Climate Smart Missoula

The annual MISSOULA GIVES. Join us May 3-4

It's Missoula's Day of Giving (a bit over 24 hours but who's counting...). We hope you will support us in community philanthropy - just a click away at Climate Smart's Missoula Gives.

There's even time for supporters to help us with easy, low stress "Peer to Peer" fundraising. Contact Amy if you'd like to help.

We're ramping up climate action

It's EARTH MONTH. Find out what is happening in our community for the month of April here.
Come to our Monthly Meetup every first Thursday. next up - May 3 - is Local Food and Ag. April 5th was Urban Forestry! March was about Zero Waste - our intern Sydney's got a full recap on our blog.
Our Feb 7th Solar-Ease workshop at the Missoula Federal Credit Union was fantastic. Whether you attended or not, check out our Solar-ease webpage for lots of resources about going solar.
We co-hosted Climate Change in Missoula: From Statistics to Strategies with League of Women Voters and Clark Fork Coalition. Read our op-ed here.

Thanks for joining us for our Year 2 Celebration at @INB! Read more about our fabulous Smarty Pants Awards winners HERE.

Thanks to all who support Climate Smart. We're grateful for all donors, big & small! For more about how your donation helps, read our director Amy's letter. And if you didn't get the chance in 2017, it's never too late to give!

2018 in the Missoula Current:

Find all the columns from this new "Sustainable Missoula" series HERE.

Climate Smart Missoula in the news recently:

Our Summer Smart work was 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

Solar lanterns!
These lightweight, solar-powered, packable lanterns are our only swag. The large lantern even doubles as a phone charger so you can keep taking photos in the back country! If interested, email us, or stop by 103 Hickory. Small lanterns are $25 or 2 for $40, Large are $40.

Recent Highlights

Our River Trail Shade Shelter is much loved and appreciated. Learn about this here.

The People's Climate March and Rally Missoula was incredible. Thanks to all the groups that organized this and to everyone who came and especially to the next-gen voices: Brave, articulate, inspiring. 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.

Martin Kidston photo

Connect with us! Join us on Facebook. Follow us on Instagram. Sign up for our mailing list below, or head to our Contact Us page to get in touch.

What you can do today:
We have an Advocacy page which encourages action. And we are ramping up efforts to engage and emPOWER with our Energy Smart Initiative.

We appreciate when you show!
We love events like our Solar Solstice Rally. Our Year 2 Celebration was inspiring and fun. We gave five Smarty Pants Awards. Learn about these community-minded award winners HERE.

A few quick links:

And in our recent history....

We ended 2016 by thinking toward the future. Please take a moment to read Amy's post-election "Letter from the Director".

We hosted a fantastic fall Health and Climate Summit. Details and outcomes are here. We blog about it here, Missoula Currents report about it here.

Thank you, volunteers! Climate Smart again led the effort to green the 2016 River City Roots Festival. Our fabulous "green team" went above and beyond in their commitment to recycling - helping move our community towards zero waste. Contact us to learn more about this larger effort.

Did you read about our Summer Smart efforts?
Climate Smart Missoula launches Summer Smart tools to cope with smoke
And check out How to Build Climate Resiliency in Missoula

Adaptation & Resilience ART SHOW -- Our large art installation was shown at First Friday June 3, downtown along Bank Street and in partnership with Hunter Bay Coffee. Thanks for coming.

Missoula Gives 2017
We're gearing up for 2017. Can our community raise $5K this year?
In 2016, thanks to your generosity, we raised over $3500 for Climate Smart at Give Local Missoula. It's always easy to be a philanthropist! Missoula Gives (new name, same idea) is May 4-5, 2017!

Climate,
Health, &
Humanities

At our March 19 film event, we asked our audience: "How does climate change make you feel?" and "What problem are you inspired to help solve?" Click on images above!

Thank You Missoula - We've met our 1:1 match for Summer Smart. 2016 is a big year as we launch this program to help our community be more resilient to the stresses of smokier, hotter, and drier summers. Thanks to the Bloomberg Award for Partners for Places - a project of the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities.

You can still help support this effort!

Why Cities and Communities?

2017
April Strong support: environmental initiatives + local govt.
March 31. Climate Progress, with our without...
March 29. Climate Action will thrive at state, local...

2016
Dec. 6. Cities are central to any any serious plan to tackle climate change
Sept. 21. Cities offer a great platform to bring about change.
March 3. Energy Secure Cities initiative launched.
Nov. 16. American cities keep fighting climate change.
October. Top 10 Urban Innovations 2015
September. Low carbon cities are a $17 trillion opportunity worldwide.

TREES in Missoula. We need them for shade and health. More HERE.