environment - Deceleration

PODCAST: Remembering Jack Elder—Activist, Peacemaker, Defender of Human Rights & La Madre Tierra

In a moment convulsed by questions of who we remember and how, we choose to commemorate the life of our friend and comrade Jack Elder (1943-2025).

By Marisol Cortez

/ 20 Sep 2025

PODCAST: Remembering Jack Elder—Activist, Peacemaker, Defender of Human Rights & La Madre Tierra

Toxic Tour Highlights Environmental Justice Struggles on San Antonio’s South Side

A coalition of organizations led residents and media across San Antonio’s ‘red line of inequity,’ spotlighting the overwhelming burden of polluting industries that persist south of Highway 90.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 27 Aug 2025

Toxic Tour Highlights Environmental Justice Struggles on San Antonio’s South Side

ASLE 2025: Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance—From Barton Springs Attack to Poland’s ‘Sister Rivers’

Amid rising attacks on trans people, ideas from ‘queer ecology’ can light the way toward an alternative environmental politics capable of honoring ‘femme-coded’ ways of thriving beside and beyond our waterways.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 14 Aug 2025

ASLE 2025: Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance—From Barton Springs Attack to Poland’s ‘Sister Rivers’

ASLE 2025: ‘Collective Atmospheres’ and the Significance of Feeling the World

From her many decades working to make space for thinking at the intersections of nature, culture, and justice, scholar-‘artivist’ Kamala Platt reflects on highlights from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment’s biennial gathering last month.

By Kamala Platt

/ 13 Aug 2025

ASLE 2025: ‘Collective Atmospheres’ and the Significance of Feeling the World

Hands Off! April 5 Mass Mobilization to Stop Trump and Musk

Protests are being planned in cities across the U.S.—and clear across Texas, from El Paso to Houston and many small towns in between.

By Greg Harman

/ 3 Apr 2025

Hands Off! April 5 Mass Mobilization to Stop Trump and Musk

PODCAST: Fighting Authoritarianism While Winning Water & Energy Justice in Texas

‘Why is CenterPoint Energy making billions while people die? Why is Encor and other electric utilities making massive profits, when none of that comes back to us?’ — Dave Cortez, Texas Sierra Club

By Greg Harman

/ 12 Feb 2025

PODCAST: Fighting Authoritarianism While Winning Water & Energy Justice in Texas

National Climate Organizers Say They’re Ready for ‘An Absolute Fight’ During Trump 2.0

Disheartened, worried, even scared, activists and strategists are nevertheless better prepared this time around and bracing for a long fight.

By Inside Climate News

/ 14 Nov 2024

National Climate Organizers Say They’re Ready for ‘An Absolute Fight’ During Trump 2.0

Corpus Christi ‘Clean Slate’ City Council Candidates Pledge to Resist Extractive Industrial Interests

‘Clean Slate’ candidates charge that decades of prioritizing heavy industry has threatened the area’s water security and risks spoiling the region’s natural wealth.

By Gaige Davila

/ 17 Oct 2024

Corpus Christi ‘Clean Slate’ City Council Candidates Pledge to Resist Extractive Industrial Interests

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

VIDEO: Beehive Collective brings ‘True Cost of Coal’ and ‘Mesoamérica Resiste’ to Texas

This month opened with a banger of a presentation at Galeria E.V.A. when the Beehive Collective, the renowned arts and storytelling project now touring the world arrived in San Antonio. They unfurled massive hand-illustrated banners telling big stories. Like how about the essential story of coal in

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Aug 2024

VIDEO: Beehive Collective brings ‘True Cost of Coal’ and ‘Mesoamérica Resiste’ to Texas

DC Circuit Court Rules Against Texas LNG Projects

Environmental justice advocates and community members are celebrating this week after a D.C. Circuit Court finds federal review of two LNG projects failed their environmental analyses.

By James Courtney

/ 9 Aug 2024

DC Circuit Court Rules Against Texas LNG Projects

Stop the Attack on Migratory Birds in San Antonio—Eggs and Chicks Are in Those Nests

City of San Antonio contractors have been seen trying to dislodge migratory birds at Woodlawn Lake. The rookery is full of babies and eggs. Call these elected reps to stop it.

By Greg Harman

/ 22 Jun 2024

Stop the Attack on Migratory Birds in San Antonio—Eggs and Chicks Are in Those Nests