Newsletter - Deceleration

Salvaging Materials—and Histories—from Buildings in San Antonio to Savannah

With thousands of buildings torn down every year, nonprofits and city agencies are racing to record the stories attached to historic structures before they’re dismantled and sold for parts.

By Syris Valentine

/ 24 Sep 2026

Salvaging Materials—and Histories—from Buildings in San Antonio to Savannah

'Days Without Power': Sudden Storm Tears Across San Antonio, Exposing Entrenched Vulnerabilities

Recent CPS Energy investments quickly slashed outages from 320,000 to 120,000, but thousands remained without power for days—even as the City moves to defund climate resilience programming.

By Greg Harman

/ 9 Sep 2026

'Days Without Power': Sudden Storm Tears Across San Antonio, Exposing Entrenched Vulnerabilities

The RGV's 'Horrorculture' & the Fight to Protect Native Roots

How self-loathing in the Rio Grande Valley helps facilitate ICE's war on our families, friends, neighbors...and systemic abuses of the land itself.

By Gaige Davila

/ 4 Sep 2026

The RGV's 'Horrorculture' & the Fight to Protect Native Roots

Sharing—a Simple Approach to a Better Future

From Seattle to Houston to Asheville, North Carolina, (and beyond!) tool libraries and other sharing hubs are saving people money, preventing waste, and building spaces for resilience.

By Syris Valentine

/ 28 Aug 2026

Sharing—a Simple Approach to a Better Future

A Chilling Tour of San Antonio’s Immigration Enforcement Machine

Plus: Mapping Flock cameras—and highlighting how they help facilitate the deportation industrial complex tearing our families and communities apart.

By Roxana Rojas

/ 21 Aug 2026

A Chilling Tour of San Antonio’s Immigration Enforcement Machine

Data Centers Generating 'Heat Islands,' Compounding the Hazards of Rising Global Temps

112 Degrees?! Deceleration investigation supports findings from two studies into data center heat islands, measuring downwind temps from a major data center complex at six degrees higher than upwind areas.

By Greg Harman

/ 1 Aug 2026

Data Centers Generating 'Heat Islands,' Compounding the Hazards of Rising Global Temps

A Board Game of Climate Change Solutions? Yes, Please.

The complexity of our situation, including fossil fuel lobbying and risks of democratic collapse, are fully represented by the creators of 'Daybreak.' But winning the game is still within reach.

By Syris Valentine

/ 30 Jul 2026

A Board Game of Climate Change Solutions? Yes, Please.

Brownsville’s Saronic Autonomous War Plans Echo a Confederate’s Post-Civil War Profit-Seeking Killings

The ongoing ‘murder-suicide’ of our living Rio Grande Valley (ie. economic development) has the same billionaire overlord vibe as the slave-picked cotton profits fought for by ‘Rip’ Ford in 1865.

By Gaige Davila

/ 21 Jul 2026

Brownsville’s Saronic Autonomous War Plans Echo a Confederate’s Post-Civil War Profit-Seeking Killings

How To Celebrate a Falling Empire This Semiquincentennial

Plus: Why a non-unanimous decision on birthright citizenship should concern us all—and how we keep fighting when we want to give in to crippling fear, grief, and panic.

By Roxana Rojas

/ 11 Jul 2026

How To Celebrate a Falling Empire This Semiquincentennial

FIFA & the Rise of Reuse

Seattle has a plan to address the proliferation of plastics. How can we replicate its successes in less eco-friendly cities and states?

By Syris Valentine

/ 2 Jul 2026

Dow Wants to Lead a Texas Nuclear Resurgence—and Data Centers Aren't Far Behind

The risks long associated with the U.S.'s aging fleet of nuclear reactors continue with a new generation of "advanced" designs proposed for Texas data centers and plastics manufacturers, longtime critics warned the seaside Seadrift community.

By Greg Harman

/ 18 Jun 2026

Dow Wants to Lead a Texas Nuclear Resurgence—and Data Centers Aren't Far Behind

The Billionaire's 'Betrayal' of Freeport, Texas, and Cameron Parish, Louisiana

'Parties in the ship channel and shrimping are over. Downtown is dead.' What went wrong started with industry promises.

By Gaige Davila

/ 11 Jun 2026

The Billionaire's 'Betrayal' of Freeport, Texas, and Cameron Parish, Louisiana