San Antonio: Rise for Climate on Saturday!
On September 8, San Antonians will join thousands of rallies being held in cities and towns around the world to demand our leaders commit to building a fossil free world […]
Tag Archives: San Antonio
Is ‘Dirty’ Deely Coal Plant Closure Suddenly Fungible?
‘I think we need to have a discussion,’ CPS Energy CEO told the the utility’s Board of Trustees on Monday regarding previous longstanding promises to close the polluting plant this […]
Mayor Backs #OccupyICE Call for SA Police to Stand Down
This morning, San Antonio’s SAPD stopped by the #OccupyICE camp outside a Northside US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and warned of imminent arrest for the protestors. Then they drove […]
Climate Plan: Who Controls CPS Energy?
SA climate planners claim lack of ‘operational control’ over City-owned utility excuses millions of tons of pollution. Nearly 40 percent of City-owned CPS Energy’s climate pollution may not be accounted […]
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 […]
VIDEO: Medicare For All: Voices from San Antonio
See a video of the full march. See complete video of speakers.
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 […]
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: Gentrification Looms over Downtown SATX
Stand with Soap Works & Towne Center tenants-rights group is raising the voices of the city’s most vulnerable residents being torn by gentrification. Greg Harman In San Antonio, there have […]
‘Three Billion Reasons’ San Antonio Should Reject the RNC
*UPDATE: It appears the San Antonio City Council doesn’t take all their marching orders from the San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board. Counter the daily’s advice, San Antonio’s electeds voted today […]
Will SA’s Comprehensive Plan Scrap Community Rights?
Via NOWCastSA.com In direct contradiction of a city ordinance and the promise of the SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan, city staffers are systematically eliminating long-standing neighborhood plans designed to protect the […]
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 […]
PODCAST: Interfaces 1 (Government Hill)
Marisol Cortez A couple Sundays back, in late March, I finally get around to visiting Gil and Jo Ann Murillo where they have lived for decades in Government Hill—a neighborhood […]
EVENT: ‘Poetry of the Waters’ Given Voice this Sunday
Voices of the Waters brings together songs and stories from indigenous voices and works from environmental artists and activists to honor the Sacred Texas Springs. Readers from Stone in Steam/Roca […]
VIDEO: César E. Chávez March for Justice in San Antonio
¡ADELANTE! Videos from yesterday’s César E. Chávez March for Justice in San Antonio. Greg Harman Lining up for the march begins around minute 7:30 in clip one below. Other markers […]
PHOTO ESSAY: San Pedro Creek Improvement Project, Phase 1.1
Greg Harman ¶ San Pedro Creek Improvement Project‘s first phase will open to the public in San Antonio, Texas, with a dedication ceremony on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Deceleration has […]
VIDEO: March For Our Lives, San Antonio!
Greg Harman Students of San Antonio area schools made a powerful stand on the steps of City Hall today as part of the international March For Our Lives movement. With […]