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What’s Missing from Austin’s Energy Generation Plan Discussion

Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, solar, tagged Austin, Austin American-Statesman, Austin Energy, Clean Energy, climate change, Coal, Generation Task Force, Global Warming, renewable energy, wind on February 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »

The Austin American Statesman’s article this morning about Austin’s 2020 energy plan leaves a few things out that are crucial to understanding the costs and benefits of adding more energy efficiency and renewable power to Austin’s generation portfolio. Judging from the rather depressing comments section, many readers took away the unfortunate misconception that poor Austinites [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged alma aguado, asian american action fund, bill white, budget cuts, commissioner of agriculture, democrat, eye on williamson, hank gilbert, health care, housong, lewisville isd, linda chavez-thompson, longhorn, lunar new year, obama, oil and gas, primary, republican, south texas chisme, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos, watermelon, year of the tiger on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance wishes you all a happy Lunar New Year, and brings you the first Year of the Tiger blog roundup. Justin at Asian American Action Fund Blog notes that Houston is the first locale President Obama named in his Lunar New Year Greeting. Could there be a political meaning behind it? CouldBeTrue [...]

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