314. Green TEAM Academy | Online Earth Summit| Climate Action Breakthrough Joan Gregerson | Denver, CO

https://www.greenteamacademy.com/all-podcast-episodes/https://www.earthweeksummit.com/Tell us a little about yourself.In Denver CO, one of a big familyI’m 59 years oldwe were nature kidsIDK if they understand that they are nature kidsbeing one of 8 kids ~ my poor mom trying to cook for 10 people 3 times a dayclimbing treesdigging holes in the backyardAt age 10 got my first job working for my dad if I needed a dollarHe was a petroleum engineer, so I plotted all the data. You plotted a curve on logarithmic paper and draw it out to 0. No wonder I’m such a nerd! and I’m on my 5th grade. I ask himwhat are you doing?why are you focused so much on this?I was age 10 that was 1970 he said, I’m talking to people at the oil company.I thought the adults have it under controlfirst earth day was in 197010% of the populationit was really started as a teach inseries of teach inpeople just get together and talk to each otherwhat do you feel like is importantwhat do I feel is important and what do we need to make the environment personal to themworking on projects togetherdemanded the government change them?That was the start in 1970 under Republican Nixonstarted the EPAclean air actclean water actI thought great we got this thing together!1978 President Carter came to coloradoopened the solar energy instituteI went to the University of Colorado and said I want to work in Solar and they said we don’t have it so that should have been my first clue, that maybe the adults don’t have it under controlgot into engineeringmy way to make a big impactresults weren’t just the water saving projects didn’t have the results I expectedno culture around it we just did projects and leftwe didn’t ever deal with the peopleI wasted a lot of years trying to do things in my community on my ownspending up a lot of effort and not having much impact. I ended up in Longmontbecame a non-profitin less then 2 yearsI don’t think I heard the word community when I went through engineering. That's sort of what brought me what I am doing now, I learned what works in Longmont, I went to my hometown, and want back to Denver where we had similar amazing results!We’re told for climate action to do these things, but the first climate action should be:start a TEAMclimate actiongrow more fooddo recycling in your kids school or start a community gardenbike sharemake a huge impactthat's why I started the Green TEAM Academy2nd year of doing this Earth Week Summitthe Green Organic Garden Podcast is one of our sponsors! That's so...