Welcome back to the Roots Run Deep Podcast! We welcome this episode's guest, Rico and Carlos from Rich City Rides! They express the importance of community and how Rich City reflects that. In Richmond we face a lot of injustices and we address those issues in this episode. From community, Pollution and an E-bike lending library they play a huge role in Richmond’s vision for a Just Transition. We hope this episode makes you feel EMPOWERED! Thank you for listening.

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Time Stamps

00:12 Intro

00:49 Guest Introduction

01:29 Rich City Rides Mission

03:39 Struggles working with youth  

05:40 Rich City empowers community

08:40 E-Bike Lending Library 

09:43 What is Rich City

15:32 Richmond is Beautiful  

24:41 Richmond Will Keep Changing  

25:35 North Richmond Bike Bus

30:00 It takes a village  

32:16 Community is in our roots

42:00 We have a calling!

50:16 Save SRS Bridge 

59:08 Need more solutions

1:03:12 RCR Events 

1:06:14 Closing out

Welcome back to the Roots Run Deep Podcast! In this episode we are talking about the wonderful work being done in our community by the Basins of Relations Watershed Restoration Program at Urban Tilth. Our guests Paola, Nathan and Solwazi share their Knowledge on restoring creeks and our watershed! From the importance of removing invasive species and the natural relationship our native plants have with fire. We hope that this episode reflects the ongoing work being done in our communities to fight the bad and build the new. Thank you for listening!

More info:

Mission-https://urbantilth.org/learn/basinsofrelations/

Water Conservation -https://urbantilth.org/learn/basinsofrelations/water-conservation-project/

In this episode, we are talking about Intersectionality and how it makes us feel in addition to how we see it in our COMMUNITY. We as a community know what our community needs! We hope that this episode reflects the ongoing conversations our community has regarding the environmental impacts and politics. Please feel free to leave a comment on anything you believe we might have missed or if you have any questions.

In this episode, we are talking about Environmental Racism and how it makes us feel in addition to how we see it in our COMMUNITY. We as a community know what our community needs! We hope that this episode reflects the ongoing conversations our community has regarding the environmental impacts and politics. Please feel free to leave a comment on anything you believe we might have missed or if you have any questions.

In this episode, we discuss what Mutual Aid means and how it makes us feel. We as a community know what our community needs! We hope that this episode reflects the ongoing conversations our community has regarding the environmental impacts and politics. Please feel free to leave a comment on anything you believe we might have missed or if you have any questions.

In this episode, we are talking about what Greenwashing means. How big polluters can easily claim green practices for their own agenda to gain profits and how our community in North Richmond, California is facing injustices caused by these extractive Corporations. These big corporations are targeting our community by using our vulnerability against us. We hope this episode reflects our community's ongoing conversations regarding the environmental impacts these unwanted neighbors keep causing. Please feel free to leave a comment on anything you believe we might have missed or if you have any questions. Big thank you to Cooperation Richmond!