Climate Change
When Climate Change Meets Sprawl: Why Houston's ‘Once-In-A-Lifetime' Floods Keep Happening
Above, The Theater District in downtown Houston is flooded after Buffalo Bayou jumped its banks on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune.
Aug. 28, 2017
Austin filmmaker documenting climate change in America
'An Inconvenient Sequel' coming to DFW this summer
A decade after the Academy award-winning film brought the concept of climate change into popular culture, the new film is slated for distribution in August. Courtesy of AnInconvenientSequel.com's Facebook page.
June 23, 2017
A powerful sequel to Al Gore’s climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth will hit Dallas theaters Aug. 3. AMC Grapevine Mills and AMC North Park will debut the film locally, followed later in the week by The Magnolia and other theaters throughout the Metroplex.
New North Texas environmental coalition to lead ExxonMobil rally
North Texas science marchers do their research with clever signs
'Cool Schools' to expand tree canopy at DISD campuses
Design for the Onesimo Hernandez Elementary campus in Dallas, one of two pilot schools in the Cool Schools Program. Courtesy of Texas Trees Foundation.
July 21, 2016
Some Dallas area elementary schools will be shadier and greener in the coming school year, thanks to the Texas Trees Foundation’s Cool Schools initiative.
#ExxonKnew protest puts Dallas activists in national spotlight
The Dallas chapter of Code Pink was one of a dozen regional organizations represented at last week's #ExxonKnew rally. Photos courtesy of Linda Cooke.
May 30, 2016
On Wednesday, North Texans rallied outside ExxonMobil’s annual shareholder meeting in downtown Dallas while inside shareholders’ efforts to hold Exxon accountable for its role in climate change made small progress – one resolution won, of 9.
North Texans to rally in Dallas for Exxon investigation and divestment
Photo courtesy of Rex Curry/Greenpeace.
May 17, 2016
On May 25, two hours before ExxonMobil shareholders convene their annual meeting at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, 100 climate activists are expected to rally outside the center, asking the state to investigate Exxon for a 20-year campaign of public and shareholder disinformation and calling on investors to divest their Exxon shares.
Flower Mound resident documents solar growth spurt in North Texas
Jay Squyres' home in Flower Mound above and below. Aerial views show extensive solar panels, but also show that most of the project is shielded from street view.
May 10, 2016
When Jay Squyres installed his first solar rooftop array in 2009, the homeowner’s association in his Flower Mound subdivision went ballistic. Alarmed that the shiny panels on Squyres’ roof would somehow degrade values or mar the aesthetics of the affluent, treed and master-planned Wellington community, his HOA sued him. Twice.