Academics and activists recognize the need to move beyond a growth-at-all-costs economy, but frameworks built around a 'just transition' and 'solidarity economy' have gotten better traction.
City utilities should require recycled water and ‘clean energy’ sources of all new data centers, Councilman Galvan says in request for a special meeting this month.
112 Degrees?! Deceleration investigation supports findings from two studies into data center heat islands, measuring downwind temps from a major data center complex at six degrees higher than upwind areas.
The complexity of our situation, including fossil fuel lobbying and risks of democratic collapse, are fully represented by the creators of 'Daybreak.' But winning the game is still within reach.
The ongoing ‘murder-suicide’ of our living Rio Grande Valley (ie. economic development) has the same billionaire overlord vibe as the slave-picked cotton profits fought for by ‘Rip’ Ford in 1865.
Plus: Why a non-unanimous decision on birthright citizenship should concern us all—and how we keep fighting when we want to give in to crippling fear, grief, and panic.
Seattle has a plan to address the proliferation of plastics. How can we replicate its successes in less eco-friendly cities and states?
The risks long associated with the U.S.'s aging fleet of nuclear reactors continue with a new generation of "advanced" designs proposed for Texas data centers and plastics manufacturers, longtime critics warned the seaside Seadrift community.
'Parties in the ship channel and shrimping are over. Downtown is dead.' What went wrong started with industry promises.
Plus: Massive global data center study, Trump's fake oversight EO, accelerating surveillance of data center opposition, action opportunities, y más.
Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
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Marisol Cortez is the Executive Editor of Deceleration. As a creative writer and community-based scholar, she explores place and power in South Texas and for Deceleration covers ecojustice arts and humanities.
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