Deceleration (Page 23)

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

VIDEO: Yup’ik Educator on Migratory Birds as Global Citizens

‘These birds don’t care about the laws you make or the borders you draw. They need to migrate, procreate, and raise their young.’ —Angutekaraq Estelle Thomson

By Ceiba Ili

/ 11 Sep 2024

VIDEO: Yup’ik Educator on Migratory Birds as Global Citizens

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

From Growth Fetish to Post-Growth

Our society tends to see growth as an unalloyed good, but an expanding body of evidence is now telling us to think again.

By Democracy Collaborative

/ 5 Sep 2024

Black and white snail illustration, the international symbol for the degrowth movement.

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