From diane.brandon at verizon.net Wed Nov 12 15:28:00 2008 From: diane.brandon at verizon.net (Diane Brandon) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:28:00 -0500 Subject: [CoolCommunities] Fwd: Cool Schools References: Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: "Maine Chapter Sierra Club" > Date: November 12, 2008 10:23:37 AM EST > To: > Subject: Cool Schools > Reply-To: > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 5480 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- > > > > Dear Cool Community Team, > > > > Imagine earning a photovoltaic system for your school, all while > you are educating and cooling your community! > > > > Maine Energy Investment Corp (MEIC) is a nonprofit based in > Brunswick that, since 2001, has been bringing people and clean > energy technologies closer together. MEIC is a partner in Maine > Partners for Cool Communities (MPCC), helping to bring the urgency > of climate action home to communities across Maine. > > > > MEIC is looking for a Cool Community that is ready to pilot an > innovative Cool Schools project this spring. Could your Cool Town > be the place to pioneer this effort? If so, your school could earn > a 1 KW PV system and all the curriculum, teacher support, and > electronic tools to showcase renewable energy to your town. > > > > You are probably familiar with the concept of Renewable Energy > Credits (also called offsets, RECs or ?green tags?). MEIC?s Cool > Schools program will use Maine-based offsets to teach your > community about the benefits of clean energy. Your Cool Community > Team would partner with the schools, community and business leaders > to conduct a four-month campaign, urging the town to offset carbon > emissions with Maine-based wind power. This effort will drive > toward a sales target ? 3,000 Cool Tags. > > > > By selling these tags, your team will be accomplishing several > things: you will teach about clean power offsets- how it matters > to all of us where people buy their electricity. You will show > that wind power is at work today in Maine, generating clean > electricity that helps us all. You will earn a solar system for > your school district and provide a tested, nationally-proven clean > energy curriculum for the next generation of students. You will do > all this while offsetting 72 million pounds or 36,000 tons of CO2. > in four months. A win-win project for your team, your school, the > community and the planet. > > > > Attached please find an application form. If your Cool Team wishes > to be considered for the pilot project, please complete and submit > this electronically to MEIC Cool Schools project manager Anne D. > (Andy) Burt at adburt at gwi.net no later than December 1. The > application highlights the strengths your community could > contribute to help MEIC develop and pilot this program. > > > > We regret that we can only pick one team/ school for the 2009 Cool > Schools Pilot Project. If successful, however, we will replicate > Cool Schools to more communities in fall 2009 and beyond. Thank > you very much for your interest ? we look forward to working with > you to make every Maine school a Cool School. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > > > Anne D. (Andy) Burt, Cool Schools project manager > > Mary Turner, Office Manager, MEIC > > Erika Morgan, President, MEIC > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 5480 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CS-application final 11-08.doc Type: application/msword Size: 60416 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part --------------