ATTEND: SA’s Climate Plan Could Hide Tons of Emissions
San Antonio is one of the last large cities in the United States to get serious about climate change. But a plan now being developed is wide-ranging and potentially very […]
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Rolling Coal: American Racism Feeds Climate Inaction
Researchers have thoroughly investigated the link between ideology and attitudes toward climate change, finding that conservatives are significantly more likely to reject climate science, not because they misapprehend the facts, but because they are taking their cues from conservative elites, many of whom have close ties to the fossil fuel industry.
No Such Thing As a Climate Plan With A Coal Plant
With ‘Dirty’ Deely’s retirement nearing, San Antonio’s CPS Energy hosting a hearing on keeping Spruce burning past 2040. Greg Harman SAN ANTONIO—Lumbering through the Earth Day throngs at Woodlawn Lake […]
Sept. 8, 2018: ‘Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice’
Push back against Trump anti-worker, anti-planet agenda this fall by demanding a ‘just transition’ to a 100-percent renewable economy and millions of ‘family-sustaining jobs.’ Jessica Corbett Commons Dreams The Peoples […]
Climate Action, San Antonio? Round Two Starts Next Week
Time to start gargling your ethically sourced chamomile and honey tea. On Monday, the second round of sit-down meetings for the various Climate Action and Adaptation Plan technical working groups and their steering committee gets underway.
Workshop Explores Climate Crisis & Storytelling Power
Workshop presenters say effective organizing is about memory. It’s about respecting community desire. And it’s about putting those most at risk first. Greg Harman This weekend, the Lone Star Chapter […]
VIDEO: Save San Antonio’s Coal Plants
‘Dirty’ Deely announces retirement at San Antonio Earth Day 2018. But pleads: “It’s not too late to save my little brother and sister!” San Antonio coal plant “Dirty” Deely made […]
Don’t Let Boss Cats Win: SATX Climate Meetings Start This Week
Greg Harman This week, the first round of committee meetings are being held to help guide the development of San Antonio’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, being promoted as SA […]
San Antonio’s 15 Worst Polluters
Greg Harman To state the obvious, San Antonio’s “Dirty” Deely coal plant is a really dirty polluter. We’re talking dirty to the tune of 2,755,917-annual-metric-tons-of-climate-destabilizing-CO2-pumped-out dirty. Add in the 740 […]
Video: San Antonio ‘Climate Ready’ Town Hall
Greg Harman At the second official SA Climate Ready gathering on Saturday, San Antonio residents (and at least one straggler from Boerne) got together to talk about ways our city […]
Filmmakers: #JustRecovery funding for Harvey work
From WorkingFilms.org: For over 18 years Working Films has recognized the power of stories to inform and inspire. We build partnerships between nonfiction media-makers, nonprofit organizations, educators, and advocates to […]
Week Five, 2018: Bad Moons, Cedar War, & Owls for Peace
January 30, 2018 A roundup of the day’s headlines. Early risers can bark at the ‘Superbad’ moon It will be full. It will be blue. It will be super. And […]
Degrowth: Coming to a Hemisphere Near You
Marisol Cortez A few years ago, while writing a series about development politics in San Antonio, and specifically about alternatives to development as a conceptual paradigm, I signed up for […]
When the Levee Breaks
Deluge in the Delta Amid California’s Changing Climate by Madi Whaley Never before have I been scared of the rain. As a child, it was always a wonderful surprise, a […]
The Fire of Fox is Within You
Pamela Boyce Simms on the Necessity of Contemplative Traditions in the Age of Climate Chaos and Kakistocracy Marisol Cortez Last weekend, Deceleration ventured up the road to San Antonio’s Quaker […]
Bringing the arts into ‘Extreme Heat’ climate struggle
Breaking down the climate crisis to what city residents can feel deeply without an often assumed understanding of the science behind the rapid destabilization of the biosphere, the first of […]
Can Ecuador’s ‘Buen Vivir’ translate in the United States?
With an 8-1 passage of a resolution in support of the landmark Paris Agreement, an international agreement by the global community to work together to solve the climate crisis, San […]
How-To: Decrying Native Oppression with Oil Drums and PVC
Press Release: March 4th, 2017, Amherst, MA – This morning at 9:01am a group of local residents locked themselves to 55 gallon drums at the front entrance to the Bank […]