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Happening This Week & Next
Deceleration’s Happening newsletter delivers to your inbox events to help grow and deepen community relationships while empowering each other to interrupt colliding cultural, economic, and ecological crises. Deceleration is all about stimulating a shift to healthier living, communities, and culture and is rooted in San Antonio and the South Texas bioregion.
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Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) hosts a conversation between Dr. Linda Birnbaum and Dr. Ami Zota, two innovative leaders in efforts to promote environmental health and justice.
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The conference’s goal is to provide access to and give information about STEM innovative resources through a free, one-day conference specifically for teachers at all career stages.
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Join the local chapter targeting carbon fee and dividend, healthy forests, building electrification and efficiency, and clean energy permitting reform. Monthly meeting.
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Every Saturday morning, weather permitting, you can join this Eastside San Antonio garden and permaculture hub for a volunteer workday.
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Electric micromobility is gaining popularity among commuters worldwide and shared e-micromobility has proven to expand access in transit deserts, underserved communities, and for those with disabilities.
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Brackenridge Bird Eviction |
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Winding our way through Brackenridge Park this week we were struck by the immense swathes of parkland now fenced off from the public behind black screens. Though we have tracked the war on the birds in San Antonio for a couple years, the immensity of City of San Antonio resources being marshaled to forcefully evict migratory birds from the park for the crime (if we are to believe the master narrative as advanced by the Express-News this week) of poop. Visit the park with us via our short video on Facebook or Twitter.
Expect full on auditory attacks, pyrotechnics, balloons, lasers, and more in coming weeks and months as migrating birds return seeking out the nesting sites where they were born. Though the proposed removal of roughly 50 trees at Brackenridge suffered another setback after the Texas Historical Commission pushed back considering the matter until their next quarterly meeting in April, severe pruning to dramatically limit nesting potential is ongoing as we type.
For background, we recommend Marisol Cortez’s two-part “In Praise of Nuisance Heronries” (Part 1 and Part 2).
Watch for our pending In Depth newsletter for our assessment of this most recent assault. |
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Grant Opportunity |
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EPA Grants for Local Climate Action
Join EPA on February 15 at 1 PM (Central) for an introductory webinar about EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program. As part of the Administration’s commitment to move quickly to implement the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), EPA is working at an accelerated pace to share information about the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG). The CPRG program will provide significant resources to state, territory, local, and tribal governments to develop ambitious climate action and air pollution reduction plans and to implement measures from those plans.
The CPRG is a two-stage program – with $250 million in planning grants coming soon, followed by $4.6 billion of implementation grants. EPA is working to release the program guidance for planning grants as soon as early March. This webinar is intended for state, territory, tribal, and local governments to provide general information on the CPRG. |
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Report back on what we saw (and didn’t) on our 2,200 mile journey from Brownsville TX to San Ysidro CA in December 2022. Shining a light on the effects of inhumane immigration policies. | |
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BGDB San Antonio & Major Taylor San Antonio invites everyone to come and bike with us as we explore the historic Eastside in celebration of Black History Month! | |
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Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) hosts a conversation between Dr. Linda Birnbaum and Dr. Ami Zota, two innovative leaders in efforts to promote environmental health and justice.
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Educators in K-12 in San Antonio public schools are invited to a groundbreaking PD to support the next generation of climate-resilient youth leaders and innovators.
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The Native Plant Society of Texas 2023 Spring Symposium is coming to Austin, Texas. Make plans now.
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New Resource |
Top Greenhouse Gas Polluters |
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Deceleration likes to make graphics as new data becomes available. While waiting for our local GHG inventory to be finalized, we gave a look to point-source polluters in the United States, Texas, San Antonio, and Corpus Christi. Working to integrate this data at Deceleration’s Top Climate Polluters resource page.
Next up: What would be most useful to your organizing work? Heat disparities in your city? Toxic chemical pollution? Mapping rising attacks on energy infrastructure? Drop us a note at editor@decleration.news.
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Armchair Actions
As the U.S. plans to relinquish its role as the predominant purchaser of the COVID-19 vaccine to the commercial sector, vaccine manufacturers Moderna and Pfizer have announced plans to hike the price of the vaccine by over 400%. The decision would increase the price from $26 to $110-130 per dose, despite it costing only $2.85 to produce.
Sign the Petition.
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