The wildfires, Obama’s cave-in on the EPA’s smog rules, the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline protests, Hurricane Irene, and our continued drought and economic malaise puts into focus several things that have been ruminating in my head all weekend, and it all comes back to this one question– Why does Rice play Texas? And how does this relate to clean air, climate change, and a switch to a clean energy economy?
Archive for the ‘green jobs’ Category
San Antonio Tying Renewable Energy to the Growth of Their Economy
Posted in Energy, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged CPS Energy, Energy, renewable, San Antonio, solar power, sustainable energy, Texas on January 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
CPS Energy CEO Doyle Beneby announced that the utility will acquire an additional 50 megawatts of solar power and that the company chosen to build the new plants for it will be required to locate a portion of its business in San Antonio. Currently the negotiations include a leading solar manufacturer to locate a small office [...]
New solar farm ground breaking in Pflugerville.
Posted in Energy, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged Austin, Business, public citizen texas, renewable, RRE Solar Austin, solar energy, Solar Farm on December 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
RRE Solar Austin held its groundbreaking ceremony in Pflugerville yesterday. This is the first utility scale solar farm, and one of the largest photovoltaic projects in the country, to be built by the company and the first to break ground in the Austin area. Planned to produce 60Mw of solar energy when completed it will [...]
Ho Ho Ho, it’s Austin’s 3rd Annual “Green” Holiday Party
Posted in green jobs, tagged austin texas, holiday party, sustainability on November 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Join us to celebrate the holidays at our 3rd Annual Austin Green Holiday Party, hosted this year by 10 great organizations. Fiesta Gardens (2100 Jesse E. Segovia St., Austin, TX 78702) Thursday, December 16th, 2010 from 5:30pm-9:30pm Registration: Pre-Registration ONLY for this Event (No Cash Accepted at Door) Click here for $30 General Admission Pre-Registration Click here [...]
For your holiday travel pleasure
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, Transportation, tagged consumer protection, Guitar, music, Musician, United Airlines, United Breaks Guitars on November 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you are traveling this holiday weekend, here’s a short cautionary tale for your holiday enjoyment. A musician named Dave Carroll recently had difficulty with United Airlines. United apparently damaged his treasured Taylor guitar ($3500) during a flight. Dave spent over 9 months trying to get United to pay for damages caused by baggage handlers [...]
A SIMMERING WATER WAR – special from Jim Hightower
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, green jobs, Nuclear, tagged Coal, colorado river, Entergy, Jim Hightower, Nuclear Power, Power Plants Suck, Power station, public citizen texas, Texas, water on November 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Originally posted at jimhightower.com Here in my home state of Texas, we’re suffering from withdrawal pains. This is not caused by our addiction to alcohol or drugs – but to plain water. And to make our pain worse, it’s not the people of Texas who are hooked on a destructive water habit – it’s the [...]
Watch the “Story of Electronics”
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, Toxics, tagged Business, Electronic waste, Electronics, environment, recycling, The Story of Stuff, Waste Management on November 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A new online film, the “Story of Electronics”, is available to watch today, Tues, November 9. This is the newest in the series of the excellent, user-friendly Story of Stuff web-films about excessive consumerism and waste. The Story of Electronics tells the story of how electronics are really “designed for the dump” and not made [...]
The Story of Electronics online film release coming
Posted in Consumers, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, recycling, Toxics, tagged Business, Electronic waste, Electronics, environment, recycling, The Story of Stuff, United States, Waste Management on October 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A new online film, the “Story of Electronics”, will be released on Tues, November 9. This is the newest in the series of the excellent, user-friendly Story of Stuff web-films about excessive consumerism and waste. The Story of Electronics tells the story of how electronics are really “designed for the dump” and not made to [...]
Foreign Oil Companies Fund Climate-Skeptic Congressional Candidates
Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, green jobs, tagged bp, campaign donations, cap and trade, carbon policy, Carbon Policy Politics, energy bill, Koch Industries, midterm elections, politics, tea party on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We were right when we said the Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United case was going to have a negative impact on the political system in this country. The ruling has paved the way to make mid-term election campaigns the only growing industry in this economic crisis. The ruling has turned candidates’ focus from [...]
CALIFORNIA PUSHES BACK AGAINST TEXAS
Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged Adrian Grenier, California, California law, climate change, David Arquette, environment, Matthew Cooke, Texas on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Supporters of a California law designed to battle climate change are pushing back against money from Texas oil and gas interests that’s helping to fund an initiative on the Nov. 2 ballot in the Golden State that would roll back some of the law’s provisions Starring David Arquette – Written & Directed by Matthew Cooke [...]
In Texas, Few Campaign on Renewable Energy, Climate Change
Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged bill white, charlie gonzalez, mark strama, Mid-term elections, Renewa, solar, texas energy, wind power on October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A recent poll shows that voters are more inclined to vote for a candidate that voted for the Federal climate change and renewable energy legislation than for those who didn’t. This is interesting in a time in which many conservative groups are advocating that climate change is a hoax and humans don’t need to intervene [...]
Bill White Talks Solar, Clean Energy Jobs
Posted in Energy, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged bill white, renewable energy, Rick Perry, solar, solar energy, wind power on September 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Finally, energy is now moving to the center of the debate in the governor race. Bill White announced yesterday his energy plan. For a while, the democratic candidate’s position on energy was a bit blurry but yesterday White set the record straight. He is in for green energy. While the current governor has wasted state resources on [...]
Tar Sands Oil’s Devastating Legacy
Posted in Air Quality, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, natural gas, Renewables, Tarsands, Toxics, tagged canada, climate change, dirty, Energy, Global Warming, Keystone Pipeline, oil, Oil sands, Oklahoma, pipeline, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, Tar Sands, tarsands, Texas, transcanada on September 24, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Tar sands oil makes conventional oil look clean by comparison, as it produces 3.2-4.5 times more the carbon footprint than conventional fuel. If that weren’t bad enough cleaner fuels such as natural gas, which otherwise might be used to generate electricity, are wasted in the process of creating more dirty energy from tar sands. Tar [...]
Support our work!
Subscribe by Email
Socialize With Us!
Categories
Follow us on Twitter- @PublicCitizenTX
- #BandC the PUC Energy Efficiency rule can be increased, save people money, and keep the lights on. 1 month ago
- Call your Senator and ask them to not block CSAPR! - http://t.co/hJcHjUVw 3 months ago
- State Department's tar sands hearing in Austin, TX a farce. Protester arrested - http://ow.ly/6IILh 4 months ago
- Austin Hearing - State Department on Tar Sands Pipeline; from Canada to Texas - Wednesday, September 28th - http://ow.ly/6FwcE 4 months ago
- Texas BlueGreen Apollo Alliance Clean Energy conference #renewable #cleantransportation #jobs look for the podcast. 5 months ago
Popular Tags
-
Flickr Photos
More Photos 
Citizen Vox Blog- One year since Citizens United v. FEC January 21, 2011 Rick Claypool
- The Midmorning Refill: Despite oil spill, runaway cars, Jersey Shore, 2010 may have not been the absolute worst year ever January 3, 2011 Dorry Samuels
- The Midmorning Refill: Nancy Pelosi says health care law will be her crowning achievement December 21, 2010 Joe Newman
-
![[Valid RSS]](valid-rss.png "Validate my RSS feed")
350 Challenge
Pages
Archives
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
Meta
-
Spam Blocked
