Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
COVID-19, mass unemployment, as well as a rise of cleaner energy sources all contributed to lower greenhouse gas emissions responsible for overheating the planet and amplifying violent weather around the world. But clearly pandemic is not a climate strategy.
Street Goat is a new urban farming project based in the city of Bristol, UK, far far away from the landscapes and communities of South Texas. Still, we wanted to highlight it as another move toward food production systems that emulate rather than fight natural systems.
CPS Energy’s massive power plants make it the ‘elephant in the room’ when it comes to climate planning. But climate committee members are resisting putting the utility at the center of discussion.
As the world moves toward its 26th UN Climate Change Conference, and deadlines for ending climate pollution grow nearer, a focus on historical debt is growing.
Simon Evans | Carbon Brief
Earth could exceed 1.5°C of global warming – the “safe” limit for temperature rise outlined in the Paris Agreement, according to a landmark report by the world’s most senior climate scientists.
The natural gas industry raked in billions during the winter grid failure and Governor Abbott let them off the hook. He was rewarded with a huge campaign contribution from the
To stop the destruction of life on this planet, international criminal codes must expand beyond human-focused war crimes and genocide to include ecocide—recognizing non-human life has inherent value.
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An Australian company has lithium mining rights on 5,000 acres of public lands. But even as exploratory wells circle sacred springs, the Hualapai Tribe are granted few rights to
The Israeli occupation of Palestine has meant not only a human rights crisis but an “environmental Nakba”: destruction of waterways, collapse of biodiversity, rise of toxic pollution, and unjust access
Several incoming San Antonio Council members want to freeze utility disconnections, reform CPS rates, and close the Spruce coal plant. They’d do well to listen to the attorney fighting CPS Energy’s lawsuit to eliminate the people’s right to reform the utility by petition.
It’s been three months since Winter Storm Uri scorched South Texas, leaving stands of gray stalks where living trees once stood, collapsing walls of cacti and making puddles out of aloe. What better time to rethink what we are growing and why—particularly in this time of global biodiversity crisis.
