New Paths to Climate Communication, from Classrooms to Media to Music In-Person / Online

In this talk, Lisa and Andy will draw on decades of experience in education, news media and music to describe fresh ways to engage with audiences, boost community resilience and foster clean energy progress. Too often, the goal is telling a better story - a one-way process - when what’s most needed is better conversations. Lisa will describe teaching models that engage students and teachers in a co-learning journey. Andy will offer ideas gleaned in his many years of hosting difficult discussions that can make your online experience more productive. And he’ll offer some musical ideas as well.

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Lisa Mechaley is a lifelong science, environmental and sustainability educator and naturalist, now retired, and chairs the Town of Lamoine Parks Commission. She was co-author with Andy Revkin of the 2018 book Weather: an Illustrated History, from Cloud Atlases to Climate Change. Andy Revkin has been an environment-focused journalist since 1983, including 21 years writing for The New York Times. He keeps at it through his Sustain What webcast and blog on Substack. Along with Weather, he has written lauded books on global warming, murder in the Amazon rain forest, changing conditions around the North Pole and the dawn of the Anthropocene age of human impact on the planet. He’s also a longtime songwriter whose second album, Wake Me up Martha, has been released this year. After three decades in the Hudson River Valley, Lisa and Andy, who have been married for 30 years, moved to Lamoine in 2022 to reconnect with their New England roots.