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Is ‘Cool Pavement’ … Cool? Pedestrians & Bicyclists May Not Think So

Deceleration measured heat at one location and found reflected heat from the street was worse at the cool pavement location

By Greg Harman

/ 9 Oct 2024

Is ‘Cool Pavement’ … Cool? Pedestrians & Bicyclists May Not Think So

‘Extreme Weather Survivors’: The Women Trying to Humanize the Climate Crisis

“I want a safe world for my baby and all of our babies and all of our kids that have, through no fault of their own, inherited a giant problem.”

By The 19th

/ 4 Oct 2024

‘Extreme Weather Survivors’: The Women Trying to Humanize the Climate Crisis

Our Homes–and Bodies–Weren’t Built to Survive this Heat

As the heat index drops below advisory levels in South Texas, my brain finally has energy to reflect back on how my dogs and I survived–and didn’t—the increasingly deadly heat of these past two summers.

By Rachel Cywinski

/ 1 Oct 2024

Our Homes–and Bodies–Weren’t Built to Survive this Heat

North Carolina to Kathmandu, Floodwaters Bringing Death & Destruction

“It is hard to open social media without seeing cellphone videos from the cars-washing-down-steep-streets genre; everywhere the flows are muddy-brown, and swirling with power,” Bill McKibben said. Edward Carver | Common

By Common Dreams

/ 1 Oct 2024

North Carolina to Kathmandu, Floodwaters Bringing Death & Destruction

Texas Supreme Court to Take Up Religious Liberty Question on Brackenridge Park Lawsuit

Members of the Lipan-Apache ‘Hoosh Chetzel’ Native American Church have been granted a rehearing of their federal lawsuit that could force the City of San Antonio to reconsider its policies targeting migratory birds and elder trees.

By James Courtney

/ 27 Sep 2024

Texas Supreme Court to Take Up Religious Liberty Question on Brackenridge Park Lawsuit

CPS Energy’s Fossil Fuel Fixation Threatens Our Future

To best navigate our climate crisis, the people of greater San Antonio need their City Council to seize the controls of our wayward City-owned utility.

By Darby Riley

/ 25 Sep 2024

CPS Energy’s Fossil Fuel Fixation Threatens Our Future

Jordan Peterson Serves Climate Denial Mass to Fort Worth Faithful

“The religious right has been pushing the same narrative for years, linking social liberals to authoritarian socialism, and in turn characterizing environmental science as a socialist partisan weapon.” — Adrian Bardon

By DeSmog

/ 24 Sep 2024

Jordan Peterson Serves Climate Denial Mass to Fort Worth Faithful

‘I Dreamed I Was Replacing People’s Air Conditioners’: Speaking with Heat Pump Promotora Debbie Ponce

A new grassroots project pools funds, time, and working class know-how to install high-efficiency mini split air conditioning units in the hottest homes on San Antonio’s Southwest side.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 20 Sep 2024

‘I Dreamed I Was Replacing People’s Air Conditioners’: Speaking with Heat Pump Promotora Debbie Ponce

WILD12: How the Hé Sapa Resolution Could Help ‘Indigenize’ Global Wilderness Conservation

“All relevant institutions [must] actively promote wilderness policy that acknowledges that nature is multi-dimensional, transcending the material and physical realms; and use language that honors the rights and roles of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Systems, natural and custom

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Sep 2024

WILD12: How the Hé Sapa Resolution Could Help ‘Indigenize’ Global Wilderness Conservation

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

VIDEO: ‘Moana’s Grandmother’ on Relying on Ancestors, Power of Youth, and Banning Deep Sea Mining

‘The elders are still there. Don’t think that they are gone. They’re still there around you. And you have this message that you have to carry in your heart, in your mind, in your blood, in nature, in every living species.’ — Hinano Murphy

By Ceiba Ili

/ 13 Sep 2024

VIDEO: ‘Moana’s Grandmother’ on Relying on Ancestors, Power of Youth, and Banning Deep Sea Mining

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