Welcome!

We are so glad you’ve found your way to this Melrose Climate Action website! Here, you’ll discover a trove of tools and resources to motivate and support everyone in Melrose to address our Climate Emergency by reducing greenhouse gas emissions (and achieving other, related goals). You can take action at home, at work, and in daily life — along with your family, neighbors, and Melrose friends — to prepare for a changing climate and help reduce climate impacts.

Sign me up!

If you’re ready to get started with Melrose Climate Action, just CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP and create your account (aka profile). If you want to know more first, read on.

How it all works & why to sign up

The goal of the Melrose Climate Action website is to accelerate progress toward the “Net Zero / Carbon Free by 2050” goal of the Metro Mayors Coalition Climate Preparedness Taskforce (learn more here). The Actions on this site are designed to address the Climate Emergency both individually and collectively, and to include something for everyone, from small Actions to large ones.

This Melrose Climate Action platform is also designed to capture nearly all the Actions taken in our community and, whenever possible, to quantify the carbon savings from them. Melrose Climate Action is not just about individuals reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions — important as that is. It is fundamentally about working together to speed our progress on emissions reductions and creating a more liveable, sustainable community.

Using Melrose Climate Action has multiple positive effects: (1) it creates momentum for climate action; (2) it helps users focus on significant climate actions, and understand the impacts they can have; (3) it allows the City of Melrose to have quantitative data on town-wide progress in reducing GHGs; and (4) it helps identify potential gaps in local climate mobilization efforts, primarily through the Testimonials that users provide.

Creating your own Melrose Climate Action account allows you to:

• Record Actions you may already have taken. Maybe you already drive an EV (electric vehicle), or are already enrolled in Melrose Community Power 100% Local Green. Good for you! Click on “Done” for any Actions you’ve already completed.
• Review other Actions that interest you. You can explore each through the Description, Steps to Take, and/or Deep Dive tabs on the Action page. Create your own “To Do” list for Actions you want and plan to take. Click on the To Do button for each specific Action you want to put on that list.
• Check your personal, cumulative impact score for Actions you’ve done by clicking on the circle with your initials at the top right of any page, and selecting “My Profile.”
• Have your impacts counted toward our collective goal; every action you mark as “Done” counts!
• Share the impacts of what you've done; click on the “Done” button for Actions you have taken to see the impacts (calculated via our peer-reviewed carbon calculator).
• Share your experience with Actions to help educate and motivate your neighbors: write a Testimonial! Click on “Testimonials” on the specific Action page and tell your story. 
• Join a team to boost the fun; have friendly competitions with other teams! When you join (or create; see next item) a team, your score will get added to that of your team.
• Create your very own team! Any group can be a team: your cricket team, your congregation, your street or neighborhood, your class at school, etc. (For now, this must be done on a computer rather than a mobile phone.)

NOTE: If you’re not quite ready to sign up — no worries! You can still see all the actions, events, testimonials, and collective impact. Nothing is “hidden” from visitors to the site.

Who are we / what’s our story?

Melrose Climate Action is a collaboration between the volunteer organizations comprising Sustainable Melrose and the City of Melrose. While each member organization has its own web presence, there was a need to better engage with the Melrose community and provide an easy way for Melrosians to take action to combat climate change. In Spring of 2022 we partnered with MassEnergize to launch the engagement platform you see here. Please explore the site, then take action to reduce your impact on the climate and start living a more sustainable life!