The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, NY has announced the opening of “Climate Solutions,” a 3,000-square-foot interactive exhibition that explores the encouraging stories of people from across different backgrounds, generations and sectors who are building a web of climate solutions in their lives and communities.
Over two years in the making, “Climate Solutions” highlights four different sectors that can help deal with climate change that visitors can relate to their own lives:
Energy: Transforming our Energy Ecosystem
Solutions demonstrate how transitioning to renewable energy will create an energy ecosystem that ensures lower carbon emissions, healthier communities, and cleaner air, water, and soil.
Food: Rebuilding our Food System
These solutions steer society toward an equitable food system for both people and the planet. By treating land, soil, and waters with respect, we can ensure access to healthy and affordable foods, and uplift people by supporting farmworkers.
Natural World: Caring for Our One Home
Exploring ways we can support Earth’s ecosystems to help build a livable future. The moss wall is an artistic representation and interpretation of carbon in the landscape, with various colors of moss representing the amount of stored carbon.
Action: Taking Action on Climate Change
What happens when people put their skills and passion into action? This space gets people to think about what tools are being used to combat climate change and communities taking action on climate change.
Visitors will meet 12 people who live in the Adirondack North Country region who are living climate solution examples. Their inspiring stories offer evidence of how science, technology and social change can become part of how your life can be a climate change solution.
Individuals featured:
Neil Patterson Jr.: Assistant Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment
Nicky Hylton-Patterson: Director, Adirondack Diversity Initiative
Steve Langdon: Research Station Director, Shingle Shanty Preserve
Michale Glennon: Science Director, Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute
Courtney Grimes-Sutton: Butcher/Farmer, Mace Chasm Farm
Birch Kinsey: Farmer, Youth Activist
Astrid St. Pierre & Ellen Lansing: Student Activists, Lake Placid High School
Blake Lavia & Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo: Documentarians, Talking Wings
Sue Powers: Director of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, Associate Director of Sustainability, Spence Professor in Sustainable Environmental Systems, Clarkson University
Jesse Schwartzberg: Principal, Black Mountain Architecture
James Ammon: Owner, ADK Solar
Ken Visser: Associate Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Clarkson University
Interactive elements provide hands-on experiences including a magnetic mural that shows how renewable energy can integrate into our landscape, a telephone wall that plays the voices of those engaged with climate solutions and a tinkering studio to fuel creative problem solving around climate impacts and solutions.
Individuals are invited to further engage with the exhibition online, where people can:
- Submit Solutions: Share your own solutions to be featured in the exhibit’s interactive mosaic.
- Extend Your Experience: Continue your climate solutions journey by exploring these – and other – climate solutions. Then learn how you can put things into action.
- Find Your Place in the Climate Movement: Take a virtual look at the exhibit and be inspired to find your place within the climate solutions movement.
The Wild Center is located at 45 Museum Drive, in Tupper Lake, and is open seven days a week from 10 am to 5 pm. For more information visit their website.
Photo of The Wild Center’s “Climate Solutions” exhibit provided.
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