GREEN NEW DEAL MANIFESTO

Menlo Park — Palo Alto — East Palo Alto, California

Cities are built scenarios on which constructed social and environmental believes take place.

Neighborhoods display systems of power.

Streets reveal the order in which distinctive categories of citizens should live.

Non-human organisms either adapt to human settlements, avoid them, or extinct.

At every scale, urban areas are the material model of anthropocentric principles.

Cities are constructed by invisible walls that divide spacious from dense, green from grey, wealth from need.

Neighborhoods in need are home to daily survival. Food, roof, education, and justice are not for granted.

Greening these areas is a synonym for displacement.

In grey streets, air agglomerates pollutants, concrete concentrates heat, and soon the ground will flood as the sea level rises.

How can one care for the future if must subsist today? How can one care about the environment if lack of contact?

Resilient Cities have the potential to dematerialize believes, throw down walls.

Sustainable neighborhoods can be bridges that connect differences from the past.

Imagine green streets that can sustain cycles of ecological and economic wealth.

In a Green New Deal, the city is owned by human and non-human citizens. Communities provide, care, and protect.

Resilient Cities is where stories of belonging will be told.

Conceiving collaborative land trusts that not only adapt to Climate Change but are proactive.

By combining multiple ecosystem services with technology, trade, and education.

Every land can provide food and energy, it is a matter of reinterpreting the use of resources.

Reconstructing the city is an opportunity to rebuild systems, reconfigure roles between humans and other species sharing the planet.

Because, where we live determines how we live,

How we live rules our relationship with the ecosystems around us, the environment upon which humanity depends.