Greg Harman - Deceleration

PODCAST: Deceleration Turning 10 + New Website & Features

Founder Greg Harman speaks with Executive Editor Marisol Cortez & Alternative Futures correspondent Syris Valentine about the year behind, the year ahead, and where Deceleration fits.

By Greg Harman

/ 20 Jan 2026

PODCAST: Deceleration Turning 10 + New Website & Features

Hotter for the Holidays: Texas December Temps Up 4-5 Degrees Since 1970

As warming driven by fossil fuels and ecological destruction accelerates, Texas summers are bleeding deeper into fall and winter.

By Greg Harman

/ 10 Jan 2026

Hotter for the Holidays: Texas December Temps Up 4-5 Degrees Since 1970

Trump Wars For Oil Abroad and Against Renewables at Home as Fossil Fuels Claim Millions of Lives a Year

Rising heat, billion-dollar disasters, and punishing pollution linked to fossil fuels are responsible for millions of deaths per year and threatening the habitability of the planet. So what do we win in this war for oil?

By Greg Harman

/ 10 Jan 2026

Trump Wars For Oil Abroad and Against Renewables at Home as Fossil Fuels Claim Millions of Lives a Year

Controversial Guajolote Ranch Set for San Antonio Planning Commission Hearing

A day after Bexar County Commissioner’s urged the TCEQ to reconsider the project’s approval for fear of potential water contamination, San Antonio planners set a date to consider a proposal to help fund the development.

By Greg Harman

/ 20 Dec 2025

Controversial Guajolote Ranch Set for San Antonio Planning Commission Hearing

Deceleration Video: ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex

A Deceleration Update on Lawsuits and Legal Orders related to ICE, Homeland Security, and a rising human rights catastrophe in the United States.

By Greg Harman

/ 16 Dec 2025

Deceleration Video: ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex

Jim LaVilla-Havelin's New Works Compel Us to Consider Sparse Land In a Hard Time

Writer James R. Dennis reviews the work of a poet of the natural world as he gleans both beauty and lessons from the 'weathered, scruffy landscape' of Atascosa County, Texas.

By Greg Harman

/ 10 Dec 2025

Jim LaVilla-Havelin's New Works Compel Us to Consider Sparse Land In a Hard Time

Mujeres Marcharan Launch Campaign to End Femicide in Texas

Demands call for properly categorizing murders of women and female children as femicide, on the way toward ending femicide, transfemicide, and homophobic murders.

By Greg Harman

/ 8 Dec 2025

Mujeres Marcharan Launch Campaign to End Femicide in Texas

We Must Reject White Nationalism Driving MAGA’s Rampant ICE Abuses

For our future security and happiness it is imperative to both discover the root of our legitimate grievances and resist being manipulated by falsehoods and racism.

By Greg Harman

/ 4 Dec 2025

protesters hold signs opposing ice raids

Children Among ‘More Than 140’ Detained by ICE & FBI in Multi-Agency Sweep in San Antonio

Few details have been shared by federal agencies—including who was detained or where they are being held—but the first charges brought have nothing to do with trafficking or gangs.

By Greg Harman

/ 21 Nov 2025

Children Among ‘More Than 140’ Detained by ICE & FBI in Multi-Agency Sweep in San Antonio

Eroding U.S. Civil Liberties Under Trump Compared to Time of Philippines Dictator Marcos Sr.’s Rise

What can folks in the U.S. learn from the survivors of martial law under a Philippines dictator that caused thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of illegal detentions? Plenty.

By Greg Harman

/ 6 Nov 2025

Eroding U.S. Civil Liberties Under Trump Compared to Time of Philippines Dictator Marcos Sr.’s Rise

San Antonio Climate Emissions Are Tracking Up—Not Down—New Data Shows

The City of San Antonio’s planet-warming emissions ticked up in 2023, according to new data released on Monday. That interrupts gains made after adopting a climate action plan in 2019.

By Greg Harman

/ 29 Oct 2025

San Antonio Climate Emissions Are Tracking Up—Not Down—New Data Shows

TCEQ Commissioners Approve Guajolote Ranch Wastewater Permit—Spark Lawsuit Threat

Highlighting threat from wastewater to greater San Antonio’s largest drinking water source, the Edwards Aquifer, opponents threaten lawsuit, rehearing request.

By Greg Harman

/ 23 Oct 2025

TCEQ Commissioners Approve Guajolote Ranch Wastewater Permit—Spark Lawsuit Threat