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Demetrius Milling: Collaborative Farming for a Livable Future

Provided by: Project Drawdown |Published on: January 17, 2024

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Synopsis

This video and discussion questions focus on Demetrius Milling, a worker-owner at Love Is Love Cooperative Farm near Atlanta, who discusses the importance of everyone doing their part toward initiating climate solutions and how the farm is guiding others to do so.
Students will learn how the workers at the farm help others, provide organic food to the community, and work to reduce the area's carbon footprint as much as possible.

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Subjects: Biology, Career Skills

Authors: Project Drawdown

Region: North America, USA - South, United States, Global, Georgia

Languages: English

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Positives

The speakers depict climate solutions on a small scale as being just as important as large-scale solutions.
The interviewee stresses the importance of finding a job or career that fulfills and challenges oneself as a way to live a life of positive energy.
There are links to enhance learning and take climate action included.

Additional Prerequisites

The issue of racial tension in America is brought up as a topic of concern, so teachers should prepare for student questions.
The interviewee speaks a lot about his biracial identity and being proud of identifying as Black, so students may need to understand what it means to be biracial.
Students may have questions about the mention of exposure to lead as a carcinogen.
It will help students to know the terms tillage, carbon footprint, micro irrigation, tangible, stewarding, and ripple effect.

Differentiation

The speaker discusses the importance of living in a place noted for diversity so English teachers can have students create a personal narrative based on how community affects personal identity.
In addition, English teachers can show the video and then have students create a personal narrative about racial identity in America.
The concept of "climate grief" is discussed so teachers can have students create climate grief diary entries and ideas for climate action.
The speaker mentions Dr. Booker T. Whatley as an inspiration so History teachers can have students research his accomplishments and then expand to research other Black educators, scientists, and inventors.
Science teachers can utilize this video to introduce a class garden project.

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Project Drawdown

Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Cities, universities, corporations, philanthropies, policymakers, communities, educators, activists, and more turn to Project Drawdown as they look to advance effective climate action. Project Drawdown resources for educators include the database of Drawdown Solutions, educational video series Climate Solutions 101, the Drawdown Stories initiative, and more.

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