Green Festivals - Coleman, Steve

Coleman, Steve

Steve Coleman is the co-founder and director of Washington Parks & People, DC's award-winning grassroots alliance of community park partnerships. Parks & People has dramatically transformed once crime-ridden innercity DC parks from Meridian Hill/Malcolm X to Marvin Gaye Park, galvanizing tens of thousands of people to rebuild green communities in the heart of the city. In the process, Parks & People has advanced a new approach to hands-on civic environmental action that is now being used to help advance the Cool Capital Challenge, the DC region's model one-billion-pound carbon dioxide diet. Driven by its motto, "We Have the Power," and its call to action, "Cool Now," Cool Capital (www.coolcapital.org) is an unprecedented partnership of businesses, institutions, congregations, and communities working together on immediate direct action to reverse the climate crisis. A range of other cities are already beginning to adopt the Cool Capital model.

The Cool Capital Model for Fighting Climate Change
Cool Capital is an unprecedented partnership of businesses, institutions and communities working together to reverse the climate crisis. Tens of thousands of people have transformed DC’s once crime-ridden, inner-city parks into flourishing green communities. This approach to hands-on civic environmental action is now being used to advance the Cool Capital Challenge, DC’s one-billion-pound carbon diet, a model already spreading to other cities.