Mini Series
February 19, 2025
This mini documentary is the 3rd of our Solutions & Pollutions series and shines some light on the magic we create at our events here at The Green House Connection Center. We are a physical community space in the Globeville, Elyria, Swansea neighborhood which is otherwise known as one of the most polluted zip codes in the country. We interconnect arts and activism to focus on how we can find the joy and healing in these otherwise dark spaces. In June of this year, we teamed up with Jack’s Solar Farm, an agrivoltaics farm here in Longmont Colorado that is helping to reimagine how we utilize land and solar in order to pair it with more regenerative farming practices. The first stop on our tour was at Kathy Kemper’s house who lives next door to an active fracking site. There, she shared her experiences over the past couple of years and how she has been oil and gaslit to believe that nothing unusual was going on despite there being two oil spills with the latest one being in April of this year. Andrew Klooster with Earthworks also gave us a glimpse into the emissions we can’t see with our naked eye with his Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) camera to illustrate the emissions that are released into the air on a daily basis at sites like this. Finally, we finished at Jack’s Solar to discover all that agrivoltaics have to offer and the ways we can find hope through its regenerative offerings. A special thanks to ‘Los Mocochetes’ for being there to provide musical ambiance throughout the day and be a powerful reminder of the ways music can also help us find hope and healing.