Janelle Brooks (Mesh)

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Colleagues, as AGATA’s Mesh Senator with a hands-on role in designing and maintaining the solar power infrastructure across our 70-acre farm and cultural campus, I want to emphasize how critical it is that our Time Priorities Charter explicitly includes not just Long-term Ecological Stewardship but also Full-cycle Waste and Nutrient Management as a complementary cornerstone.

Our solar arrays and microgrid are designed with multiple redundancies precisely because ecological and infrastructural failures are interlinked. The same care we must take with soils and invasive species must be mirrored diligently in how we manage waste streams and nutrient cycles — this is foundational ecological labor too often overlooked.

I have seen how neglect of closed-loop waste management can lead fast to fragility not just in the soil but intersecting with energy loads and labor schedules, introducing fragility to the very systems we rely on to power wells, refrigeration, and cultural spaces. Without embedding Full-cycle Waste and Nutrient Management as an explicit, codified pillar alongside resilience, redundancy, regeneration, community, education, accessibility, and long-term stewardship, we risk undermining the full resilience and redundancy we are trying to build.

Our neighbors and workers directly face the consequences of any lapses here, from odors to soil depletion to ecological harm. It is a matter both of ecological and social justice, keyed to AGATA’s foundational principles.

I therefore urge the Senate to adopt and pass the amendments explicitly adding this pillar without delay. Our commitment to Accessible, Resilient, and Regenerative time legislation must include practical ecological labor and stewardship at every level — from power to soil to waste. Thank you.

Colleagues, as AGATA's Mesh senator responsible for our resilient solar infrastructure and network systems, I rise in strong support of Amendment 8. Our collective work to embed Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a core pillar aligns with the inescapable realities our 70-acre site confronts daily: invasive species, feral hog incursions, and the slow erosion of ecological balance threaten not only the land but the reliability of our infrastructure, including power and water systems crucial for farm operations and cultural activity. I appreciate the detailed ecological stewardship emphasized by Senators Costa and Okafor, and insist that our solar array designs take into account these landscape-level challenges. We cannot build redundancy and resilience in energy systems without corresponding commitments to the ecological health that determines the stability of our site’s physical assets. Amendment 8 explicitly binds us to decade-scale stewardship — a critical timeline when considering the fragility of rural infrastructure and the lasting impact of feral hogs that uproot soil and destabilize belowground wiring conduits essential for our microgrid. Let us affirm this pillar so our agricultural rhythms, community health, and mesh infrastructure co-evolve in regenerative harmony. I vote yea.

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Colleagues, as AGATA's Mesh senator specialized in resilient solar infrastructure, I stand firmly in support of Amendment 6 embedding Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a core pillar of our Time Priorities Charter. Our solar systems depend on a landscape that is managed with care over decades, confronting invasive species and feral hogs that threaten both power line corridors and our carefully designed earthworks. This explicit long-term stewardship commitment anchors all our resilience and redundancy efforts, ensuring that our infrastructure, agriculture, and community practices endure the unpredictable challenges ahead. The extensive and thoughtful debate underscores the indispensability of this addition for securing AGATA’s future as a regenerative farm and cultural lab. I urge full support for this amendment.