global Warming, tagged college students, green, inc, New York Times, reenergize texas on May 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Hey hey, looks like ReEnergize Texas was featured in a recent article on the New York Times’ Green, Inc blog. Check it out: College Students Clamor for “Green Fees” By Kate Galbraith College students often protest when administrators threaten to raise their fees. But rising numbers of students seem willing to self-impose a “green” fee, [...]

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Meet Smitty, Director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged american changemaker, campaigns for people, Clean Water Action, environmental hero, gary, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, greenwashing, indiana, nuclear plants, power plants, public citizen texas, sustainlane, texans for public justice, texas ratepayer's organization to save energy, Tom "Smitty" Smith, valparaiso university on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

SustainLane, an on-line “people powered sustainability guide”, recently wrote an in-depth profile piece on Public Citizen’s own Tom “Smitty” Smith. For an excellent glimpse of the man behind the machine, our very own white-hat-wearing fearless leader and official “American Changemaker,” check out the following: ‘Smitty’ Wrangles Texans for Environmental Battles by Amy Linn, SustainLane Staff [...]

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Our First Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round-Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged bloggers, blue daze, brains and eggs, Capitol Annex, drilling reform, fort worth, gob, left of college station, mcblogger, Netroots, south texas chisme, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos, the alliance of magicians, the final countdown, truthhugger, txsharon, wcnews, whosplayin on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Check it out! Texas Vox is now a proud member of the Texas Progressive Alliance, a group of bloggers, blogs, and Netroots activists. We demand to be taken seriously (and occasionally dance around to The Final Countdown with knives in our teeth). Our membership also means that you can look forward to Weekly Round-Up of [...]

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