Welcome!

Energize Stow is a collaborative effort between Stow's Green Advisory Committee and Sustainable Stow. The purpose of this site is to educate residents in building a sustainable, environmentally-sound, and climate-resilient community in Stow. Our goal is to encourage progress towards achieving Stow's Climate Action Plan through individual and collective actions. 

Join the Effort!

To get started, click on the green sign in/join button on the top right hand corner and create your account.  

How to use this site.

The Energize Stow website is designed to capture the climate actions taken in our community, and where possible, to quantify the carbon savings.  Using this website creates momentum for climate action in the community, and provides Stow with quantitative data on town-wide progress towards matching our Climate Action Plan goals. 

• Welcome! - Which is how you reached this page.
• Take Action - Click on this box to access the many options for learning and taking Actions.  Some of you already drive an EV (Electric Vehicle). Good for you! Click on "Done" for any Actions you have completed. Learn about other Actions by reading the Description, Steps to Take, and/or Deep Dive tabs on the Action page. Click on the Do button for each specific Action you plan to take. Create or join a team and have friendly competition between teams. Once you join a team, your score will get added to that team. A team can be a neighborhood, your congregation, your class at school or any other group of interested residents. 
• Events - Learn about local and regional information sessions, webinars, in-person events, and videos designed to assist you on your path to a sustainable future. 
• Highlighted Action - Learn about a current ongoing program or campaign focused on climate resilience. 

Stow Green Advisory Committee is a town committee focused on creating a climate action plan with specific targets and actions to help align the town with the statewide energy and environmental goals. In addition, it advises the town regarding sustainability with a sensitivity to equity in all aspects of town development and planning. 

Sustainable Stow was started in 2007, by a group of town residents interested in taking positive actions to reduce individual and town energy consumption, as well as looking at other steps we can take collectively to build a more sustainable community.  

The types of activities we have been involved in include: Stow Solar Challenge, Green Communities designation, energy use reductions for town buildings, MassCEC HeatSmart program, Stow Rain Barrel Program, Stow pollinator pathway. We have also participated in other town-level projects aimed at climate resilience, reducing carbon emissions, educational forums and library presentations including home energy savings, reducing residents' carbon emissions at home, water quality, and perserving our natural resources.