Cool Monadnock
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[edit] Summary
COOL MONADNOCK is a three-year joint initiative between Clean Air-Cool Planet and Antioch New England Institute. The goal of COOL MONADNOCK is to achieve significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the Monadnock Region.
This is a collaborative community mobilization effort that will serve the towns of the Monadnock Region that are members of the Southwest Region Planning Commission. The majority of the towns in this region passed resolutions last year at Town Meeting to take action on greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction and to form local energy task forces.
This project was made possible through funding by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
[edit] Lead Partners
Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) is dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to global warming. By partnering with companies, campuses, communities and science centers throughout the Northeast to help reduce their carbon emissions, CA-CP helps their partners, their constituents, and other regional opinion leaders and stakeholders understand the impacts of global warming and its best available solutions. CA-CP showcases practical climate solutions that demonstrate the economic opportunities and environmental benefits associated with early actions on climate change. They propose and recommend the implementation of effective policy solutions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the state, regional and national levels. CA-CP is dedicated to building support for the implementation and strengthening of the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers' regional Climate Change Action Plan and national programs to reduce emissions. CA-CP is a science-based, non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit.
Christa Koehler, Project Co-Director. Christa Koehler was a City Planner for Keene, New Hampshire, where she performed a broad array of planning and development tasks including the development of comprehensive plans and review of development proposals. One of Christa's primary duties was to coordinate and run the Cities for Climate Protection program in Keene where she worked on implementing a Local Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Christa earned her B.A. in Political Science at Pace University and her M.S. in Resource Management and Administration at Antioch University New England (AUNE). Her research has centered on how comprehensive planning can curtail the advent of climate change in the northeast. Christa is an adjunct professor at AUNE and is the Vice President of the New Hampshire Planners Association.
Antioch New England Institute (ANEI) is a consulting and community outreach department of Antioch University New England. ANEI promotes a vibrant and sustainable environment, economy, and society by encouraging informed civic engagement. It provides training, programs and resources (U.S. and international) in leadership development, place-based education, nonprofit management, environmental education and policy, smart growth and public administration.
James Gruber, Project Co-Director. James S. Gruber, PE, MS, MPA: Antioch New England Institute co-founder, ANEI Project Director, Associate Faculty Member at Antioch University New England. Jim has 25 years of experience in public administration and non-profit management, including directing a municipal, community-development department, managing a Vermont municipality, directing a regional, solid-waste district, and consulting to federal, state, and Eastern European governments on resource and environmental management. Jim is strongly dedicated to local governmental service and has consulted to local, state, and national governments on resource planning, transportation planning, policy development, environmental issues, ordinance drafting, public participation, and community education. Examples of Jim's work include founding the N. H. Selectperson Institute, assisting the Ministry of Environment of Bulgaria in developing its first national environmental policy through an open, participatory process, facilitating the multi-stakeholder planning and initial design of Keene's Pathways Master Plan, managing the Rural Toxic Waste Project for 59 local governments in New Hampshire, assisting Vermont in their public-participation plan for revision to their state, solid-waste legislation, developing with the New Hampshire Municipal Association the Municipal Leadership Institute, facilitating Vision-to-Action Forums, delivering trainings through our Non-Profit Institute on building effective partnerships, managing an initiative with the Baltic American Partnership to develop community foundations in each of the Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia) through broad participatory forums and multi-stakeholder planning processes, consulting municipalities on local, resource conservation/solid-waste planning, and developing the Resource Awareness Center for the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire. Jim is a licensed New Hampshire civil engineer with an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. As a faculty member of the Environmental Studies Department at Antioch, Gruber teaches graduate level courses in environmental economics, public policy, public- sector/non-profit finance, and proposal writing.
[edit] What's happening in your town?
Click on the links below to find out what is happening in your town.
Town of Harrisville
Town of Hinsdale
Town of Langdon
Town of Marlow
Town of Nelson
Town of New Ipswich
Town of Sharon
Town of Surry
Town of Swanzey
Town of Troy
Town of Westmoreland
Town of Windsor
- For a list of Local Energy Committe Participants for each town click here. (available soon)
[edit] How To Get Started
Inventory Data Collection Sheet - This sheet will help you collect data for your municipal inventory
LEC Introduction PowerPoint - This PowerPoint can be used at a Select Board meeting to inform your elected official of the importance of the LEC and the municipal inventory.
Building Capacity Strategy - This document outlines the steps for building LEC capacity and creating buy-in for the creation of an inventory report and presentation
LEC Steps - This is a list of different steps your LEC might want to engage in
Sample Inventory Report - This is what your inventory report will look like with your customized data based on your municipal inventory
Sample Inventory Presentation - Use this template for your presentation to the Select Board on the findings of the Inventory Report. We encourage you to use this presentation with various community groups in your town to educate them on the inventory findings and create additional recommendations
[edit] Resources and Tools
Below are a list of tools and resources you can utilize. The first part of this section contains resources created through the Cool Monadnock project and the second portion directs you to statewide resources developed:
COOL MONADNOCK
Local Foods: 10 Reasons to Eat Local Foods; Where to Buy; Monadnock Farm and Community Connection
Disposing CFL's: Keene Transfer Station
NH RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND HERE:
NH Resources
[edit] Events
Below are a list of events in the Cool Monadnock region:
Monadnock 2010 Energy and Climate Forum
April 28, 2010; 6:00 PM; Antioch University New England
