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The Oklahoma Legislature ” by doing nothing ” could have created a very expensive “gap.” Time ran out last month on the Oklahoma legislative session without a vote on $43 million in revenue bonds to continue construction on the American Indian Cultural Center & Museum. And it left those who have been working on building […]

Change one structure to make it more energy-efficient and you save money. But change a bunch of structures in cities and towns across Oklahoma to make them more energy-efficient and you save boatloads of money, like an estimated $59 million in energy costs by 2020.  The ninth annual Oklahoma Sustainability Conference will explore the newest […]

Oklahoma City’s new director of sustainability Autumn Radle just got really, really busy. She found out April 6 that $5.4 million in federal stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act were released to propel Oklahoma City into a more energy-efficient future. “It will be really crazy when the money shows up,” Radle said. […]

Trey Parsons wants to show, not just tell. Parsons, of Oklahoma City’s Enersolve, along with his partners, decided to purchase a 1923 home in northwest Oklahoma City that usually would be considered an energy-efficiency disaster. Instead, they intend for it to be a teaching tool. Parsons asserts that he can save 30 to 40 percent […]

There’s no question that Norman has the sort of momentum that most cities covet. One of the most visible ways it’s manifested itself is landing on lists compiled by national publications. But Norman leaders got one of their bigger surprises last fall when the city was named to the 2009 edition of “11 Great Places […]

Replacing a “hot roof” on a commercial building or residence is getting to be one of the coolest ways to reduce the summer’s sky-high electric bills. Cool roofs reflect sunlight and heat away from a building and reduce roof temperatures up to 50 to 60 degrees compared with conventional materials, reducing the “heat island” effect, […]

John D. Potts remembers when he was very young and driving in the dairy cows to be milked at the independent, family- owned Potts Dairy south of the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman. “When a person grows up with the land, you come to appreciate what it was,” said Potts, reminiscing about the large trees […]

Agricultural producers upstream from the Oklahoma River are working to improve the North Canadian watershed, even as local and state health and agricultural officials continue to monitor the river that made about four dozen triathletes sick after swimming in it in May 2009. The Oklahoma River is the renamed seven-mile portion of the North Canadian […]