The Unity One Movement Incorporated

In this final part 3, 3 minute chapter of The Rising Suns of Sunnyside docuseries Trash Into Treasure segment, the late Airforce and through a 52-megawatt that would transform a landfill into for generations to come.
“We’re not just building a , Efrem once said. “We’re building people.” But the reality? The project has been stalled for years by political red tape in the of current administration, despite being approved back in 2019.
This continues from the previous episode, featuring lead trainer, mark mccollum, who joins Efrem on-site to discuss their partnership with South Union CDC. Together, they’re training local residents in solar installations, workforce readiness, and protocols, turning into empowerment.
Mark and his associate trainer Nicholas share how their 2-day basic solar training class teaches essential skills like OSHA safety, wire management, and ground prep, preparing everyday citizens to take part in Houston’s clean energy revolution.
The segment wraps up with Efrem Jernigan back in teaching mode, demonstrating different solar installation solutions and challenging major companies like to lead by example.
His final call to action: “Imagine if chase bank 🏦, one of our proud supporters, installed solar panels on one of their 50-story buildings.@. That one act could inspire an entire city and eventually the entire country to follow.”
Efrem’s vision remains more than a dream, but it’s a blueprint for economic justice, energy independence, and environmental responsibility in one of Houston’s most underserved communities.
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🌞 The Rising SUNS of Sunnyside | — TURNING TRASH INTO TREASURE PART 2 : One Panel, One Student, One Dream at a Time ⚡🌍
After his cancer surgery, the late Air Force Veteran and South Union Community Development President, Efrem Jernigan, stood with purpose explaining to generous solar equipment donors how their contributions were more than panels… they were pathways to opportunity.

🎓 His mission: to teach STEM education to 3rd–12th grade students, build clean-energy careers, and revitalize his birth community in Sunnyside, Houston, Texas through a 52-megawatt solar farm that transforms a landfill into light, economics, and clean energy.
But that vision has been stalled for years by City of Houston politics, despite being approved in 2019, a project Efrem himself wrote and won the proposal for, symbolizing what’s possible when innovation meets community purpose.

🚛 The story continues from the previous episode:
Efrem, along with Unity One Movement’s Executive Director, Charlie (then an 18-year-old student), and South Union CDC staff, load up dozens of donated solar panels which is a physical reminder that real power is in the people who lift together.

⚙️ We then fast forward to the classroom(Veteran’s Garden):
In partnership with Green Careers Texas, lead instructor Mark McCollum walks students through the essentials like panel handling, ground prep, and wire management, turning theory into skill, and hope into hands-on education.
This is more than a solar lesson — it’s a living legacy.
Efrem Jernigan’s dream lives on in every student, every garden, every watt of energy built from love, learning, and light.
💛 Help us keep his mission alive.
Together, we can:
✅ Create jobs for youth like Charlie
✅ Build clean, green infrastructure
✅ Continue to educate and innovate the minds of the future
🌞 Let’s rise as the new SUNS of Sunnyside!

🌞 The Rising SUNS of Sunnyside | — TURNING TRASH INTO TREASURE PART 2 : One Panel, One Student, One Dream at a Time ⚡🌍
After his cancer surgery, the late Air Force Veteran and South Union Community Development President, Efrem Jernigan, stood with purpose explaining to generous solar equipment donors how their contributions were more than panels… they were pathways to opportunity.

🎓 His mission: to teach STEM education to 3rd–12th grade students, build clean-energy careers, and revitalize his birth community in Sunnyside, Houston, Texas through a 52-megawatt solar farm that transforms a landfill into light, economics, and clean energy.
But that vision has been stalled for years by City of Houston politics, despite being approved in 2019, a project Efrem himself wrote and won the proposal for, symbolizing what’s possible when innovation meets community purpose.

🚛 The story continues from the previous episode:
Efrem, along with Unity One Movement’s Executive Director, Charlie (then an 18-year-old student), and South Union CDC staff, load up dozens of donated solar panels which is a physical reminder that real power is in the people who lift together.

⚙️ We then fast forward to the classroom(Veteran’s Garden):
In partnership with Green Careers Texas, lead instructor Mark McCollum walks students through the essentials like panel handling, ground prep, and wire management, turning theory into skill, and hope into hands-on education.
This is more than a solar lesson — it’s a living legacy.
Efrem Jernigan’s dream lives on in every student, every garden, every watt of energy built from love, learning, and light.
💛 Help us keep his mission alive.
Together, we can:
✅ Create jobs for youth like Charlie
✅ Build clean, green infrastructure
✅ Continue to educate and innovate the minds of the future
🌞 Let’s rise as the new SUNS of Sunnyside!

🌞 The Rising SUNS of Sunnyside | Part 1 — Turning Trash into Treasure ♻️⚡
In this deeply moving 3-minute feature, the late Air Force Veteran and South Union Community Development President, Efrem Jernigan, shares a glimpse of his mission before undergoing cancer surgery, teaching us what it truly means to turn “trash into treasure.”

💬 “We receive solar panel donations from generous people who no longer have use for them,” Efrem says, standing proudly beside a solar panel ground mount installation of repurposed panels. “We use them to teach our students STEM education,” showing them that nothing is wasted, not even energy.
Symbolically and historically, Efrem Jernigan was the man who wrote and won the proposal for the 240-acre Sunnyside Solar Farm project in Houston back in 2019, a project that will transform a former landfill into a 52-megawatt renewable energy powerhouse.

🔄 The story then fast-forwards later that year after his surgery, showing Efrem, his student Charley, members of the South Union Community Development Corporation, and the Unity One Movement’s Executive Director arriving to pickup panels in Sugar Land, Texas. Their mission: to pick up a generous donation of over 50 solar panels and related equipment which is proof that his vision continued to grow, even as he battled cancer.

🚛 With a 20-foot trailer hitched and a community’s hope in tow, they load up the panels that will power new lessons, opportunities, and lives.
Efrem’s story is not just about energy, it’s about human energy: the power of giving, teaching, and transforming forgotten spaces and people into something radiant.

💡 Share this story. Honor his legacy. Help power what he started.