Who We Are
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Jason Angell has developed and taught programs for Native American youth and currently teaches courses in American Government and Sociology at Bronx Community College. Jason has spent his career working to change policies at the local and state levels to promote progressive change. As the Director of the Center for Working Families in New York, NY, he successfully advocated for the passage of the Center’s Green Jobs-Green Homes NY program and Fair Share tax reform model into state law. Mr. Angell received a B.A. in Political Science and English from Vassar College in 2000 and an M.P.A. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 2006. Jason is co-founder and Co-Director of the Ecological Citizen's Project.
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Jocelyn Apicello has taught high school students in Japan, people experiencing homelessness in NYC, and currently teaches courses in public health, research methods, community engagement, climate justice and food sovereignty at William Paterson University and in the New York State prison system with the Bard Prison Initiative. She also serves as an academic and garden advisor for her students experiencing incarceration as the Urban Farming & Sustainability Faculty Advisor. Jocelyn received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Brown University in 2000 and her DrPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health’s Department of Sociomedical Sciences in 2013. Jocelyn is co-founder and Co-Director of the Ecological Citizen's Project.
Our Vision
There can be a way of living that is joyful, accepts comfortable and responsible limitations, provides enough for everyone, nourishes and protects health, gives as much as it takes, incorporates productive work that makes us want to get up in the morning, connects us to community and brings us into balance with our ecology.
First, we will do this in our own lives by producing more of what we need, being a conscious consumer, throwing out less and fixing more, polluting less and recycling more, giving more, connecting more, thinking big-picture more, considering self-interest within a wider context, taking care of our family and community, being active, being less reliant on money, avoiding debt and credit and, above all, valuing happiness.
Second, we will do this by working to make this way of living accessible for as many people as possible by choosing simple and affordable solutions, advocating, writing, speaking, teaching and connecting this all to a larger movement. We will do this by joining life with work and work with life.
Together, Jason and Jocelyn live and work on Longhaul Farm with their two young children and several farmyard animals.
At Longhaul Farm, they practice sustainable living and agriculture, including running a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program and diversified, free-range livestock program, and making, baking, canning, pickling, cutting, cooking, growing and mending various things.