Respecting the humanity and history of soil can help us grow a more resilient future for all. “When I think about soil, I think about the ecosystem and I think about history.”
Deceleration speaks with Texas AFL-CIO Deputy Policy Director Ana Gonzalez about extreme heat, worker deaths, and fighting forward in the midst of a climate emergency.
Residents in Adjuntas are creating a solar power and battery backup system that can ‘island’ in a blackout. ‘It’s not an opportunity to move away from the centralized system. In Puerto Rico, it’s a necessity.’
Once cleaned of heavy metals, microplastics, and sand, sargassum is finding many potential uses in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, particularly as biogas, but also biofertilizer, cellulose packaging, and even artificial vegan leather. But regulatory hurdles are delaying range of responses.
Thousands of bikes every year are recirculating through a free economy that puts them under folks who need them most, oftentimes in Central America and Africa.
What happens after roadway are returned to communities as car- and truck-free spaces? As these case studies from New York to São Paulo show, a lot of cool things, actually.
The bitter failures of our “Energy State” taught me that it doesn’t hurt to have a dozen alternative ways to boil water in your toolkit—and skills to barter for a steady coffee supply.
