History & Mission
The Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative is a coalition of Cape & Islands-based organizations, businesses and citizens whose mission is to reach carbon neutrality or—net zero—on Cape Cod and the Islands of Massachusetts by enhancing communication collaboration, and activism among organizations, programs and individuals committed to mitigating the climate crisis.
Inspired by the historic Paris Climate Accord of 2015, the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative was established in 2016 to foster innovative, feasible, and cross-sector solutions to the climate crisis.
Board and Advisory Council members include community leaders from across the region representing organizations such as the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, Builders & Remodelers Association of Cape Cod, Cape Air, Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, and numerous faith, educational, non-profit and business entities.
Leadership
Officers
Richard Delaney
Richard Delaney
President of the Board of Directors of the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative
Center for Coastal Studies, President and CEO
Orleans
Center for Coastal Studies, President and CEO
Orleans
Richard F. Delaney is the President of the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, MA. Previously, Mr. Delaney was founding Director of the Urban Harbors Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston; served as Assistant Secretary of Environmental Affairs in Massachusetts; was National Chair of the Coastal States Organization in Washington DC representing the Governors of 35 coastal states, Great Lake states and US territories on legislative and budgetary matters before Congress. Mr. Delaney has provided consultations to governments in over 20 countries, regarding coastal and ocean management, capacity building, institutional strengthening, and public outreach. As a member of the International Board of Directors of the Global Ocean Forum, he participated in the Rio +20 events in Rio de Janeiro focusing on sustainable develop and conservation of oceans and coasts and Oceans Day at the Paris Climate Conference, December, 2016. Climate change impacts on oceans and coastal communities is the major focus of his local work at as President of the Board of Directors of the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative and international as Board member of the Global Ocean Forum. He also serves as vice-chair of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council; chair of the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission and past chair of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce’s Wastewater Task Force. He has BS in Political Science from Harvard, has completed graduate studies in environmental planning and landscape architecture at the State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry and completed a Certificate Program for Senior Executives at Harvard’s JKF School of Government.
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President
CEO & President, Center for Coastal Studies
Moncrieff Cochran
Moncrieff Cochran
Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative and an adjunct educator with the Center for Coastal Studies.
Orleans
Orleans
Mon Cochran is currently a writer living in South Orleans, on Cape Cod. He grew up on the Cape, went to Orleans public schools, and received his BA from Harvard in sociology. His PhD in developmental psychology is from the University of Michigan. Mon is a professor emeritus at Cornell University, where for 35 years he taught and conducted applied child development research in the College of Human Ecology. Since retirement Mon has shifted his focus to ways of helping children and adults understand why the earth’s climate is changing and what they can do to manage those changes. He is currently Vice President of the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative and an adjunct educator with the Center for Coastal Studies.
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Vice President
Janet Williams
Janet Williams
Coordinator, Chatham Climate Action Network
Chatham
Chatham
With a background in environmental law, education, and consulting, Janet Williams brings a unique set of experiences and skills to the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative. She spent a dozen years as an environmental enforcement attorney with the EPA, five years providing legal counsel to commercial real estate developers and lenders, and several years building and teaching social science education programs at the secondary level. She discovered a passion for and commitment to fighting climate change while volunteering as a pro bono legal researcher with the Climate Justice Programme in London in 2005. She’s been in the fight ever since. And she’s not giving up.
Other: Chair, Chatham Conservation Commission; Coordinator, Chatham Climate Action Network; Secretary, Pleasant Bay Community Boating; Member: Conservation Law Foundation
Janet has a BA from Boston College, Teaching Certification from Northeastern University and JD from Villanova University School of Law and is a LEED Accredited Green Associate.
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Secretary
Jim Wolf
Jim Wolf
Cape Air, Director of Sustainability
Yarmouth Port
Yarmouth Port
As Program Director for Sustainability at Cape Air, Jim’s focus has been to answer the question: What does it mean when an airline goes green? The solutions include conserving fuel in the fleet aircraft, research, development and partnering on electric propulsion aircraft, energy conservation efforts and renewable energy development at Cape Air facilities, inspiring employees to undertake energy efficiency improvements at their homes and in their transportation, and teaming with the communities served by Cape Air to promote conservation, renewable energy, carbon reduction, and responsible environmental stewardship. Jim’s background is in construction and the arts.
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Treasurer
Director of Sustainability, Cape Air
Directors
Margaret Downey
Margaret Downey
Ms. Downey is the Administrator for the Cape Light Compact. Prior to serving as the full-time Cape Light Compact Administrator, Maggie served as both the Assistant County Administrator and Compact Administrator for 17 years. The Cape Light Compact service territory consists of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard, approximately 205,000 year-round residents. The Cape Light Compact is the first municipal aggregator in Massachusetts. Ms. Downey is responsible for management and direction of the Cape Light Compact’s electric power supply aggregation program and energy efficiency programs. She has previously represented the Cape Light Compact on its sister organization, the Cape & Vineyard Electric Cooperative, which is has installed 49MW of distributed renewable energy projects. Ms. Downey has been working on energy related issues for over 20 years. Prior to joining Barnstable County in 1994, she served as the SEPA/Public Affairs Manager for the City of Issaquah, Washington. Maggie earned her Masters of Public Administration from the University of Washington at Seattle and holds a Graduate Certificate in Management from Harvard University Extension School.
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Executive Director, Cape Light Compact
Rob Brennan
Rob Brennan
Coming Soon!
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President, CapeBuilt
Sarah Griscom
Sarah Griscom
Pleasant Bay Community Boating, Science Program Advisor
Chatham
Chatham
Sarah is the Science Program Director at Pleasant Bay Community Boating in East Harwich, MA. Her education includes: BS. Earth and Marine Science at the University of California Santa Cruz; PhD. Coastal Oceanography at Stony Brook University, “Bioavailability of sediment-bound metals to two marine bivalves “; Postdoctoral and Research Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, collaboration with the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), France. Sarah’s work experience: Eight years with the US Geological Survey, Branch of Marine Geology, ship-board physical science technician, navigator, and public education outreach; Five years teaching high school sciences, MA teaching certificate in chemistry; Town of Chatham, water quality scientist. Sarah joined Pleasant Bay Community Boating In 2015 to build science and stewardship programs and work side-by-side with those dedicated to making community sailing, hands-on marine education and environmental stewardship accessible to all.
Other: I come from a family of New England scientists and conservationists but I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area In the 1960 and ‘70s. Our family regularly backpacked in the Sierra Nevadas and learned to scuba dive in Monterey Bay. Surrounded by environmental activists, early on I understood the destructive impact humans have on the earth. A huge step toward restoring our planet requires us to greatly reduce our carbon footprint. My interest is in educating and inspiring the next generation to create a Net Zero world and to help to explain the complex consequence of excess greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere and oceans.
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Director of Science Programs, Pleasant Bay Community Boating
Dorothy Savarese
Dorothy Savarese
Cape Cod 5, Chair and CEO
Sandwich
Sandwich
After an early career in economic development, I joined Cape Cod 5 as a commercial lender over 25 years ago. Today, I am CEO and Chair of the Cape Cod Five Mutual Company, the sole shareholder of Cape Cod 5, which employs over 500 people at 27 locations and was recently once again named a Boston Globe Best Place to Work and one of American Banker’s Top Banks to Work for. I am the former chair of the Massachusetts Bankers Association, the American Bankers Association and the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce Board, and was appointed by the Federal Reserve Board to serve as the president of their Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council (CDIAC) for 2020, after having served on the council as a member in 2019. I also currently serve as Chair of the Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council (CDIAC) for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. I have served on the Boards of the Cape Cod Community College, the Cape Symphony Orchestra, Housing Assistance Corporation, Gosnold, Inc. and the Regional Employment Board. I was also elected as a member of the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative Board of Directors in 2020. I hold an MBA from Suffolk University.
Other: My first professional position was as Executive Director of Little Miami, Inc., a river preservation organization in Ohio. Although I have spent the balance of my career in economic development and banking, I have always been focused on the environment and the care that needs to be exercised in balancing human activity with our natural world. My 27 years at Cape Cod 5 have deepened my understanding of the unique and delicate nature of the Cape Cod and Islands ecosystem, and the deep dependence our regional economy has on our natural environment. Working together with my Senior Leadership Team, I have designated Environmental Stewardship as one of Cape Cod 5’s key area of focus for our Community Commitment. Through each of our Five Ways of Engagement (Community Banking; Responsible Business Practices; Corporate Leadership & Volunteerism; Advancement of Financial Know-How; and Philanthropy), our 500+ employees work together to help protect our natural environment. We have committed ourselves to supporting several key organizations and events that bring together environmental thought leaders, with local and state officials and corporate citizens to move the needle in such things as sustainable infrastructure and corporate responsibility. We have developed programs to help make more affordable ecofriendly choices such as home solar panels, and have as an institution invested in community solar arrays. Finally, our new 80,000 square foot headquarters, “HQ5,” was carefully planned to be environmentally sensitive, which led to selection of a formerly developed site, design of the building to LEED Gold standards, use of renewable energy, a parking structure to minimize asphalt footprint, inclusion of energy efficient systems including smart window technology, incorporation of paperless systems and processes, among many other environmentally sound practices. This project also includes expansion of the sewer infrastructure for use both by this site and abutters.
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President and CEO, Cape Cod 5
Andrew Juan
Andrew Juan
Student Representative, Youth Climate Action Network
Yarmouth Port
Yarmouth Port
Andrew Juan is a political activist and organizer, dedicated to making the voices of young Americans heard in our modern political process. A high school senior based on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Andrew has worked extensively with a variety of political organizations. He served as the National Youth Director for the Yang2020 presidential campaign, creating Youth for Yang, the campaign’s official youth organizing group. Andrew is also a board member of the Barnstable Youth Advisory Commission. He believes that young people are the greatest political force in modern politics and they can change the world. His additional interests include music, swimming, epidemiology, healthcare policy, and public health.
Other: Co-founder and Political Director ~ Young Americans Coalition for Unity Various engagement in local climate organizations, ran a youth summit. Andrew is skilled in public speaking, youth engagement, distributed organizing, digital organizing.
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Chair, Youth Climate Action Network
Dana Rebeiro
Dana Rebeiro
Coming Soon!
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Vineyard Wind
Don Keeran
Don Keeran
Association to Preserve Cape Cod, Asst. Director
Brewster
Brewster
Don Keeran is assistant director of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod. He focuses extensively on environmental policy and advocacy for the organization, and acts as APCC’s liaison for most state and federal environmental legislative and policy issues. Don works on the state, regional and local levels on growth management initiatives, promoting the adoption of land use and planning policies that advance smart growth, natural resource protection and climate change. He is responsible for developing many of APCC’s positions on topical environmental issues, including proposals for regional development projects and other projects that could impact the Cape’s natural resources and quality of life. Don serves on a variety of boards and committees focused on issues such as climate change, land use planning, water quality and open space preservation. He has been a resident of Brewster since 1997.
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Assistant Director, Association to Preserve Cape Cod
Fran Schofield
Fran Schofield
Fran Schofield is a founding member of the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative and one of three lead organizers of the Collaborative’s inaugural kick-off event in 2016. She handles communications for the Climate Collaborative and serves as conference coordinator for the Collaborative’s Net Zero 2020 virtual conference.
With a diversified public and private sector background in coastal zone management, land planning, historic preservation/urban revitalization, commercial real estate development and real estate marketing and sales, she brings broad perspective, experience and expertise to the issue of climate crisis mitigation on Cape Cod. A resident of Brewster since 2000, Fran divides her time between her professional role as Realtor with Robert Paul Properties, Inc. and positions on the boards and committees of several area nonprofits where her project management, communications and marketing skills are deployed to advance organizational missions. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Fran attended Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in landscape architecture, and is a proud recipient of the Cape & Islands Democratic Council’s “Democrat of the Year” award.
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Chair, Net Zero Conference Planning Team
Barry Margolin
Barry Margolin
Coordinator, Cape Cod Climate Action Network
West Yarmouth
West Yarmouth
Until recently Chair of 350 Cape Cod; currently working as co-coordinator of the newly formed Cape Cod Climate Action Network, a network within the Collaborative; also a painter creating images about the climate emergency; previously worked for many decades as a lawyer for Native American tribal governments; once was an organizer and lobbyist at the State House for a neighborhood based community organization.
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Chair, Policy & Program Committee, Cape Cod Climate Action Network
Nate Mayo
Nate Mayo
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Development & Policy Manager, Vineyard Wind
Bert Jackson
Bert Jackson
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Chief Executive Officer, Cape Cod Technology Council
Kristy Senatori
Kristy Senatori
Coming Soon!
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Executive Director, Cape Cod Commission (Alternates: Heather McElroy, Erin Perry, Michelle White)
Chris Kennedy
Chris Kennedy
Coming Soon!
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Mobility Manager, Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority
Liz Argo
Liz Argo
Coming Soon!
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Argo Energy Consulting
Mark Robinson
Mark Robinson
Coming Soon!
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Executive Director, Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts (Alternates: Julie Early, Amy Henderson)
Beth Wade
Beth Wade
Coming Soon!
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Land Acquisition and Permitting Manager, Habitat for Humanity (Alternate: Bob Ryley)
Chris Flanagan
Chris Flanagan
Coming Soon!
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Executive Officer, Homebuilders and Remodelers of Cape Cod
Brian McGurk
Brian McGurk
Coming Soon!
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Co-Director, Faith Communities Environmental Network
Austin Brandt
Cape Light Compact
Kristin Andres
APCC
Susan Starkey
FCEN
Eugene Curry
Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce
Matthew Burke
Cape Cod 5
Heather McElroy
Cape Cod Commission
Erin Perry
Cape Cod Commission
Michelle White
Cape Cod Commission
Bob Ryley
Habitat for Humanity
Julie Early
Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts
Amy Henderson
Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts