Climate Smart Missoula

Our Year 3 Celebration was awesome!

Thanks all for coming and supporting us. Read all about our 2018 Smarty Pants Awards winners HERE.

Our October 20 Clean Energy Expo was a smashing success. Thank you for coming. Check out more great photos from the event HERE. It's time to Engage and EmPOWER. We learned a lot about how Missoula can move to 100% clean electricity and heard from solar experts, installers, zero waters, and active transportation experts. Thanks EVERYONE!

At our Expo we released Missoula's 100% Clean Electricity draft Options Report. Please review, comment and join the conversation - 2035 is soon!

We had our last meetup for 2018 on Thursday, Nov 1, on Sustainable Economic Development. Thanks to all who joined us for a super interesting discussion as usual. Check out our blog recap here! We'll be back to regular monthly meetups, moving to the 2nd Thursday of the month in 2019 - starting January 10th!

The latest report on global climate change from the IPCC is out. The bad news - we need to act even faster than we thought. The good news - the time is right to accelerate the efforts already happening, starting right here in our community. Peruse our Smart initiatives and buckets, come to our next meetup, and support us today to help bolster our work in Missoula and beyond.

October's Monthly Meetup was on Transportation & Smart Growth. We learned about some great upcoming opportunities for advocacy - check out Anna's blog recapping the meetup for all the details!

Our revamped Community Calendar is up. Not only does it look snazzy, it lets us crowd source local climate-related events from community members - that means you. Add climate-related events and share this calendar!

We were lucky with wildfire smoke this year. Learn more about being Summer Smart and what to do to stay healthy indoors and out, whether the skies are clear or not: wildfire smoke or hot temps.

Recent Highlights

We were a big part of the Sept 9 Missoula People's Climate March, in concert with over 900 Rise For Climate events across the world!
Conversations from our Monthly Meetups are on our BLOG. Read away...
Our Solar-Ease workshops were fantastic - we've got lots of resources on how to go solar on our Solar-ease web page. And check out Amy's Missoula Current column.
We co-hosted Climate Change in Missoula: From Statistics to Strategies with League of Women Voters and Clark Fork Coalition.
Our River Trail Shade Shelter is much loved and appreciated. Keep your eyes out for the second shade shelter coming soon!

Thanks for your support on #GivingTuesday! We raised $1000, thanks to your generosity! Missed the day? Year-end is a great time to support our work as we gear up for 2019 - it's easy to donate here.

Connect with us!

NEWSY STUFF:

With Home Resource, we host a weekly column in the Missoula Current -- Sustainable Missoula. Find all the columns in this series HERE.

Check out our new companion website:
MontanaWildfireSmoke.org.

Climate Smart Missoula in the news recently:

From Montana Public Radio: Report maps paths to 100 percent renewable electricity in Missoula
From the Missoulian: Renewable energy expo slated for downtown Missoula on Saturday.
From the Missoula Current: We’re ‘all in’ for 100 percent clean electricity; don’t miss Saturday’s Clean Energy Expo
From the Oct. 5 Missoula Current: Sustainable Missoula: protecting our children's indoor air in a hotter, smokier climate
From the Missoulian Opinion Section: Rise for Climate this Weekend
Heard on NPR! "When Wildfire Smoke Invades, Who Should Pay To Clean Indoor Air?"
MTPR: Summer of wildfire smoke exposes need for clean indoor air in Montana
Our director's take: Preparing Missoula for a fiery, smoky future that is here

We've ramped up climate action in 2018!

summer smart

energy smart

SOLAR SMART

We are:
• Expanding our collaborative efforts to have clean, cool indoor air for all, with a focus on the health of the most vulnerable including our kids at school
• Growing trees and building shade!

We are:
• Launching a new program to weatherize and retrofit manufactured homes
• Working with UM to create a nifty online platform to boost residential energy savings
• Leading city and community partners to figure out how to shift to 100% Clean Electricity

We are:
• Helping residents and businesses navigate the process of going solar
• Advocating for more rooftop solar in partnership with the city, community, and statewide partners

Support our Work

In our recent history....

Martin Kidston photo

We honored four fabulous Smarty Pants Awards winners at our Year 2 Celebration: read more HERE.
The People's Climate March and Rally Missoula was incredible. Check out this great article, short video, and photos here.
Our Director, Amy Cilimburg (right), was honored by NWF, MCV and friends with the 2017 Montana Women in Conservation Award. Read the Missoula Current article.
Wahoo! Our first-ever Community Greenhouse Gas Inventory is now available. Head here for the report and here for the Missoula Current article.

Why Cities and Communities?
We think Local Climate Action is pretty important! Some reading on why: