Ellen’s Work Blog
December 2024
As we head from Thanksgiving to Christmas with a few short weeks left in 2024, I have many projects in the works. Chief among them is our ongoing Regeneration Project with schools all over the state.
Having spent the last days of November visiting the Gilbert School in Winsted, Southwest Middle School in Torrington, and Renzulli Academy in Hartford, I am stoked. These students are going all out on this project, and as they start to fill their Regeneration sketchbooks with ideas, the possibilities expand. In anyone’s world, cleaning up the planet is not happening overnight, and it is not happening without everyone pitching in. This is a giant task, including for all of us at AMP.
This coming week, AMP Education Director Michelle Begley and I will get a complete tour of the Net Zero campus of Mansfield School in Storrs, CT, with Chris Kueffner and his wife Lynn Stoddard, who is the recently retired head of Sustainable CT. Then, we will meet with the school's Changemakers—the students working on Regeneration. Friday, I am going to Fairfield to meet with the Ludlowe students to see where they are headed with their Regeneration Project. (Other participating schools are Barkhamsted Elementary, Botelle Elementary in Norfolk, CHAMPS After School in Winsted, Colebrook Elementary, and Northwest Regional 7 in Winsted.) Together, all of the students will bring attention to what is needed to support every living creature—on land, in the air, and in the sea.
This Saturday, December 7, Sandra Boynton and her immensely talented family and friends will be at AMP. Videos on the big screen will showcase music from her new album Cows and Holly, along with a few live performances. They will fill our space with holiday cheer. Whatever you have planned to celebrate the holidays, this will be the kick-off event of your season. The Cows and Holly album, with all of the Boynton animation and original musical scores, is pure genius.
Sandy is doing this, especially for AMP, because she loves us so much!
