Maine Chapter

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Cool Communities

The Sierra Club Cool Cities has

over 800 cities in 50 states

signed on. Several Maine communities have already joined

]in, your community could

be next! Let's get more cities

and communities involved.  For more information, or to get involved, call us at 761-5616 or email us at  maine.chapter@sierraclub.org.

What you can do

Sign up for the governor's Carbon Challenge for homeowner involvement.

Sign up for e-newsletters

Keep up with highlighted chapter activities, national action items, latest resources, projects, and people who are making things happen, as well as important news about energy and climate change.

Plugged In,  a roughly bi-weekly,  e-newsletter about the campaigns, ideas, and resources happening all over the club in the global warming arena.  

Hotline, a more action-oriented     e-newsletter, showing up in alternating time slots.

Lets make all Maine Communities  "COOL COMMUNITIES. " The following communities are on the journey to becoming cooler:

Photovoltaic Panels at East End School in Portland!

Photo by Joe Hemes AIA, LEED AP,  Stephen Blatt Architects

Click here to download "A School Breeze", an informational pamphlet on the Clean Air Zone program for students and teachers. Learn more about making your school a no idling/clean air zone.

For more information contact maine.chapter@sierraclub.org

The Maine Partners for Cool Communities is the product of the joint efforts of the Maine Chapter Sierra Club, the American Lung Association of Maine, the Maine Council of Churches, Physicians for Social Responsibility Maine, and the Maine Energy Investment Corporation.