The Can-Doers.
Climate Beacon builds for the leaders accountable for getting climate implementation done — the municipal managers navigating capital budgets, permit processes, and multi-agency approvals; the campus leaders managing square footage, fleet, procurement, and board-level climate commitments simultaneously; the corporate directors bridging sustainability targets and execution reality inside real institutions. On deadline. Under budget pressure. Answerable to residents, students, employees, and boards. These are the Can-Doers — and CB is built for them.
Our Story
Climate Beacon is a regional platform that brings implementers together through convening, shared experience, and knowledge exchange.
CB was founded by Alex Richman alongside a dedicated board of directors and an insightful set of advisers committed to a straightforward premise: the climate transition happens fastest when the people responsible for executing it — municipal managers, campus leaders, corporate directors — are connected to each other, expert knowledge, and proven solutions from peers who have tackled similar work.
We built CB to multiply that community. To make it so connected and capable that it becomes the region's default infrastructure for climate implementation. The mechanism is simple: bring the right people together, keep them connected, route expert knowledge where it's needed, and let the community grow.
That community proves that climate action is opportunity for everyone — for the region, for the institutions in it, and for the people doing the work.
Our Board of Directors
Maeve Bartlett
Jen Gorke — TSK Associates
SecretaryMatt Gorzkowicz — Commonwealth of MA
Mark McGowan — Oxford Properties Group
Ed Morata — TSEA Energia
Bethany Patten — MIT Climate Policy Center
Devanshi Purohit — CBT Architects
Alex Richman — Climate Beacon
Marie Rockett — Argus
Brendan Ryan — Elephant Energy
Mary Skelton-Roberts — Philanthropy Massachusetts
Katie Theoharides — The Trustees of Reservations
Rebecca Ullman — National Grid
How we evaluate everything we build.
Environmental Benefit
The solution must measurably reduce emissions, restore ecosystems, or improve climate resilience. A solution that isn't environmentally sound won't produce lasting economic value or serve the communities that need it most.
Equitable Outcomes
Climate solutions must create broadly shared opportunity. The communities that have contributed least to this crisis have borne the greatest burden. A future worth building is one where the opportunity is as broadly shared as that burden has been.
Economic Growth
Climate action must generate durable economic value — for institutions, communities, and the region. Solutions that aren't economically viable don't scale, don't last, and fail the communities depending on them.