Working on climate change locally in the Hudson Valley

I'm a connector. I'm a generalist. I'm a helper. I love to learn and share what I've learned. I'm naturally an introvert but force myself to speak up and be social in groups.

I'm now in my third term as a local official. I'm trying to make structural lasting change in this role, but I'm getting burnt out on the local government/politics framework.
I work for Partners for Climate Action part-time and develop and run programs that bring together cohorts of grantees.

I'd like to spend less time on a computer!

My kids are growing to the next phase beyond where they need me as much as when they were little, so it's an opportunity for me to pursue my career more.

I have really invested in doing climate actions through the local government and learned a lot and met a lot of people in my community here in Rhinebeck and in the Hudson Valley.

I'm missing the more artistic/creative side of my life. I studied art and art history and the history of landscape. I really resonated with John Stilgoe and the history of American build landscape. His is sort of a cultural history of landscape design.
I fell in love with the internet and its potential in the early 2000s. I had very idealistic ideas about it connecting people and benefitting the world. That is very much tempered now by the dark side it's fostered.

I think about humans a lot in terms of what we've evolved to do and what we're naturally capable of and how that informs the organization of societies at a grand scale down to human behavior at the micro scale. I believe we as a species need to evolve to a new (old?) way of decision making and being in the world. One where we think beyond our selfish immediate present and project forward to more long term thinking, more generously and respectfully regarding future generations and the systems of the planet.