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Cool Starts with You
A project designed to reach out to community neighborhoods across Maine with information and incentives that promotes clean energy and saves money.

Cool Continues With Your Community
Cool Communities is all about solutions to Global Warming: engaging citizens, empowering communities while saving taxpayer dollars.  

Cool Towns Recieve Big Boost for Energy Conservation
February 15, 2010

The Maine Public Utilities Commission has awarded the first round of grants to Maine communities under the State of Maine Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program. The $9.5 million dollars for the program is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and was established by Congress to assist communities in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, energy use and energy costs in various sectors including building and transportation.

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"Going Green to Stay in the Black: A New Decade for Energy Efficiency and Green Building"
January 15, 2010

 

$37 million in stimulus funding is coming to Maine. How much and how will that money be spent for energy efficiency, weatherization and green building in Maine communities and businesses?  View Speaker Presentations

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Follow the action in Copenhagen, Denmark
December 7, 2009

This week, delegates from Maine left for Copenhagen, Denmark to take part in International climate talks and other related activities. 

Cool Communities co-director Joan Saxe, will be taking part in the events and will be blogging along the way.  To follow Joan’s blog go to: http://joan-rssfeed.blogspot.com/.

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Building Community Resiliency in the Face of Climate Change
November 25, 2009

Climate change poses many challenges and threats to coastal communtities here in Maine.  Luckily, many communities and state agencies are recognizing the risks of climate change and many efforts are underway to make communities more resilient to those risks. 

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Pittsfield becomes a Cool Community!
November 16, 2009

Pittsfield is now the newest Cool Community!  Earlier this month, Mayor Timothy Nichols signed the U.S. Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement.  Town manager, Kathryn Ruth, initiated the move, since the town of Pittsfield has already begun taking measures to reduce energy costs and global warming pollution in their community.

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