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https://www.greenteamacademy.com/all-podcast-episodes/https://www.earthweeksummit.com/Tell us a little about yourself.In Denver CO, one of a big familyI’m 59 years oldwe were nature kidsIDK if they understand that they are nature kidsbeing one of 8 kids ~ my poor mom trying to cook for 10 people 3 times a dayclimbing treesdigging holes in the backyardAt age 10 got my first job working for my dad if I needed a dollarHe was a petroleum engineer, so I plotted all the data. You plotted a curve on logarithmic paper and draw it out to 0. No wonder I’m such a nerd! and I’m on my 5th grade. I ask himwhat are you doing?why are you focused so much on this?I was age 10 that was 1970 he said, I’m talking to people at the oil company.I thought the adults have it under controlfirst earth day was in 197010% of the populationit was really started as a teach inseries of teach inpeople just get together and talk to each otherwhat do you feel like is importantwhat do I feel is important and what do we need to make the environment personal to themworking on projects togetherdemanded the government change them?That was the start in 1970 under Republican Nixonstarted the EPAclean air actclean water actI thought great we got this thing together!1978 President Carter came to coloradoopened the solar energy instituteI went to the University of Colorado and said I want to work in Solar and they said we don’t have it so that should have been my first clue, that maybe the adults don’t have it under controlgot into engineeringmy way to make a big impactresults weren’t just the water saving projects didn’t have the results I expectedno culture around it we just did projects and leftwe didn’t ever deal with the peopleI wasted a lot of years trying to do things in my community on my ownspending up a lot of effort and not having much impact. I ended up in Longmontbecame a non-profitin less then 2 yearsI don’t think I heard the word community when I went through engineering. That's sort of what brought me what I am doing now, I learned what works in Longmont, I went to my hometown, and want back to Denver where we had similar amazing results!We’re told for climate action to do these things, but the first climate action should be:start a TEAMclimate actiongrow more fooddo recycling in your kids school or start a community gardenbike sharemake a huge impactthat's why I started the Green TEAM Academy2nd year of doing this Earth Week Summitthe Green Organic Garden Podcast is one of our sponsors! That's so exciting.That's how near and dear to my heart this is, and do you know the senator who got that started is a play I have about Senator Gaylord Nelson. The play is about this little Bear Sally Bear who is upset about not having anything for earth day prepared and her bother billy bear is like why do we celebrate earth day anyway and she explains everything you just said and the other is the Turtle Mishap about a turtle stuck in a six-pack holder.The Turtle Mishap PlayAnd then I have a video on YouTube about the science Earth day and its based on Bill McKibben's book Fight Global Warming Now on how to start an earth day event in 3 weeks.This is so exciting I haven't met a lot of earth day nuts like me.that was a long answerdoing so much alreadyOne of the big things that changed things in Longmont was having an earth day festivalWhat was so weird for me was, as an engineer, the biggest thing I had ever organized was a family birthday party we ended up with this fairgrounds space and it was like 10 times bigger then we wanted, but the deposit wasn’t due till 6 months later which is why we picked this spacenone of us had ever written grants before, but we learned how to write grants and we had over 1000 people come to our first earth day festivalcity councilmayor35 youth boothseco hip hop performersschool choirsclimbing wallteaching about everything from marine animalsrecycling trivianon-profits and the local governmentA combination of that and people had said before that nobody in Longmont cares about sustainability but to have 1000 people, obliterated that myth.That’s one of my tips, if you are trying to build a community, you are trying to get partners to work with you, best way to do it is to have an event!it’s like Hallmark for Valentines Day, they wouldn’t consider not doing something on valentines day, so if you are trying to establish yourself and get some partnerships aroundEarth Daywhich is April 22.the timing of the summit starts on April 10-18Earth Day isWhat I love Earth Day for me is that is when I need to plant my sunflowers if I want them to go to seed in the fall.Also, our first Earth Day, although not a lot of people showed up but we put the pictures etc in the paper and then people learned that there were backpacks made of recycled bottles for sale at the local office supply store and there was a green builder in town, so the publicity after made sure everyone learned about it anyway. That's a sneaky trick. That's a good point, all the promotion befoer the event, sending them to theschedule showing them all the different organizationsthat's all part of the awareness buildingI was gonna say, that my husband grew up in Colorado, and Boulder has a big spot in my heart because they really supported my hemp business back in the 90'sso so excited about this whole thingmain vibes that I am committed to is that this is a creativecollaborative to be online togetherin this specific timefearriskwhich we need to know about a lot of those aspectsThis is going to be such a nice contrast for people to dive in herelive workshopshappy hourswhen people register you are going to get access to last years speakers too! There were incredible speakers there!website is earthweeksummit.com If you click on the schedule you will see how it all lines outThe first day there is a keynotes2 hour live sessionsWe're going big this year, as you said the first time its kind of like, we had a couple hundred people last year, this year we are gearing up so we can have 1000s on these live sessionshappy hours will allow you to break out in break out rooms so you can talk in small groupsFacebook groupApril 10th is our kickoffHip Hop Forestryomg I need to find this guy and bring him to our community. I ended up adding a day to the summit to feature himhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu0tt9U8b5IDr. Thomas Richardmusicianprofessor at Yale universityforestordiversity professionalHow to make the environmental movement more inclusivehe’s the keynote speaker yes on Friday April 10thWait can you just explain a little. I am on there too talking aboutOne World Wellnesswhat’s happening in this momentvirusenvironment and our healththings we should have bene thinking aboutYou'll have to check it outHe is an African American guy his message a lot of the environmental movement is a lot of white people coming at it from a certain perspective.Michelle romeroGreen For All started by Van Joneson the admin with Clintonher background was working in racial justice an immigrant issuefriends living near refinerieskids suffering from environment pollutantsbigger social justice issuekey part is that if there are only a few people working on this were not going to make it happenJust like the original Earth Day, Senator Gaylord Nelson how is the environment personal to you?You might be thinking polar bears and someone else might think childhood asthmahow is it personal to how we can relate is the way we can make a bigger impact and turn this around.OK, what other workshops are there?good mixAmericas for Conservation and the Artslisteningusing your plays and bringing in these other aspectsspoken word artistsAmericas for Conservation and the Artspromotordas verdesspanish speakersworks in all the americaswent in after the hurricanes in puerto ricosolar spacesto help start gardens andincluding the artsMichael Alcproject motivate to plant 1,000,000 trees on one day in coloradosolar coop - coalition of people who own solarisland microgramsindividual areasfeed their own power to themselvesFranklin cruise is a spoken word artistI mentored 22 green teamsfaith basedschoolsbusinessessustainable highlands was one of our teamsafter going through our process they started seeing issues that were beyond what their own level so they started the Northside Community Alliance so they started a collaborative meeting with all the different teams in their areaused tobike shareWe should be able to do that thing somehow hereOther projects they are taking on include policy reviewin any of the planning processes going onfor sustainabilitySo that is Northside Community Alliance which is, Tuesday April 14, from 12-2:00. In our town, they want to build a school and it's been voted on 3 times and one of the things my husband and I are concerned about is if we are going to be paying for this building till 2040 we want something that is going meet sustainable design and requirements of the future with a green design. They've had people come in and tell us it might not be safe for kids, and the repairs are 14 million dollars, a new school is 17 million so we just keep spinning our wheels so fixing things instead of building a nice new school you are saying what we should do is start a sustainability committee for our town.. YES! Once you know the solution is always start a teamIt's like YES we can do this! I can give you example when we were working in Longmont, CO. They had a sustainability plan they had started 2 years ago, the council sort of shifted and said we’re not going to continue ~ they shelved it and told the city staff do not work on sustainability. So when we were reaching out to city staff and they were unresponsive, we couldn’t figure out what was going on.We didn’t know that history, so once we became a TEAM. We did things one day there was a meeting and you could stand up and speak for 3 minutes. So, one day we had 6 of us lined up you could speak for 3 minutesWe each said we want you to have a sustainability planthe first person said you took the funds from the federal plan and you never did itthe next came on and talked about children’s healthand another who talked about economic competitiveness with cities around us who had a plan and new workers who wont want to work in our townand the next... and we got to the fifth one and they said ok, we were like wait we have one more speaker but they said ok, well do it.when we go individually, I had never been to a council meeting, the first one I was probably in my late 40sThe way that our school districts and city governments work if individually we reach out and tell them something they feel bombarded but is we form a team together we represent this group of people.we’re gonna ask youwe want our school to be net 0 energy meet the energy star rating of 99 and be a well school something like that based on a rating system. You an easily research some kind of those rating system and come up with somethingTEAM ~ everyone comes up and says that same message!Ask will you sign the petition to ask the school? Then you go back to the school board and say, now we have this many people have signed this thing, we're telling you we want this. At some point they realize we work for you, we're the boss and your the employees not the other way around.It's us, figuring out we are the ones who have the power that actually can do this.In my book, in the course and coaching I do, my course is empowerYes Jackie that is exactly it, start a TEAM!You know what I was going to say too, most people are not going to do it, so when you step up you represent more people. I frequently say when you write a member of congress you represent like 22k people because that many people are NOT going to write so when you pick up the pen, or the phone, or write that email you are really making an impact. Afterall what did Margaret Mead say?And look at all that you have done! It's great when you talk about expanding incrementally! Tell me about your book!in the bookcoursestep by stepsuch a great point when you show up, especially when you say I’m part of a team, it's like you have 100s and you become an amplifier for invisible people behind you. A lot of times, school board meetings will be broadcast, so you are getting this message the more you put it out therethe book is super exciting!not gotten a lot of uptakeI do not want to do it again! So I am in a program so I have a development editor and different editors so I make sure that the book that I am writing is going to resonateClimate Action Breakthroughreally what we are talking hereif people understood that this thing when you tell somebody I want to take an action well you should bring your coffee cup, that was back when we could go to coffee shops, but you can say: bring your coffee cuprecycle moreinstall a LED lightThat's ok, but we need massive transportation, so when you focus on that personal level, first of allit’s exhausting!you know it’s not enough it’s depressingpolicy level it’s important but its’ slow so again it's depressing and frustratingthere used to be a thriving garden! And a small group of people could revive that in a year that could demonstrate and go to the school board and say heythis is what we are doingmission of the school so student leadershipunderstanding biodiversityaligning with the schools missions always come back to thathaving kids take initiativeintegrate all the science and mathgrant writingWhen you do that you are leading by example, maybe you will inspire another school to do it or there's a faith community we could convert these large lawns!A new guy who came who was a master gardener, you'll love this! He was like, I don’t care about battery recycling it’s great but I want to feed the poor and I am a gardener!He convinced the church and they deliveredfresh producemostly neighbors who are immigrants from Africangrowing greenscollard greensmustard greensnutritional greenscoking classeshelping them re-invorgoratetraditional recipes and share it with each otherdoing that kind of stuffI could be doing this at work! I could do this at school! I could do it in my neighborhood!this to me is why I call it climate action breakthrough! Because what we are doing now isn’t working, we are on the path of failure! We need to do things different and this is the thing!Awesome! I love all this. I have actually ben listening to non-profit podcasts and thinking about making this into a non-profit instead of a business.Yeah! Get those Earth Day Plays out there! The cool stuff that you're doing making it more of an educational resource that could be funded. WE have talked about having an education center. Especially I am by trade an elementary school teacher and we recently partnered with...
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