It's our Year-End Campaign. We aim to raise $24,000 to start 2024 off strong. Please join us. Donate today!
What's new?
Solar & Electrification Webinar recording available
Thanks to all who joined us for our recent webinar on Solar & Electrification: What, Why, and How?
Looking for resources to follow up? Couldn't make it but want to watch the recording? Head HERE. Thank you for your #GivingTuesday generosity!
Thank you for kicking off our end-of-year fundraising with such generous support on Giving Tuesday! Wow! Your gifts helped us unlock a $5,000 local match, and we're now over a third of the way to reaching our year-end goal.
Missed Giving Tuesday? Still plenty of time! Help us reach our goal of raising $24,000 to start off 2024 strong by donating today. Thank you! |
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Trees for Missoula is now a program of Climate Smart Missoula!
In November 2023, our long-time partner, Trees for Missoula, officially became a program of Climate Smart Missoula! We're dedicated to upholding their mission of promoting a healthy and sustainable urban forest through community planning, planting, stewardship, education, and advocacy. We look forward to building upon existing urban forest projects, and centering urban trees as part of our broader climate resiliency efforts.
For more, visit our Urban Forest page. Join us for our Year-End Celebration & Smarty Pants Awards, Dec 14
Join us to celebrate another year of local climate action at our Year End Celebration & famous Smarty Pants Awards, Thursday, December 14. RSVP here.
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Piloting Clean Energy Career Workshops
The Missoula Community Clean Energy Workforce Coalition has been busy this fall, piloting a series of clean-energy awareness workshops! We've welcomed speakers from various industries - from solar installers and green building designers, to contractors and deconstruction professionals - into Mountain Home Montana and Home ReSource to share their career journeys and talk about how their work builds a better future.
Thanks to all who joined us for Missoula's Climate Solutions Week & Expo!
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Thank you for joining Climate Smart Missoula and partners for Missoula’s first Climate Solutions Week and 5th annual Climate & Clean Energy Expo, September 16-23! It was an inspiring and energizing week full of events and activities and we were thrilled to see so many folks out in the community.
See more photos from the Expo and Climate Solutions Week events HERE.
And take a peek at the media coverage of the event via KPAX and ABC-Fox Montana. |
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Missoula Clean Energy Coalition Awarded Competitive DoE Prize
Missoula’s Clean Energy Workforce Coalition (CEWC), just received a $150,000 prize in June 2023 to continue its work on building equitable, clean energy career pathways. The prize will help launch a pilot program focused on building clean-energy career pathway awareness and non-traditional internships for low-income women and women of color, increasing access to family-supporting opportunities.
The coalition, founded in December 2022, is comprised of Missoula County, Climate Smart Missoula, Mountain Home Montana and the Missoula Economic Partnership. CEWC received a Phase 1 prize of $30,000 to strengthen and grow the coalition in February 2023. Learn more about our work and check out these news stories from KPAX & NBC Montana. |
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RECENT HAPPENINGS
Staff & Missoulians Attended the Held v Montana Trial
Montana Youth are Making Climate Justice History! The first-ever constitutional climate trial was held in Helena, Montana June 12-20. Staff attended the final full day of the trial on June 19th, to support the youth plaintiffs and to let the state know we are paying attention.
Learn more about the trial here. 
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Climate Table Talks: An Important Step in Code Reform
We were delighted to hear from dozens of community members at two table talks held June 14th. The events started with a brief presentation from the City of Missoula on its code reform process, then neighbors shared stories of their experiences with climate change in Missoula. Thank you to all who attended - your stories will play a role in the City's process moving forward. 
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Thank you to all who supported us during Missoula Gives 2023!
We were thrilled to raise over $8,400 from 108 donors. Our community is amazing! We are so grateful for so many generous supporters who believe in local climate solutions. Didn't get the chance to contribute? We appreciate your support at any time of the year - donate easily via our website here. Thank you!
- Abby, Shanti, Amy, Susan and all of us at Climate Smart Missoula
We were thrilled to raise over $8,400 from 108 donors. Our community is amazing! We are so grateful for so many generous supporters who believe in local climate solutions. Didn't get the chance to contribute? We appreciate your support at any time of the year - donate easily via our website here. Thank you!
- Abby, Shanti, Amy, Susan and all of us at Climate Smart Missoula
Electrify Homes Spring Tour
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Our first-ever Electrify Homes in-person tour (and self-guided version) was a huge success! Thanks to all who joined us to learn from neighbors working on home electrification projects on the Northside and Westside this spring. It was awesome to have front-page coverage in the Missoulian: Climate Smart Missoula shows off cool building techniques.
Miss the tour? It's never too late to get inspired! Check out the stories on our Electrify Missoula website. |
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A bevvy of new funding opportunities via the Inflation Reduction Act - the first real and transformative climate legislation ever passed by Congress - are available now, with more rebates to come later this year or early 2024.
Learn more about this important bill's provisions via our IRA info page and bookmark ElectrifyMissoula.org as we continue to update it with financing resources and information to support your electrification journey.
Learn more about this important bill's provisions via our IRA info page and bookmark ElectrifyMissoula.org as we continue to update it with financing resources and information to support your electrification journey.
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Check out our Annual Impact Report
We were busy in 2022! Check out our most recent Impact Report HERE to learn more about our work.
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I want to know more about...
the people and history of climate smart
- Our Story will give you the history of Climate Smart and our mission and goals.
- Our Five Year Report is a great way to quickly understand our programs and impact in our first 5 years (through 2020).
- People and Partners features our staff, board, and multitude of organizations we collaborate with to drive climate action in Missoula and across the state of Montana.
- Peruse In the News to read past news coverage and Missoula Current columns to better understand what we've been thinking and working on over the years.
what to do during hot and smoky summers
- Summer Smart was our first major project and continues to be a flagship effort. It's full of amazing resources.
- Improving indoor air will tell you what you can do to make the air safer inside, including details and guidance for purchasing a HEPA Air Filtration unit.
- Hotter days and nights will make our higher summer temperatures more bearable.
reducing the carbon footprint of my home or business
- Reduce Our Use has tips for reducing energy consumption.
- Learn how easy it can be to go solar on our Solar Ease page.
- Transportation + Smart Growth is the place to go if you want to commute or run errands sustainably.
major efforts at the city and county government level
Climate Smart Missoula works closely with the City of Missoula and Missoula County. For more on the primary initiatives, we've partnered on, visit:
- 100% Clean Electricity Resolution, which resolved to have 100% renewable electricity by 2030.
- Resiliency Planning provides more information on Climate Ready Missoula: Building Resiliency in Missoula County.
- 2017 Community Carbon Emissions Inventory details our community's carbon footprint.
what climate change looks like in missoula and the science that is driving the change
- Visit our General Impacts or Specific Local Impacts pages for what climate change looks like in Missoula as well as Montana as a whole.
- Our Climate Science Overview will provide you with important foundational knowledge.
- If you have 90 minutes, watch Rob Davies' presentation to understand the science and why we need to resolve to act now.
getting involved
- Act, Advocate, Assist includes ways to go beyond reducing your personal energy consumption to help others and advocate for systemic change.
- We need more people talking about climate change with loved ones - our Dear Tomorrow Project is a great place to start.
- Come to an event that you find on our calendar or volunteer with us!
- Donate page is also an important one. We are a small organization that depends on donors like you!
