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Sustainability

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    After Years of Foreclosures and Frustration, North Oak Cliff Apartments Back on Track

    ​As conceptual renderings are my kryptonite, here's one that landed in the inbox late yesterday -- a look at what Wood Partners says it will build on that vacant lot at 1836 W. Davis, not so long ago the site of the Cliffwood Apartments. The address, of course, is familiar: A few years ago, you ma ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    Make the Neighbors Green with Envy

    ​As conceptual renderings are my kryptonite, here's one that landed in the inbox late yesterday -- a look at what Wood Partners says it will build on that vacant lot at 1836 W. Davis, not so long ago the site of the Cliffwood Apartments. The address, of course, is familiar: A few years ago, you ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    There's Not Enough Green to Implement Phase 2 of Dallas's Green Building Ordinance

    ​No doubt you remember well the glory days of December 2007, which is when the city of Dallas convened its Green Building Task Force consisting of real estaters (including The Real Estate Council) and city staffers with the intention of rewriting the City Code to pave the way for happier, healthie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    How "Green" Is Dallas's Economy? Jobwise, Top 10 in the Country, Says Brookings Institution.

    Brookings-Battelle Clean Economy Database​The city has a website, Green Dallas, that brags about programs, policies and initiatives that date back, so the site says, to the devastating drought of the 1950s -- "when the City of Dallas realized it could not take the environment for granted." And in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2011

    Walk This Green Way

    Brookings-Battelle Clean Economy Database​The city has a website, Green Dallas, that brags about programs, policies and initiatives that date back, so the site says, to the devastating drought of the 1950s -- "when the City of Dallas realized it could not take the environment for granted." And in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    Chick-Fil-A Goes Green, but Keeps the White Napkins

    Chick-fil-A's first store designed to meet environmental design standards, opening this week in Fort Worth, will feature energy efficient appliances, low-flow restroom fixtures and a cistern for plant irrigation, but the fast food chain's still isn't ready to institute unbleached paper napkins.  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Jack Frost Jacked with Local Farmers, But Not Too Much

    ​While most of us may have celebrated those snow days earlier this month, you can bet the local farmers weren't making snow-angels. Because it undoubtedly affected crops, City of Ate set out to discover how badly those February-frosts tinged the local leafage -- specifically the farmers contributi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Hinojosa Takes a Break from Budget Woes to Break Ground on Ann Richards Middle School

    Photos by Patrick MichelsSuperintendent Michael Hinojosa and Dan Richards, Ann Richards' son, turned over the dirt at DISD's newest construction project, flanked by trustees Bernadette Nutall, Carla Ranger and Nancy Bingham.Potted palms and wildflowers flanked the podium at the Ann Richards Middle S ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 16, 2010

    Go, Go, Gadget Green

    Photos by Patrick MichelsSuperintendent Michael Hinojosa and Dan Richards, Ann Richards' son, turned over the dirt at DISD's newest construction project, flanked by trustees Bernadette Nutall, Carla Ranger and Nancy Bingham.Potted palms and wildflowers flanked the podium at the Ann Richards Middle S ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 27, 2010

    Country Grammar

    Photos by Patrick MichelsSuperintendent Michael Hinojosa and Dan Richards, Ann Richards' son, turned over the dirt at DISD's newest construction project, flanked by trustees Bernadette Nutall, Carla Ranger and Nancy Bingham.Potted palms and wildflowers flanked the podium at the Ann Richards Middle S ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 17, 2008

    Now Heard This

    Live green and have fun this weekend

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    January 3, 2008

    Homeward Bound

    Get to work at the Dallas Home Show

  • Calendar

    September 20, 2007

    Earth-Friendly, Holmes

    See a green subdivision

  • Calendar

    June 7, 2007

    Global Warming, Suck It

    Be Organic in the City at Fair Park

  • Calendar

    April 19, 2007

    Playing Green

    Celebrate Earth Day at the Heard

  • Dining

    July 6, 2006

    Down on the Farm

    Green acres where you want to be? Sign up for a farm subscription.

  • Calendar

    May 11, 2006

    Budgetary Builds

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