How can a cultural heritage institution respond to emerging pressures from climate change in an organized and strategic way? For the past two years, the Boston Green Ribbon Commission has offered a program on Collaborative Climate Action Planning to Boston’s cultural and educational institutions. Based in behavior theory and organizational change management – with climate experts as guest faculty – the program reduces barriers to taking organizational climate action and results in a Climate Action Plan framework, an essential roadmap for organizations. The process creates a peer learning community in which to comfortably expand and deepen education around mitigation, resiliency, and climate justice work.
GRC is currently inviting applicants to join a new cohort in the Fall of 2024. Please join the following virtual meeting on May 3rd from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. to learn about Collaborative Climate Action Planning from organizations that have graduated! REGISTER HERE.
Speakers:
Cultural Institutions Working Group Co-Chairs:
- Sharon Malt, Trustee and Past Board President, Huntington Theatre Company
- Gwill York, President, Board of Trustees, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
CAP Program Participants:
- Jamie Gahlon, Director and Co-Founder, HowlRound Theatre Commons;
Special Advisor to the VP of the Office of the Arts, ArtsEmerson - Benjamin Haavik, Team Leader, Property Care, Historic New England
- Jennifer Lamy, Associate Director, Sustainability, Emerson College
- Joshua Meyer, Curator of Horticulture and Sustainability, Zoo New England
- Dallase Scott, Program Leader and Founder & Principal, Trust