Cape & Islands Energy Information Clearinghouse

A Community Resource Developed Through The Cape & Islands Renewable Energy Collaborative

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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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This website is being developed through the Cape & Islands Renewable Energy Collaborative (CIRenew). Its framework was created under a community planning grant award from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC). 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.
  • Project management and content development: Chris Powicki, Water Energy & Ecology Information Services
  • Web design/development and content development: Dick Elkin
  • Graphic design: Elizabeth Hooper, Hooper Design
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