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Deceleration resources include community heat island and energy burden maps, graphics of top polluters, disinformation guides, surveys, and more.

Corpus Christi Heat Island Maps Show Where Heat is Rising Fastest

By Greg Harman ● Resources ● July 10, 2024

Urban Heat Island impact in Corpus Christi is heating up historically neglected communities and compounding harms from income stress, energy burden, and high asthma rates.

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Deceleration’s Guide to Anti-Trans and Anti-Climate Disinfo

By Marisol Cortez ● Resources ● July 1, 2024

Inoculate yourself and our movements against anti-trans disinfo and new forms of climate denial through ‘prebunking’ comics, TikTok vids, and drinking games.

Greater Corpus Christi’s Most ‘Utility Burdened’ Neighborhoods

By Greg Harman ● Gulf Coast ● July 14, 2023

Residents of Corpus Christi, home to six refineries and the busiest oil export port in the United States, suffer from a utility burden that is more than twice the national average. Deceleration’s mapping project shows how utility burden, asthma, and of health insurance is linked for many across the four-county Corpus area.

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MAP: San Antonio’s Hottest Neighborhoods (Yes, Literally)

By Greg Harman ● Reportando ● August 31, 2022

A Deceleration analysis of heat island effect shows that greater downtown San Antonio and the northwest zone are bearing the brunt of rising heat—as are those already suffering energy burden and asthma.

Extreme Heat Survival Guide: A (Bilingual) Deceleration Resource Project

By Greg Harman ● Resources ● August 17, 2022

Deceleration’s bilingual community resource to help our friends and neighbors navigate dangerous extreme heat events in San Antonio, South Texas, or wherever you may be sweltering.

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Winter Storm Survey: Unmet Physical and Emotional Needs a Year After Winter Storm Uri

By Greg Harman & Marisol Cortez ● Reportando ● February 18, 2022

Deceleration’s Winter Storm Survey shows the freezing blackout is a lingering specter. Only community-led solutions-making can exorcise it.

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Why I’m Making ‘The Bee Maker’ Available Free to Teachers

By Greg Harman ● Analysis ● January 19, 2022

Ancient Greece, Vietnamese Buddhism, the biodiversity collapse, and Texas students being failed by the system helped inspire ‘The Bee Maker.’

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San Antonio’s Five Most ‘Energy Burdened’ Neighborhoods

By Greg Harman ● San Antonio ● November 18, 2021

Energy costs more when you have less. It’s a fact long accepted in the same punishing way that people accept forced disconnections from power naturally flows from an inability to keep up with the bills.

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Meet Deceleration: An Online Gathering for Global Degrowth Day

By Marisol Cortez ● Resources ● May 17, 2021

On June 5, come hang with our co-editors and community advisors to learn more about what we do, why we do it, and how we can support collective efforts to create buen vivir para todxs: a good life for all.

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San Antonio’s Top Climate Polluters

By Greg Harman ● Resources ● May 5, 2021