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Deceleration Podcast is talking all things climate and environmental justice, rooted in San Antonio and the South Texas bioregion with global concerns.
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41: Bill Barker on Extreme Heat, City Planning, and Policies to Save Lives
Humankind didn't evolve in heat like this. It's been well over 100,000 years since the planet has seen the sort of scorching temperatures that have become the norm in the last few years. And that…
40: Liam Ramos, Gaige Davila on Gulf Coast Fights, Defeating Climate Behemoth, More
Liam Ramos and father freed from Dilley Detention, but Federal Judge Biery's words need to be heard by those who snatched him. Plus: Extended dialogue with Gaige Davila about his years chronicling…
39: 10 Years of Deceleration: Talking Year Behind, Year Ahead w/ Marisol Cortez & Syris Valentine
Strange times, indeed. Deceleration turns 10 this year. Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman speaks with Executive Editor Marisol Cortez and contributor/Alternative Futures correspondent Syris…
38: Building Radical Democracy Into Climate Struggles w/ Ashish Kothari
Deceleration’s Marisol Cortez speaks with Ashish Kothari on his work with the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, recently returned from the People’s Summit and COP30 in Belem, Brazil. An activist and…
37: Antiwar Vets Urge Soldiers to Claim their 'Right to Refuse' Illegal and Immoral Orders
In a community conversation closing out a gallery exhibit organized by ABOUT Face: Veterans Against the War, panelists from Texas and California discuss the histories of veteran activism against war…
36: ‘Curtains of Rain’ Author Anel Flores Examines South Texas Environmental Racism in Queer Coming-of Age Story
Deceleration’s Marisol Cortez speaks with Anel Flores about their new novel Curtains of Rain/Cortinas de Lluvias (Jaded Ibis Press, 2025), a queer coming-of-age story that explores the intersections…
35: Remembering Jack Elder: Activist, Peacemaker, Defender of Human Rights & La Madre Tierra
Deceleration’s Marisol Cortez remembers our friend and neighbor Jack Elder who passed away last month, speaking with friends and comrades George Cisneros, Carlos Nicolas Flores, and Leslie Provence.…
S1E34 34: Fighting Authoritarianism While Winning Water & Energy Justice in Texas
Deceleration’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…
S1E33 33: Gentrification, Displacement, Heat Deaths, & the Robert E. Lee Tenants Union
It’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,…
S1E32 32: SpaceX Wastewater, LNG in the RGV, & Sustained Indigenous Resistance
Boca 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…
Arturo Escobar: A Decelerated Community Conversation
Deceleration Conversation: An April 2023 community conversation with Colombian decolonial scholar-activist Arturo Escobar, produced by Deceleration in partnership with UTSA. Financial support from…
S1E31 31: Kara Jordan on Reweaving the Social Fabric of Climate Action
What 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…
S1E30 30: Rose Jones & Uncovering Extreme Heat's Hidden Impacts
We'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…
29: Talking w/ Edwin Lyman re: Nuclear Power, Nazi Terror, and Energy Security in Texas
Attacks 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…
28: Voices from Climate Justice Alliance's Our Power Communities Summit
Deceleration 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…
27: Armon Alex and the Climate Movement's 'Clean Slate' Challenge in Corpus Christi
In 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…
26: 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…
25: Cris Eugster & Evergreen Bringing New Solar Model to Texas
Somewhere 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…
24: 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…
23: 'His Name is Albert': Climate, Housing, Displacement, Mutual Aid
What 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…
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Deceleration Podcast has published 42 episodes since September 2016, covering topics in News.
Deceleration Podcast is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 48m.
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