Where we've been:
Our team first came together under a national climate justice non-profit organization that despite being progressive in various ways, lacked the conceptual model needed to tackle the problems we live every day in Pueblo. Those staffed by that organization were laid off Nov 2023. We were left with a choice to either find other avenues of work, build a new non-profit using similar hierarchies and methods OR throw caution to the wind and establish a cooperative, community centered, root cause model. We opted for the third.
Our core team voted to transition of Clean Air Pueblo team under the umbrella of SP2050 as well as Climate Resilience.
Where we are headed:
For as long as we have been involved in environmental justice, it has felt as if the work we have done has been purposefully collared to only approach the issues in a certain, acceptable way. This has left our work siloed off from all other issues. We can talk about them, we can address them, but we could never directly act upon them or point out the structures that were perpetuating them.
We aim to work within a deeper understanding.
This includes how the economic and social intersections of environmental justice are still working within a system built on the fable of growth. We aim to expose that reality directly through sharing and practicing exactly how we can not only prepare and sustain ourselves through the worst of climate catastrophe but laying out the roadmap to halt the worst of climate change altogether while creating a society steeped in values of care, commons, sharing, simplicity, and conviviality (enjoying life together).
How do we usher in a reciprocal, just environmental, social, and economic model?
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