Stories
Long-form video essays on LatAm climate, gentrification, air quality, and the blind spots of the green transition.
Alfredo Gonzalez Valenzuela weaves peer-reviewed research and ancestral Quechua wisdom into video essays that the English-only climate conversation keeps missing.
Published by the American Chemical Society. Researched at Portland State University. Reported from the Sacred Valley, Lima, Medellín, Bogotá, and Los Angeles. GreenSonqo is a bridge between abuelo wisdom and peer-reviewed climate data — one video, one paper, one conversation at a time.
Videos, papers, frameworks, and community — one channel, one mission.
Long-form video essays on LatAm climate, gentrification, air quality, and the blind spots of the green transition.
Peer-reviewed work on eucalyptus isoprene emissions and Andean ecosystems. Published by the American Chemical Society.
Andean cosmovision as an analytical frame: ayni, cycles, reciprocity — applied to real urban and climate problems.
A home for the bilingual, bicultural climate voices the English-only newsroom keeps leaving off the byline.
Ayni — reciprocity
Every video cites the community it reports on. Research findings go back to the neighborhoods whose air was measured. Credit travels both ways.
“Alfredo doesn't explain the Andes to you — he translates what the Andes have been saying all along, in a language the English-only newsroom finally has to hear.”
Mariana Quispe
Climate journalist, Lima
“The eucalyptus video should be required viewing for every municipal air-quality office in the Andes. He measured what our monitors don't even try to detect.”
Daniela Ortega
Environmental engineer, Cusco

Isoprene ppb · Cusco 2025
The data was there. The language wasn't.
Alfredo Gonzalez Valenzuela grew up between Cusco terraces and California highways. He is a researcher — his undergraduate work on eucalyptus isoprene emissions was published by the American Chemical Society out of Portland State University. He is a storyteller — his YouTube essays walk through gentrification, air quality, lithium, and the missing Spanish-speaking climate voice, pairing Andean cosmovision with hard data. GreenSonqo is the bridge he's building so that ancestral intelligence and peer-reviewed science can finally be in the same sentence.

Cusco, Peru
From Portland State labs to Cusco's cerros — same question, two languages.

Yachay in practice
Cite the abuelos. Then cite the paper.