Meet our newest Net-Zero Hero, Thira Rose! Thira is an artist, runner, and community leader who’s turning worn-out sneakers and race bibs into powerful works of art.

With support from Austin Climate Action and Resilience, summer campers at Creative Action learned about Central Texas’ native species while creating vibrant gelli prints, collages, and murals with reused and upcycled materials. See the results!

Meet our newest Net-Zero Hero, Chi Ndika! Chi is the founder and creative force behind Luv Fats Ice Cream, a small, plant-based ice cream business that blends sustainability with community joy.

Meet our newest Net-Zero Hero, Tatianna Cannon! A lifelong advocate for equity and access, Tatianna is the founder of the Green Workforce Collaborative — an initiative focused on building inclusive pathways into Austin’s growing green economy.

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.

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.