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About Climate Smart Missoula

We build and accelerate equitable climate solutions for Missoula and beyond, through collaborative programs, advocacy, and catalyzing broad-based climate leadership.
We envision a climate-safe, equitable, and resilient Missoula and beyond.

Launched in 2015, in 2020 we moved on from being fiscally sponsored (Thanks Missoula Community Foundation) to our own 501(c)3 non-profit. Check out of Five Year Report HERE.


Our Goals:

carbon neutrality
  • Catalyze and accelerate projects that lead to the Missoula community reaching carbon neutrality by 2050.
  • Collaborate with local government to provide regular reporting of community emissions.
community resiliency
  • Prepare Missoula for climate impacts so our community can bounce back from disruption and leave no one behind. 
social cohesion
  • Connect and support groups working on climate mitigation and adaptation. 
  • ​Center social equity and community vitality in projects. 
inspiration and resolve
  • Harness kindness and innovation when responding to climate related challenges. 
  • Lead our community climate efforts with resolve and determination. 
beyond missoula
  • Inspire actions beyond this community and lead statewide climate efforts
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A Hub of Community Climate Action

Since our inception, we've collaborated across our community and state, building crucial networks to foster a resilient Missoula and Montana, for this generation and the next. 

Our annual Year-End Celebration and Smarty Pants Awards honors local climate heroes and community climate momentum. (Photos credit: Phoebe Bean)
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We make hard work (and hard topics) more fun by bringing a sense of creativity and humor everyday.  Al and Ian, from Planet Alien, came to our 2nd Annual Clean Energy Expo to help us understand our current energy system and where we can go in the future. ​

We work out front and behind the scenes, leading and partnering on high-impact efforts that cut our emissions, build resiliency, and strengthen the fabric of our community, with equity at the center.

Where we've been: some of our past events and efforts

Year 7(!) celebration honors Smarty Pants and another year of local climate action
October 2022 - first Missoula Climate Ride benefits local climate orgs (like us!)
Thanks to volunteers who helped weed and replant at our Bitterroot Spur Shade Shelter, fall 2022
4th Annual Climate & Clean Energy Expo welcomes 600+ Missoulians & 20+ orgs & businesses
2nd annual Wildfire Smoke Ready week includes first-ever Trivia Night!
Powerful Project Earth @UM fuses climate science, stories & music - click to watch!
2022 Electrify Webinars educate on solar, homes & buildings, & transportation - click to watch!
Running up for Air 2022 was a huge success, raising over $15K for our clean air efforts
Co-hosted Climate Conversations panel & Don't Look Up film discussion with Families for a Livable Climate
We honored 2021's Smarty Pants winners at our Year 6 Celebration at JRPC
Local panelists offered insights on the UN climate conference (COP26) and what it means for Missoula
We produced our first podcast series - have a listen and let us know what you think!
We launched our Electrify Missoula campaign to get off fossil fuels in homes & buildings!
Hundreds of Missoulians take part in our 3rd Annual Climate & Clean Energy Expo
In 2021, we worked with partners to provide >150 fan/filters & HEPAs to Missoulians in need
Our first Wildfire Smoke Ready Week brought resources across our community
A new display for climate art at our office - thanks Wren for being our first featured artist!
The Big Climate Event - 1 Year Later, with Dr. Davies
Building(s) for the Future Virtual Summit on Jan. 15, 2021
Footprint Fund launches in Fall 2020 with Cornerstone Apartments
Climate Smart Missoula featured on NPR's All Things Considered!
Climate Smart Missoula hosts Q&A on Wildfire Smoke Readiness
Missoula Gives is a great success! Over $8,000 raised for Climate Smart
Climate Ready Missoula adopted by City and County, May 2020
Virtual Earth Day 2020 Art Show inspires art across Missoula
Solar Happy Hours go virtual in early 2020
1st Annual Running Up for Air raises $11,000 for Climate Smart
700+ People Pack the Wilma for The Big Climate Change Event, Feb. 2020
Food Policy Advisory Board Established
Climate Ready Missoula: Building Resiliency in Missoula County Plan Published
2019 Clean Energy Expo was a great success!
Restoration Project as Part of Global Climate Strike, 9/21/19
Families Strike for a Livable Future
Sunday Streets
Roots Festival Green Team
Executive Director Amy featured in Missoulian, named to Governor's Climate Solutions Council
Shade Shelter #2 Open on the Bitterroot Branch Trail
Making going solar easy with SolarEase workshops in 2017 and 2018
Peoples Climate Solidarity March and Rally in 2017
Solar Solstice Rally, 2016: the future is bright!
Adaptation and Resiliency, our 2016 community art project, was a huge success!

Key Milestones for Missoula and Climate Smart

Missoulians have been active in efforts to reduce carbon pollution and build a more resilient community for decades.  As a solutions-based and forward-thinking community, many individuals and groups are motivated to inspire action and change.  Climate Smart Missoula is the result of a series of summits in 2013 and 2014, which Mayor Engen and the City of Missoula convened. See below for more key climate milestones for Missoula.
  • 2007 | Montana Forest Restoration Committee’s principles adopted
  • 2010 | University of Montana's Climate Action Plan adopted 
  • 2011 | ClimateWise report published by Clark Fork Coalition, GEOS Institute, and Headwaters Economics
  • 2013 | Missoula's Municipal Conservation and Climate Action Plan adopted
  • ​2013 | First community climate action plan summit
  • 2014 | Second climate action plan summit, which leads early the next year to...
  • 2015 | Climate Smart Missoula releases Community Climate Action Plan
  • 2015 | Climate Smart Missoula becomes a new initiative of the Missoula Community Foundation
  • 2016 | Summer Smart launched 
  • 2016 | Missoula Community's first Carbon Emissions Inventory Published 
  • 2017 | Energy Smart and Solar-ease launched
  • 2019 | 100% Clean Electricity Resolution Adopted by Missoula City Council and Board of County Commissioners
  • 2020 | Climate Ready Missoula plan completed and on its way to adoption by City Council and Board of County Commissioners. 
  • 2020 | Climate Smart Missoula becomes a 501(c)3! 
Climate Smart Missoula is a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit organization. We formalized in 2015 and until 2020 were fiscally sponsored by the Missoula Community Foundation. We're grateful to MCF for helping us launch!

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