Deceleration Podcast

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DECELERATION.NEWS. Deceleration Podcast is an irregular podcast talking all things climate and environmental justice, rooted in San Antonio and the South Texas bioregion with global concerns. For the Earth. And all Her families.

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05: Nuclear Wastes West Texas

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 storage. Following a press conference outside San Antonio's Alamodome on Wednesday, September 26, 2018, Deceleration had the following conversa...

Sep 27, 2018•26 min

04: CAAP: Buildings as Carbon Sinks

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 Bruce King's coming lecture at San Antonio College.It's a message of special value in San Antonio today, as the City purs...

Sep 26, 2018•35 min

03: Can San Antonio's CAAP Seed a Food Revolution?

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 local food movement.Guests include: Mitch Hagney is the founder of the LocalSprout Food Hub, an urban farm and solar-powere...

Sep 25, 2018•1 hr 1 min

02: Tupac Enrique Acosta talks DACA, Abya Yala, and Planetary Constitution

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.'

Mar 14, 2018•43 min

01: Lanny Sinkin: 'The Kingdom of Hawai'i is Within You'

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 Thirty Meter Telescope at the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea, the evolution of Dolphinville, and the ethics of swimming with whale...

Sep 28, 2016•47 min

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