Green Convener
Community is the goal
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create habitat
Climate Change Call to Action
The impact of advancement in technology and industry over the past 150 years has delivered extraordindary transformation of the day-to-day experience of living. It has also produced grotesque inequalities in wealth and income, and an unsustainable continuous stream of pollution and toxic waste into the ecosystems that support life on this planet. Humanity faces a crossroads of intention and action, to continue the current trajectory and risk abysmal ruin, or change course such that life can thrive and human culture can evolve far into the future. Green Convener intend to build community and redirect resources to create an alternative set of outcomes from the predictable results of business as usual. Please support our work and get involved in your community to contribute to a future that we and our children can look forward to.
Grid Electricity
The massive and ongoing reduction in the cost of solar electricity has lowered the cost and improved the return on investment to such a level as to transform the carbon footprint to produce grid electricity. While it remains to be seen if fossil fuels will be transitioned out of that system, thereby decoupling economic growth from airborne pollution in all it forms, the gears of capitalism are beginning to engage and turn the course of the global economy in a more sustainable direction. Green Convener does not prioritize engagement in advocacy in this area, however direct action may become necessary, to the extent that fossil fuel economic interests (corporations and their owners) leverage their resources to resist a rapid and equitable energy transition.
transportation
Private sector economic forces are leveraging the market transformation power of electric vehicles to gain and maintain market share in meeting global needs for individual, group, and cargo transportation. This major source of carbon footprint in to day’s society is in the early stages of a repowering of the core systems that move us and everything around the world. “Better” has almost always meant “more mobility” in the progress of human civilization, and that will not change, at least in the popular opinion, even as Green Convener would recommend otherwise. Reducing carbon foot print while increasing usage (of travel) requires a repowering of the core systems that deliver that set of economic and societal benefits. Green Convener will applaud industry efforts to decarbonize this sector, and encourage individual action to decarbonize and reduce your vehicle miles traveled. < see #LACycling >
buildings and factories
By far the most technically complex element in the global carbon footprint, the built environment may seem a daunting challenge to decarbonize. Green Convener monitors and amplifies the work of zercode.org and other organizations leading the engineering and design tasks to accomplish the levels of transformation needed in this sector. The built environment will reflect the success or failure of modern society to adapt to the impacts of pollution on the world. Will we live in cocoons of our own making, or create habitats that support and sustain us and our children for generations? Deep retrofits and integration of nature-based design to feed, house, and bathe us are integral to the vision and purpose of Green Convener.
food and water
In the end, our adaptability and resilience to climate change will be measured by the extent to which we can still get food and water. In Southern California, neither are available locally in sufficient quantities for the people living here. How will we decarbonize this major metropolis? One parcel at a time, with the needs of the people in mind. Local resources are available to dramatically improve the ability of this very land, in LA County, to support quality of life, equitable access, and balance with nature in all that we do.
Happening Now
Announcing Green Convener for Los Angeles
The core institutions of American society seem increasingly unable to meet the needs of the population. Whether it be housing, health care, families, education, religions, criminal justice, or jobs, many groups in America feel that the hard-won gains ...