Cool Cities

The Sierra Club has created a unique and important program called “Cool Cities”. The program goal is to sign up every city and county in the U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. When a City Council, Mayor or County Commissioners sign onto Cool Cities, they are signing onto the Mayor’s Climate Action Plan, which means the city/county pledges to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 2% per year till 2050. Hundreds of cities have already signed on including 16 in Colorado.

CCFS and Transition Initiative are sponsoring Sierra Club presentations on “Cool Cities” in Chaffee County. The first presentation, titled “Solving Global Warming One City at a Time”, will be this coming Wednesday, January 13^th 6:30pm at the Salida Library. Jenny Kedward, Chairperson of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Sierra Club, will explain the Cool Cities program and how Salida and surrounding towns can develop a plan for an energy-progressive future.

A similar presentation is being planned in the near future for the Buena Vista area of the County. If possible citizens from all parts of the County are encouraged to attend. This is a great opportunity for Chaffee County and its cities!  Local action with State and National resources.

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