Deceleration Editor/Founder Greg Harman is an independent journalist and community organizer who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s. His journalism has been recognized by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, Houston Press Club, Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, Public Citizen Texas, and Associated Press Managing Editors. He holds a bachelor’s in English from Texas Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in International Relations (Conflict Transformation) from St. Mary’s University.
How the Hé Sapa Resolution Could Help ‘Indigenize’ Global Wilderness Conservation
All relevant institutions [must] actively promote wilderness policy that acknowledges that nature is multi-dimensional, transcending the material and physical realms; and use language that honors the rights and roles of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Systems, natural and customary law.” —Hé Sapa Resolution, 2024
September 20, 2024
Humanity Must Choose a New Path to Avoid Rapid Ecological Breakdown, Lakota Spiritual Leader Says
The first tribally hosted World Wilderness Congress that convened the last week of August, 2024, had an ambitious agenda—placing Indigenous knowledge at the center of global resolutions to protect biodiversity.
September 13, 2024
‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere
Gathering in the last week of August in the Black Hills of South Dakota, or Hé Sapa in Lakota, speakers and organizers of the 12th convening of the World Wilderness Congress say the extinction crisis is intrinsically tied to both the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the rising heat generated by the burning of fossil fuels.
September 11, 2024
When oilmen turn sour on crude
Former oilman Jeffrey Brown and activist Nan Hildreth have been spreading the Peak Oil message. They’re part of a Peak Oil mini-conference this Sunday in Houston.
August 9, 2006
LNG boom needs terminal sites
In a rush to take advantage of high gas prices and low importing costs for liquefied natural gas, U.S. energy companies have been working to open LNG facilities on the nation’s East, West and Gulf coasts.
October 20, 2004