From thoughtful design to daily operations, Q2 Stadium is proving that high-performance sports and high-impact sustainability can go hand in hand.

Meet our newest Net-Zero Hero, Shelby Orme! Shelby is a sustainability advocate, entrepreneur, and community leader whose journey began with a summer camp and grew into a lifelong commitment to environmental justice and collective action.

The 2025 Friends in Gardening Award was presented to Abbey Seidensticker, Chair of the School Garden Committee at Zilker Elementary School. Abbey envisions a space where all students can experience the benefits.

With support from a Bright Green Future Grant, Colleen Garland and her team are transforming a patch of standard Bermuda grass, an invasive species to our area, into something much more meaningful at the new AISD Outdoor Wonder and Learning Center.

When poor air quality happens, like wildfire smoke, Sahara dust, or high ozone days, it can feel like you’re stuck inside with no good options. But you can make a DIY indoor air cleaner using a box fan and an HVAC filter that works surprisingly well.

Meet our newest Net-Zero Hero, Ricardo Treviño! From biking instead of driving to recycling nearly everything he can, Ricardo finds simple, everyday ways to live more sustainably.

​Meet our newest Net-Zero Hero, Sebastian Casarez! Sebastian brings engaging birding presentations to rural and urban communities, distributes recycled bird field guides to schools, and helps connect young people across Texas to a love of birding.

At Gorzycki, students aren’t just reading about agriculture—they’re living it. With the help of a Bright Green Future Grant, Gorzycki sought to expand their campus ranch by adding sheep through the “It Begins with Ewe” project.

Meet our latest Net-Zero Hero: Starla Simmons. Starla is a dedicated social worker, eco-therapist, and professor at The University of Texas at Austin. Starla has led the way regionally in integrating nature-based practices into social work.