Delaware River Valley Community

Thank you, Everyone, who participated in the Earth Month Eco-challenge! Our team, Green Jersey, had 18 participants and we ended the challenge in the top 10% of 565 teams -- and in first place in NJ, Delaware and Pennsylvania. Marty and I both finished in the top 20 of the over 8,200 people participating! What did we win? A whole lot of new knowledge, increased personal commitment to making a difference and optimism that together we can create a beautiful future for each other and our planet home.

We are participating in the EARTH MONTH ECOCHALLENGE: DRAWDOWN, and invite you to join our team — Green Jersey! The ECOchallenge is a 30-day solutions-oriented challenge focused on reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The Challenge runs from Thursday, April 1st to Friday, April 30th and is a fun and easy way to take action and make a difference!
Join us to see how 30 days of action add up to a lifetime of positive change for you, our community, and the planet. Click here to join us:

https://earthmonth.ecochallenge.org/participants/join?referral_code=271…

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Live Online Screening
Thursday, March 25 • 7:00pm (Eastern US & Canada)
Register: http://bit.ly/K-T-G

"Kiss the Ground" is a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson that sheds light on an “new, old approach” to farming called #regenerativeagriculture that has the potential to balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.

We'll be joined by Ryland Engelhart, Co-Founder & Executive Director of Kiss The Ground and Producer of this evening's Film. Ryland has spent the past 15 years as an entrepreneur and love-activist, creating transformation through his own organizations and in the world at large. His speaking engagement topics include sacred commerce, gratitude, veganism, building community, regeneration, and the connection between soil health, human health, and planetary health.

The Sacrifice Zone (https://thesacrificezone.org/about

Please join the Delaware River Valley Community, NJ Tri-County Sustainability and SustainabilityNow for a free online screening of "The Sacrifice Zone — An Industrial Wasteland." Sacrifice zones are often “fenceline communities” of low-income and people of color, or “hot spots” of chemical pollution where residents live immediately adjacent to heavily polluted industries or military bases. Quite often, this pattern of unequal protection constitutes environmental racism.

Time: Feb 18, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern (US and Canada).
Click here to register: http://bit.ly/Sacrifice-Zone

The Ironbound district of Newark, New Jersey, is one of the most toxic neighborhoods in the country. Maria Lopez-Nuñez, a Honduran-American resident there, is waging a war for environmental justice. She is part of the Ironbound Community Corporation, one of the most effective environmental justice organizations in the country. The Sacrifice Zone follows Maria as she leads a group of environmental justice fighters determined to break the cycle of poor communities of color serving as dumping grounds for our consumer society.

After the film, we'll be discussing the groundbreaking environmental justice legislation recently passed in New Jersey that requires the cumulative environmental and public health impact of all facilities in any community before granting permits for new industrial or waste facilities.

We'll also focus on how citizen support helped to get this law passed, how you can use it as a blueprint for legislation in other states and what local organizers can do now that it exists.

Time: Feb 18, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern (US and Canada).

Click here to register: http://bit.ly/Sacrifice-Zone

Dear DRV PachaPeeps, I am excited to hear there are some interested people here on the Delmarva Peninsula! Yeah! Let's have a chat about how to renew support for Pacha work on the Peninsula. Soon ~ RuthAnn