Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series

“The Climate Action Landscape in Vermont: The Climate Council, Legislature, and the Grassroots” by Johanna Miller, Energy and Climate Program Director at the Vermont Natural Resources Council.

The climate crisis and its intersection with many other critical issues — including our nation’s reckoning with systemic racism and deep economic inequities — has intensified the focus on long-overdue, integrated solutions. In this series, learn about several of the climate, clean energy and environmental justice priorities coming out of the Vermont Climate Council, in the works at the Vermont Legislature and the leadership at the local level to partner in progress.

Johanna Miller is the Energy and Climate Program Director at the Vermont Natural Resources Council. Johanna also serves as the coordinator of the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network, the statewide network of over 120 all-volunteer town energy and climate action committees and the partners who support them. In these roles, Johanna works from the grassroots to the Legislature to help advance equitable clean energy and climate action programs and policies. Johanna is an appointed member of the Vermont Climate Council, served on Governor Phil Scott’s Climate Action Commission and also serves on the Clean Energy Development Fund board, the Vermont Energy Education Program board, and the Vermont System Planning Committee.