For our 50th year, we’re looking forward, not back, to life on Earth. Together, we can prioritize purpose over profit and protect this wondrous planet, our only home. Join our Buckhead & BeltLine teams to celebrate and honor the abundance of climate justice work that has taken place in the Southeast and to amplify the work that still needs to be done.Â
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We'll be joined by local environmental nonprofits for an evening of festivities including:
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- Local food and drinks by Kamayan Atlanta (@kamayan_atl), Steady Hand Brewery and other vendors
- Environmentally engaging art installation by muralist Lisette Correa (@arrrtaddict)
- Musings from the All We Can Save Project (@allwecansave)
- Climate justice-themed live performance by Out of Hand Theater (@outofhandatl)
- Panel discussion made up of inspiring local activists including Dr. Jackie Echols, Alexis Parker, Erin McGrady and Autumn NcNeill - moderated by WABE's very own Rose Scott
- Live DJ set
- Sweet giveaways featuring gear from Patagonia, Dr. Bronner's, and more!
- Limited edition commemorative freebies + community clean up kits from HoldOn (@holdonbags)
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All are welcome to celebrate with us on Thursday, May 18 at Upstairs Atlanta in Grant Park. We're bringing it full circle as this restored venue was originally built in 1895 as a blacksmith building for the stockade and our founder, Yvon Chouinard, a self-taught blacksmith started Patagonia in 1973 to forge his own climbing gear.
Parking will be available, although we always recommend carpooling. Due to venue capacity this event will have an RSVP limit and you won't want to miss our biggest event of the year!
All We Can Save is on a mission to nurture the leaderful climate community we need for a life-giving future. Everything they do is designed around growing the dynamics of leadership in the climate justice movement and they use three core tools in their work:
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Narrative change — fostering public narrative shift around climate truth, courage, and solutions through creative communication.
Community building — equipping people to build climate community and move towards action together.
Deep learning — offering educational programs and resources to deepen understanding and nurture participation.
And in all of this, we work to tend the emotional-spiritual root from which climate leadership grows. Their team is a group of strategists, creatives, teachers, and community-builders living in Atlanta and New York.
Out of Hand works at the intersection of art, social justice, and civic engagement. We help create a more just world through programs that combine theater and film with information and conversation. Since 2001, Out of Hand has collaborated with dozens of community partners to produce programs that combine art to open hearts, information to open minds, and conversation to process feelings and thoughts and make a plan for action. Their programs include Equitable Dinners, Shows in Homes, Community Collaborations, Creative Kids, and the Institute for Equity Activism. All of their programs are based on two pillars, racial justice and economic justice, and they take place in homes, schools, businesses, public spaces, and on Zoom.
New Georgia Project (NGP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan civic engagement organization believes in the inherent power of Georgians that have been ignored for too long: Black Georgians, brown Georgians, young people, LGBTQ+ folks, rural Georgians, and others who have the power to move our state forward. They are leading a state-wide, multi-racial, multi-generational, cross-class movement that works all year, every year to build a new Georgia that works for everyone. The New Georgia Project's Black and Green Agenda organizes for a clean and healthy environment and just economy, especially for people of color living in rural areas. BGA aims to connect with those who are aligned with our mission of being better stewards of the land, more informed about and working to change environmental injustices, and creating more equitable systems for Black and brown people in Georgia.
SRWA is a nonprofit committed to ecological restoration of the South River for the benefit of nature and people. Cleaner water requires increased awareness, collective advocacy, stronger protection, and management of our river as a valuable natural resource. Over the last 20+ years, they've continued to fight to protect the environmental integrity and welfare of communities most affected by environmental racism in DeKalb county and promote the vision of the South River Forest
Global Growers Network is a nonprofit that partners with people from diverse cultures to grow fresh food for their families and for local marketplaces. They build and sustain networks of growers, land, resources, and markets in order to create a more equitable food system that is driven by cultural diversity, inclusive economies, and regenerative agriculture practices. They work alongside diverse growers who face barriers to accessing farmland and agriculture resources by offering a network of farms and community gardens across metro Atlanta and provide sustainable agricultural resources that support growers to meet their farming and gardening goals.
WAWA believes that a healthy environment equals a healthy community, our overall efforts are focused on growing a cleaner, greener, healthier, and more sustainable West Atlanta.
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The West Atlanta Watershed Alliance (WAWA) is a community-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the quality of life within the West Atlanta Watershed by protecting, preserving and restoring our community’s natural resources. WAWA represents African American neighborhoods in Northwest and Southwest Atlanta that are most inundated with environmental stressors, but are least represented at environmental decision-making tables.
Georgia WAND is a nonprofit that advocates for environmental social justice and racial equity regarding clean water, clean air, clean energy, land, nuclear, and real estate in Black and brown communities. They approach their work using an intersectional analysis grounded in the experience of working-class women of color and empower them to address the toxicity of their local environments and neighborhoods. They work to defend people, underserved communities, and our climate future together.Â