ACape & Islands Energy Information Clearinghouse
AA Community Resource Developed Through The Cape & Islands Renewable Energy Collaborative
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The Hummer/Photo Source:Winnepeg Luxury Cars
   Canal Electric Plant/Photo Source: Richard Judge  
Sinking of the Argo Merchant/Photo Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
   Solar Flare/Photo Source: National Optical Astronomy Observatory  
Race Point Photovoltaic Installation/Photo Source: Cape Cod Chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation
  
Woods Hole Research Center Ordway Campus Green Building Showcase/Photo Source: Cape Cod Center for Sustainability
  
Another Windy Day at Barnstable-West Barnstable Elementary School/Photo Source: Charlie Powicki
  
Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority's Propane-Fueled Bus/Photo Source: Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority

Group & Community Solutions

Collaboration
Awareness
Advocacy

Collaboration

  • Promote energy efficiency and conservation to your friends, relatives, neighbors, and colleagues.
  • Partner with colleagues to implement conservation and efficiency measures in your office or workplace.
  • Participate in citizens groups, public meetings, and other forums to promote the adoption of energy-saving measures by residents, visitors, businesses, organizations, and local and regional governments.

Awareness

  • Stay abreast of energy-related issues at the local, county, national, and global levels.
Provincetown Town Hall &
Barnstable County Superior Courthouse

Eastham Town Hall

Cuttyhunk Town Hall
Nantucket Town Hall
  • Monitor the energy-related positions of candidates for office.
The Massachusetts State House and the
United States Capitol

Advocacy

  • Write letters to the editor to highlight the benefits of energy efficiency and conservation and to advocate for the wise use of energy and other resources.
  • Contact elected and appointed officials to advocate for policymaking, budgeting, purchasing, and other decisions that increase energy efficiency and conservation at the personal, local, regional, national, and global levels.

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Current Fact

Dirty Roof

Conventional asphalt shingles are
the cheapest roofing material around but, as is usually the case, there is a cost: They are manufactured using petroleum by-products and, once they reach the end of their useful life, they must be landfilled as construction debris or “downcycled” as road materials or in other low-value uses. Credit: Houston Advanced Research Center

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Current Vision

Green Roof

Thatching represents an attractive and sustainable roofing solution. This thatched roof, gracing a barn in Yarmouthport, transforms an invasive wetland plant (Phragmites sp.) into a useful, biodegradable shelter.

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The Clearinghouse provides a central location for the collection, classification, and distribution of data, information, and tools addressing energy supply and use in the Cape & Islands region, both now and in the future.
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This website is being developed through the Cape & Islands Renewable Energy Collaborative (CIREC). Its framework was created under a community planning grant award from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC).

Project management and content development: Chris Powicki, Principal, Water Energy & Ecology Information Services
Web design and development: Kathleen Tyger Wright
Graphic design: Elizabeth Hooper
Grant administration: Megan Amsler, Executive Director, Cape & Islands Self-Reliance Corp.