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Don’t Trash the Catskills
Community activism project, Roxbury NY, 2021 -2022
Two weeks into my relocation from New York City to Roxbury, NY, I helped co-found a grassroots organization, called Don’t Trash the Catskills. This nimble effort by talented local artists resulted in shutting down a giant garbage plant proposed for a bald eagle habitat. The curated website and social media campaign designed by volunteers resulted in 750 protest letters to the Department of Environmental Preservation.
This experience underscored the pivotal role artists play as creative stewards of the Catskills ecosystem and the need for expanded interconnection. This contributes to the core root system of my current focus:The Book of Awe Project.
This watershed-threatening facility would add significant traffic, noise, air pollution and water infrastructure burdens to our communities and fragile ecosystems by importing unregulated waste from a 50-mile radius.
This would be the first-ever plant of its kind and scale in the United States.
As a community we refuse to be the testing ground.
Don’t Trash The Catskills is a grassroots coalition of concerned citizens opposed to the proposed Hughes Energy project.
Take Me Home
“The Piano Roll” project. Museum L/A, July-October 2015, Lewiston, ME
