Our Thesis
Start with the people.
Stay with the people.
For our planet.
Green is more than a color, a product, or a promise for someday. It is the living relationship between people, place, health, knowledge, opportunity, and care. I Am Green creates practical pathways for communities to learn together, build together, and shape futures where everyone can thrive.
Robust. Resilient. Regenerative.
Everything we do grows from three living pillars. They are not departments — they are root systems that intertwine, feeding each other underground.
Pillar 01
Robust
Knowledge. Relationships. Enterprise. Robust communities have knowledge and the capacity to create opportunity from within through literacy and leadership.
Pillar 02
Resilient
Prepare. Adapt. Recover Together. Resilience is our collective ability to care for one another without leaving people behind through energy equity and social connection.
Pillar 03
Regenerative
Restore. Return. Regeneration asks how we restore land and water, repair harm, and leave more life for the next generation through circular practices.
Clean Mobility
I Am Green GO
Clean mobility should expand freedom, not create another system people cannot reach. I Am Green GO brings electric-vehicle education, community conversations, ride-and-drive experiences, and practical pathways to cleaner transportation into trusted community spaces.
Regenerative Land Work
Camp & Learns
I Am Green gatherings create room to learn outdoors, exchange knowledge, celebrate, reflect, move, grow, and practice community care. Location, accessibility, cost, registration, transportation, food, and contact details provided for each gathering.
What I Am Green
actually does
Plot Twist & Produce Hub
Food & Land Learning
Plot Twist & Produce Hub brings books, literacy, fresh food, storytelling, and land-based learning together in Hancock County, Georgia. It is a place to reconnect young people and families with reading, growing, nourishment, imagination, and the living world.
Cultural & Community Voice
Live a #DopeAzzGreenLife
A green life should feel alive, creative, practical, and culturally whole. #DopeAzzGreenLife shares approachable ways to reconnect with health, nature, community, personal practice, and everyday environmental action.
I Am Green Go
Clean mobility for communities that need it most
I Am Green Go allows community members in environmental justice communities to experience the beauty, utility, and affordability of electric vehicles at no cost. Our communities have some of the poorest air quality due to poor zoning and redlining — and transportation is one of the largest negative impacts on the air we breathe.
By providing free EV car sharing in partnership with community development organizations, we help our communities become familiarized with this technology and increase the use and adoption of electric vehicles where they are needed most.
Free EV Car Share
Community members in environmental justice communities access electric vehicles at no cost.
Cleaner Air for Frontline Communities
Our communities have some of the poorest air quality due to poor zoning and redlining. Transportation is one of the largest impacts — we address it directly.
Community Partnerships
Partnering with organizations supporting food security, affordable housing, and trauma-informed services to provide free EV car sharing.
Land Stewardship
Food is not a side program.
It is a through-line.
Returning power to the hands that tend the earth
We frame food insecurity as food apartheid. The Plot Twist & Produce HUB in Hancock County evolved from a club into a rural collaboration space for reading, crop and seed exchange, environmental literacy, food security, community wellness, and practical learning.
Can collective small-scale growing produce market income? How can community members contribute according to their gifts, time, and resources? These are the questions we are living into.
The Plot Twist Reading List
A curated selection of books that celebrate land, literacy, culture, and regenerative futures. These stories help us imagine a greener life together.
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The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
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The Market Gardener
Jean-Martin Fortier
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It's a Very Kwanzaa Xmas
Community Selection
From interest to
tangible involvement
Check our calendar for upcoming workshops, community listening sessions, and regenerative land work. We invite you to learn and grow with us.
Urban roots, rural
regenerative canopy
Legal & Historical Foundation
San Diego / Southern California
Southeast San Diego and local frontline areas are the birthplace of our movement, focusing on climate equity participation, environmental literacy, clean transit, green job pathways, and community housing events.
Coastal urban frontline communities
Rural Landscape for Demonstration
Hancock County / Sparta, Georgia
This is the growing rustic center for our focus on resilience and renewal. Featuring the Plot Twist & Produce HUB, ecological farming, The Grove, and Freedom Experience Camp & Learns, it spans 12 acres set in the 200-acre Freedom Village.
12-acre eco-village 200-acre Freedom Village
The land, the work,
the people.
Real moments from The Grove at Freedom Village, Camp & Learn gatherings, and the Plot Twist & Produce HUB in Hancock County, Georgia — and from community work in Southern California. This gallery grows as we do.
Roots & Stewards
I Am Green is led by a partnership rooted in shared vision, community trust, and a commitment to regenerative futures. Brother Dave & Sister Maria co-lead our efforts to create practical pathways for community health and opportunity.
Maria A. Muhammad
Core Strengths
- Environmental Literacy & Education
- Community Health Programming
- Social Connectivity & Resilience
- Frontline Community Care
Maria A. Muhammad leads with a focus on environmental literacy, social connection, and health equity. Her work ensures that no one is left behind as we prepare our communities for a cleaner, more resilient future.
David Muhammad
Core Strengths
- Clean Mobility & Infrastructure
- Regenerative Land Stewardship
- Community Enterprise Development
- Sustainable Design & Planning
David Muhammad brings deep expertise in clean mobility and regenerative land stewardship. He creates tangible pathways for communities to participate in the green economy through hands-on learning and enterprise.
The Ecosystem
A network is our strongest asset
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Trusted Access
Cultural Bridge
Experiential Education
Interconnected Outcomes
Proximity to frontline and fenceline communities that institutions struggle to reach.
A culturally grounded bridge between technical climate systems and everyday life.
Hands-on learning rather than abstract outreach — practice, not perfection.
Environmental results connected to jobs, food, housing, mobility, health, and racial justice.
Institutional Partners
County of San Diego, City of San Diego, San Diego Foundation, California Wellness Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, SDG&E, San Diego Community Power, Calpine, GRID Alternatives, Roots of Success, Bayview CDC, Paving Great Futures, C4GS, Freedom Nation
Join the I Am Green Tribe
You do not need a title or a perfect plan to belong in the work of caring for people and planet. Explore how you can help grow community power today.
Attend an Event
Show up to a Camp & Learn, EV tailgate, or community gathering near you.
Volunteer or Share a Skill
Bring your time, talent, or trade. There is a place for intentional help.
Host a Community Conversation
Bring environmental literacy to your block or organization.
Partner on a Program
Collaborate on workforce, food, or mobility programs that serve your community.
Support the Work
Your donations directly fuel community-led environmental justice initiatives.
Support Environmental Learning
Invest in literacy and land-based education for our families and youth.