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 family I’m 59 years old we were nature kids IDK if they understand that they are nature kids being one of 8 kids ~ my poor mom trying to cook for 10 people 3 times a day climbing trees digging holes in the backyard At age 10 got my first job working for my dad if I needed a dollar He 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 him what 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 control first earth day was in 1970 10% of the population it was really started as a teach in series of teach in people just get together and talk to each other what do you feel like is important what do I feel is important and what do we need to make the environment personal to them working on projects together demanded the government change them? That was the start in 1970 under Republican Nixon started the EPA clean air act clean water act I thought great we got this thing together! 1978 President Carter came to colorado opened the solar energy institute I 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 control got into engineering my way to make a big impact results weren’t just the water saving projects didn’t have the results I expected no culture around it we just did projects and left we didn’t ever deal with the people I wasted a lot of years trying to do things in my community on my own spending up a lot of effort and not having much impact. I ended up in Longmont became a non-profit in less then 2 years I 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 TEAM climate action grow more food do recycling in your kids school or start a community garden bike share make a huge impact that's why I started the Green TEAM Academy 2nd year of doing this Earth Week Summit the Green Organic Garden Podcast is one of our sponsors! That's so...