Radix Ecological Sustainability Center

We are an ecological literacy and just sustainabilities advocacy non-profit organization based in the South End of Albany, New York. We maintain a one-acre demonstration site of regenerative tools and technologies including gardens, food forests, greenhouses, honeybees, aquaponics, composting, and more that are designed to teach urban residents, with a particular focus on youth, how to have greater local access over essential resources.

Our programs include the “Ecojustice Associate” afterschool/summer youth employment program, farm tours for elementary school children in the Albany School District, the South End Biocultural Diversity Forest, the Community Composting Initiative, the Atmojustice air monitoring program, the River Regeneration and Renewable Remediation program, and more. Staff includes our current executive and educational directors, an administrative assistant, a garden/farm share coordinator, youth educators, food scraps collectors, and youth staff.

Our values include working for ecological regeneration, equity, and social justice in the South End community and beyond. Inside the nexus of food, climate, and environmental justice, we work for all city residents to have access to healthy food, habitats, water, and air regardless of income, simultaneously examining and critiquing how systems of power and privilege may otherwise prevent this.