Yesterday the EarthLab Foundation announced its annual list of the top 10 greenest cities in America. Austin ranked 9th in this year's list. The list is compiled by sampling the one million plus users of the website's carbon and lifestyle calculator that has been featured in Leonardo DiCaprio's documentary The Eleventh Hour, at the 2007 Emmy Awards, and by Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection....

We congratulate Ellen Spiro for her accomplishment. What follows is the press release from the School of Communication at UT. Ellen Spiro, associate professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a Lone Star Emmy for her documentary, "Are the Kids Alright?" which explores the struggles facing Texas children with mental illness. Spiro, who has directed and produced an extensive body of award-winning documentary work, co-produced......