{"id":6196,"date":"2026-04-15T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/?p=6196"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:32:38","slug":"greenlatinos-celebrates-earth-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/greenlatinos-celebrates-earth-month\/","title":{"rendered":"GreenLatinos Celebrates Earth Month by Highlighting Community-Led Climate Action Across Chicago, Los Angeles, and Albuquerque"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>GreenLatinos\u2019 Urban Greening Initiative Shows Climate Resilience Starts at Home<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 4\/22\/26<br>MEDIA CONTACT: Cumbia Padilla, Communications Coordinator, 707-382-8113, cumbiapadilla@greenlatinos.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Los Angeles, California] \u2014 April 2026<\/strong> \u2014 In celebration of Earth Month, GreenLatinos is proud to share the growing impact of its Urban Greening Initiative, a community-driven effort advancing climate resilience, environmental justice, and authentic local stewardship across Chicago, Los Angeles, and Albuquerque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From expanding urban tree canopy and community gardens to bolstering youth workforce development programs and neighborhood compost hubs, the initiative has delivered measurable environmental and community benefits from its launch in August 2025 to this spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past six months, the program has:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Engaged <strong>more than 7,600 community members<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hosted <strong>350+ community events, workshops, and site activations<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Diverted <strong>611,306+ pounds of organic waste from landfills<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Distributed <strong>approximately 13,000 pounds of fresh food\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Logged <strong>3,500+ volunteer hours<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Planted <strong>201 trees and 35+ perennial plants since the start of the program<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reclaimed <strong>7.44 million gallons of water<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prevented <strong>161.22 tons of CO\u2082 emissions annually<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring Earth Month, we celebrate the real impact of our urban greening initiatives. When we invest resources directly into the hands of our communities, our planet heals,\u201d said <strong>Amanda Pantoja, Urban Greening Initiative Coordinator with GreenLatinos<\/strong>. \u201cOur neighborhoods have been caring for the Earth for generations, and this stewardship continues every day in our Latino households and communities. Seeing our people lead urban greening projects with their own vision and hands shows that climate resilience is not just a goal\u2014it is a reality we are building together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across Los Angeles, GreenLatinos\u2019 grantees planted over 200 trees, opened a community garden in the Pico-Union\/Westlake area, provided job training for frontline youth, and built a robust composting infrastructure that has diverted more than 611,000 pounds of organic waste. \u201cInvesting in solutions for our most nature-deprived communities unlocks the full potential of both the community and our planet,\u201d said <strong>Pedro Hern\u00e1ndez, GreenLatinos\u2019 California State Program Director.<\/strong> \u201cThese projects demonstrate that nature can heal while cultivating the next generation of frontline leaders to steward our future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Albuquerque, local organizations distributed nearly 12,000 pounds of fresh food, trained 18 BIPOC youth in agriculture and urban forestry, and expanded food forests, compost systems, and irrigation infrastructure. \u201cUrban greening and urban farming have been vital to our communities in Albuquerque. Not only do these projects feed those in need, they build stronger bonds, teach the next generations about our traditional connections with the land, and help mitigate the inequitable effects of climate change,\" said <strong>Carlos Matutes, New Mexico State Program Director<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Chicago, projects advanced community green spaces, environmental learning areas for children, and restoration planning through partnerships with local institutions and residents. \u201cIn Chicago, we\u2019re investing in community-driven projects that are turning some of our most environmentally burdened neighborhoods into healthier, greener spaces,\u201d said<strong> Lucy Contreras, Illinois State Program Director with GreenLatinos<\/strong>. &nbsp;\u201cOur awardees are reclaiming land, revitalizing their communities, and expanding access to nature in areas that have long been overburdened by pollution and disinvestment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Earth Month, GreenLatinos reaffirms its commitment to investing in frontline communities and supporting solutions that are community-led, culturally grounded, and built for long-term climate resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About GreenLatinos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GreenLatinos <strong>(NOTE: GreenLatinos is ONE WORD)<\/strong> is an active comunidad of Latino\/a\/e leaders, emboldened by the power and wisdom of our culture, united to demand equity and dismantle racism, resourced to win our environmental, conservation, and climate justice battles, and driven to secure our political, economic, cultural, and environmental liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>GreenLatinos <strong>(NOTA: GreenLatinos es UNA PALABRA)<\/strong> es una comunidad activa de l\u00edderes latinos\/a\/e, envalentonados por el poder y la sabidur\u00eda de nuestra cultura, unidos para exigir equidad y desmantelar el racismo, con recursos para ganar nuestra justicia ambiental, batallas de conservaci\u00f3n, clim\u00e1ticas e impulsados a asegurar nuestra liberaci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica, econ\u00f3mica, cultural y ambiental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GreenLatinos\u2019 Urban Greening Initiative Shows Climate Resilience Starts at Home FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 4\/22\/26MEDIA CONTACT: Cumbia Padilla, Communications Coordinator, 707-382-8113, cumbiapadilla@greenlatinos.org [Los Angeles, California] \u2014 April 2026 \u2014 In celebration of Earth Month, GreenLatinos is proud to share the growing impact of its Urban Greening Initiative, a community-driven effort advancing climate resilience, environmental justice, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":6186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[74],"federal_programs":[142],"state_region":[116,118,119],"class_list":["post-6196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-press-releases","federal_programs-california","state_region-ca","state_region-il","state_region-nm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6201,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions\/6201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6196"},{"taxonomy":"federal_programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/federal_programs?post=6196"},{"taxonomy":"state_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state_region?post=6196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}