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VIDEO: The Land and Its Peoples: Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism from Texas to Palestine

Last Saturday, around 50 people gathered beneath an elder oak tree in San Pedro Springs Park, part of the headwaters complex of the San Antonio River. They gathered to discuss

By Greg Harman

/ 17 Sep 2024

VIDEO: The Land and Its Peoples: Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism from Texas to Palestine

Heat-Related Deaths Keep Piling Up in Texas Even as Candidates Shy From Climate

Texas A&M climate scientist suggests surging heat—and heat-related deaths—may finally deliver an ‘Oh shit’ moment for a state riding on heat-generating fossil fuels

By Greg Harman

/ 12 Sep 2024

Heat-Related Deaths Keep Piling Up in Texas Even as Candidates Shy From Climate

VIDEO: Rights of Nature Organizer Says the City of San Antonio Owes the Bird Protectors an Apology

‘Who is the crazy one? The person defending the ecosystem or the one justifying ecocide?’

By Greg Harman

/ 6 Sep 2024

VIDEO: Rights of Nature Organizer Says the City of San Antonio Owes the Bird Protectors an Apology

VIDEO: Healing Is the Primary Challenge of Our Time, Indigenous Elder Tells Delegates at World Wilderness Congress

‘Mother Earth, she doesn’t need humans to help save her. … It’s a question about whether or not if we humans are going to survive and be here,’ Ilarion Merculieff, Unangax̂ (Aleut), told delegates at the World Wilderness Congress last weekend.

By Greg Harman

/ 5 Sep 2024

VIDEO: Healing Is the Primary Challenge of Our Time, Indigenous Elder Tells Delegates at World Wilderness Congress

WILD12: It’s Time to Step Up to Protect the Legal Rights of Nature, Panelists Say

Attendees encouraged to advance legal claims in defense of all life on Earth. “There is no time to equivocate,” says Ponca Nation environmental justice leader.

By Greg Harman

/ 30 Aug 2024

WILD12: It’s Time to Step Up to Protect the Legal Rights of Nature, Panelists Say

WILD12: ‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere

Indigenous peoples face promise—and potential perils—in the struggle for wilderness conservation.

By Greg Harman

/ 27 Aug 2024

WILD12: ‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere

WILD12: Humanity Must Choose a New Path to Avoid Rapid Ecological Breakdown, Lakota Spiritual Leader Says

“Either we face a lot of chaos, global disasters, tears from our relatives’ eyes … or we come together [and] unite as people of the world,” Arvol Looking Horse said.

By Greg Harman

/ 26 Aug 2024

WILD12: Humanity Must Choose a New Path to Avoid Rapid Ecological Breakdown, Lakota Spiritual Leader Says

Scorching 129 Heat Index Recorded Downtown San Antonio During Wednesday Heat Alert

Deceleration research has shown repeatedly how the official San Antonio temps don’t always capture the actual heat impacting communities across the urban landscape.

By Greg Harman

/ 22 Aug 2024

Scorching 129 Heat Index Recorded Downtown San Antonio During Wednesday Heat Alert

Support Our Team at WILD12: The First World Wilderness Congress Hosted by Indigenous Peoples

Every four years the World Wilderness Congress convenes to assess the state of the planet and the health of the full and wondrous web of life that fills the Earth. Each convening brings new causes for alarm and urgency. But each convening also produces new reasons for hope.

By Greg Harman

/ 21 Aug 2024

Support Our Team at WILD12: The First World Wilderness Congress Hosted by Indigenous Peoples

VIDEO: Beehive Collective brings ‘True Cost of Coal’ and ‘Mesoamérica Resiste’ to Texas

This month opened with a banger of a presentation at Galeria E.V.A. when the Beehive Collective, the renowned arts and storytelling project now touring the world arrived in San Antonio. They unfurled massive hand-illustrated banners telling big stories. Like how about the essential story of coal in

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Aug 2024

VIDEO: Beehive Collective brings ‘True Cost of Coal’ and ‘Mesoamérica Resiste’ to Texas

VIDEO: The Message of Peace & Dignity Journeys 2024 Indigenous Prayer Run

Indigenous runners threading the Americas as part of the Peace & Dignity Journeys 2024 prayer run speak of their personal prayers for their cultures and communities—but also the gift that their efforts are offering to the world.

By Greg Harman

/ 8 Aug 2024

VIDEO: The Message of Peace & Dignity Journeys 2024 Indigenous Prayer Run

Climate Progress Requires Uniting Against Political Violence and Conspiracy Thinking

Sure, political violence is wrong; but also: it doesn’t work. Even the conspiratorial obsessing over Trump’s behavior under fire is time lost countering actual campaign threats and the vision of Project 2025.

By Greg Harman

/ 1 Aug 2024

Climate Progress Requires Uniting Against Political Violence and Conspiracy Thinking