 Hello, everyone. Thank you for attending the Green New Deal Public Assembly. Special thanks to our partner hosts at the Queens Museum right here in New York's 14th Congressional District and Columbia University. The decision is, are we going to mandate that the Green New Deal move forward through a process of community-based planning or a process of top-down planning? Whether we're a U.S. citizen or not, we're all part of the landscape and we all have to work together and be educated. In my teachings, we're taught that humans are actually the last thing put on the earth. This Green Deal needs to encompass humans, but also animals and those other beings that actually came before us. What is the potential for biogas from organic waste? What is the potential from tidal energy now that our seas are very drastically changed? To get to the most fundamental root of it, a person should be able to look on Google Maps, pick an option that isn't two hours long as opposed to 20 minutes long in their personal car. That's kind of the big philosophical and psychological question that we need to answer to really get people to buy into the Green New Deal. In our group, the issue of public ownership was quite a prominent discussion. And one of the most welcome things about the Green New Deal narrative is the emphasis on the public, and that's crucial. Publicly owned utilities versus like cooperatively owned, is it possible for those to co-exist? Because it's really important for low-income people, people of color, coming together to cooperatively own their power supply. How are we as a community and how are we as New Yorkers saying with a unified voice that we're going to make sure that there's accountability in this process? What you work on today, you can bet it'll probably end up in legislation 10 years from now. It's about shifting the paradigm entirely and moving towards one that makes sure that we're prioritizing clean energy. Can we take a look at our communities and say, you know what, I think we can level up? That's what the Green New Deal means to us.