Environmental justice news and analysis for San Antonio and the South Texas bioregion
Racist mascots. Fossil fuel extraction. Murdered and missing indigenous women. Native runners highlight the high cost of continuing colonial domination in the United States and along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
Once cleaned of heavy metals, microplastics, and sand, sargassum is finding many potential uses in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, particularly as biogas, but also biofertilizer, cellulose packaging, and even artificial vegan leather. But regulatory hurdles are delaying range of responses.
Here comes the $12B “backup generator” for Texas’s electric grid that would sit idle…almost always. And which Texans would pay for regardless if they are ever actually needed.
A Deceleration analysis of heat island effect shows that greater downtown San Antonio and the northwest zone are bearing the brunt of rising heat—as are those already suffering energy burden and asthma.
A year-long intervention on behalf of an unhoused neighbor who lost limbs to Winter Storm Uri exposed the gaps in San Antonio’s broken safety net.
The City of San Antonio is involved in a multi-year assault on migratory birds in city parks. ‘Save Brack’s Birds and Trees Pilgrimage,’ April 8, 2023.
Ancient Greece, Vietnamese Buddhism, the biodiversity collapse, and Texas students being failed by the system helped inspire ‘The Bee Maker.’
Disinfo on Twitter and and ‘nature-rinsing’ ad campaigns on Facebook are the norm. Transparency and accountability at Big Tech—and an end to the monetization of disinformation—is what’s required.
