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Blue Star’s Commitment

Cultural identity and its teachings carry tribes forward. The reality that tribes are still here is sustainable. Tribes take care of each other, heal together, and grow for the future. Sovereignty and reciprocity are both connected. We have to take care of that which takes care of us is the law of reciprocity. Taking care and respect for land because it takes care of everyone. Taking care of each other and tribes taking care of each other is the law of reciprocity. Tribal relations, freedom, self-determination, land, people, and sustainability is sovereignty it is intimately braided in place and is profoundly accountable to their tribal membership and at the core is its relations to animals, plants, waterways, and the earth.

Blue Star’s commitment to tribes is understanding that reciprocity, respect, self- determination, sustainability, land, and tribal members are all part of absolute sovereignty, and we are not only accountable to tribal governments but its members as well. Our commitment is to partner with tribes to build strong healthy, sustainable, tribally regulated, revenue generating tribal cannabis business developments for tribal nations and their members.

The leaders who possess precisely the experience and expertise.

These are exciting times for tribal nations and their members in forging and unleashing innovative, healthy, and opulent tribal cannabis business developments. Our current involvement and experience in the mainstream cannabis industry, State of Arizona, and most importantly tribal business sets us apart. Blue Star is united by our passion to normalize, unite, and elevate tribal cannabis.

Selina Espinoza

Selena Espinoza

Chairwoman/President/Founder

Damon Del Deo

Damon Del Deo

CEO/Co-Founder

CJ Winksi

C.J. Winski

Vice President

John Richter

John Richter

Chief Operating Officer

Thomas W Dean

Thomas Dean

Legal Director

Cobey Hendren

Cobey Hendren

Compliance Director/Operations

Environment and Sustainability

Environmental Compliance

Good, healthy, and smart environmental requirements and regulations assure that not only do we produce healthy and safe products for the public; instituting defined regulations that protect tribal lands and their environments is paramount. Developing chemical spill prevention programs and maintaining chemical inventories, registering storage tanks, and obtaining permits related to pesticide use and the generation of storm water, industrial wastewater, hazardous waste, and air emissions are just a few key areas related to environmental compliance in the cannabis industry. Fire code compliance, pesticides, bacterial growth, water quality, worker safety, and common law nuisance are also common compliance considerations. Blue Star’s Environmental Compliance Division purpose is not only to keep cannabis compliant it also commits us to caring for and protecting the land, water, and environment.  It motivates us to continue to promote and create new ideas.

 We must take care of that which takes care of us. Careful planning for land use, development of effective and efficient water reclamation and reuse plans, habitually being on top of innovations and ideas in energy conservation and always implementing efficient energy use, recycling, and conservation plans and regulations.

 

Blue Star’s approach

Blue Star’s approach to designing, implementing, managing, and planning for tribal cannabis environmental and sustainable compliancy in essence:

  1.  Analyzing and sizing up environmental and sustainability impacts. Conducting a risk assessment to understand and define impacts and liabilities.
  2. Developing compliance management systems by prioritizing the risks and impacts will help us to identify any challenges and allow us to create solutions and remedy or reduce impacts.
  3. Discovering risks helps us to identify new opportunities and innovative ideas. Proactivity allows us to be on top of and in front of potential impacts and planning for a healthy sustainable and environmentally compliant future.

 

Tribal brownfield projects present potential opportunities for redevelopment, remediation and reuse of tribal and community member owned lands deemed abandoned, contaminated, and non-usable. Bringing healthy cannabis plant life into tribal brownfield projects will bring new sustainable life into the land, generate what were lost revenues and uses to tribal communities and tribal landowners. Analyzing and foresight into how we use all lands, and its resources is considering and preparing for future generations.

Caring for the land, water, wildlife, and air is the work of the future. Sustainability is finding balance with nature, and with one another. It is a tradition of relationships grounded in balancing give and take. Tribal nations have been doing this since time immemorial.

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