Giulia Romano (Coop)

Colleagues, as Cooperative Senator Giulia Romano, I rise to propose an explicit amendment that integrates Full-cycle Waste and Nutrient Management as a foundational and coequal pillar alongside the existing core priorities of resilience, redundancy, regeneration, community, education, accessibility, and long-term ecological stewardship. Throughout our deliberations, it has become clear, especially from farm and ecology senators, that without sustaining closed-loop systems in managing waste and nutrients, all other pillars risk unraveling under deferred ecological costs and labor burnout. Practical, just stewardship of waste and nutrient cycles is indispensable to uphold our regenerative agriculture, cooperative governance, and neighbor relations. This amendment codifies the vital ecological labor that supports soil health, ecosystem vitality, and community well-being, all while aligning with our cooperative principle of slow and sustainable growth. We cannot afford to overlook this vital dimension in our time legislation that secures AGATA's resilience and long-term viability. I urge you to support this addition and firmly embed Full-cycle Waste and Nutrient Management as a core design constraint that no temporal action or planning can sidestep.

Colleagues, as Cooperative Senator and longtime advocate for stable, sustainable growth rooted in local ecological and cooperative principles, I propose a critical amendment explicitly adding Full-cycle Waste and Nutrient Management as a core pillar of the AGATA Time Priorities Charter. Our 70-acre farm's resilience, regenerative capacity, and the well-being of our neighbors hinge not only on resilience, redundancy, regeneration, education, and accessibility, but also on rigorously managing the full cycles of waste and nutrients. Ignoring this vital stewardship risks deferred ecological costs, undermines community trust, and threatens our cooperative sustainability by imposing hidden labor burdens. This amendment codifies the essential, practical ecological labor of closing nutrient loops and managing waste streams as fundamental design constraints in our time legislation framework. It aligns directly with our cooperative model's slow, careful growth strategies and ensures the farm and its cultural ecosystem are maintained with integrity, transparency, and justice. I urge you to support this essential addition to safeguard AGATA’s thriving future.

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Colleagues, as Cooperative Senator deeply committed to the long-term resilience of AGATA’s farm and community, I rise to propose an explicit amendment adding Full-cycle Waste and Nutrient Management as a foundational, core pillar of the AGATA Time Priorities Charter. Our agricultural ecosystem can only thrive when we close the loop on waste and nutrient flows, ensuring the vitality of our soil, water, and surrounding environment while safeguarding the health and livelihood of our neighbors and farmworkers.

This pillar must be crafted with careful attention to practical stewardship, inclusive community participation, and the cooperative principles that dictate slow, thoughtful growth. Repeated testimony from farm and ecology senators underscores that without this explicit recognition, we risk accumulating deferred liabilities—both ecological and in human labor—that undermine resilience and regeneration alike.

My amendment fully integrates this pillar alongside Resilience, Redundancy, Regeneration, Community, Education, Accessibility, and Long-term Ecological Stewardship. It aligns with our charter’s spirit of embedding justice and local rootedness, and ensures that operational realities of waste management—often invisible—receive the attention they require in our temporal legislation.

This is not an auxiliary detail but a core design constraint essential for the survival and flourishing of AGATA’s cooperative farm, cultural lab, and community ecosystem. I urge my fellow senators to support this amendment so that our charter truly reflects the complexity and interdependence of our work and honors the communities—both human and ecological—upon which we rely.

Colleagues, as Cooperative Senator deeply committed to our project's long-term resilience and local roots, I rise to propose a crucial amendment adding Full-cycle Waste and Nutrient Management as an explicit, foundational pillar alongside our existing priorities of Resilience, Redundancy, Regeneration, Community, Education, Accessibility, and Long-term Ecological Stewardship. Throughout this extensive debate, it has become clear that without an unambiguous, binding commitment to managing waste and nutrient cycles holistically, we risk undermining both ecological vitality and cooperative sustainability. This amendment aligns with our cooperative principles emphasizing slow, sustainable growth, preventing deferred environmental costs, and labor burnout — key concerns I have consistently raised. It explicitly enshrines closed-loop ecological labor as a core design constraint for our time legislation, directly supporting our farm's soil health, ecosystem functioning, and neighbor relations. I urge the Senate to adopt this amendment as an essential complement that completes our living manifesto for AGATA's regenerative future.