Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
— Aldo Leopold
I recently received a review copy of a book about
Could right-wing attacks on a non-binding UN sustainability resolution put sustainable business at risk in some states?
Green space, clean energy, increased urban density…and global dictatorship. It’s hard
Sure, robots might kill us. They also could rescue us from land mines, natural disasters and collapsing buildings.
Aerial drones can be used to locate disaster survivors – or to pepper-spray
FROM THE TAG-TEAMING INTERFAITHS TO WATER-AWARE SAN ANTONIANS (AND REGIONAL COLLABORATORS):
“Water management has emerged as one of the most critical natural resource issues of our time. ‘Water is the
How environmental activism can eradicate the power of bad news
Greg Harman
Never before has the doomsday prophet been so closely in line with mainstream science.
Every major environmental messenger
Or: Why the climate movement needs a crash course in philosophy
Greg Harman
The environmental community has long illustrated the seriousness of climate change with intimidating facts and figures. The
In the opening of Steven Spielberg’s 1971 film Duel, an impatient salesman gets stuck behind a rattling, soot-belching tractor-trailer on a lonely stretch of California highway. Just before the
Uber, Lyft and Airbnb are trying to combat discrimination within their communities. Are they doing enough to tackle the challenge?
Online forums have long provided an avenue for anonymous venting.
Greg Harman
Voter behavior has long held mysteries for both politicians and psychologists. Why do poor and working-class voters across the US South, for instance, still line up to support
It is impossible to track the parade of headlines warning of the accelerating destruction of the earth’s various life-support systems and not—at least on occasion—succumb to despair.
Driverless cars? Half of all Americans would climb aboard. Brain implants? Nearly 30% are open-minded. In-vitro meat grown in a laboratory? Hold the burger.
Only two out of 10 Americans
