Dori led the initiative to pass Peterborough's 100% Renewable Energy warrant article in 2021. She serves on the Peterborough Energy Committee and as Co-Chair of the Board for the Monadnock Sustainability Hub (the Hub) where she worked with the organizing group for the Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire. In 2019, Dori led Solarize Monadnock in Peterborough. In a previous life, she was an elementary school classroom teacher and then a teacher/naturalist with the Harris Center. She co-founded a charter school in NC. Dori lives at Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm, a cohousing community that values sustainability where she has a solar array on her home and an electric bike.

“The climate crisis is the most urgent issue of our time. I’m grateful to live in a town that supports this important work."

Geoff has lived in Peterborough for six years since retiring from working as a computer scientist at a not for profit research institute in North Carolina. He believes that fighting climate change is one of the most important actions we can take for the benefit of our children and grandchildren. He is a member of

the Outreach team.

John worked for twenty years doing outdoor education for the Colorado Outward Bound School and spent twenty years working in county government administering adult and child protection programs. He has a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Michigan and a Masters in Counseling from the University of Northern Colorado. John and his wife recently moved here from Colorado to be closer to grandkids.

“Direct action to address the climate crisis is a personal priority of mine.”

Anne is a retired academic librarian and a grandmother living at RiverMead. She has previously worked with Solarize Monadnock, Peterborough Energy Action, and the Peterborough Open Space Committee. She currently works with the Peterborough Energy Committee, with the Monadnock Citizen’s Climate Lobby Chapter, and as an alternate on the South Peterborough Tax Increment Finance District.

She is an enthusiastic EV driver, has a wonderful heat pump in her lakeside A-frame, and is doing what she can to lower her carbon footprint at RiverMead.

“I believe that if we all act now to do everything we can to mitigate climate change, our grandchildren will be able to enjoy living in a habitable world.”

James has been a member of many non-profit boards and committees including the Peterborough Economic Development Authority. He founded and ran a world-wide strategic consulting firm and was a board member and consultant for a world-wide energy management firm. His major focus has been positive collaboration supporting sustainability. James believes that energy sustainability can best be managed in our local community.

Since retiring James spends all of his time as a volunteer in the Peterborough community.

“The 100% program is an exciting way to change the world. It is not driven by big business profitability.”

Carol majored in Psychology in college, got an RN, and later an M.Ed. from Antioch Institute of Open Education. She is a retired RN who worked mainly in psychiatry and substance abuse, and then switched to become a Trager practitioner.

Carol has served on the SOLARIZE project, the Peterborough Energy Action Committee, and is currently on the League of Women Voters Peterborough Plus Committee which holds local candidate forums, voter drives and other public education activities. As a resident of Nubanusit Neighborhood & Farm, a sustainable cohousing community most of Carol’s electricity use is produced by solar panels and the community’s heating comes from locally sourced wood pellets. (In 2008 when the community was built wood pellets were made from discarded wood; sadly this is no longer the case!)

“I still think that addressing climate change is our most important challenge. I have nightmares about the climate crisis and how it is already affecting us, our children and future generations of humans as well as all living beings on Earth.”

Danica started her planning career immediately after graduating from the University of New Hampshire with a B.S. in Tourism, Planning, and Development and a Minor in Geography. At UNH, she was awarded the George T. Gilman Scholarship Award for “full-time students interested in protecting environment, wildlife, or other aspects affecting quality of life in New Hampshire” and the Outstanding Student Award from the Tourism, Planning, and Development degree program.

While Danica’s commitment to renewable energy and climate justice have always been a core value, it increased while working as the Land Use Assistant for the Town of Fitzwilliam where she wrote the Town’s first Solar Ordinance. From there, Danica became a Planner at North Country Council, the state’s northernmost Regional Planning Commission where her enthusiasm for energy and climate planning further skyrocketed. Up north, she became a jack-of-all-trades by working in a diverse collection of planning specialties; of notable specialty was the world of solid waste planning where her role included serving as the Administrator for the Pemi-Baker Solid Waste District. Solid waste planning, particularly in the North Country (where the vast majority of New England’s trash is sent), brought a spectacularly interesting perspective and experience.

Danica is thrilled to be working for the Town of Peterborough where the community supports transitioning to renewable energy and climate resiliency.