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Environmental Sustainability
Steps to the Future: Discovery Museum Builds Toward Carbon Neutrality
The news about climate change, the environment, and the state of our planet is frightening and discouraging. In the face of it all, how do we create hope? According to noted conservation …
Historic Houses in the Shifting Landscape of Climate Change
In combating climate change, we can look to Indigenous and historic practices for models of sustainable architectural solutions to extreme heat, cold, and humidity. Structures built in …
How Museum Educators Are Using Strategic Foresight to Address Climate Change
In this series of posts, EdCom’s Trends Committee is taking a deeper look at emerging phenomena identified in the 2021 edition of TrendsWatch from the Center for the Future of …
Point of View: Ending Business as Usual
With a regenerative approach, every museum can address clim…
Point of View: Think Globally, Act Locally
By focusing on sustainability, museums can also help make their communities more just and…
From the President and CEO: Meeting the Climate Change Challenge
AAM’s vision is “a just and sustainable world informed and enriched by thriving museums that contribute to the resiliency and equity of their communities.” I am constantly impressed and …
Bringing Our Resources to Bear
Academic museum professionals can use their institution’s resources to help the wider community better understand the clim…
Let’s Go All In
The international climate conference makes clear that we all must do our part to slow the clim…
Climate Change at Home
At King Manor, education about the environment and the historic house go ha…
Protecting Earth’s Heart
Monterey Bay Aquarium is doing its part to cut emissions and waste to keep the effects of climate change from further affecting oc…
Museum as Lightning Rod: Innovation and Invitation—An #AAM2022 Keynote by Jake Barton
Jake Barton, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Local Projects, opened the Innovation focus area of the 2022 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo with his keynote, “Museum as …