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Item SAWS: Businesses reopening post-pandemic need to flush their pipes to remove nasty bacteria(San Antonio Express News, 2021-06-25) Bruess, ElenaItem City of Austin, UT announce project to combat extreme heat in urban environments(KVUE, 2021-06-29) Livengood, PaulItem UT Austin Teams Up With City and Community to Fight Extreme Heat in Austin(UT News, 2021-06-29) News, UTItem FOX 7 Discussion: Fighting extreme heat in Austin neighborhoods(Fox 7 News, 2020-07-02) Thomas, RebeccaItem Beyond the Weather Report(UT News, 2021-07-09) Huber, MaryItem Climate Change-Related Heat Waves Are A Major Threat To Public Health(Texas Public Radio, 2021-07-25) Source, TheItem New Books Network Podcast - C.J. Alvarez, A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide(2020-01-03) Alvarez, C.J.Recent debates over the building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico divide have raised logistical and ethical issues, leaving the historical record of border building uninvoked. A recent book, written by UT Austin professor Dr. C.J. Alvarez, offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990. Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide (University of Texas Press, 2019) recounts the history of how both US and Mexican government agencies surveyed, organized, and operationalized land and water from 1848 until 2009. By centering the relationship between government agencies and border policing, Alvarez clearly shows how construction and manipulation of the border space’s natural features maintained the political and geographical form of the nation-state, how it reproduced the notion of the border space as something needing to be controlled and dominated, and how it transformed the border space into one of economic possibility and growth. The history of construction and hydraulic engineering on the divide is largely about the opposing forces of border building to keep certain people and things out, and border building to let certain things in. Alvarez lays bare this tension between tactical infrastructure and trade infrastructure both as forces that have organized border life. During the 1960s and 70s, “the ports of entry began to embody the ever-deepening contradictions embedded in policies designed to accelerate sanctioned economic exchange on the one hand while seeking to decelerate black market commerce on the other,” Alvarez writes (143). By the turn of the 21st century, Alvarez argues, most of the police construction on the border was designed to manage the negative effects of previous building projects and policies. In regards to the completion of the 2009 border fence, Alvarez writes, “It was overbuilding designed to compensate for an unsustainable immigration system, unsustainable ‘drug wars,’ and an unsustainable politics of scapegoating noncitizens. Far more successful at achieving its stated goals, however, was the infrastructure of cross-border commerce” (222). Dr. Alvarez utilizes extensive government records from the binational agency International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC)/ Comisión Internacional de Límites y Aguas (CILA), records from Army Corps of Engineers, the INS, and the prodigious W.D. Smithers photograph collection from the Harry Ransom Center. The number of photographs included in the manuscript shows the vastness of the US-Mexico divide's natural landscape, shows how agencies attempted to make sense of such vastness, and shows what they constructed. Border Land, Border Water is a must-read for historians of the US-Mexico divide, environmental historians, and anyone interested in better understanding from a historical perspective current calls construction on the border.Item Under the Forest Canopy: Prehispanic Wetland Agroecosystems in Global Context(2020-01-24) Beach, TimothyItem The Transformative Power of Games(2020-12) Johns, MJGames have an unusual power as an interactive medium. They say a picture is worth a thousand words—how many more might it be worth when you can interact with, manipulate, and get feedback from the image you see? Playing a game is like having a conversation—you put a bit of yourself in, and you get something new and unique in return. This article will look at examples of how games can impact people on an individual and societal level, and how a well-designed gaming experience can bring about positive change in our lives. From bringing families and friends closer together and connecting strangers across the globe to making science more accessible and innovating how we teach and learn, games have an incredible potential to change the human experience.Item Data show a warming climate in Central Texas. Why rising temperatures are cause for alarm.(Austin American Statesman, 2020-02-21) Price, AsherItem From Virtual to Reality: Take a Walk Around Austin in 2050(Medium, 2020-02-27) Leite, FernandaItem Escaping a Climate Crisis(Medium, 2020-03-03) Lorenzo, DoreenItem UT professor maps climate vulnerability in Austin(Austin Monitor, 2020-02-12) Devenyns, JessiItem TEXAS IN 2050(Texas Scale, 2020) Singer-Villalobos, FaithItem Together: Human Health and Our Environment Are Inextricably Linked(Medium, 2020-04-21) Shensky, Michael G.; Brown, Katherine A.Item Earth Day at 50: Still Seizing the Moment(Medium, 2020-04-20) Huber, MaryItem Call for transparency of COVID-19 models(Science, 2020-05-01) Barton, Michael; Alberti, Marina; Ames, Daniel; Atkinson, Jo-An; Bales, Jerad; Burke, Edmund; Chen, MinItem Tracing Water(Medium, 2020-05-28) Huber, MaryItem Artists explore new ways of knowing in a time of information overload(Nature, 2020-06-01) Vince, GaiaItem Planet Texas 2050 Statement on Black Lives Matter and Racial Injustice(UT Austin Bridging Barriers, 2020) UT Austin, Planet Texas 2050