Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
Welcome to the second edition of your weekly ecological, commonsensical, and anti-commercial news wrap for the Greater San Antonio and South Texas bioregions (i.e., the watersheds of the San
What a time to start a weekly news wrap-up on the climate justice front. Stories of sweeping and rapid change have followed the incoming Biden Administration: reentering Paris and punking
After years of community pressure and, most recently, a petition that would have forced the JK Spruce Coal Plant to shutter, San Antonio’s City-owned utility starts facing reality.
Greg
EDITOR’S NOTE: Even as President Biden enters the White House with an unprecedented commitment to fighting industrially driven global warming and taking several critical immediate actions, including reentering the
Indigenous-Led Movement Credited With Huge Victory over Proposed Alberta-to-Nebraska Tar Sands Pipeline.
Jake Johnston
President-elect Joe Biden is reportedly planning on the day of his inauguration to rescind a federal
Love, politics, and rare earth mineral mining converge in this South Texas novel.
Ten years in the making, San Anto’s first rare-earth cli-fi love story (we’d wager) has
EDITOR’S NOTE: In spite of a massive community push to defund the San Antonio Police Department in the City budget to move more funds into social services, San Antonio’
‘PGE throwing another lawsuit at us to try to bring us to heel, when our community has overwhelmingly said “hell no” multiple times.’
Jessica Corbett/Common Dreams
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For our families, planet, and future, San Antonio must shut down its last coal plant by 2030. But City-owned CPS Energy won’t discuss shutting the
Louise Chawla
As an environmental psychologist who works to improve children’s access to nature, I recently completed a review that brings two bodies of research together: one on connecting
Who is going to pick up the bill for estimated $10B in unpaid bills? Here are some options to avoid mass utility disconnections.
Theodore J. Kury
The shutdowns and restrictions
After a two-year odyssey creating San Antonio’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan—political delays in adoption, followed by a year of silence—the SA Climate Ready’s new committees
