Throughout my time working as the Youth Organizer and Digital Specialist at The Green House Connection Center, I have been in my dream role that I set out to do when graduating, which is take a grassroots approach to Environmental Law and Policy. The two main categories of events that I have been working under has been our Pollution & Solution events and our Radical Community Care classes. We also have been involved in shaping policy by acting as a party to various Rule makings with some being Cumulative Impacts, Produced Water, and Air Toxins. Our Pollution and Solution events are centered on educating community members on the surrounding industrial harms that are effecting our health and environment, ways people can get more involved, and resources to walk away with (i.e. Air/water filters, plants, new skills, etc.) that can help remedy the harm. We also integrate art into all of our events and so an example of one of these events can be found in the mini documentary that I made below which features music from the ‘Los Mocochetes’. This event in particular was special because we journeyed outside the zipcode The Green House is located in (80216), which makes up the neighborhoods of Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea (GES), to partner with Jack’s Solar Garden which is an agrovoltaic farm. Solar gardens such as this one is what gives us hope for the future and are large scale regenerative farms that use solar to power the farm and also give shade coverage to the plants and farmers to create a fully circular system.

 

The presentation I made as a part of the ECMC Cumulative Impacts Rulemaking: