San Antonio - Deceleration (Page 3)

Her Body Was 126 Degrees After She Died; Bexar County Medical Examiner Blames Drugs

Jessica Witzel’s autopsy report raises an important question: How many other heat-related deaths among unhoused residents are being erased by the failure to collect and report accurate data on climate-related mortality?

By Marisol Cortez

/ 9 Jan 2025

Her Body Was 126 Degrees After She Died; Bexar County Medical Examiner Blames Drugs

Texas Supreme Court Scrutinizes San Antonio’s Bird & Tree Removals In Religious Liberty Debate

While a legal decision that could reanimate a federal lawsuit may take until summer, the City of San Antonio is expected to move ahead with tree removals at Brackenridge Park as soon as it gets clearance from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

By Greg Harman

/ 6 Dec 2024

Texas Supreme Court Scrutinizes San Antonio’s Bird & Tree Removals In Religious Liberty Debate

In San Antonio’s Metal Recycling Code Struggle, Fenceline Residents Are Caught Up in Tensions Between Industry and Regulators

Despite its technical packaging, efforts to reform metal recycling codes reveal the complex and emotional political dynamics that produce—but also disrupt—environmental injustice.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 12 Nov 2024

In San Antonio’s Metal Recycling Code Struggle, Fenceline Residents Are Caught Up in Tensions Between Industry and Regulators

Gentrification, Displacement, Heat Deaths, & the Robert E. Lee Tenants Union

We could know what happens to people after they are evicted. Just like we could know how many people are dying from extreme heat. In the struggle to stay housed, organizers must push against powerful entrenched forces that demand unknowing.

By Greg Harman

/ 25 Oct 2024

A Year of Grief, a Year of Solidarity: San Antonio Movement to Free Palestine Puts October 7 in Historical Context

A Deceleration Q&A with Alex Birnel of San Antonio for Justice in Palestine.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 11 Oct 2024

A Year of Grief, a Year of Solidarity: San Antonio Movement to Free Palestine Puts October 7 in Historical Context

Is ‘Cool Pavement’ … Cool? Pedestrians & Bicyclists May Not Think So

Deceleration measured heat at one location and found reflected heat from the street was worse at the cool pavement location

By Greg Harman

/ 9 Oct 2024

Is ‘Cool Pavement’ … Cool? Pedestrians & Bicyclists May Not Think So

Our Homes–and Bodies–Weren’t Built to Survive this Heat

As the heat index drops below advisory levels in South Texas, my brain finally has energy to reflect back on how my dogs and I survived–and didn’t—the increasingly deadly heat of these past two summers.

By Rachel Cywinski

/ 1 Oct 2024

Our Homes–and Bodies–Weren’t Built to Survive this Heat

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

CPS Energy’s Fossil Fuel Fixation Threatens Our Future

To best navigate our climate crisis, the people of greater San Antonio need their City Council to seize the controls of our wayward City-owned utility.

By Darby Riley

/ 25 Sep 2024

CPS Energy’s Fossil Fuel Fixation Threatens Our Future

‘I Dreamed I Was Replacing People’s Air Conditioners’: Speaking with Heat Pump Promotora Debbie Ponce

A new grassroots project pools funds, time, and working class know-how to install high-efficiency mini split air conditioning units in the hottest homes on San Antonio’s Southwest side.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 20 Sep 2024

‘I Dreamed I Was Replacing People’s Air Conditioners’: Speaking with Heat Pump Promotora Debbie Ponce

VIDEO: The Land and Its Peoples: Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism from Texas to Palestine

Last Saturday, around 50 people gathered beneath an elder oak tree in San Pedro Springs Park, part of the headwaters complex of the San Antonio River. They gathered to discuss

By Greg Harman

/ 17 Sep 2024

VIDEO: The Land and Its Peoples: Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism from Texas to Palestine

Welcome to the People’s University for Palestine

The People’s University for Palestine is a new popular education project that compiles resources for educators and community members who see learning and teaching about genocide in Gaza as central to halting it.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 3 Sep 2024

People's University for Palestine graphic