Crossing Big Bend
Sun sets at the Chisos Mountains at Big Bend National Park. The idea of creating a huge wilderness area consisting of Big Bend State Ranch Park, Big Bend National Park and protected areas south of the border may be in the works.
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Jillian Granz, a 21-year-old Michigan State University student majoring in apparel and textile design, won a contest to design an eco-friendly dress for Suzy Amis Cameron to wear to the Academy Awards. Granz flew to California to be on hand for the unveiling of her design, which Amis Cameron selected from hundreds of entries as the winner of a national charity fundraising contest.
Actress Jessica Alba and her husband Cash Warren arrive under an umbrella for Global Green USA's 7th Annual Pre-Oscar Party in Los Angeles, Wednesday, March 3, 2010.
Porsche CEO Michael Macht presents three hybrid cars — the Cayenne (from left), the Spyder 918 concept and the 911 GT3 RS — at the Geneva Auto Show in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. The show will open its gates to the public from March 4 to March 14, presenting hundreds of brands.
The jewelry creations of Mia De Spain and Tina Barajas, on display at for sale Saturday at Earthwise Living Day in Leon Valley, were created from recycling magazines, newspapers and junk mail. The sisters use laminating material to encase the images. Photos by Lauri Gray Eaton
An Okapi stands at the door it uses to get in and out of its habitat in the Africa Live! 2 exhibit at the San Antonio Zoo on Friday, Feb. 26, 2010.
Richard Casteel, a graduate student from the University of Texas at Austin, searches for a nearly 6-century-old baldcypress tree along the Blanco River near Wimberley on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010.
These photos will show you step by step how to make a felt cookie, and then show you other felt food options. For instructions you can print out, click on the link to the story below.
SUPPLIES
• Scissors
• Cream felt
• Pink felt
• Cream thread
• Pink thread
• Needle
• Stuffing
DIRECTIONS
1. Cut out two cream felt circles 2.5 inches wide. Cut out one pink felt circle 2 inches wide, scalloping the edges.
Visitors look inside the SU CASA (Sustainable Urban Center for the Advancement of San Antonio). The structure will powered by solar panels and will be used as an educational tool at the Mission Verde Center @ Cooper. The Mission Verde Center @ Cooper will become an education and training center for green technologies.
University of Texas scientist Tony Amos examines a sea turtle that was rescued at the Padre Island National Seashore and now is being rehabilitated at the Animal Rehabilitation Keep. Some 81 of 125 turtles found recently were saved.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Perez Jackson visits her childhood home in New Orleans' 9th Ward. Hurricane Katrina's toll on Jackson's childhood house and on New Orleans, particularly the 9th Ward where she was raised, has intensified her quest for what's known as environmental justice.
Fog rolls over the Altamont Landfill owned by Waste Management in Livermore, Calif. Altamont is one of two California landfills making liquefied natural gas. Other natural gas facilities are being planned by Waste Management at some of the 270 active landfills nationwide.
Sunlight provides light for the living room in the daytime, but the family has a variety of light bulbs in service in the living room at night.
Frank Knight, 101, stands in front of an elm tree known as "Herbie" in Yarmouth, Maine. Knight, who is recently retired, took care of the tree for about 50 years while working as the Yarmouth tree warden.
The controversy began with the revelation that a cost estimate from contractor Toshiba Inc. that was $4 billion more than CPS' own estimate was kept from the board. An investigation into what happened prompted the resignation of two senior executives and the reassignment of another. The chair of the CPS board also resigned under pressure from the mayor. The ongoing saga has shaken public and City Council trust in CPS.
A crane moves equipment over the River Walk and onto the roof of Nix Medical Center at 414 Navarro St., early Wednesday morning. The building's air conditioning system was upgraded.
A red-tail hawk launches near Austwell, north of Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, on Dec. 13.
Terry Baiamonte and Adair Sutherland, who both sit on the board of the San Antonio River Authority, look over four acres that were recently donated to the River Authority for the creation of a park.
Confronted with an ever-growing pile of old newspapers, Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin came up with the idea of using them to make shoes and tote bags for her environmentally friendly footwear company.
David Graner, a resident of Kailua, jogs past some old ironwood tree stumps and roots that have been exposed due to the erosion of Kailua Beach in Hawaii. Geologists say more than 70 percent of Kauai's beaches are eroding.
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