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Cool Cities Delaware Newsletter - July 2010

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Cool Cities Delaware is a

state-wide volunteer effortthat encourages localgovernments adopt energysustainability,environmental stewardshipand climate protectionpolicies and programs.

Cool Cities Welcomes Lewes

The City of Lewes has become the fourth of Delaware’scities to endorse the U.S. Mayors Climate ProtectionAgreement at their June 14 city council meeting. Theirunanimous vote was congratulated at the meeting bySierra Club of Delaware President Nancy Moore and theChairman of the Cool Cities Delaware Program RonZink.

In addition to Lewes, Newark also made this commitmentto energy sustainability, environmental stewardship and

climate protection earlier this year. Dover signed on tothe U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement in 2007and Wilmington, one of the original signatories to theagreement, joined in 2005.

Of Delaware’s 57 villages, towns and cities, 53 have yetto commit to this important climate protection initiative.The Sierra Club of Delaware’s Cool Cities Program

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Left to right: Lewes Councilwoman Barbara Vaughan, Councilman VictorLetonoff, Mayor James Ford, Deputy Mayor Stephanie Tsantes, Cool CitiesChairman Ron Zink, Mayor James L. Ford, III, Councilman Theodore W. Beckerand Delaware Sierra Club President Nancy Moore.




volunteers are eager to discuss the long-term financial and environmental benefits ofthis program in local communities throughout the state.

Next Meeting—August 12 at 7 pm

Please join us on August 12 at 7 pm at the Camden Friends

Meeting located at 122 East Camden Wyoming Avenue inCamden, Delaware. Topics to be discussed will include revisionsto our Work Plan for this year and our upcoming conferencecoordinated in collaboration with the American Institute ofArchitects Sustainable Delaware Conference, to be held at theVirden Conference Center in Lewes on September 22.

Monthly Planning Meetings Scheduled

We have initiated monthly planning meetings to discuss our program and coordinate

outreach efforts, to be held on the second Thursday of each month. If you areinterested in getting involved in promoting energy sustainability, environmentalstewardship and climate protection at the local government level, please join us.

With meetings planned in all three counties, there are opportunities for statewidevolunteer participation. For the latest information on our meeting location, please seeour calendar on our website at coolcitiesde.us.

Ronnie Davis Attends Maryland Cool Cities Workshop

The Sierra Club of Maryland’s fifth annual Cool Cities Workshop was held on June

26th. One of our volunteers from the Dover area, Ronnie Davis, was able toparticipate and described the impressive efforts of Maryland’s Cool Cities.

Highlights of the event include a presentation on “Green Streets” Mayor Adam Ortiz ofthe town of Edmonston. This small town is making dramatic efforts towardssustainable stormwater control, energy efficiency and walk/bike-ability. Read moreabout this program at their website at http://edmonstonmd.gov/GoingGreen.html.

You can read more about this event, and download the presentations delivered at theworkshop at the Sierra Club of Maryland’s website at http://maryland.sierraclub.org/

action/p0304.asp.

Green Drinks

This monthly event provides a casual and unstructured opportunity for those with apassion for the environment and sustainability to enjoy conversation over a coolbeverage. Green Drinks is a worldwide phenomena that meets three times a month in

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Delaware: Newark Area (1st Tuesday); Greenville/ North Wilmington (3rd Tuesday); Lewes/Rehoboth(1st Thursday). Green Delaware’s website hasinformation on dates, times and locations: http:// greendelaware.com/greendrinks.htm (visit theircalendar of events link).

Those from the Dover area who are interested in carpooling to Green Drinks in theLewes/Rehoboth in August should call Phil Schuman between the hours of 8 am and8 pm at (302) 698-1998.

Productive Planning Meeting in July—Recap

July’s Cool Cities Planning Meeting was held on Thursday, July 7 at 7 pm in the homeof Ron Zink in Dover with Maria Bangal, Ronnie Davis, Tom Fruehstorfer, Bill Moyer,Carol Reid-Grandfield, Amy Roe, Phil Shuman, Carol Taylor, Phil Troxler, Sheryl

Winsby and Ron Zink in attendance.

Topics discussed include the report of Ronnie Davis on his attendance at the fifthannual Maryland Cool Cities Workshop, sponsored by the Sierra Club of Marylandand held in Annapolis.

Other Cool Cities issues include the need to revise our Work Plan for 2010 to reflectsome challenges identified in the first half of this year. The draft Work Plan will bereviewed and modified at our next meeting on August 12th.

Modifications include the need for an email distribution database and server to

accommodate our growing list of contacts for this newsletter and other importantannouncements, which are disseminated to more than 500 recipients to date. Thesuccessful distribution of information to elected officials, city managers andDelawareans interested in energy sustainability, environmental stewardship andclimate protection at the local government level has been identified as an importantchallenge for the Cool Cities program.

Additionally, the many logistical and time challenges of meeting individually with localgovernments to discuss the Cool Cities program require a re-evaluation of ourstrategy for the remainder of this year. A revision of this strategy that will maximize on

existing network relationships and institutions, such as the Delaware League of LocalGovernments and Sussex County Association of Towns, while also bolstering ourgrassroots outreach component, will be discussed in greater detail next month.

In other Cool Cities news, the Sierra Club’s national Cool Cities program hasrequested a conference call with our group. More details on the purpose of thisconference call will be forthcoming.

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