QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF
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Do you believe our society is destroying our environment by emitting greenhouse gases, and degrading our air, water, forests, and farmland?
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Do you feel our economy is headed in a direction that offers few prospects for our young people?
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Do you feel you can talk about these problems, but are powerless to do anything real to help solve them?
We at the Communities Regeneration project are stepping beyond talking, with real action. We are in forests and on farms with boots on the ground and hands on tools – actively responding to climate heating, protecting the environment, and working to build a more just and resilient community. Come and see – look at what we're doing. Come join with other volunteers in a fresh approach to climate response, environmental protection and regeneration, and social justice.
Our Campaign includes the following:
Vision of the Communities Regeneration Project: A center for research, learning, teaching, and practicing carbon sequestration, durable climate resilience, environmental regeneration, and environmental justice. This can become a model - an island of hope - in a time of increasing environmental, economic, and social chaos.
Mission:
Climate resilience, Environmental regeneration, and environmental justice from the ground up. More specifically, this project will create a learning center at the West Rim campus of the Communities regeneration Project (formerly the Edwards Family Farm).
The center will offer regenerative learning and research experiences for Students at Sierra College and other local educational institutions, and to the local community, in the areas of carbon sequestration, wildfire protection, forest regeneration, ecological farming, and regenerative living. In addition, the center will research, test, and demonstrate the practical skills needed to protect and regenerate our wounded lands and build truly climate resilient, regenerative communities.
Finally and eventually, this could become a center where students from our local communities can acquire undergraduate and graduate level training in agriculture, conservation, and environmental regeneration. The students would attend classes at various institutions on-line, in combination with on-farm, hands-on learning which would support their academic courses. The program could also offer learning modules on the practical skills needed for building regenerative communities.