About BLUER

The West Chester BLUER committee is an all-volunteer ad-hoc committee formed by West Chester Borough Council. 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.

We will help ensure that the West Chester community:
• becomes aware of its own contribution to the cause-and-effect relationship between human-generated CO2 pollution and global climate change, and
• takes real measures to reduce its CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions through energy conservation, waste reduction, and conversion to cleaner, renewable energy sources.

West Chester’s Borough Council committed to participate in the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign, sponsored by the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) through adoption of Resolution #3 of 2002. The resolution signaled that West Chester Borough would take a leadership role in promoting public awareness about the causes and impacts of climate change and undertake the five milestones of the Cities for Climate Protection. Establishing West Chester BLUER puts West Chester Borough’s resolution into action. The proposed plan will follow the five-milestone framework for reducing CO2 and other greenhouse gas pollutants, as recommended by the ICLEI Cities for Climate Protection program. We meet the first Friday of every month at 1:00 PM in the Borough Hall. Our meetings are open to the public and we encourage you to attend.

What can I do?

Your help is needed. Every resident and business has a role in reducing GHG emissions. Over the course of preparing our Climate Action Plan, the BLUER Committee will be providing you with information on what you can do as a resident, business owner or homeowner to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. On our Reduce page we give you FIVE Actions that you can take to minimize your greenhouse gas emissions.