Echo Park/Historic Filipinotown Environmental Stewardship Program
We want to invite you to Part 4: Infrastructure, of our Environmental Stewardship mentorship and training program on April 29, 2023 1pm-3pm. You can join us virtually or in person.
Part 1 focused on the big picture, the vision. Part 2 on biodiversity. Part 3 focused on climate. Our guest speaker for Part 4 which focuses on infrastructure is Ethel Rubio. She is a member of the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) and one of the Sustain it or Explain it (SOE) task force members of the ISI.
Infrastructure is key to our quest to transform our world to become smarter and more sustainable. Our fossil fuel civilization has created a crisis that affects all of us. To get us out of this crisis, we will need to redesign our civilization to move away from the fossil fuel civilization and to a greener civilization that use renewable energy supported by sustainable infrastructure.
Join us virtually or in person on April 29 at the Los Angeles Public Library Echo Park Branch to learn more about our Sustainability Program and what you can do to be part of the solution.
Register here: https://forms.gle/Tr7JsetkhE9U8rjUA
To learn more, go to http://friendsechopark.org/

Dear Friends,
Part 3 of our Environmental Stewardship Program which focuses on Climate is this Saturday.
Here is the link to join us virtually if you can’t make it in person:
Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84679755551?pwd=T0E0OGhURzFGOWRpRis1V3g1NkJqUT09 Meeting ID: 846 7975 5551 Passcode: 810847

We hope you join us next week for a very important topic, biodiversity. The Community Garden in Echo Park/Historic Filipinotown will be a demonstration garden to show the concepts of sustainability and environmental stewardship. Help us build this garden to help us empower the next generation to be environmental stewards of our only home in the universe.
Here is a TEDx Boston talk from Tania: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3FAMEtVztY&t=605s
Here is the link to join us virtually this Saturday for Part 2 of the Environmental Stewardship Program if you can’t join us in person at the Echo Park Library: Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84679755551?pwd=T0E0OGhURzFGOWRpRis1V3g1NkJqUT09 Meeting ID: 846 7975 5551 Passcode: 810847
The link to register: https://forms.gle/jnW7CUffUW3rJNSG9
When #JFK said we will go to the moon, we made that goal happen. When #mlk shared his dream, we made it a reality. When the #UnitedNations said we would fix the ozone layer, we made it happen. Now is our time to make the #SDGs or Sustainable Development Goals a reality.

Sponsor: Rotary Club of Historic Filipinotown
Speakers:




She also serves as an Ambassador to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and front line communities in coastal regions on climate justice and human rights. She previously worked with Human Rights Watch, Save the Children and continues to serve as a Lead Advocate for UNICEF USA pro bono on international humanitarian response relating to key poverty focused issues impacting the lives of children living in humanitarian and developmental settings including conflict zones. She is a trained, Climate Reality Leader, Nevada 2022 and Houston 2022.
Nesha also serves as a member of the US National Coalition to end early, forced and child marriages and is a US Advisory Board Member to Sahiyo, an NGO dedicated to ending the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) both within the United States and Internationally. Both Child marriage and FGM/C are harmful practices which disproportionately affects the lives of women and girls and the climate crisis has only made this worse.
Nesha has worked on global human rights policies related to the rights of women, children, migrants and global health and human rights. Notably she worked on infectious diseases law and policy in India, China and the United States. In the last 2 years she worked on 5 successful human rights campaigns which resulted in child marriage being banned in the US States of Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New York and Massachusetts. She was awarded the Citation of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for her tireless work to protect children from early, forced and child marriages. She has also done over a decade of humanitarian service in the aftermath of natural disasters and recently in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Caribbean and the United States.




To join the monthly workshop email friendsofechoparkbranchlibrary@gmail.com