Communities Leading a Just Transition – Learning Tour in Richmond

After years of activism and organizing, diverse actors in Richmond are creating a more democratic and regenerative local economy, from local food systems to transit and energy. Please join us on a learning tour to meet with local community partners across key sectors who are building the new and moving resources in coordinated way to implement the Just Transition strategy framework. The tour will stop at the RYSE Youth Center, for an overview of how different partners in Richmond are working together; continue on to Rich City Rides, to learn about the bike shop’s transition to a worker collective and about Cooperation Richmond, a worker-owned cooperative incubator; and end at Urban Tilth’s Adam’s Crest Farm where we will see a scaled farm on public land and hear about how public monies are being used to train up young people in agroecology and ecosystems restoration.Key movement leaders will lead engage with us at stops along the tour, including leaders from Urban Tilth, Rich City Rides, APEN, Movement Generation,Richmond Progressive Alliance, GAIA, and International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union Local 6. We will also explore the positive role for philanthropy in transferring wealth in a principled way that is rooted in building translocal power, pairing economic power with movement building for a Just Transition, and explore building scale through these local solutions within the context of the larger Climate Justice Alliance Our Power Campaign and Reinvest Network.

Come with us and allow your heart and imagination to take a journey and see what a Just Transition looks like in community! If you are already registered for the conference, follow the same instructions as above to add this tour to your registration. ($35 per person).

Registration Instructions:

Register now by entering your email, clicking on “edit or change,” then clicking on “agenda items” and selecting the pre-conference training.