For most of middle America—or most of America, actually—protests of any sort demonstrate questionable behavior. People are suddenly “out of their place,” different kinds of people, people made
How environmental activism can eradicate the power of bad news
Greg Harman
Never before has the doomsday prophet been so closely in line with mainstream science.
Every major environmental messenger
Or: Why the climate movement needs a crash course in philosophy
Greg Harman
The environmental community has long illustrated the seriousness of climate change with intimidating facts and figures. The
Driverless cars? Half of all Americans would climb aboard. Brain implants? Nearly 30% are open-minded. In-vitro meat grown in a laboratory? Hold the burger.
Only two out of
Ugly, dirty history of spills at San Antonio Refinery seem far from over.
Greg Harman
Consider this my spring cleaning, late as it is. The subject: the mangle of flares
Even as climate change science has tightened to a certainty, we’re witnessing the return of denialist ‘zombie arguments.’
Just over a decade ago, US Senator James Inhofe helped derail
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Work boots towered above Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott as he moved down rows of shelving at Justin Boots’ distribution center in Fort Worth.
The campaign ad
We idle at a crossroads. It’s a harried intersection, to be sure, at a twilight hour.From one direction flow the rail cars of explosive oil, streams of latticed
An eight-month investigation by the Center for Public Integrity, InsideClimate News and The Weather Channel reveals Texas has done next to nothing to protect people in the Eagle Ford’
Earthquakes have been linked to hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for years now. To put it simply, the injection of millions upon millions of gallons of waste fluids from fracking operations
After wresting a semblance of its formerly wild self from the shop-lined canals and flood-control channels of the Alamo City, the San Antonio River winds its way through
Texas approved funding for a $50bn water plan, but left out a tool that has been growing in popularity among corporations
(First published by Guardian Sustainable Business.)
Texas voters last
