The Climate Solutions Jamboree will be held from 4 to 8:30 p.m. July 22 at the Islesford Arts & Technology Park, featuring great speakers, musicians, original art work, food and more.
Ferry reservations are available this year. It’s recommended that you make a reservation in advance.
EVENT DETAILS
Speakers at the 10 Spot Stage
Amanda Joy Ravenhill
A Vision of TMRW
4 p.m.
Ravenhill is a climate leader and co-founder of Museum of TMRW in Washington, D.C., which envisions a successful ecological future. She was executive director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and co-founded Project Drawdown. She has an MBA from Presidio Graduate School and a Permaculture Certificate from Earth Activists Training. Her talk focuses on a vision for the future in which we have succeeded in solving the ecological crisis.
Angie Flores
Exploring Community Resilience
4:30 p.m.
Flores is a recent graduate of the College of the Atlantic majoring in Human Ecology with a focus on environmental studies, climate policy and political ecology. For her senior project, she’s exploring the ongoing discourse and initiatives surrounding community resilience and climate resilience in Maine. She aims to foster a space for open reflection about what community resilience really means in the face of climate change, facilitating discussions that delve into the multifaceted dimensions of resilience and its implications for communities.
Brianna Cunliffe
Community-Driven Climate Action for the win!
5 p.m.
Cunliffe is working with A Climate to Thrive from September 2022 to August 2024 as an Island Fellow through the Island Institute. Cunliffe has a bachelor’s degree in government and environmental studies from Bowdoin College where she studied just transitions, climate policymaking, and community resilience and fell in love with Maine. Cunliffe has worked with Elected Officials to Protect America to mobilize state and local elected officials around the climate crisis, with conservation nonprofit Dogwood Alliance to oppose exploitative logging practices, and with the National Park Service to explore the social science that supports a more sustainable future for public lands.
Andrew Revkin
Covering the climate, from the international to local
6:30 p.m.
Revkin has spent 40 years reporting on environmental challenges and choices, mostly for The New York Times. He began covering global warming in 1988 and never stopped, filing award-winning stories from the North Pole, Amazon rain forest, White House and beyond. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship helped him launch his award-winning Dot Earth blog at The Times. He’s served on the Anthropocene Working Group, the expert body commissioned to weigh evidence humans had become such a force for planetary change that we were creating a new geological epoch. He is an author and has helped build programs or courses fostering communication impact at the National Academy of Sciences, Columbia and Pace University and the National Geographic Society. In spare moments he is a performing songwriter.
Johannah Blackman
Hope in action
7 p.m.
Blackman is a founding member and the Executive Director of A Climate to Thrive (ACTT). Blackman brings together over a decade of experience in nonprofit management, over twelve years of experience in climate action, and a background in education, youth mentorship, and counseling psychology. ACTT builds models for community-driven, equitable climate solutions, implementing and sharing decentralized, renewable energy solutions and supporting climate resiliency initiatives. Blackman’s particular passion is helping anyone and everyone discover their unique contribution to climate solutions and supporting community-driven climate action throughout Maine and beyond. She is an avid writer, explorer and a mother.
Vaughan Woodruff
The human element of the energy transition
7:30 p.m.
Woodruff is the founder and CEO of Insource Renewables, a solar contracting firm based in his hometown of Pittsfield. Insource was a worker cooperative that earned national accreditation as a PV installation company and was recognized as a one of the top 5% of Certified B Corps in the world for workers. While leading Insource, Woodruff served as chair of Maine’s solar industry trade group. Following the 2021 acquisition of Insource Renewables by another employee-owned B Corp, ReVision Energy, Woodruff led the companies’ joint workforce development and interconnection policy efforts until earlier this year. He’s served on a number of committees and boards in Maine and nationally and currently operates EquinoxDG, a consulting firm focused on addressing systemic issues that impact the widespread and equitable adoption of renewable energy.
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Musicians at the Spiral and Lab Stages
Sydney Patten
SPIRAL STAGE: 4:45 p.m.
Patten composes music inspired by the Ocean, and by her classical training. You will hear a piece about piping plovers, an original ragtime piece about the seals in Northeast Harbor, as well as a brand new piece on jellyfish. You will also hear classical pieces which have inspired Sydney’s compositions like Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Elegie and a Bach prelude.
Clare Monfredo, cellist
SPIRAL STAGE: 6 p.m.
Monfredo is a cellist based in Brooklyn, New York, originally from Seal Harbor. Monfredo will be performing music for solo cello ranging from J.S. Bach to composers of today.
The Nate Shaw Trio
SPIRAL STAGE: 7:15 p.m.
Borrowing from his time in Africa, Bali and Brooklyn, Shaw puts together a set of original music and rearranged jazz standards that is the magic of improvisation on top of a global groove.
King Tide
LAB STAGE: 4:30 p.m.
King Tide is a rock trio that optimizes the adage “greater than the sum of its parts.” Monster bassist Glenn Colby joins former Beatroots drummer Mike Bennett and frontman Bowen Swersey to put a new spin on a great mix of originals and classic rock tunes.
Hannah Mohan
LAB STAGE: 6:45 p.m.
Mohan and her band are from Northampton, Massachusetts, and have performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. They are promoting their new album of original music. She has recorded three prior albums with her former indy rock band “And The Kids.” She has performed and traveled widely.
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Food and Drink
Food items and drinks will be available at the event for $7 per item. Payments can be collected in cash or via a QR code through Venmo.
Postcards from the Edge
This year, the event will include a special display of original artwork, “Postcards from the Edge.” Artists have created postcards inspired by the theme of climate change and the cards will be displayed and can be purchased at the event to benefit ACTT. Postcards will be available for $20 per postcard via cash or a check made out to A Climate to Thrive.
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