Climate change continues to pose a serious threat to both urban and rural areas nationwide. How can our work and the programs we create help these places adapt and remain resilient in the face of related challenges?

Ticco retreats are a way to manifest a few of the core Ticco values - breaking barriers that divide city building practices and supporting the education of future leaders in our fields.

At this virtual retreat, sessions will dive into current research as well as tools and strategies to shape our practice in light of our changing environment. Topics covered will include items such as:

• Harvesting Natural Resources: The State of Innovation and Current Threats to Quality of Life
• Environmental Equity Fundamentals for Urban Planners
• From West Coast to the Gulf Coast: How Regions are Bracing Themselves for a Changing Landscape

Speakers on Day 1 include: 

• Shalanda Baker keynotes and is the author of the upcoming book Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition
• Fern Nueno, Project Manager at the City of Long Beach, CA
• Zelalem Adefris, Vice President of Policy & Advocacy at Catalyst Miami
• Cate Mingoya, Director of Capacity Building at Groundworks, USA 

Shalanda Baker is the co-director and co-founder of the Initiative for Energy Justice at Northeastern University.

Her book, Revolutionary Power, is a playbook for the energy transformation, complete with a step-by-step analysis of energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. Baker argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in creating a new energy system to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system.

Join us as Baker explains how this unique moment in history provides an unprecedented opening for a deeper transformation of the energy system,and thus, an opportunity to transform society.

Moderated by Kris Mayes, director of ASU's Utility of the Future Center.

Mirroring the pandemic’s effect on just about every aspect of life, this fall’s Open Classroom series explores an expanse of topics related to societal injustice. In conjunction with Global Climate Change Week, Northeastern’s energy justice and climate researchers and activists Shalanda Baker, Jennie Stephens, Joan Fitzgerald, and Frances Roberts-Gregory join us for an inspiring panel discussion that connects climate activism, racial justice and economic justice.

Join Initiative for Energy Justice for a discussion and Q&A session with Shalanda H. Baker, IEJ’s Co-Founder and Co-Director and author of the new book Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition! 

In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new energy system in order to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system.

Revolutionary Power is a playbook for the energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. Baker tells the stories of those who have been left behind in our current system and those who are working to be architects of a more just system. She draws from her experience as an energy-justice advocate, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color to inspire activists working to build our new energy system.

The Bloomfield Public Library, Doll's House Foundation, and Bloomfield Conservation, Energy, & Environment Committee (CEEC) present author Shalanda H. Baker to discuss her book Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition. Copies of the book are on order for both Bloomfield locations and may be put on hold here. You do not need to read the book before joining the program. Take a moment to become educated about energy transformation and how it impacts our most vulnerable population.

Shalanda was previously a Professor of Law, Public Policy, and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, and is now the Deputy Director for Energy Justice in the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy.

Part of the Doll's House Foundation's 2021 celebration "Education the World is our Classroom."