Deceleration at ASLE 2017
This past week the environmental humanities arm of Deceleration took two days off work and Xanax’ed our way through nightmare flights to/from Detroit, where we joined up with the Association […]
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The Challenge of Environmental Peacemaking
Fifteen years after the release of ‘Environmental Peacemaking,’ the world is being rocked by massive displacement and increased resource stress. By Sreya Panuganti/New Security Beat As the 1990s drew to […]
GRANT: Patagonia Seeks to Fund ‘Action-Oriented’ Environmental Campaigns
Outdoor clothing and gear company Patagonia provides grants to nonprofit organizations engaged in environmental work. The company’s environmental grant program supports small, grassroots activist organizations that have provocative direct-action agendas and are […]
Interfaith Forum Tackles Texas Water
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 […]
Trinity Talk: “On the Eighth Day, Transformation without Apocalypse”
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. Jørgen Randers cowrote […]
AP Crunches Global Warming Data By State
From recent AP report analyzing climate trends in the Lower 48: The United States is warming fastest in the Southwest and Northeast, an analysis of climate data shows. In Texas, […]
‘Water Activists’ Pushing Back Against Growth, Bad Planning
File under: WTF were we thinking passing Prop 6? Gary Cheatwood grew up near the town of Cuthand, in far northeast Texas, and he always found peace along the wooded […]
Love The Bees? Meet Bayer
San Antonio showed up for this international march against Monsanto last year (including this adorable couple marching for the bees). I wonder if they will show up to meet Bayer, […]
Earthquakes & Fracking: By The Numbers
Earthquakes have been linked to hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for years now. To put it simply, the injection of millions upon millions of gallons of waste fluids from fracking operations […]
Texas Prop 6: Water Plan Big On Pipes & Cronyism, But Low On Innovation
Though being aggressively sold as the best way to secure adequate water supplies for Texas’ future, Prop 6, to be voted on in Texas on November 5, would fund a […]
Texas Prop 6: Loved by Dow, The Koch Brothers, And The Sierra Club
After more than a decade of virtually ignoring Texas’ growing water infrastructure needs, Rick Perry is guns a-blazing for Prop 6, a plan, if approved by voters on November 5, […]
Explosive New Brunswick Protest Likely To Charge International Anti-Fracking Actions
For months, indigenous groups and their allies have been peacefully protesting plans by Houston-based Southwestern Energy to use seismic trucks to hunt for potential fracking sites in New Brunswick, Canada, […]
Mi’kmaq Warrior Society Shuts Down Houston Fracking Company
“Even the corporate monsters are envious of what we have, because we have all the love…” More information at Halifax Media Co-op.
Margo Tamez, Environmentalism Failures, and Indigenous Dignity
Climate action in the U.S. will not come from some mass conversion of the largely white middle-class deniers, whose representatives even now hold the nation hostage in hopes of preventing […]
SXSW ECO: ‘Climate Wise Women’ Hold Key To A Just Climate Movement
Prior to 2007, life in Constance Okollet’s small Ugandan village was tranquil. It was, as she told a gathering at SXSW ECO in Austin on Tuesday, an “easy” life. “We […]
Attendees At Austin Climate Symposium Hear Scientist’s Call To Action
Texas has a tough climate. Throughout human habitation here, people have regularly suffered through extended periods of drought followed by violent flooding and storms. But, with all things being equal, […]
Solar Must Power 10 Percent Of World Needs By 2025
Despite the U.S.’s failure to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol all these years, many U.S. cities have pledged to chart a course for 20-percent renewable power by 2020. However, […]
IPCC: Humans Wrecking The Planet; Humans: /Shrug/
The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report’s summary for policy makers (pdf) released today — the first installment of the UN-affiliated body’s fifth report — is in many ways exactly […]