A Grassroots Organization That Cultivates
Sustainable
Lifestyle In All Walks Of Life
Ever-emerging environmental, social and economic challenges necessitate a lifestyle that fosters sustainability. Cultivating sustainable lifestyles entails continual learning and diligent practices. Such endeavor resonates with the CC4ES core tenets: comprehensive collaboration for systemic change, community-based motivation and empowerment, and establishing an environment for lifelong learning and practice towards sustainable, happy, and healthy living.
Food is a universal human right. As food is embedded in socio-cultural systems, food justice is environmental, social and economic justice. Growing one's own food provides the most impactful means of ensuring environmental, social and economic sustainability. CC4ES uses growing one's own food as a grassroots community mobilizer to platform the collective shifts necessary for cultivating community-narrated and community-empowered regenerative sustainability.
CC4ES platforms its LEARN-CONNECT-PRACTICE infrastructure to facilitate implementation of all its programs.
CC4ES classifies the complexity of sustainability into six modules. Although all six modules are interconnected, the Environmental Justice & Diversity module underpins all others. Environmental justice is social justice. Sustainability is only possible in a society that champions justice and equity.
CONNECT platforms Hope Gardeners
network for engaging community members at grassroots level to participate
in CC4ES programs that cultivate community-led and empowered
regeneratively sustainable, healthy and happy living individually and collectively.
CONNECT is facilitated by CC4ES Direct
and supported through CC4ES Conversation Circles
Rhody Grows Hope is a container gardening program that repurposes what would otherwise be environmental waste. It leverages growing one’s own food as a grassroots community mobilizer.
Museum of Silenced Histories is an emergent voicing of the silenced in the marginalized communities at grassroots levels through communal acts of storytelling and sharing embedded within all CC4ES programs and activities.
2nd Chance Book Garden is an entrepreneurship outlet with a makerspace for Rhody Grows Hope products. It incorporates CC4ES’ skills training and intern- and apprenticeship programs to platform transformative food justice.
