Greg Harman - Deceleration (Page 15)

The Secret to Defeating Putin (*And Other Petrostate Autocrats)

We should be in agony today—people are dying because they want to live in a democracy, want to determine their own affairs. But that agony should, and can, produce real change.

By Greg Harman

/ 7 Mar 2022

The Secret to Defeating Putin (*And Other Petrostate Autocrats)

The Environmental Scientist Out to Decolonize Conservation

Indigenous communities ‘are seen as research subjects rather than researchers.’

By Greg Harman

/ 26 Feb 2022

The Environmental Scientist Out to Decolonize Conservation

Documents Show Brackenridge Bond Project Tied to Possible Lethal ‘Take’ of Birds

City officials bumped the planned removal of more than 105 trees. But bird harassment efforts at Brackenridge are continuing.

By Greg Harman

/ 25 Feb 2022

Documents Show Brackenridge Bond Project Tied to Possible Lethal ‘Take’ of Birds

Winter Storm Survey: Unmet Physical and Emotional Needs a Year After Winter Storm Uri

Deceleration’s Winter Storm Survey shows the freezing blackout is a lingering specter. Only community-led solutions-making can exorcise it.

By Greg Harman

/ 18 Feb 2022

VIDEO: Full Brackenridge Park Tree Tour Preceding Critical HDRC Vote

San Antonio’s Parks & Recreation Department got an earful from dozens of residents joining a weekend site tour of proposed bond project construction at Brackenridge Park. They have one last shot at stalling the project.

By Greg Harman

/ 15 Feb 2022

TAKE ACTION: Attend Brackenridge Tree ‘Chop’ Hearing and Walking Tour

The project holds a snarl of interests, some reasonable (a collapsing wall), others repugnant (killing elder trees to evict migratory birds).

By Greg Harman

/ 9 Feb 2022

TAKE ACTION: Attend Brackenridge Tree ‘Chop’ Hearing and Walking Tour

DECELERATION.LIVE: ‘His Name is Albert: Climate Change, Public Health, and the Unhoused’

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.

By Greg Harman

/ 4 Feb 2022

National Butterfly Center smeared by Pizzagate-style disinfo campaign closing ‘for the immediate future’

Center Director Marianna Treviño-Wright says ‘psyops’ harassment and a recent violent confrontation preceded decision to close.

By Greg Harman

/ 2 Feb 2022

National Butterfly Center smeared by Pizzagate-style disinfo campaign closing ‘for the immediate future’

Plans to Fell Brackenridge Trees Rooted in City’s War on Birds

Plans to take down more than 100 trees at Brackenridge Park have been cast as being about historic structures. For Parks, it’s about something higher.

By Greg Harman

/ 31 Jan 2022

Messing with Texas: The Big Stories to Watch in 2022

Texas-based reporters, activists, and academics told us what they’re watching—or hope to be watching —in 2022.

By Greg Harman

/ 24 Jan 2022

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Exxon turns to Texas Supreme Court to help silence California critics

America’s largest oil firm is arguing its history of publicly denying the climate crisis is protected by the first amendment—and Texas sovereignty.

By Greg Harman

/ 21 Jan 2022

Laredo Medical Equipment Plant Spewing Cancer-Causing Pollution on Schoolchildren

Nobody told Yaneli Ortiz’s family that the factory they lived near emitted ethylene oxide. Not when the EPA found it causes cancer. Not when she was diagnosed with leukemia.

By Greg Harman

/ 20 Jan 2022

Laredo Medical Equipment Plant Spewing Cancer-Causing Pollution on Schoolchildren