A multi-year plan to make Dallas a more resilient city was revealed at Dallas City Hall last week. Courtesy of Storyblock.
Aug. 8, 2018
A major, multi-year plan to make Dallas more equitable, prosperous and greener called Resilient Dallas was revealed at Dallas City Hall last week.
The Texas delegation of Citizens' Climate Lobby took more than 1,000 handwritten letters to Sen. Cruz’s office and nearly as many to Sen. Cornyn’s office. Photos courtesy of CCL DFW.
June 26, 2018
Local activists from Citizens’ Climate Lobby were upbeat after returning from CCL’s annual June Lobby Day in Washington. Earlier this month, they joined 1,300 volunteers from the nonprofit on its annual trek to DC to lobby Congress for climate action.
Let Joppa Breath is a celebration of a recent environmental victory and a fundraiser for an air monitoring program in the southern Dallas community. Photo courtesy of Downwinders at Risk.
May 16, 2018
The Dallas City Council hears the case for more heavy industry in a historic community today.
[Update: 3:30 p.m. Dallas City Council rejected concrete batch plants 9-5.]
March 28, 2018
Dallas-Fort Worth has poor air quality that keeps more kids off the playground and sends more respiratory patients to the hospital per capita than most U.S. urban centers, as local, federal and health association studies of recent years show. But in some neighborhoods, where heavy industry is placed out of view to most, the air is much, much worse.
Dallas and Fort Worth are among 12 Texas cities that have signed the Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement. Above, City of Dallas Environmental Quality Department at a recent Clean Air Action Day. Courtesy of Green Dallas Facebook page.
Feb. 9, 2018
A consortium of universities, environmental groups, civic leaders and volunteers want to draw attention to problem of particulate matter in North Texas. Courtesy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Feb. 2, 2017
Values-based investing – including investments rated for environmental stewardship – is on the rise, say global investment banks, investment-rating services and financial planners. Photo courtesy of storyblocks.com.
Jan. 10, 2018
For some investors, only the bottom line matters. Others want to put their money where their values are, in companies that “do good while doing well.”