Maplewood Climate Initiative

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Maplewood Climate Initiative

• Cool Cities Training
• Chatham November 17, 2007
• Bob McCoy
• maplewoodclimate_at_verizon.net

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Overview

• Working with ICLEI-Local Governments for
  Sustainability
• Their model, similar to Cool Cities
• Inventory sources of greenhouse gas emissions
• Community buy-in
• Action Plan
• Monitor progress

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Inventory or Footprint

• Started with municipal portion of emissions
• Difficult to find other needed information
• Best estimates needed to identify priorities
• Decided to include consumption

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Emissions Inventory 575 Kilotons
Annually
Non-local emissions (1/3rd)
Buildings (1/4th)
Transportation (1/6th)
Consumption (1/4th)
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Residential Sector Accounts for the Majority of
Maplewoods Locally Addressable Emissions
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• Town Meeting June 9th 2007
• Attended by about 100
• Presented the inventory, broad ideas for
  reductions,
• and proposed a goal of 20 reduction
• Community input and willingness to take on
  project
• Endorsed setting a community wide reduction goal
• Ideas for implementation Block Captains and
• Green Fair

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• Work summer 2007
• Block CaptainsOver 40 volunteered
• Planning green fairMaplewood Green Day, October
  6th
• Refinement of the Action Plan
• Municipal actions energy audit, CFLs, hybrid
  vehicles, etc
• Endorsement by the Maplewood Township Committee
• Goal of 20 reduction in local emissions
• Framework for achieving reductions

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Maplewoods Plan to reach 20 reduction
Goal is to reduce Maplewoods emissions 20 by
2015
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Things you can do to reduce your greenhouse gas
emissions Electricity
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Things you can do to reduce your greenhouse gas
emissions Heating
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Things you can do to reduce your greenhouse gas
emissions Travel  
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Things you can do to reduce your greenhouse gas
emissions Consumption
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Next Steps and Challenges

• Community Action Plan Implementation
  Meeting--Dec. 13th
• Home energy audit program -- Green Home
  Certification
• "Low Carbon Diet" working groups
• Expand CleanPower Choice and Change-A-Light
  signups
• Campaign to increase recycling and reduce junk
  mail
• Green Business Certification and development
• Campaign to increase availability of locally
  grown food
• Library GHG reduction resources (including tools
  like watt meters)
• Schools both their facilities and educational
  program

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• Lessons learned so far
• People want to reduce their impact and save
  money--
• they respond to useful information
• Need a balance between planning and action
• Community involvement is essential both for good
  ideas
• and for energy to make this happen
• Ethical and cultural change is beginning to
  happen
• How long until being an energy hog will be as
• unacceptable as being a litterbug?

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Lets work together, share experiences New
Jersey communities can transform themselves and
lead the fight against global warming.