Climate Work & Democracy with a Small "d"

How is the CSC program and our climate work also fertile ground for the seeds of civic engagement? What does this mean for local empowerment?

Speaker: Jason Angell, Ecological Citizen's Project

Recorded on July 1, 2021. Jason’s slides available here.

About Jason Angell

Jason Angell is currently the Executive Director of the Ecological Citizen’s Project (ECP), a non-profit based in the Hudson Valley, NY that works to grow citizen-led campaigns to produce a more just, healthy, democratic and sustainable way-of-life. The ECP helped establish New York’s second CCA, developed the Community Congress which has engaged over 2,500 community members in participatory democracy, and developed New York's first local carbon sequestration inventory, the first step towards achieving a future where people are paid by polluters to take care of nature. The ECP is currently launching the Regenerative Communities program to train farmers and help establish community farms in the Hudson Valley.

Together, Jason and his partner Jocelyn Apicello live and work on Longhaul Farm in Garrison, NY with their two young children and several farmyard animals. At Longhaul Farm, they practice sustainable living and agriculture, including running a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program and diversified, free-range livestock program, and making, baking, canning, pickling, cutting, cooking, growing and mending various things.