AltWeeklies Wire
Cleaning up coal in West Texas expected to help fuel San Antonio and wring out the oil patchnew
There's a mean-sounding hiss emanating from one of a dozen pipes rising like stovepipe to feed into a desert-tan battery that intermittently flushes high volumes of fluids 4,500 feet below ground.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
10-26-2012 |
Environment
Texas Republican Party The Real 'Extremist' in Climate Fightnew
Hot? Dumb question. Unless you work in an ice factory, movie theater, or chilly data center, you know you are.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
08-23-2012 |
Environment
Adobe Revival Beckons as Builders Return to the Mudnew
"You know how the good Lord wasn't popular in his hometown? That's kind of the way it is with us." So says Lawrence Jetter from his Southside earth-building compound about the near complete absence of adobe buildings in San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
07-20-2012 |
Art
Fate of natural Texas rests on landowners and smart conservationnew
You don't need to ride our highways or jockey for parking at our many strip malls to know San Antonio has been growing.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
03-31-2012 |
Environment
Placenta Shampoos, BPA, and Monsanto's Genetic Empirenew
We are experimental people. By that, I don't mean we like to tinker. Though tinker we certainly do.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-29-2012 |
Environment
A Strong Case for Legal Weednew
When Juárez cartel gangster Jose Antonio "El Diego" Acosta Hernandez was arrested last summer he had an estimated 1,500 murders under his belt operating in a city where violent death comes fast and furious.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-16-2012 |
Nonfiction
Nuclear Waste Dump Push Will Put Texas Back in Federal Sightsnew
Nuclear energy may be on the ropes post Fukushima's explosive meltdowns, but 70 years of U.S. bomb and power plant waste doesn't dissipate so easily.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-01-2012 |
Environment
Punishing Drought Just Getting Started in Texasnew
Natural weather cycles delivered the worst one-year drought in the historic record to Texas in 2011. Scientists examining tree rings had to go back as far as 1789 to find a worse one.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
01-02-2012 |
Environment
Tags: drought in Texas
The Apoca-Listnew
AKA The "We're Fucked" Index
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
Taste this: Lemongrass Bun with Tofu and Broccoli, $6.95new
A warm bowl of bun, when the air is chilly and sky dim, is a friend indeed.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
12-08-2011 |
Food+Drink
Rescued tom turkey enjoying pampered days before release to wildlife sanctuarynew
At small farms around greater San Antonio, some adventurous souls were picking out turkeys for slaughter.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
11-29-2011 |
Food+Drink
The Apoca-Listnew
AKA The "We're Fucked" Index.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
11-16-2011 |
Commentary
The Apoca-Listnew
AKA The "We're Fucked" Index.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
11-09-2011 |
Commentary
The Apoca-Listnew
AKA The "We're Fucked" Index
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
11-03-2011 |
Commentary
Occupy San Antonio Prepares for the Long Haulnew
A homeless man crushed inside a city garbage truck Monday on the city’s Southside provided the rallying cry for Occupy San Antonio protestors gathered in HemisFair Park. As drums began to ring through the night air, the group of about 30 took to the streets in yet another show of insult and outrage in this Age of Austerity, as Republicans and Democrats negotiate major cuts in federal assistance programs to rein in a skyrocketing national debt.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
11-02-2011 |
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