Tom Adamo is a retired licensed clinical counselor, psychology professor, crisis center director and currently a committed volunteer in many community programs and environmental projects. He completed undergraduate studies at Springfield College and graduate studies at New York University. Tom taught for many years at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York and at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine. His commitment to the ecological challenges of our time is evident in his leadership role in the Greenhouse Project, the Window Dresser Project, the Bagaduce Watershed Association and the Friends of Blue Hill Bay. Tom’s love for and knowledge of our local waterways and fisheries inspires him to do all in his power to protect them for generations to come. He lives on the shore of the Bagaduce River in Penobscot. Hear an overview of the Greenhouse Project and see a demonstration of our new Liquid to Soil Greenhouse Solar Heating System.

Steve Benson, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and member of the Maine Psychological Association, Climate Psychology Alliance North America, and Psychologists for Social Responsibility. He has presented talks locally based on Transformational Resilience, a research-based approach to mitigating the psychological impact of our Global Climate Crisis and creating more sustainable communities. He has been a core member of the mid-coast Extinction Rebellion group and of Peninsula Peace and Justice

Amanda Bertana, PhD is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Scholars Strategy Network, Maine Chapter. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Utah. Her primary area of research is on the human dimensions of global environmental change and its effects (flooding, coastal erosion, more frequent and intense storm surges) on local communities. She has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Fiji Islands looking at ways the Government of Fiji is assisting rural coastal communities with relocating as an adaptation response to coastal erosion.

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Dud Hendrick is a Naval Academy graduate, a former Air Force officer, a Vietnam War vet, and an extremely proud member of Veterans for Peace. He lives in Deer Isle, Maine. He is on the staff of the Peace Studies Program, University of Maine. Hendrick's journey to peace activism began, unlikely enough, at the U.S. Naval Academy where he received his B.S. in engineering in 1963 and took a commission in the U.S. Air Force. After volunteer service in Vietnam, he returned to graduate school at Dartmouth College where he received his MBA in 1969. Soon after Hendrick opted for an unusual career, given his background, becoming the men’s lacrosse coach and women’s soccer coach at Dartmouth. In 1982, he and his wife moved to Deer Isle where he soon began a full-time commitment to peace. Hendrick has spoken several times at the Vietnam War Memorial in D.C., as well as at rallies and in high schools and universities around the state. He is most dedicated to speaking out against war and against the influence of the military-industrial complex on our culture.

Jeremy Jackson is Professor of Oceanography Emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution. Previously he was Professor of Ecology at Johns Hopkins University. He received his PhD in Geology from Yale in 1971. Jackson studies threats and solutions of human impacts on the oceans and the ecology and evolution of tropical seas. Jackson is the author of 160 scientific publications and eleven books. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jackson has received numerous prizes and awards His new book Breakpoint: Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises. appeared in April 2018.

Peter Neill is a climate and marine science researcher, and founder and director of the World Ocean Observatory. He serves as a host of World Ocean Radio, a weekly podcast about the health of the ocean. In 2016, he received an appointment with the Climate Change Institute and represents the W20 as a Research Associate. He previously served twenty years as President of the South Street Seaport Museum in New York. He is co-founder of the Sound School and the Harbor School and has dedicated his career to marine affairs. His most recent book, The Once and Future Ocean: Notes Toward a New Hydraulic Society, is available wherever books are sold. Peter lives in downeast Maine with his partner, Mary. He lectures widely and has recently presented at the College of the Atlantic’s Human Ecology Forum.

Florence Reed, hon PhD. After serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama, she founded Sustainable Harvest International in 1997. Florence is passionate about finding better ways to help the world’s farmers live better while regenerating the planet. This passion and acuity continually revitalize the staff, board, participants, and donors alike. In addition to zipping around the world spreading the good word about what they do and making connections, Florence lives with her family in an environmentally-friendly house on 30 acres of gardens and forest in Surry, Maine. Sustainable Harvest International has helped 3,000 small farms in Central America convert 26,000 acres of degraded land to regenerative agroecology practices that include 4 million trees. In the face of a looming climate crisis, Reed is now leading the organization toward a scaling up vision to reverse land degradation on 8 million acres, achieve food sovereignty for 5 million people and draw down 16 million tons of carbon into the soil annually.