Timely New Report Shows Substantial Disparities in Energy Savings Among Massachusetts Communities
Analysis shows that some communities are not benefitting equally from the state’s top-ranked energy efficiency programs.
With More Control, Communities Choose Clean Energy
Darlene Lombos, the Executive Director of Community Labor United and Class of 2017 Barr Fellow, makes the case for Community Choice Energy as a tool for empowering communities and meeting climate goals.
In a Funding Portfolio, Diversity Drives Impact
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Five lessons from a partnership between the Barr Foundation and Community Labor United.
Because We All Love our Children
They entered the room as adversaries. They left as partners, committed, for their children’s sake, to solve a pressing climate challenge.
Northeast States Extend Leadership on Clean Energy
Ambitious new goals set for next phase of highly successful, market-based effort to reduce emissions and spur clean energy.
Three Boston Congregations Team Up for Community Solar Project
Reverend Mariama White-Hammond, a Class of 2009 Barr Fellow, shares three lessons and a new video documenting a novel collaboration of three churches committed to action on climate change and equity.
New England Chambers of Commerce Leading on Clean Energy
Diane Doucette of Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy shares five ways area businesses reaped the benefits of clean energy in 2016.
Clean Energy Powers 3 Million U.S. Jobs
New research reveals a vibrant, new national industry and workforce.
Four Lessons of Climate Leadership from Northern Europe
Boston Green Ribbon Commission Director Amy Longsworth shares key insights from a recent trip by Massachusetts leaders to learn from cities that are enhancing quality of life, building resilience to climate change, and boosting their economies through clean energy.
Frame Shift. Then Power Shift.
Elena Letona, executive director of Neighbor to Neighbor (and a 2005 Barr Fellow), shares lessons learned from an old, industrial city in western Massachusetts, where community members, labor groups, elected officials, and others found common cause in a winning effort to go from “coal to sol!”