Overview of best practices from conversation with food collection programs across the Northeast

This guide will help you find answers to your questions about trash, PAYT, recycling, curbside compost collection, hazardous waste and disposal of non-curbside items. 

A useful document providing Tools for creating healthy, productive intereacial /multicultural communities. 

Steve's Weave is the first-ever green listings website.

There's never been a recognized place for the entire green community to get together – and Steve's Weave intends to become that place.  A place where we can gather the incomparable energies of green advocates – energies greater than anything coming out of the ground, any day – and use them to do great things.  

At Steve's Weave you can:

This self-assessment was designed to help community members, local leaders and volunteers to think and talk deeply about their community’s resilience strengths, challenges and priorities. It is also designed to help communities learn about different aspects of resilience and track their progress over time. 

Putting the Community Back in Community Shared Solar is a guide document outlining the different options for community shared solar and their associated costs and benefits. This guide was created by the NELEN Community Shared Solar Task Force in order to address the lack of public information and understanding about the different models available for community shared solar projects.

On Thursday, October 16, 2014 the Grassroots Fund co-produced a webinar with New England New Economy Transition about “community resilience.” We discussed how we can all live well now and into the future, given the challenges of a hurting economy, climate change, resource shortages, and political paralysis.

How to Start up a tool library, incldues a webinar, frequently asked questions, lonks to toehr tool libraries and more. 

This investment club, facilitated by Slow Food Maine, strengthens Maine's local food economy by making small loans to farms, fishermen, and the food businesses they supply to help them thrive. There are various sample documents - operating agreement, loan criteria, loan application, promissory note - to help other group's replicate this type of effort.

The goal of the CT DEEP is to achieve idling reduction through voluntary compliance. 
 

A voluntary initiative to protect school children and bus drivers from excessive exposure to exhaust emissions from school buses. As part of the initiative, fleet managers and school bus drivers (in this specific case throughout New Hampshire) are encouraged to adopt policies and practices to reduce school bus engine idling time whenever possible.

Clean School Bus's National Idle Reduction Campaign helps communities take action toward a cleaner, healthier environment. It recognizes the important role of the school bus driver as a professional who is responsible for the safety and security of children.

The goal of the Energy BenchmarkNH initiative is to encourage and support ALL of New Hampshire's municipalities and schools in collecting, tracking and reducing their energy consumption and costs.

ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager® is an online tool to measure and track energy and water consumption, as well as greenhouse gas emissions. Use it to benchmark the performance of one building or a whole portfolio of buildings.

Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET) has worked in hundreds of buildings from tiny homes to historic churches, teaching over 3,000 volunteers hands-on skills in energy efficiency. Their 'The Honest Book' publication shares the most effective energy-saving tasks for New England’s weather, energy use and building.

The Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative (PAREI) toolkit gives background on the model and encourages communities to learn from best practices and replicate the effort.

Sustainable Energy Resource Group (SERG)'s Home Heating Efficiency Calculator allows users to measure issues affecting how much energy a home uses to heat, including how leaky the building is, the amount of insulation it has, the efficiency of the heating system, and the actions taken to conserve energy (turning down thermostats, closing storm windows, etc.

SERG helps Vermont and New Hampshire homeowners and towns use less energy save money and protect the environment through education, outreach and community organizing. SERG provides technical assistance to energy committees, organizes home energy assessments, provides access to home efficiency calculators and convenes people through events and workshops.

Contact:
Bob Walker (Executive Director)
serg@serg-info.org
(802) 785-4126

EVConnecticut provides information on state and federal incentive programs to install publicly available charging stations as well as information Workplace Charging and Owning an Electronic Vehicle.

The SouthCoast Energy Challenge is an easy path to energy efficiency and saving money. It starts with registration and signing up for a free home energy assessment.   After a Home Energy Assessment, a simple and easy roadmap is created to help towards saving money, energy, and together reducing regional CO₂ emissions.

EPA's Climate Adaptations Programs give an overview of various (federal) programs aimed at climate adaptation - taking action to help adapt to current and potential risks.

At Community Action Works (formally known as Toxic Action Center), we believe that environmental threats are big, but the power of well-organized community groups is bigger.

That’s why we work side by side with everyday people to confront those who are polluting and harming the health of our communities. We partner with the people who are most impacted by environmental problems—which are Black, Indigenous, People of Color and poor communities—training them with the know-how anyone would need to make change in their own backyard.

Join community and school garden leaders from around your region for this unique training series. Learn strategies to boost your garden programs and support growth, share stories and ideas, and celebrate this growing movement.

The Center for a New American Dream's Guide to Sharing covers everything from starting a tool library to organizing a solar cooperative, from holding a clothing swap to launching a time bank.

The Center for a New American Dream and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) have joined forces to publish this Guide to Going Local. It's full of ideas and advice on how to strengthen the local economy in your town: through buying local, highlighting new entrepreneurs, instilling local pride, investing locally, and more.

The Vermont Community Garden Network provides a range or resources for new and established community gardens. The Start a Garden page gives a detailed overview of the different steps to get a (community) garden up and running.