Real Community
To imagine, plan and achieve together within our communities to address the climate crisis facing our planet
I am a.....
- Parent/Caregiver
- home visiting program supervisor working with pregnant women, their families and children to age 6
Tell us about your idea

We have stopped so much to care for ourselves, those we love and people we don't even know because of the virus. The pandemic has given us time together with those we normally pass- in our own homes- parents, siblings, grandparents, extended family members as we go on making our lives. Let us stop again- using Fridays to focus on the climate crisis with our families and include community members: elders, artists, engineers, mothers/fathers/other caregivers, manual laborers, professionals, essential workers, legislators- everyone since everyone has a part. To imagine, plan and achieve a better future starting with big dreams and small steps at first, immediate to long-term changes. Taking the real learning from our interactions with the earth and each other, from science and citizen science to change the impact we have from a negative to a positive one. Schools can be the convening places, welcoming all who want to work toward a more healthy human impact.

What part(s) of the pre-COVID school system do you wish to leave in the past? Why?
The parts that exclude the valuable input and insight of working people, elders, and young children. The parts that make some students feel less than and some people out of school as if they are not also students and teachers of life. The parts that don't acknowledge that we are all one and part of one planet and have something important to contribute. I wish to leave those parts in the past since they tear us down and perpetuate negativity and isolation when we need positivity and connection.Tell us a little bit about yourself and what inspired you to share this idea.
I am a mother and grandmother and this time has been valuable to realize what is important and that we can come together when we must to accomplish amazing results.
What region are you located in?
- North America
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