Media
“Regenerating land — and people”
Highlands Current (August 6, 2021)
Read this spot-on article that addresses the various issues our Regenerative Communities Program is all about.
“The Sanctuary Healing Garden in newburgh seeks to restore ‘access and power’ to women of color”
Times Herald-Record (November 16, 2020)
Read about the launch of the ECPs first Regenerative Communities farm in the City of Newburgh, NY, stewarded by Regenerators’20 Katie Collins and Anusha Mehar.
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“Community farm that yields food for residents proposed for part of Lepore Park”
Peekskill Herald (September 24, 2020)
“Seven building blocks for a post-corona world”
OpenDemocracy.net/Transformation (April 19, 2020)
Read an article by ECP Director Jason Angell about how to build a better world after COVID-19.
“Peekskill gathers community congress to devise city priorities, over a beer”
The Journal News (Feb. 4, 2019)
Read coverage and watch a video about one of the ECP’s Peekskill Community Congress forums.
“Community Congress Holds Final forum before vote”
the northern westchester examiner (February 12, 2019)
Read about the final public forum of the Peekskill Community Congress, led off by three Peekskill High School students proposing their top priorities.
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“What should Peekskill do? Residents rank their top priorities”
The Journal News (May, 2019)
”Peekskill Community Congress: A Lesson in Participatory Democracy”
Cortland Living (May, 2019)
“Civic engagement is imperative for a thriving democracy”
Read an opinion piece by ECP Director Jason Angell about why we must work on building a 21st Century democracy that gives regular people more of a say over the decisions that shape their lives.
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“The Best Ideas Around”
The Highlands Current (October 12, 2017)
Drinking Water - Why Do We Ignore It Until There’s a Crisis?
The Putnam County News and Recorder (October 4, 2017)
“How does change happen? One man’s journey through the personal and the political”
OpenDemocracy.net/Transformation (September 9, 2018)
Thoughts on how the first step to building a new world is to start living it, which is the start of the work.
“Beacon on Board with Power Proposal”
The Highlands Current (January 20, 2017)
Read coverage in the Highlands Current after the City of Beacon becomes the first municipality to join the CCA.
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“Energy Collective Reaches Tipping Point”
The Highlands Current (April 12, 2019)
“The dividends of community-owned solar” (June 29, 2023)
Read coverage in The Rockefeller Foundation’s quarterly magazine, Matter of Impact, of the ECP’s community solar project in Peekskill, NY, working with Working Power on creating a regenerative income stream for food sovereignty work.