CIRenew - Promoting a Sustainable Energy Future for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket
The Cape & Islands Renewable Energy Collaborative (CIRenew, formerly known as CIREC) was founded in 2000 to bring together diverse individuals and organizations with common interest in achieving a sustainable energy future, both locally and globally. It is a chapter of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA).

CIRenew is a participatory collaborative engaging representatives from diverse constituencies in purusing common goals. Participants include advocacy groups, research centers, businesses, energy service providers, and educational institutions based in the Cape & Islands region, as well as officials from local, regional, state, and federal agencies.

CIRenew also is a membership organization. The public can join CIRenew to support collaborative efforts to increase energy efficiency, expand reliance on renewable resources, and promote green building, thinking, and acting on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. Professionals are encouraged to support CIRenew by joining NESEA. Visit our membership page for details.

Announcing CIGoGreen, an Energy Action Plan for the Cape & Islands
The time for debate about energy issues is over. Now, we must act - at the individual, community, and regional levels - to increase energy independence while reducing our carbon footprint and strengthening our economy.

In February 2008, CIRenew participants issued CIGoGreen: A Call to Action & Report to the Community. This regional energy action plan pursues ambitious goals for the year 2020 established through a "Beyond Cape Wind" planning process begun in 2005. It reflects continuing stakeholder dialogues, as well as issues and needs identified in a series of meetings held with community leaders and municipal officials during 2007. It specifies energy action plans for residents and visitors, businesses and organizations, students and schools, agencies and officials, and communities. It also details the 2008 priorities of CIRenew participants as we seek to help you make progress.

Visit cigogreen.org to get more information on the CIGoGreen campaign - and to take action!

Collaborative Goals
CIRenew is a nonprofit, participatory collaborative with an overall objective of maximizing benefits and minimizing adverse impacts associated with energy supply and use in the Cape & Islands region.

Cape Cod and the islands. LANDSAT image.