Public Awareness
The Public Awareness initiative seeks to increase the profile of renewable energy with the public. In particular, it aims to provide visible evidence that renewable energy is being used ever more widely across the Commonwealth and that it can indeed ultimately supply a large share of the state’s energy. This Initiative provides Massachusetts residents with information about what they can do to support the development of renewable energy. The overall message is: “Clean energy: it’s real, it’s here, it’s working. Let’s make more!”
Activities in the initiative include:
- Grants to organizations for educational activities that increase public awareness of and support for renewable energy among Massachusetts residents.
- Exhibits and activities at the Museum of Science and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts (MASS MoCA).
- Displays at renewable energy facilities and buildings funded by the Trust.
- Title sponsorship of the NESEA Building Energy Conference in Boston on March 13-15, 2007.
- Extensive public information about clean energy on the MTC website.
- Clean energy television ads as a part of the National Clean Energy Education Campaign with the Clean Energy States Alliance.
- A Clean Energy Tour in 2004 with large-scale events in five communities.
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The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and New England Cable News (NECN ) are highlighting opportunities to conserve energy and implement clean energy solutions that save money. Watch the MTC video announcements broadcast on NECN. |
CONTACT:
Marybeth Campbell, Public Education Coordinator at campbell@masstech.org or 508.870.0312, ext. 238.
Martha Broad, Manager, Renewable Energy Markets, at broad@masstech.org or 508.870.0312, ext.254.
