2026 Blogs
Meet our latest Net-Zero Heroes: Nanditha Vedula and Sukruthi Pamu! Nanditha and Sukruthi are students at McNeil High School working to demonstrate that you don't need a lot of time or money to help the planet,
Explore how Angels Care & Learning Center transformed part of their playground into a sustainable outdoor classroom, including trees, bilingual signs, and a veggie garden with funding from a Bright Green Future Grant.
Meet our newest Net-Zero Hero: Tere O’Connell. Tere has spent her career as a restoration architect working to protect the buildings that give Austin its character. She founded and runs Save the Good Stuff, a local architectural salvage operation.
As a recognized Platinum-level Austin Green Business Leader, Parkhill is setting the standard for how design firms can embed sustainability into both their operations and their projects.
Meet our new Net-Zero Heroes: Ruhan Gupta and Varun Sanghavi, two high school juniors from Westwood High School who are using machine learning to fight one of Austin's most devastating urban forest threats: oak wilt.
In Austin, protecting our environment is both a shared value and an ongoing effort. Veteran Intern Brian Hess worked to install six air quality monitors at Austin-area schools during his four-month internship.
Meet our newest Net-Zero Hero: artist and fashion designer Billy Fairley. Working out of his home studio, Billy carefully deconstructs thrifted denim and then rebuilds them into entirely new pieces.
Since 2015, EcoRise and the Austin Climate Action & Resilience have partnered to bring EcoRise programming to students across the Austin metro, creating a consistent, community-rooted pipeline for youth-led sustainability work.
Meet our newest Net-Zero Hero, Emily Hernández-Corona, an undergraduate at St. Ed's! Through her efforts, Emily is stepping up as a leader in her community and demonstrating that all of us can find our role in the larger climate movement.
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