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Deceleration Podcast34: Fighting Authoritarianism While Winning Water & Energy Justice in TexasDeceleration’s Greg Harman speaks with Dave Cortez, Executive Director of the Lone Star Sierra Club, as part of Preparing to Protect, a series of interviews with those most targeted by the eliminationist engine of MAGA on how they are organizing to bash back to keep our communities safe. Topics in this podcast include right-wing organizing and rising autocracy in the United States, failures of organizing in Texas environmental movements, strategies to mobilize people around pocketbook concerns, and why we need to take the time for basic self-care in a world on fire. Dave also shares what’s percolating insi...2025-02-1254 min
Deceleration Podcast33: Gentrification, Displacement, Heat Deaths, & the Robert E. Lee Tenants UnionIt’s the hottest year ever…again. Heat-related deaths have been spiking year over year. As Deceleration wrote recently, there were nearly 600 heat-related deaths in Texas last year. In Bexar County, 12 local residents died from the heat that same year, according to data released to the Texas Tribune. Border counties have seen hundreds die from the heat since 2010, according to data released to Deceleration. So how are cities responding? What emergency hearings have been convened, let’s say, in San Antonio, Texas? Here we’re building a baseball field downtown and throwing possibly thousands of people from their homes to do it...2024-10-261h 26
Deceleration Podcast32: SpaceX Wastewater, LNG in the RGV, & Sustained Indigenous ResistanceBoca Chica, the “little mouth” of the Rio Grande/ Rio Bravo is increasingly the epicenter of NewSpace new colonizing impulses bridged by an explosion of billion-dollar LNG projects seeking to feed Texas-fracked methane to the world market. It’s here in the lower Texas coast that has so far avoided much of the spoilage of the upper and middle coasts, themselves awash with petrochemical and fossil fuel facilities and all the risk and damages they pose to the land and peoples of the region. Next week the community of greater Boca Chica, let’s call it the Rio Grande Valley...2024-10-121h 19
Deceleration PodcastArturo Escobar: A Decelerated Community ConversationDeceleration Conversation: An April 2023 community conversation with Colombian decolonial scholar-activist Arturo Escobar, produced by Deceleration in partnership with UTSA. Financial support from the La Fundación Estudio, Mediación, Paz y Resolución de Conflictos (CEMPROC).Guests: Arturo Escobar, Scholar/Activist; Diana Lopez, Southwest Workers Union; Society of Native Nations; Kimiya Factory, Black Freedom Factory; Maria Turvin, Yanawana Herbolarios. Facilitator: Marisol Cortez, DecelerationMore via Deceleration.Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2024-10-031h 42
Deceleration Podcast31: Kara Jordan on Reweaving the Social Fabric of Climate ActionWhat do building relationships of trust and care between neighbors have to do with climate justice? Everything, according to local organizer Kara Jordan, an herbalist, regenerative agriculture specialist, and mother whose work highlights the interdependence of all beings. Focusing on social and environmental justice, Jordan explores the spaces between grassroots and institutional initiative with curiosity and play. Her passion for food sovereignty is the thread that weaves these efforts together. In our conversation today, we hear some report backs from her mutual aid work around extreme heat in her Eastside neighborhood, as well as from her involvement with the...2024-08-1937 min
Deceleration Podcast30: Rose Jones & Uncovering Extreme Heat's Hidden ImpactsWe've heard that this summer has been one of the hottest the Earth has seen since long before official record-keeping began. But policymakers and public health officials too often strain to understand how that heat is impacting people. Medical anthropologist Rose Jones has called the systems of tracking and understanding heat a “train wreck.” Here in dialogue with Deceleration Jones explains why our understanding of heat's impacts is so poor—including unnecessary politicization and official disinterest—and how we can go about fixing this huge public health failure.Guest: Rose Jones, Medical AnthropologistMore via Decelera...2023-09-2339 min
Deceleration Podcast30: Rose Jones & Uncovering Extreme Heat's Hidden ImpactsWe've heard that this summer has been one of the hottest the Earth has seen since long before official record-keeping began. But policymakers and public health officials too often strain to understand how that heat is impacting people. Medical anthropologist Rose Jones has called the systems of tracking and understanding heat a “train wreck.” Here in dialogue with Deceleration Jones explains why our understanding of heat's impacts is so poor—including unnecessary politicization and official disinterest—and how we can go about fixing this huge public health failure.2023-09-2339 min
Deceleration PodcastArturo Escobar: A Community ConversationA community conversation with Arturo Escobar about environmental justice and the decolonial vision. Hosted by Deceleration and UTSA in San Antonio in April 2023 and including Kimiya Factory, Black Freedom Factory; Frankie Orona, Society of Native Nations; Diana Lopez, Southwest Workers Union, and Maria Turvin, Yanawana Herbolarios. Facilitated by Marisol Cortez of Deceleration and UTSA. Enjoy the following community circle discussion and dialogue with Escobar and Cortez only at Deceleration.news.2023-04-181h 42
Deceleration Podcast29: Talking w/ Edwin Lyman re: Nuclear Power, Nazi Terror, and Energy Security in TexasAttacks on US energy infrastructure across the US are increasing. Incidents in Texas logged by the US Department of Energy shot up in 2021 and 2022. Meanwhile, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is mulling shifting more security obligations from plant owners to local law enforcement. Deceleration spoke with with Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, about all this and more.Guest: Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned ScientistsSupport the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2023-02-1438 min
Deceleration Podcast29: Nuclear Power, Nazi Terror, and Energy Security in TexasAttacks on US energy infrastructure across the US are increasing. Incidents in Texas logged by the US Department of Energy shot up in 2021 and 2022. Meanwhile, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is mulling shifting more security obligations from plant owners to local law enforcement. Deceleration spoke with with Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, about all this and more.2023-02-1438 min
Deceleration Podcast28: Voices from Climate Justice Alliance's Our Power Communities SummitDeceleration Podcast #28: In the middle of October, San Antonio played host to the Climate Justice Alliance's Our Power Communities Summit. The gathering called together roughly 50 frontline community environmental-justice organizers from around the nation to “reground” the alliance members and begin developing a collective response to emerging so-called false solutions to the climate crisis.Guests (in order of appearance): Christian Rodriguez, Ironbound Community Corp; Angel Ramos, The People's Port Authority; Mackenzie Marshland, Florida Rising; Alejandria Lyons, New Mexico No False Solutions; Ayana Grace, Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network; Katt Ramos, Richmond Our Power Coalition; Christine Cordero, Asian-Pacific Envi...2022-11-0327 min
Deceleration Podcast28: Voices from Climate Justice Alliance's Our Power Communities SummitIn the middle of October, San Antonio played host to the Climate Justice Alliance's Our Power Communities Summit. The gathering called together roughly 50 frontline community environmental-justice organizers from around the nation to “reground” the alliance members and begin developing a collective response to emerging so-called false solutions to the climate crisis. I met a raft of organizers who modeled their love for their communities, shared stories of their successes and ongoing struggles, and provided a vision of what frontline-led movement means as the global oil cabal not only resists necessary rapid transition to new and cleaner energy sources but continues raki...2022-11-0327 min
Deceleration Podcast27: Armon Alex and the Climate Movement's 'Clean Slate' Challenge in Corpus ChristiIn the shadow of the port shipping most of all US crude oil to the rest of the world, four 'Clean Slate' candidates are running for local City Council seats. They are bound together by shared values and policy interests—including a prioritization of clean air and water and the defeat of proposed desalination projects being built almost exclusively to benefit industrial users. One candidate is the president of the local teacher's union. One is a history professor and Sierra Club member. Another helps lead the local League of Women Voters. And our guest today, Armon Alex, is a cl...2022-10-2639 min
Deceleration Podcast27: Armon Alex and the Climate Movement's 'Clean Slate' Challenge in Corpus ChristiIn the shadow of the port shipping most of all US crude oil to the rest of the world, four 'Clean Slate' candidates are running for local City Council seats. They are bound together by shared values and policy interests—including a prioritization of clean air and water and the defeat of proposed desalination projects being built almost exclusively to benefit industrial users. One candidate is the president of the local teacher's union. One is a history professor and Sierra Club member. Another helps lead the local League of Women Voters. And our guest today, Armon Alex, is a climate or...2022-10-2639 min
Deceleration Podcast26: Thanos Was An Ecofascist (But You Don't Have to Be)This week, Deceleration speaks with the amazing team behind the Anti-Creep Climate Initiative, who utilize Marvel characters to educate the public about the dangerous fallacies behind fascistic thinking on global environmental challenges. Their webzine is a powerful and gorgeous read. In it they demonstrate how many of these dangerous concepts come straight out of Western environmental canon. They also show clearly why they are logically wrong. And who they ultimately serve. Wanna help stop the creep of ecofascistic ideas informing the manifestos of racist mass murderers? Here's some powerful food for thought. Write to the creators themselves at: thanoswasanecofascist...2022-07-131h 15
Deceleration Podcast26: Thanos Was An Ecofascist (But You Don't Have to Be)This week, Deceleration speaks with the amazing team behind the Anti-Creep Climate Initiative, who utilize Marvel characters to educate the public about the dangerous fallacies behind fascistic thinking on global environmental challenges. Their webzine is a powerful and gorgeous read. In it they demonstrate how many of these dangerous concepts come straight out of Western environmental canon. They also show clearly why they are logically wrong. And who they ultimately serve. Wanna help stop the creep of ecofascistic ideas informing the manifestos of racist mass murderers? Here's some powerful food for thought.
Read more: https://deceleration.news/2022/05/19/against-the-ecofascist-creep/
Write to...2022-07-131h 15
Deceleration Podcast25: Cris Eugster & Evergreen Bringing New Solar Model to TexasSomewhere in between decentralized rooftop solar and sprawling rural utility-scale solar farms is a middle path that could allow companies go 100-percent renewable in under a year. New solar startup Evergreen is about to unleash the "Goldilocks" of solar with a trio of projects in South Texas. And they expect to scale up quickly in this overlooked niche, says Evergreen CEO Cris Eugster. Local listeners may recognize that name as the former CPS Energy COO and one-time sustainability manager. "I feel like we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to figure out this energy transition and to tackle climate change," he...2022-06-3043 min
Deceleration Podcast25: Cris Eugster & Evergreen Bringing New Solar Model to TexasSomewhere in between decentralized rooftop solar and sprawling rural utility-scale solar farms is a middle path that could allow companies go 100-percent renewable in under a year. New solar startup Evergreen is about to unleash the "Goldilocks" of solar with a trio of projects in South Texas. And they expect to scale up quickly in this overlooked niche, says Evergreen CEO Cris Eugster. Local listeners may recognize that name as the former CPS Energy COO and one-time sustainability manager. "I feel like we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to figure out this energy transition and to tackle climate change," he said.2022-06-3043 minDeceleration Podcast24: Who are the Tree and Bird Protectors of Brackenridge Park?Who are the Tree and Bird Protectors of Brackenridge Park? They've been smeared as disinformation agents for linking a campaign to forcefully dislocate a thriving rookery of migratory birds the Brackenridge bond project that would claim more than 105 trees, ostensibly to restore and repair historic structures in the park. After saving the trees they pivoted to resist ongoing efforts to drive migratory birds away from Brackenridge's headwaters and uncovered evidence of forced displacement inside the SA Zoo.
Guests: Alesia Garlock and Daniel Armstrong2022-03-1457 min
Deceleration Podcast24: Who are the Tree and Bird Protectors of Brackenridge Park?Who are the Tree and Bird Protectors of Brackenridge Park? They've been smeared as disinformation agents for linking a campaign to forcefully dislocate a thriving rookery of migratory birds the Brackenridge bond project that would claim more than 105 trees, ostensibly to restore and repair historic structures in the park. After saving the trees they pivoted to resist ongoing efforts to drive migratory birds away from Brackenridge's headwaters and uncovered evidence of forced displacement inside the SA Zoo. Guests: Alesia Garlock & Daniel ArmstrongMore via Deceleration.Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For...2022-03-1457 minDeceleration Podcast23: 'His Name is Albert': Climate, Housing, Displacement, Mutual AidWhat do we learn from a year-long intervention on behalf of an unhoused neighbor who lost limbs to Winter Storm Uri? That it takes dozens of interveners to make up for San Antonio’s broken safety net and lack of climate preparation. A serialized intervention by Deceleration Co-Editor Marisol Cortez.
Guests:
Maria Turvin, Yanawana Herbolarios founder/operations director
Rachel Tucker, Dir Constituent Services for Councilmember Teri Castillo(D5)
Marisol Cortez, Deceleration Co-Editor, Author
Hosting:
Greg Harman, Deceleration Co-Editor2022-02-091h 01
Deceleration Podcast23: 'His Name is Albert': Climate, Housing, Displacement, Mutual AidWhat do we learn from a year-long intervention on behalf of an unhoused neighbor who lost limbs to Winter Storm Uri? That it takes dozens of interveners to make up for San Antonio’s broken safety net and lack of climate preparation. A serialized intervention by Deceleration Co-Editor Marisol Cortez. Guests: Maria Turvin, Yanawana Herbolarios; Rachel Tucker, Office of Councilmember Teri Castillo (D5); Marisol Cortez, Deceleration Co-Editor, Author; Hosting: Greg Harman, Deceleration Co-EditorMore via Deceleration.Update: RIP Albert Garcia.Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And al...2022-02-091h 01Deceleration Podcast22: George Garza Jr. On The New Deceleration Theme MusicsDeceleration talks to San Antonio musician George Garza Jr., well known and loved for this work with Pop Pistol and other projects, about the ideas and processes that went into creating the new Deceleration theme music. Some sound recordings came right off the street, but that world-to-come vibe came straight from the heart.2022-02-0718 min
Deceleration Podcast22: George Garza Jr. On The New Deceleration Theme MusicsDeceleration talks to San Antonio musician George Garza Jr., well known and loved for this work with Pop Pistol and other projects, about the ideas and processes that went into creating the new Deceleration theme music. Some sound recordings came right off the street, but that world-to-come vibe came straight from the heart.Guest: George Garza Jr.More about George Garza Jr. Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2022-02-0718 min
Deceleration Podcast21: Talkin' Trash with Mary Elizabeth Cantú of Spare PartsDeceleration talks to Mary Elizabeth Cantú, founder and director of the Spare Parts Center for Creative Reuse, on their decade of work using ethics of reuse to assist underfunded educators in promoting creative work and critical thinking. How can waste open up space for thinking about the ecological and human labor devalued within capitalist economies?2021-07-2229 min
Deceleration Podcast21: Talkin' Trash with Mary Elizabeth Cantú of Spare PartsDeceleration talks to Mary Elizabeth Cantú, founder and director of the Spare Parts Center for Creative Reuse, on their decade of work using ethics of reuse to assist underfunded educators in promoting creative work and critical thinking. How can waste open up space for thinking about the ecological and human labor devalued within capitalist economies?Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2021-07-2229 min
Deceleration Podcast20: Darby Riley and CPS Energy LawsuitSeveral incoming San Antonio Council members want to freeze utility disconnections, reform CPS Energy rates, and close the Spruce coal plant early. They'd do well to listen to the attorney fighting CPS Energy's lawsuit to preserve the people's right to reform the utility by petition.Guest: Darby RileySupport the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2021-06-0833 minDeceleration Podcast20: Darby Riley and CPS Energy LawsuitSeveral incoming San Antonio Council members want to freeze utility disconnections, reform CPS Energy rates, and close the Spruce coal plant early. They'd do well to listen to the attorney fighting CPS Energy's lawsuit to preserve the people's right to reform the utility by petition.2021-06-0833 min
Deceleration PodcastDeceleration Open HouseDeceleration's co-editors and community advisors host a public meeting to discuss our community media and research initiative, our aspirations and history, and how the effort may serve the needs of the residents of the greater San Antonio bioregion as we attack popular assumptions about progress and wellbeing. Here is the start of a public conversation to explore together how we can support collective efforts to create buen vivir para todxs--a good life for all.2021-06-061h 35Deceleration PodcastDeceleration Open HouseDeceleration's co-editors and community advisors host a public meeting to discuss our community media and research initiative, our aspirations and history, and how the effort may serve the needs of the residents of the greater San Antonio bioregion as we attack popular assumptions about progress and wellbeing. Here is the start of a public conversation to explore together how we can support collective efforts to create buen vivir para todxs--a good life for all.2021-06-061h 35
Deceleration Podcast19: Karla Aguilar, the Alamo, and How to Recover from White SupremacyDeceleration caught up with Karla Aguilar, development director of American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions about a number of pressing political issues, including potential state recognition for the Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation, now pending at the Texas Legislature. We speak at some length about the Settler/Colonial mindset at an outgrowth of white supremacy and how such ways of thinking manifest in the struggles around the redvelopment of San Antonio de Valero, aka The Alamo.Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2021-04-2730 minDeceleration Podcast19: Karla Aguilar, the Alamo, and How to Recover from White SupremacyDeceleration caught up with Karla Aguilar, development director of American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions about a number of pressing political issues, including potential state recognition for the Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation, now pending at the Texas Legislature. We speak at some length about the Settler/Colonial mindset at an outgrowth of white supremacy and how such ways of thinking manifest in the struggles around the redvelopment of San Antonio de Valero, aka The Alamo.2021-04-2730 min
Deceleration Podcast18: Words for Birds, Day One (2021)Day One of the 13th Annual "Words for Birds": A Poetic Celebration and a Cry for Protection! Featuring Masauki & Guadalupe Lagunes Jimenez, Dyhanara Rios, RitaMaria Contreras, Eddie Vega, Erika Maria Garza Johnson, Javier Fuentes Vargas, Alesia Garlock, the puppeteering of Mobi Warren, Kamala Platt, Laura Schultz, Megha Sood, Norma Jean Moore, and Odilia Galván Rodríguez, Author.Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2021-04-251h 15Deceleration Podcast18: Words for Birds, Day One (2021)Day One of the 13th Annual "Words for Birds": A Poetic Celebration and a Cry for Protection! Featuring Masauki & Guadalupe Lagunes Jimenez, Dyhanara Rios, RitaMaria Contreras, Eddie Vega, Erika Maria Garza Johnson, Javier Fuentes Vargas, Alesia Garlock, the puppeteering of Mobi Warren, Kamala Platt, Laura Schultz, Megha Sood, Norma Jean Moore, and Odilia Galván Rodríguez, Author.2021-04-251h 15
Deceleration Podcast17: San Antonio's 'War on Birds' Keeps ExpandingTwo years ago, the City of San Antonio launched a war on the bird of Elmendorf Lake. The target was the hundreds of cattle egrets who have been roosting at this Westside ecological gem for decades. By razing the island to the ground, and dismantling possibly hundreds of nests, the assault destroyed the nesting ground for many related migratory birds. Many young were killed. The action was justified as protective of military flights at Kelly Air Field on the Southeast side. Data points to one bird strike per year linked to cattle egrets, while literally thousands of strikes per year...2021-03-2228 minDeceleration Podcast17: San Antonio's 'War on Birds' Keeps ExpandingTwo years ago, the City of San Antonio launched a war on the bird of Elmendorf Lake. The target was the hundreds of cattle egrets who have been roosting at this Westside ecological gem for decades. By razing the island to the ground, and dismantling possibly hundreds of nests, the assault destroyed the nesting ground for many related migratory birds. Many young were killed. The action was justified as protective of military flights at Kelly Air Field on the Southeast side. Data points to one bird strike per year linked to cattle egrets, while literally thousands of strikes per year...2021-03-2228 minDeceleration Podcast16: Ralph Garcia, the Polar Vortex, & San Antonio's Disabled CommunityWith much of Texas icing over due to Arctic weather's dangerous slide across the Plains over normally not 10-degree San Antonio, Ralph Garcia has had access to power for no longer than 45 minutes at a time for the last 48 hours. In this sustained cold-weather assault, millions have lost power because of the failure of state energy planners and reduced energy flowing from all power networks, but most conspicuously gas power plants. The climate crisis is no game. But the disabled community is an overlooked, incredibly vulnerable, demographic that often goes overlooked. Now 24, Ralph was born with Muscular Dystrophy and requires...2021-02-1723 min
Deceleration Podcast16: Ralph Garcia, the Polar Vortex, & San Antonio's Disabled CommunityWith much of Texas icing over due to Arctic weather's dangerous slide across the Plains over normally not 10-degree San Antonio, Ralph Garcia has had access to power for no longer than 45 minutes at a time for the last 48 hours. In this sustained cold-weather assault, millions have lost power because of the failure of state energy planners and reduced energy flowing from all power networks, but most conspicuously gas power plants. The climate crisis is no game. But the disabled community is an overlooked, incredibly vulnerable, demographic that often goes overlooked. Now 24, Ralph was born with Muscular Dystrophy and requires...2021-02-1723 minDeceleration Podcast15: Homelessness Advocate Molly Wright is on a Hunger Strike in San AntonioDeceleration talks with housing justice activist Molly Wright about her decision to begin a hunger strike to protest the City of San Antonio's inadequate response to homelessness and housing insecurity.2021-01-2934 min
Deceleration Podcast15: Homelessness Advocate Molly Wright is on a Hunger Strike in San AntonioDeceleration talks with housing justice activist Molly Wright about her decision to begin a hunger strike to protest the City of San Antonio's inadequate response to homelessness and housing insecurity.Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2021-01-2934 min
Abuelas en Acción: A Multicultural Podcast for Our Common GoodOur House is on Fire: Climate Action NOW!Today we talk with Marisol Cortez and Greg Harman, writers, climate justice advocates and community organizers, from San Antonio, Texas. Marisol and Greg are editors of Deceleration News sharing important climate change resources, news and stories about life and our changing planet. They share their personal journeys as parents, professionals and community members in working for environmental justice and a healthy planet.Support the show2020-10-1451 min
Deceleration Podcast14: Rights of Nature Movement Reaches San AntonioDeceleration talks with attorneys and organizers affiliated with the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER) about the Rights of Nature movement globally, as well as what it might look like locally in San Antonio.Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2020-06-0632 minDeceleration Podcast14: Rights of Nature Movement Reaches San AntonioDeceleration talks with attorneys and organizers affiliated with the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER) about the Rights of Nature movement globally, as well as what it might look like locally in San Antonio.2020-06-0632 min
Deceleration Podcast13: Fabiola Ochoa Torralba on Decolonizing DanceCommunity-based dancer Fabiola Ochoa Torralba discusses her research on "bird movement vocabulary" and the wider projects of decolonizing dance.Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2020-05-1551 minDeceleration Podcast13: Fabiola Ochoa Torralba on Decolonizing DanceCommunity-based dancer Fabiola Ochoa Torralba discusses her research on "bird movement vocabulary" and the wider projects of decolonizing dance.2020-05-1551 min
Deceleration Podcast12: Jim LaVilla-Havelin on Words for BirdsSan Antonio poet Jim LaVilla-Havelin discusses the origin and significance of National Poetry Month's Words for Birds and reads one of his poems included in the digital zine "Words for Birds 2020: Poetics for Pandemics."Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2020-04-3019 minDeceleration Podcast12: Jim LaVilla-Havelin on Words for BirdsSan Antonio poet Jim LaVilla-Havelin discusses the origin and significance of National Poetry Month's Words for Birds and reads one of his poems included in the digital zine "Words for Birds 2020: Poetics for Pandemics."2020-04-3019 min
Deceleration Podcast11: Liberty Heise on Monarchs, Marathons, and MigrationDeceleration speaks with local runner, writer, and environmental educator Liberty Heise about her participation in the Monarch Ultra, a 4300km, transnational run that follows the migratory path of monarch butterflies from Ontario, Canada to the Sierra Madre mountains in Central Mexico.Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2019-10-1531 min
Deceleration Podcast11: Liberty Heise on Monarchs, Marathons, and MigrationDeceleration speaks with local runner, writer, and environmental educator Liberty Heise about her participation in the Monarch Ultra, a 4300km, transnational run that follows the migratory path of monarch butterflies from Ontario, Canada to the Sierra Madre mountains in Central Mexico.2019-10-1531 min
Deceleration Podcast10: March for Science San AntonioSpeaking with Peter Bella, organizer for March for Science San Antonio, and Gunnar Schade, atmospheric scientist at Texas A&M University about MfS, San Antonio's draft climate action plan, climate denialism, Greg Abbott, and more.Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2019-04-0551 minDeceleration Podcast10: March for Science San AntonioSpeaking with Peter Bella, organizer for March for Science San Antonio, and Gunnar Schade, atmospheric scientist at Texas A&M University about MfS, San Antonio's draft climate action plan, climate denialism, Greg Abbott, and more.2019-04-0551 min
Deceleration PodcastCAAP Review: Jeff ArndtJeff Arndt, president and CEO of VIA Metropolitan Transit, describes his experiences serving as a committee member working on San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan.2019-01-1800 minDeceleration PodcastCAAP Review: Bill BarkerBill Barker, UTSA associate professor, former executive director of Solar San Antonio, and transportation professional, describes his experiences serving as an advisor working on San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan.2019-01-1800 minDeceleration PodcastCAAP Review: Anita LedbetterAnita Ledbetter, executive director of Build San Antonio Green, describes her experiences serving as a committee member working on San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan.2019-01-1800 minDeceleration PodcastCAAP Review: Graciela SanchezGraciela Sanchez, executive director/buena gente of
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, describes her experiences serving as a committee member working on San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan.2019-01-1800 minDeceleration PodcastCAAP Review: Annalisa PeaceAnnalisa Peace, executive director of the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance, describes her experiences serving as a committee member working on San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan.2019-01-1800 minDeceleration PodcastCAAP Review: Sandra MontalboSandra Montalbo, sustainability designer at Overland Partners, describes her experiences serving as a committee member working on San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan.2019-01-1800 minDeceleration PodcastCAAP Review: Mitch HagneyMitch Hagney, president of the Food Policy Council of San Antonio, describes his experiences serving as a committee member working on San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan.2019-01-1800 minDeceleration PodcastCAAP Review: Lissa MartinezLissa Martinez, Texas Master Naturalist, describes her experiences serving as a committee member working on San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan.2019-01-1800 minDeceleration PodcastCAAP Review: Kaiba WhiteKaiba White, climate policy and outreach specialist for Public Citizen's Texas office, describes her experiences serving as a committee member working on San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan.2019-01-1800 minDeceleration PodcastCAAP Review: Carlos GarciaCarlos Garcia, dean of the school of Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at University of Incarnate Word, describes his experiences serving as a committee member working on San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan.2019-01-1800 min
Deceleration Podcast09: Voices of San Antonio's Climate PlanMembers of San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan's Technical Working Groups and Steering Committee (plus one consultant) describe their experiences helping develop what could be the city's first climate plan—and their hopes and concerns for its future implementation After more than a year in the making, the plan is being released for public consideration on Friday, January 25, 2019. More at: https://deceleration.news/2019/01/18/san-antonio-climate-action-planning-members-speak/Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'2019-01-1836 minDeceleration Podcast09: Voices of San Antonio's Climate PlanMembers of San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan's Technical Working Groups and Steering Committee (plus one consultant) describe their experiences helping develop what could be the city's first climate plan—and their hopes and concerns for its future implementation After more than a year in the making, the plan is being released for public consideration on Friday, January 25, 2019. More at: https://deceleration.news/2019/01/18/san-antonio-climate-action-planning-members-speak/2019-01-1836 min
Deceleration PodcastDeely's Done: Remembering JT "Dirty" Deely Coal PlantSpeaking of the struggle to shut down JT "Dirty" Deely: Karen Hadden of the SEED Coalition, San Antonio environmental attorney Enrique Valdivia, and Mario Bravo of the Environmental Defense Fund.2019-01-0520 minDeceleration PodcastDeely's Done: Remembering JT "Dirty" Deely Coal PlantSpeaking of the struggle to shut down JT "Dirty" Deely: Karen Hadden of the SEED Coalition, San Antonio environmental attorney Enrique Valdivia, and Mario Bravo of the Environmental Defense Fund.2019-01-0520 min
Deceleration Podcast08: Our Climate Commitments and the World's Island StatesA conversation with Ursula Rakova of Tulele Peisa, a nonprofit formed by the elders of the Carteret Islands to direct the relocation of their communities from their low-lying island chain to the “big island” of Bougainville in Papau New Guinea. While the Paris framework considered 1.5 Celsius an aspirational target, increasingly cities are declaring 1.5 their goal right out of the gate, as has San Antonio. This movement from 'less-than-two' to 1.5 or less is hardly incidental but rather life or death for many of the world's low-lying island states, representatives of which pushed back hard on the 2-degree Paris proposal, insisting they need...2018-10-0633 minDeceleration Podcast08: Our Climate Commitments and the World's Island StatesA conversation with Ursula Rakova of Tulele Peisa, a nonprofit formed by the elders of the Carteret Islands to direct the relocation of their communities from their low-lying island chain to the “big island” of Bougainville in Papau New Guinea. While the Paris framework considered 1.5 Celsius an aspirational target, increasingly cities are declaring 1.5 their goal right out of the gate, as has San Antonio. This movement from 'less-than-two' to 1.5 or less is hardly incidental but rather life or death for many of the world's low-lying island states, representatives of which pushed back hard on the 2-degree Paris proposal, insisting they need...2018-10-0633 min
Deceleration Podcast07: Pocacito: 'From Eight to Infinity'This morning, Deceleration had the opportunity to interview representatives of Pocacito (Post-Carbon Cities of Tomorrow), an initiative of Ecologic Institute whose goal is to build trans-Atlantic solidarity and intellectual exchange around local creative efforts for a renewable economy and planet. As part of their “Eight to Infinity” tour (think eight cities, then lay the eight on its side to invoke ideas of a permanent economy/culture), they are on a mission to seed community building efforts around climate and environment with an understanding of the circular economy.Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her...2018-10-0144 minDeceleration Podcast07: Pocacito: 'From Eight to Infinity'This morning, Deceleration had the opportunity to interview representatives of Pocacito (Post-Carbon Cities of Tomorrow), an initiative of Ecologic Institute whose goal is to build trans-Atlantic solidarity and intellectual exchange around local creative efforts for a renewable economy and planet. As part of their “Eight to Infinity” tour (think eight cities, then lay the eight on its side to invoke ideas of a permanent economy/culture), they are on a mission to seed community building efforts around climate and environment with an understanding of the circular economy.2018-10-0144 min
Deceleration Podcast06: Indigenous Resistance and the Global Climate Action SummitNot all was well at this month's Global Climate Action Summit, heralded as a significant milestone in the world struggle with climate crisis. And not all the solutions were being found inside the conference rooms and banquet halls. Outside, protestors, led by indigenous leaders from around the country and beyond, were warning that in order respond effectively to this moment of dangerous imbalance requires bottom-up and community-level engagement. Greg Harman of the Texas Sierra Club speaks with Frankie Orona, executive director of the Society of Native Nations, and Juan B. Mancias, tribal chair of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas...2018-09-281h 25Deceleration Podcast06: Indigenous Resistance and the Global Climate Action SummitNot all was well at this month's Global Climate Action Summit, heralded as a significant milestone in the world struggle with climate crisis. And not all the solutions were being found inside the conference rooms and banquet halls. Outside, protestors, led by indigenous leaders from around the country and beyond, were warning that in order respond effectively to this moment of dangerous imbalance requires bottom-up and community-level engagement. Greg Harman of the Texas Sierra Club speaks with Frankie Orona, executive director of the Society of Native Nations, and Juan B. Mancias, tribal chair of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas...2018-09-281h 25Deceleration Podcast05: Nuclear Wastes West TexasThe "Say No to Radioactive Waste" tour crossing Texas this week features a giant inflatable 'cask.' It represents the effort of state, national, and international anti-nuclear groups to shut down a proposal that would have nuclear power plants shipping their high-level radioactive waste from around the United States to a West Texas facility for long-term storage. Following a press conference outside San Antonio's Alamodome on Wednesday, September 26, 2018, Deceleration had the following conversation with Karen Hadden (SEED Coalition), Diane D'Arrigo (NIRS), and Kerstin Rudek (Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz).2018-09-2725 min
Deceleration Podcast05: Nuclear Wastes West TexasThe "Say No to Radioactive Waste" tour crossing Texas this week features a giant inflatable 'cask.' It represents the effort of state, national, and international anti-nuclear groups to shut down a proposal that would have nuclear power plants shipping their high-level radioactive waste from around the United States to a West Texas facility for long-term storage. Following a press conference outside San Antonio's Alamodome on Wednesday, September 26, 2018, Deceleration had the following conversation with Karen Hadden (SEED Coalition), Diane D'Arrigo (NIRS), and Kerstin Rudek (Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz).Support the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all H...2018-09-2725 minDeceleration Podcast04: CAAP: Buildings as Carbon SinksWhat is a truly sustainable building? Is it about how much dirty energy it consumes? The clean energy it produces? What about the building materials themselves and the “embodied carbon” they represent? What if those materials also were able to absorb greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and sequester it from the environment? This is the subject of sustainable buildings leader Bruce King's coming lecture at San Antonio College.
It's a message of special value in San Antonio today, as the City pursues the development of its first climate action plan.
So far, the staff and volunteers working on San Antonio's Clim...2018-09-2635 min
Deceleration Podcast04: CAAP: Buildings as Carbon SinksWhat is a truly sustainable building? Is it about how much dirty energy it consumes? The clean energy it produces? What about the building materials themselves and the “embodied carbon” they represent? What if those materials also were able to absorb greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and sequester it from the environment? This is the subject of sustainable buildings leader Bruce King's coming lecture at San Antonio College.It's a message of special value in San Antonio today, as the City pursues the development of its first climate action plan.So far, the staff and volunteers working on San Antonio's Clim...2018-09-2635 min