![]() ![]() Our CIVIC pilot will be a model for 21st century resilience for communities like ours. Northeastern University, the City of Boston, M.I.T., East Boston Community Development Corporation, and The Emerald Tutu will work with Eastie Farm using a multi-channel, multilingual approach to ensure inclusive community engagement throughout the pilot. As they learn research methods and green job skills, youth will see how their work directly benefits their own community. Youth will be paid to assist experts in identifying and implementing green infrastructure solutions that increase coastal resiliency, ways to remove barriers to green jobs, and ways to increase community adoption of beneficial ecosocial programs. This pilot involves both biological and social science research, with ecosocial community benefits built in. We envision a local and easily accessible green workforce development program for youth – a natural progression of our current work with K-12 schools and our creation of green jobs and climate solutions, such as our zero-emission greenhouse. Eastie Farm is a grassroots organization that fosters equitable local food systems, regenerative land use, and environmental stewardship. East Boston is an immigrant-majority Environmental Justice Community with diminished resiliency due to economic inequities. ![]()
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