Hosted by Sustainable Museums
Climate-smart work in the country's 35,000 museums, and cultural heritage centers and landscapes means jobs and community resilience while cutting carbon. Leaders at the Abbe Museum (ME), Puerto Rico Traditional Trades Apprenticeship Program - Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, and the Science Museum of Minnesota showcase the climate jobs future through traditional ecological knowledge-sharing for natural resource protection and management; traditional building-skills apprenticeships critical for low-emissions building and rebuilding for resilience; and clean energy and efficiency critical to reducing the sector's building use footprint.
Speakers include:
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Sarah Sutton, Principal, Sustainable Museums, and Cultural Sector Lead for America is All In
- Chris Newell, Passamaquoddy, Executive Director and Senior Partner to the Wabanaki Nations, Abbe Museum, Maine
- Hector J Berdecia-Hernadez of the Puerto Rico Traditional Trades Apprenticeship Program, Institute of Puerto Rican Culture
- Pat Hamilton, Director of Global Change Initiatives, Science Museum of Minnesota