How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Climate? (virtual)

This event marks the launch of The River Newsroom’s Climate Lab, a new project focused on covering climate impacts and solutions in the Hudson Valley and Catskills region.

What is being done in the region to prepare and ensure that our communities and systems will be resilient enough to withstand change?

This conversation brings together expert panelists working on a broad range of climate solutions throughout the region, and invite them to talk about their work—and the change that lies within our grasp, even in the midst of a complex global disaster.

Register here!

Moderated by Lissa Harris, staff writer at The River Newsroom.

Co-moderated by Jen Metzger, former New York state Senator and policy advisor for New Yorkers for Clean Power. Jen Metzger, PhD, served in the NY State Senate in 2019-2020, and currently advises on climate and energy policy with the nonprofit organization, New Yorkers for Clean Power. Prior to her election to the State Senate, she served for over a decade in local government in the Town of Rosendale, and cofounded and directed Citizens for Local Power, an organization dedicated to fighting unfair utility rates and practices and helping communities shift to a locally based clean energy economy.

Panelists for this conversation include:

• Aaron Bennett, certified floodplain manager and environmental planner for Ulster County
• Ben Dobson, founder of Hudson Carbon and farm manager of Stone House Grain
• Melinda McKnight, vice president of Energy Conservation Services
• Nava Tabak, director of science, climate, and stewardship at Scenic Hudson
• Andrew Willner, sail freight advocate and founder of the Center for Post Carbon Logistics
• Rich Winter, CEO of Delaware River Solar and grass-fed beef farmer