Our neighborhood group started this ambitious project to transform vacant lots into community gardens and carbon sinks but now half the people have quietly dropped out and the rest of us are burning out trying to keep it alive while also dealing with city bureaucracy and the fact that we all have completely different ideas about what success looks like. We're about to lose the grants and I don't know if we should let it die or double down.
More people experience this than they realize.
The gap between environmental idealism and practical reality is fracturing a group that can't acknowledge their different capacities and expectations.
“Where Are You with Environmental legacy — what we leave the planet?”
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