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What are we doing?!
What are we doing?!
We are developing materials to facilitate 2-hour long Cool Cities workshops to bring to your area.
Please contact us with your ideas about how we can help you get your team together!
 Sierra Club Maryland Chapter; Laurel 301-277-7111
 Click on the following to find current information about your town/ county.
Anne Arundel
Baltimore
College Park
Carroll County
Frederick
Howard County
Hyattsville
Mount Rainier
PG Pool
Building environmental Communities
 Anne Arundel
On March 8th, 2007, our group held a very successful meeting on the subject of global warming. Slightly over 40 people signed in and one member counted 75 people in attendance. We were treated to a presentation by Annapolis mayor, Ellen Moyer, and Ray Weaver, the city's Public Information Officer. Mayor Moyer and Mr. Weaver were among the first group of people trained by Al Gore and their presentation was similar to the information presented by him in his award winning movie "An Inconvenient Truth".
Anne Arundel group homepage
Please contact:
Joan Willey joan.willey@sierraclub.org 410-267-0716
Peter Bergstrom peter.bergstrom@comcast.net evenings only 410-544-7529
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The Neighbors United for Peace and Justice Group in Mount Rainier (~13 people) has decided to work on global warming.
Under former mayor Fred Sissine, Mt. Rainier joined ICLEI to participate in the CCP Program (Cities for Climate Protection), did a greenhouse gas emissions inventory, made a plan to reduce emissions, and took some steps. The Mt Rainier Cool Cities team is going to renew interest in the community to build upon these steps and get things moving forward again to get the plan implemented.
Please contact:
Mimi & Steve McKinley-Ward 301- 927-1720 or steveandmimi1@verizon.net
Fred Sissine 202-707-7039 or fsissine@crs.loc.gov
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Mimi and Laurel plan to initiate a “Cool Pool team” at their local summer swimming pool. They hope to bring members together to create a plan, make a budget, get funding from the board or grants from MDE (Maryland Department of Environment) for such things as:
Hot water solar panels (could actually save the pool a lot of money), such as solar electric panels
Rain barrels to collect water for use on lawns
Tree planting
Please contact:
Mimi McKinley-Ward 301-927-1720 steveandmimi1@verizon.net
Laurel Imlay 301-277-7111
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Bob Burchard testified in favor of Green Buildings legislation which passed!
Around 10 people expressed interest in starting a Cool Cities team in Greater Baltimore.
Please contact:
Bob Burchard 410-744-0510 or Rpburchard@att.net
Ron Henry 410-838-9119 or ronlhenry@msn.com
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College Park
College Park joined the CCP Program (Cities for Climate Protection) but has not done the greenhouse gas emissions inventory.
Please contact:
Janis Oppelt 301-474-5358 or janiso@erols.com
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Please contact:
Kim Stenley 410-756-6402 or Kstenley@mcdaniel.edu
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Frederick
An active work team is building up in Frederick (~30 people.)
They have met twice for facilitated weekday evening sessions and have created committees:
Transportation
Political
Events & Outreach
Research
Administration
APFO (Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance)
If you interested in joining any of these teams please contact:
Ken Eidel 301-696-5933 or kceidel@verizon.net
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Howard County
On Monday, February 19th, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman signed the Cool Cities
agreement. David O'Leary, Maryland Chapter Cool Cities Campaign Chair presented a Cool County certificate to Ken Ulman. Mayor
Ulman has also appointed a County Commission on the Environment and Sustainability, which includes
Sierra Club member Lee Oxenham. See some photos here.
Please contact:
David O'Leary daveo [at] earthlink.net
Hyattsville
Mayor William F. Gardiner is starting a sustainable community committee.
HOPE People (Hyattsville Organization for a Positive Environment) are interested in making Hyattsville a Cool City.
Please contact:
HOPE & Cool Cities: Jim Groves 301 277 3584 or jgroves@nea.org
Sustainable Community Committee: Hyattsville City Hall 301 985 5031
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Building Environmental Communities
The Maryland-DC-Virginia "Building Environmental Communities" is building global warming energy issues into our messaging about transit, roads, and development.
Please contact:
Chris Carney 202-237-0754 or Chris.Carney@sierraclub.org
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