Meet the Team

Dori led Peterborough Energy Action last year to pass the 100% Renewable Energy warrant article. 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."

Beth is a committed volunteer community activist in Peterborough town government as well as in local arts and science organizations. She is a member of the Water Resources Advisory Committee, the Contoocook and North Branch Rivers Local Advisory Committee, the Master Plan Steering Committee, and numerous sub committees for the Master Plan. Beth has spent 16 years helping at Peterborough Players from backstage to front of house. She also taught a robotics class at the New Boston 4-H a couple of summers. Professionally, Beth assists others to run their businesses. She is an owner-operator driving for Mayflower, and has run her own businesses for the past 30+ years.

Beth is an enthusiastic electric car owner. She drove a GEM for 18 years and now has had a Smart Car for the past 2 years.

“I want to see more green energy solutions (for Peterborough) such as solar, wind, hydro and maybe geo-thermal.”

Brian worked as a member of the Peterborough Energy Action campaign. A resident of Peterborough for over thirty years, he has had careers in oceanography and environmental consulting, banking, and is now retired from a twenty year career in science education.

As a teacher at Milford and Conant high schools, Brian developed and taught courses in sustainability after a Fulbright trip to Japan to study Education for Sustainable Development. He is a past board member of the Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Congregation and was a member of Peterborough’s Open Space committee. He enjoys hiking, Irish music, and making writing instruments.

“I am passionate about teaching the next generation not to repeat the mistakes of the past and optimistic about helping correct those mistakes.

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.”

Karen brings Office Management and Bookkeeping experience to the work she has done with many volunteer organizations. She likes to ask hard questions - specifically “who's missing from the table” which makes her a perfect fit for the PREP team tasked with getting feedback from the community.

“I would like there to be a world my grandchildren can grow up in.”

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.”