Tiny Climate Classroom Travels New England, Bringing Solar Education to Everyone
Sunsquatch and the Tiny Climate Classroom on the Blue Hill Co-Op.
At ReVision Energy, one in every of our core values is studying; we need to equip everybody, younger and previous, with the data and expertise to alter the world. Last yr we launched Sunsquatch.com to assist households and educators train children concerning the local weather, and we’re excited to comply with that up with the debut of our Tiny Climate Classroom.
We partnered with Tiny Homes of Maine to construct out one in every of their Allagash fashions and outfit it with all of our solar applied sciences: rooftop solar panels, a warmth pump, and battery back-up. We then labored with native Maine artists Rachel Gloria Adams and Ryan Adams to customized design and paint the inside mural, built-in with hands-on actions for each children and adults.
“I thought about bringing the outdoors indoors. The sun is the central focus of the mural and you see how the sun not only energizes the solar panels but everything it touches. By using geometric forms to depict a natural environment it is as if it has been filtered by human hand or machine just like the energy systems.” —Rachel Gloria Adams
This Earth Month, Sunsquatch and the Tiny Climate Classroom are touring New England, bringing enjoyable local weather training all over the place from Blue Hill, ME to Dracut, MA. After April, the Tiny Climate Classroom will probably be used for varsity subject journeys, camp classes, solar ribbon cuttings, and extra, normally accompanied by Sunsquatch. Sunsquatch is on a mission to encourage hope, and assist construct a brighter future for everybody.
We’re targeted on STEAM training, mixing science and artwork to deliver local weather consciousness to our communities. Last yr we partnered with UNH Sustainability Fellows (learn extra about our superb summer season fellow Lila), to create customized curriculum that brings enjoyable actions, targeted on local weather matters, to Okay-8 audiences.
Many properties and companies have clear energy expertise, however understanding their parts, with the ability to bodily contact them, and that includes them within the wider context of local weather training is a vital device in combatting the local weather disaster. The Tiny Climate Classroom will unfold consciousness, hope, and sunshine round New England and we are able to’t wait so that you can see it.
