hi. i'm james dean conklin,

i am an environmental artist & storyteller.
i use my skill sets as artist, musician and storyteller to learn about and share solutions to climate challenges and issues of environmental poverty.

Over the years, this has taken the form of music groups and teams of artists visiting areas of environmental significance and interacting with various stewards of sustainability, advocacy and solar energy engineering.

UPCOMING

Autumn 2024
Premiering An Offering of Light: Stories of Environmental Justice. A series of five, 20 minute episodes showing the works of our amazing team of solar energy entrepreneurs and educators in India and around the world.

Our 1st episode features the work of the Brahma Khumaris in Mt Abu, Rajasthan, with their very very large array of solar thermal concentrators (India One Solar), that brings energy to their main mission atop the mountain for up to 20,000 people every day. We also meet solar energy entrepreneur, engineer and educator, Deepak Gadhia, part of the team responsible for the recent completion of the world's largest solar thermal energy concentrator in Gujarat, India.

In episode 2, we meet Padma Laxshmi award winner Sri Janak Palta McGilligan and her Family of the Sun in Indore, including waste and resource management innovator Sameer Sharma and the team at Swaaha. We also visit Mr. Ajay Chandak in Dhule with his business partner and friend Rahul Kulkarni and their Essential Equipments solar dish fabrication plant.

October 2024
River Stories: visiting the Ganges river in India, along the ghats of Varanassi, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities on the planet, and then a crossing into Nepal for river celebrations in Kathmandu and in the Nepal Himalaya