While a legal decision that could reanimate a federal lawsuit may take until summer, the City of San Antonio is expected to move ahead with tree removals at Brackenridge Park as soon as it gets clearance from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Despite its technical packaging, efforts to reform metal recycling codes reveal the complex and emotional political dynamics that produce—but also disrupt—environmental injustice.
What do building relationships of trust and care between neighbors have to do with climate justice? Everything, according to local organizer Kara Jordan, an herbalist, regenerative agriculture specialist, and mother whose work highlights the interdependence of all beings.
Resolution passed last month at LULAC’s state convention highlights the attacks on the birds and trees in Brackenridge Park —and their connection to civil and ceremonial rights for local Indigenous and Latine communities.
Bird populations are crashing. City lights are a major culprit. But ‘Bird City Certified’ San Antonio isn’t dimming its downtown—it’s turning on the River Walk’s holiday lights two weeks early.
