Welcome!

We are so glad you’ve found your way to the Cooler Concord website!  The Cooler Concord Climate Challenge is an ambitious campaign to dramatically lower emissions in the next 3 years. Our goal is to help at least half of Concord households take action to avert a climate emergency. It is up to all of us, and everyone can do something!

Are you ready?

If you’re ready to get started, just CLICK HERE TO SIGN IN. If you want to know more first, read on.

How it all works & why to sign up

The goal of Cooler Concord is to accelerate progress toward Concord’s Climate Action Plan. The Actions on this site are designed to address the Climate Emergency both individually and collectively, and to include something for everyone. 

The Cooler Concord website is designed to capture the climate actions taken in our community and, where possible, to quantify the carbon savings from them. The Cooler Concord Climate Challenge is fundamentally about working together to speed our progress on emissions reductions.

Using Cooler Concord creates momentum for climate action in the community, and gives the Town quantitative data on town-wide progress towards reducing GHGs and guidance for future efforts.

Creating your own profile allows you to:

• Record Actions you already have taken. Maybe you already drive an EV (electric vehicle). Good for you! Click on “Done” for any Actions you’ve already completed.
• Review other Actions that interest you. You can explore each through the Description, Steps to Take, and/or Deep Dive tabs on the Action page. Click on the To Do button for each specific Action you plan to take.
• Check your personal, cumulative impact score for Actions you’ve done by clicking on the circle with your initials at the top right of any page, and selecting “My Profile.”  The impacts of what you've done are estimated via our peer-reviewed carbon calculator.
• Share your experience with Actions to help educate and motivate your neighbors: write a Testimonial! Click on “Testimonials” on the specific Action page and tell your story. 
• Join a team to boost the fun; have friendly competitions with other teams! When you join (or create; see next item) a team, your score will get added to that of your team.
• Create your very own team! Any group can be a team: your cricket team, your congregation, your street or neighborhood, your class at school, etc. (For now, this must be done on a computer rather than a mobile phone.)

NOTE: If you’re not quite ready to sign up — no worries! You can still see all the actions, events, testimonials, and collective impact. Nothing is hidden from visitors to the site.

About Cooler Concord

Cooler Concord started in 2017 as a program to help residents take advantage of energy conservation opportunities.  By doing so we can save money and reduce harmful CO2 emissions. Many of the ideas behind Cooler Concord come from the book Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low Carbon Living published by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2012.

Cooler Concord is now a volunteer-based community group that continues to help residents and businesses take sustainable action through programs and events and the community web portal. We appreciate your visiting the website, and hope you will share any comments or suggestions about the site or related information with us through e-mail.