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How to create financial and environmental solutions through Public Benefit Contracts, using culturally relevant communication to collaborate with “Communities Disproportionately Impacted”
by Henry Gage, Jr. & Dr. Sally Warren
Build Green Now (BGN), founded by Henry Gage, Jr. and Sally Warren, PhD, is New York State's leading Industrial Hemp Working Group located in Kingston, New York, providing outreach and engagement event planning, market research, business analysis, supply chain design, training and collaboration engineering to increase opportunities for Communities Disproportionately Impacted to participate in and accelerate the multi billion dollar Industrial Hemp market - Globally.
Message in a Bottle
Build Green Now (BGN) sends out a message to be found and acted upon, just like a message in a bottle, but with much more certainty! Our cry for help is not a single piece of paper to be tossed by waves to be washed up on some random shore; it is a clarion declaration to be acted upon, around the world.
“Hemp will be the future of all mankind, or there won’t be a future.“ – Jack Herer
Educators play a pivotal role, as the choices they make can create ripples, shaping a narrative of hope and positivity that shifts perspectives from despair to hope. This message resonates with anyone who values the legacy we leave for future generations. The work ahead in green building for truly sustainable cities and communities is considerable, but it becomes more manageable when efforts are shared collectively.
This message provides inspiration and a map laid out for all to collaborate together for a better outcome using industrial hemp as a valuable natural resource and a means to develop financial security through green entrepreneurship. A dusting of positivity from small beginnings leads to hopeful and real changes.
View from The Trenches
Chemical spills, land contamination, extreme weather events, unrest, and wars have plunged areas of the world into a desperate fight for survival. Locally, we can point to the 2023 preventable East Palestine, Ohio, accident that led to 38 train cars derailing, carrying substances like vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate, and isobutylene — all released into the atmosphere and all recognized as toxic and dangerous to both humans and the environment. This happened following complaints that could have prevented the accident and toxic contamination.
Additional contributors to this dire ecological situation include over-farming, factory farming, excessive pesticide and chemical fertilizer use, and industrial brownfields, as well as extreme weather events such as California’s cycles of droughts and floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and earthquakes.
For decades, the founders of Build Green Now (BGN) have been connecting with community members worldwide who serve as grassroots champions. They tell us that political leaders, corporations, and governments have consistently broken promises and eroded trust.
As founders of BGN, we champion legislative changes, promoting shared governance as a tool crafted by people for the benefit of people. We encourage individuals to actively engage in their communities to drive the changes they want to see, instead of clinging to the false comfort of the status quo. Achieving community consensus is crucial and opens the door to mutually beneficial collaborations.
Within this document, Build Green Now provides "Considerations" and a "Case Study" as key resources for community organizers around the world to inspire positive action in a post-trust era. To transform these resources into effective action plans, it is vital that we embrace a vetted strategic approach. This chapter provides recommendations for such an approach.
Meet Industrial Hemp
Industrial Hemp can be used to make plastics, paper, clothing, homes, and cars, as well as biofuel for renewable energy and running cars. Hemp seeds are a complete protein, containing all nine essential amino acids found in a steak, without the need for cattle. Some experts consider hemp seed one of the most nutritionally complete food sources.
Industrial Hemp also rejuvenates the soil: it was used in Chernobyl to help clean the soil after the nuclear plant accident. It can enrich brownfields while detoxifying them. Furthermore, an acre of hemp can sequester more CO2 than an acre of trees; while trees take 3-4 years to grow before harvest, hemp can grow to 15 feet in just 3-4 months.
Industrial Hemp is a Public Benefit Everywhere!
According to Adelaida (Addy) Vazquez (Hemp Fusion, Puerto Rico), a contractual partner, growing and processing Industrial Hemp on the island reduces transportation and import costs, and thus avoids the negative economic impact of the 1920 Jones Act. The Jones Act, officially known as the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, is a federal law in the United States that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters and between U.S. ports. This truth applies to all territories at the mercy of such policies around the world, and enforces a need for local farming and manufacturing.
Industrial Hemp also rejuvenates the soil: it was used in Chernobyl to help clean the soil after the nuclear plant accident. It can enrich brownfields while detoxifying them. Furthermore, an acre of hemp can sequester more CO2 than an acre of trees; while trees take 3-4 years to grow before harvest, hemp can grow to 15 feet in just 3-4 months.
Political corruption has long blocked the use of Industrial Hemp in the USA, influenced by corporations that want to protect their synthetic petrochemical markets like nylon and plastics. These companies promoted reliance on harmful practices such as deforestation and intensive cotton farming. Now, we have the opportunity to move towards a regenerative future with Industrial Hemp, allowing global communities to heal and thrive, feed and house themselves in regenerative ways.
How to create financial and environmental solutions through Public Benefit Contracts, using culturally relevant communication to collaborate with “Communities Disproportionately Impacted”
by Henry Gage, Jr. & Dr. Sally Warren
Build Green Now (BGN), founded by Henry Gage, Jr. and Sally Warren, PhD, is New York State's leading Industrial Hemp Working Group located in Kingston, New York, providing outreach and engagement event planning, market research, business analysis, supply chain design, training and collaboration engineering to increase opportunities for Communities Disproportionately Impacted to participate in and accelerate the multi billion dollar Industrial Hemp market - Globally.
Message in a Bottle
Build Green Now (BGN) sends out a message to be found and acted upon, just like a message in a bottle, but with much more certainty! Our cry for help is not a single piece of paper to be tossed by waves to be washed up on some random shore; it is a clarion declaration to be acted upon, around the world.
“Hemp will be the future of all mankind, or there won’t be a future.“ – Jack Herer
Educators play a pivotal role, as the choices they make can create ripples, shaping a narrative of hope and positivity that shifts perspectives from despair to hope. This message resonates with anyone who values the legacy we leave for future generations. The work ahead in green building for truly sustainable cities and communities is considerable, but it becomes more manageable when efforts are shared collectively.
This message provides inspiration and a map laid out for all to collaborate together for a better outcome using industrial hemp as a valuable natural resource and a means to develop financial security through green entrepreneurship. A dusting of positivity from small beginnings leads to hopeful and real changes.
View from The Trenches
Chemical spills, land contamination, extreme weather events, unrest, and wars have plunged areas of the world into a desperate fight for survival. Locally, we can point to the 2023 preventable East Palestine, Ohio, accident that led to 38 train cars derailing, carrying substances like vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate, and isobutylene — all released into the atmosphere and all recognized as toxic and dangerous to both humans and the environment. This happened following complaints that could have prevented the accident and toxic contamination.
Additional contributors to this dire ecological situation include over-farming, factory farming, excessive pesticide and chemical fertilizer use, and industrial brownfields, as well as extreme weather events such as California’s cycles of droughts and floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and earthquakes.
For decades, the founders of Build Green Now (BGN) have been connecting with community members worldwide who serve as grassroots champions. They tell us that political leaders, corporations, and governments have consistently broken promises and eroded trust.
As founders of BGN, we champion legislative changes, promoting shared governance as a tool crafted by people for the benefit of people. We encourage individuals to actively engage in their communities to drive the changes they want to see, instead of clinging to the false comfort of the status quo. Achieving community consensus is crucial and opens the door to mutually beneficial collaborations.
Within this document, Build Green Now provides "Considerations" and a "Case Study" as key resources for community organizers around the world to inspire positive action in a post-trust era. To transform these resources into effective action plans, it is vital that we embrace a vetted strategic approach. This chapter provides recommendations for such an approach.
Meet Industrial Hemp
Industrial Hemp can be used to make plastics, paper, clothing, homes, and cars, as well as biofuel for renewable energy and running cars. Hemp seeds are a complete protein, containing all nine essential amino acids found in a steak, without the need for cattle. Some experts consider hemp seed one of the most nutritionally complete food sources.
Industrial Hemp also rejuvenates the soil: it was used in Chernobyl to help clean the soil after the nuclear plant accident. It can enrich brownfields while detoxifying them. Furthermore, an acre of hemp can sequester more CO2 than an acre of trees; while trees take 3-4 years to grow before harvest, hemp can grow to 15 feet in just 3-4 months.
Industrial Hemp is a Public Benefit Everywhere!
According to Adelaida (Addy) Vazquez (Hemp Fusion, Puerto Rico), a contractual partner, growing and processing Industrial Hemp on the island reduces transportation and import costs, and thus avoids the negative economic impact of the 1920 Jones Act. The Jones Act, officially known as the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, is a federal law in the United States that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters and between U.S. ports. This truth applies to all territories at the mercy of such policies around the world, and enforces a need for local farming and manufacturing.
Industrial Hemp also rejuvenates the soil: it was used in Chernobyl to help clean the soil after the nuclear plant accident. It can enrich brownfields while detoxifying them. Furthermore, an acre of hemp can sequester more CO2 than an acre of trees; while trees take 3-4 years to grow before harvest, hemp can grow to 15 feet in just 3-4 months.
Political corruption has long blocked the use of Industrial Hemp in the USA, influenced by corporations that want to protect their synthetic petrochemical markets like nylon and plastics. These companies promoted reliance on harmful practices such as deforestation and intensive cotton farming. Now, we have the opportunity to move towards a regenerative future with Industrial Hemp, allowing global communities to heal and thrive, feed and house themselves in regenerative ways.