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Presently I am focused on parenting, & improving our Community-Living-Schoolyards. I continue to collaborate on community Art projects throughout San Diego, California, & Baja California, Sur.
In DEC 2022, I certified as UC, Climate Action Corps - Climate Action Steward -- serving Mundo Gardens non-profit advancing social & environmental justice in our communities.
Before art, I endeavored to be a Biologist with an emphasis in Bio-diversity, at Humboldt State University. I remain passionate about Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) that my family has shepherded in me, and I continue to learn about Modern and Traditional Methodologies (MAT) for parenting. In 2013, I certified as an installer for GreyWater Action for Sustainable Water Culture, as a path to environmental soundness for my family/ community.
In 2019, I had the pleasure to learn from Yusuke Kozaki, while at a Concept Design Academy workshop; His art, in Pokemon Go, empowered 50 million users to play together in a matter of 19 days. I find the rate of network connectivity, reassuring as also exemplified within the fungi of the soil/ food web, so I remain optimistic in our people's restorative justice & climate action potential.
Be well | Enjoy today,
Christina C.G. Bambino
Chicana Mother | Parent Stakeholder | Climate Action Steward
“To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it,”
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.
Highlights
24'/'25, Community School Families continue to Organize foundational support...
2024, Community Living Schoolyard
Impact Snapshot
STEAM Garden Expanded: Footprint, Hours, & Inclusivity!:
* Footprint expanded to adjacent the library.
* Expanded & Enriched Learning Time & Opportunities afterschool with Parents’ Caregivers in the school as partners, leaders and learners
* Hours Expanded to include after-school options Monday thru Friday now, with additional varied dates.
* Composting & waste diversion from lunch is encouraged to increase harvest for integrated Student Supports enhances Mental/ physical health supports and social services via encouraging reflection on civic/ sustainable impacts.
* No. of Parent’s/ Community Volunteers continues to increase, interest and environmental stewardship grows within students, families, and multi-generational neighbor participation.
* Biodiversity grows exponentially with continued seasonal planting of crafting supplies like pumpkins, native flowers, and squashes. (Self sustaining forest slated in 3 years.)
* Increased garden hours has allowed parents and neuro-divergent learners space to meet, practice bilingual vocabulary, grow foods, as well as multi-generational neighbor connections.
* Plant sharing of our elders now includes, but is not limited to, beats, kale, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, onions, cilantro, nopales, and dragon fruit, potatoes, sweet pea shoots, fennel, and various pumpkins.
* Tracking +21 weeks of Salad Bar waste diversion from landfills, allows community opportunity to discuss civic duty in relation to sustainable climate stewardship, in addition to the increased soil fertility. Exemplifying Parents/ Caregivers in the school as partners, leaders and learners
Community School Parent Organization encouraged and supported to grow connectivities aligned with four pillars of a whole-child, whole-school model for equitable school improvements...
Collaborate to uplift
Cultura, Artesanias, & Climate Action:
In 2022, I started amplifying local Climate Action for my son's school elementary school. As parents we are faced with the startling reality that although our children survived the pandemic, learning loss is exacerbated by Nature deficits, extreme heat exposure from blacktopped schoolyards, as well as sedentary excessive screen time. Health and wellness needs to be a priority as we continue to bridge intersectionalities & root causes to challenges. Our aim is not reinventing, instead resetting nature for the health and well being of our children, and ultimately our humanities. Creating space for arts and culture is part of healthy lifestyles. It should go without saying, that it's absurd to think our youth have to clean up decades of land mismanagement, just to exist.
Why is my community facing disproportionately higher mental health crisis, generational trauma, over militirization, and incarceration rates?
Please join me in advocating for equitable tree canopy, starting with your local Schoolyard Forest.
Please see "Making the Academic Case for Schoolyard Forests"
Below is a Map tracking steps to advance Living School yard @ Carson STEAM Magnet_Community_School in Linda Vista, CA.
See also:
* Community Living Schoolyard Forest rationale:
https://www.greenschoolyards.org/schoolyard-forest-rationale.
See also: SDUSD recommended link:
Justice-Centered STEM Education
Asset-Oriented Framing Shifts from Deficits to Assets.
Let's collaborate to uplift eco restoration community voices for healing spaces.
