Auspicious show today welcoming in the harbingers of spring emerging all around! Tufted titmice singing, spotted salamanders crawling out to lay eggs, Eastern Phoebes arriving, skunk cabbage skunking!
Our guest this episode is Sustainable Hudson Valley Executive Director Dr. Melissa Everett, who shares about the wealth of projects, initiatives and regional collaborative efforts she and her organization are involved with throughout the Hudson Valley.
Melissa is an outreach and communications strategist working at the intersection of climate action, green industry and community development. Since 2004, she has helped to build a movement of local innovators who are reducing their communities’ carbon footprints and building the market for clean energy industries. Her accomplishments with SHV include convening eight influential regional summits and conferences and bringing the Solarize model for community education and solar group purchasing to the Hudson Valley on a three-year funding award from NYSERDA.
