BLUER is

An ad-hoc committee formed by the West Chester Borough Council in winter 2006; BLUER’s mission is to help our entire community—including our municipal and County government operations, residents, businesses, and nonprofits—reduce greenhouse gas pollution 10% over 2005 levels by the year 2015. This will help us break the trend toward rising greenhouse emissions and put West Chester on a track toward further greenhouse gas reductions, and toward a more sustainable economic and environmental future.

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Warming world

Published January 21, 2010 NY Times

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration released data this week showing the decade ending 2009 was the warmest on record. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also released temperature measurements from last year showing December ocean surface temperatures were the second warmest on record.

Council OKs Wind Purchase

Published Sunday May 24, 2009 Daily Local News

May brought the first tangible result of the borough's newly adopted Climate Action Plan when Borough Council agreed to purchase 20 percent of the borough's electricity for the remainder of the year from Community Energy, a wind energy supplier. ... read more.

Do your Part!

Help Us Achieve Our "10% x 2015" Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal!

By taking BLUER's ENERGY STAR pledge, you can make small changes in your home that can add up to big energy savings for the Borough. If every American household took part in the pledge, we would save more than 110 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, more than $18 billion in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 18 million cars. Take the pledge now! Just click here.

Acknowledgments

BLUER gratefully acknowledges the support of Henderson High School educator Peggy Hartzell-Bennett for securing funding and hosting support for this site. Special thanks also go to Henderson High School student and web designer Sean Meadows.

This site has been created thanks to a 3E Institute Incubator Seed Grant. 3E encourages real-world collaboration between educators, students, businesses, and community organizations.

BLUER also thanks the Earth Day Network for hosting our site.

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