[CoolCommunities] Fwd: Cool Schools

[Diane Brandon]

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> From: "Maine Chapter Sierra Club" <maine.chapter at sierraclub.org>
> Date: November 12, 2008 10:23:37 AM EST
> To: <maine.chapter at sierraclub.org>
> Subject: Cool Schools
> Reply-To: <maine.chapter at sierraclub.org>
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> Dear Cool Community Team,
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> Imagine earning a photovoltaic system for your school, all while  
> you are educating and cooling your community!
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> Maine Energy Investment Corp (MEIC) is a nonprofit based in  
> Brunswick that, since 2001, has been bringing people and clean  
> energy technologies closer together.  MEIC is a partner in Maine  
> Partners for Cool Communities (MPCC), helping to bring the urgency  
> of climate action home to communities across Maine.
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> MEIC is looking for a Cool Community that is ready to pilot an  
> innovative Cool Schools project this spring.  Could your Cool Town  
> be the place to pioneer this effort?  If so, your school could earn  
> a 1 KW PV system and all the curriculum, teacher support, and  
> electronic tools to showcase renewable energy to your town.
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> You are probably familiar with the concept of Renewable Energy  
> Credits (also called offsets, RECs or ?green tags?).  MEIC?s Cool  
> Schools program will use Maine-based offsets to teach your  
> community about the benefits of clean energy.  Your Cool Community  
> Team would partner with the schools, community and business leaders  
> to conduct a four-month campaign, urging the town to offset carbon  
> emissions with Maine-based wind power.  This effort will drive  
> toward a sales target ? 3,000 Cool Tags.
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> By selling these tags, your team will be accomplishing several  
> things:  you will teach about clean power offsets- how it matters  
> to all of us where people buy their electricity.  You will show  
> that wind power is at work today in Maine, generating clean  
> electricity that helps us all.  You will earn a solar system for  
> your school district and provide a tested, nationally-proven clean  
> energy curriculum for the next generation of students.  You will do  
> all this while offsetting 72 million pounds or 36,000 tons of CO2.  
> in four months.  A win-win project for your team, your school, the  
> community and the planet.
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> Attached please find an application form.  If your Cool Team wishes  
> to be considered for the pilot project, please complete and submit  
> this electronically to MEIC Cool Schools project manager Anne D.  
> (Andy) Burt at adburt at gwi.net no later than December 1.  The  
> application highlights the strengths your community could  
> contribute to help MEIC develop and pilot this program.
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> We regret that we can only pick one team/ school for the 2009 Cool  
> Schools Pilot Project.  If successful, however, we will replicate  
> Cool Schools to more communities in fall 2009 and beyond.  Thank  
> you very much for your interest ? we look forward to working with  
> you to make every Maine school a Cool School.
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> Best wishes,
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> Anne D. (Andy) Burt, Cool Schools project manager
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> Mary Turner, Office Manager, MEIC
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> Erika Morgan, President, MEIC
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