Deceleration Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Several 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 Riley Support the show Deceleration.news : 'For the Earth. And al...

Send us Fan Mail Deceleration 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Rodrí...

Send us Fan Mail Two 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 ac...

Send us Fan Mail With 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...

Send us Fan Mail Deceleration 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 show Deceleration.news : 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'

Send us Fan Mail Deceleration 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 show Deceleration.news : 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'

Send us Fan Mail Community-based dancer Fabiola Ochoa Torralba discusses her research on "bird movement vocabulary" and the wider projects of decolonizing dance. Support the show Deceleration.news : 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'

Send us Fan Mail San 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 show Deceleration.news : 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'

Send us Fan Mail Deceleration 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 show Deceleration.news : 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'

Send us Fan Mail Speaking 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 show Deceleration.news : 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'

Send us Fan Mail Members 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 consideratio...

Send us Fan Mail A 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail Not 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 o...

Send us Fan Mail The "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 storag...

Send us Fan Mail What 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 Bruc...

Send us Fan Mail Rising temperatures, stronger storms, depleting global fertilizer supplies all mean extractive industrial agriculture is going to take a big hit from climate change. As the City's first climate plan percolates, a local foods revolution continues to quietly gather steam in San Antonio. Join the Alamo Group of the Sierra Club for a conversation with some of the leaders of the l...

Send us Fan Mail Tupac Enrique Acosta of Tonatierra speaks with Deceleration's Marisol Cortez on the March 5th DACA deadline from an Indigenous perspective, and the need for catalytic cultural shifts in how we conceptualize citizenship and constitutionality. Support the show Deceleration.news : 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'

Send us Fan Mail In San Antonio, Lanny Sinkin is known as the former director of Solar San Antonio. Today he is known as Ali`i Mana`o Nui, adviser to Edmund Keli’i Silva Jr., who he considers the rightful leader of a soon-to-be-restored Kingdom of Hawai'i. Here I speak with Sinkin about his transition from solar advocate to king's advisor, his work with the Temple of Lono, fighting the T...