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Climate Showcase Communities Program

EPA's Climate Showcase Communities Program

EPA's Climate Showcase Communities Program helps local and tribal governments pilot innovative, cost-effective, and replicable community-based greenhouse gas reduction projects. There are 50 Climate Showcase Communities across the U.S. that represent a range of cities, towns, counties, regional governments, and tribal nations. Your community can learn from these pilot projects and replicate their successes.

Madison, Wisconsin: A Pioneering Climate Showcase Community

Madison, Wisconsin is one of EPA's 50 Climate Showcase Communities. Sustain Dane, the City's only comprehensive sustainability organization, runs the MPower Business ChaMpion program. It is a voluntary program that helps businesses identify and accomplish five carbon reduction projects over the course of a year. Sustain Dane provides the resources and tools that businesses need to achieve their carbon reductions, and the businesses save money.

Power of Peer Exchange

EPA's Climate Showcase Communities Program helps local and tribal governments pilot innovative, cost-effective, and replicable community-based greenhouse gas reduction projects. At the annual Climate Showcase Communities workshop, community representatives from across the country gather to share stories, advice, and lessons learned. Benefits include: renewed inspiration and insight about making your community climate project a success. Your community can learn from these pilot projects and replicate their successes.

Meet EPA's Climate Showcase Communities

EPA's Climate Showcase Communities Program helps local governments and tribal nations pilot innovative, cost-effective and replicable community-based greenhouse gas reduction projects. There are 50 Climate Showcase Communities across the United States. Each community is piloting an innovative climate mitigation strategy. These pilot projects are helping communities reduce energy use and save money through creative energy production, residential and commercial energy efficiency, waste management, transportation and land use projects. Any community can take action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution -- and improve people's health and quality of life by reducing air pollution, making communities more walkable, and reducing energy bills at the same time. Your community can learn from these pilot projects and replicate their successes.

Investing in Locals

EPA's Climate Showcase Communities Program helps local governments and tribal nations pilot innovative, cost-effective and replicable community-based greenhouse gas reduction projects. There are 50 Climate Showcase Communities across the United States. Each community is piloting an innovative climate mitigation strategy. These pilot projects are helping communities reduce energy use and save money through creative energy production, residential and commercial energy efficiency, waste management, transportation and land use projects. Any community can take action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution -- and improve people's health and quality of life by reducing air pollution, making communities more walkable, and reducing energy bills at the same time. Your community can learn from these pilot projects and replicate their successes.

Learn from EPA's Climate Showcase Communities

EPA's Climate Showcase Communities Program helps local governments and tribal nations pilot innovative, cost-effective and replicable community-based greenhouse gas reduction projects. There are 50 Climate Showcase Communities across the United States. Each community is piloting an innovative climate mitigation strategy. These pilot projects are helping communities reduce energy use and save money through creative energy production, residential and commercial energy efficiency, waste management, transportation and land use projects. Any community can take action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution -- and improve people's health and quality of life by reducing air pollution, making communities more walkable, and reducing energy bills at the same time. Your community can learn from these pilot projects and replicate their successes.

Climate Showcase Communities - Why WOULDN'T you get involved?

Hear from EPA’s Climate Showcase Communities about the value of being part of EPA’s Climate Showcase Communities network. If your community would like to get involved in this network of communities that are pioneering local sustainability projects, learn more and get in touch with us by visiting the Climate Showcase Communities page. See presentations from our recent Climate Showcase Communities Replication Workshop, highlighting successful local and tribal government climate and energy projects


EPA’s Climate Showcase Communities Program helps local governments and tribal nations pilot innovative, cost-effective and replicable community-based greenhouse gas reduction projects. Fifty Climate Showcase Communities across the United States are leading projects in energy production, residential and commercial energy efficiency, waste management, transportation and land use that reduce energy use and save money.

Any community can take action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution – and improve people’s health and quality of life. EPA can help your community learn from these pilot projects and replicate their successes through peer exchange, training, and technical support. Interested in learning more and taking action? Contact us.

Showcase Map

Project Title Govt. Name State Project Type Population Govt. Type
Activating the Seattle 2030 District City of Seattle WA Efficiency–Commercial 594000 City
Advancing GHG Reduction Through Affordable Housing James City County VA Efficiency–Residential 48000 County
Baltimore Non-profit GHG Reductions Program City of Baltimore MD Efficiency–Commercial 638000 City
Building a Municipal Energy Conservation Corps City of Springfield MA Efficiency–Public Buildings 152000 City
Building Capacity Through Intergovernmental Partnerships City of Warwick RI Multiple 86000 City
Central New York Climate Change Innovation Program Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board NY Multiple 782000 Regional Council
City Green: The District City of Columbia MO Efficiency–Commercial 99000 City
Climate-Wise Community Program La Plata County CO Multiple 50000 County
Cold Climate Community Solutions City of Duluth MN Efficiency–Residential 84000 City
COOL CAP Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians OR Renewables 1600 Tribal
Community Based Biofuel Program Monroe County NY Renewables 734000 County
Density That Works: EcoVillage Concepts Tompkins County NY Smart Growth 101000 County
Denver Energy Challenge City and County of Denver CO Multiple 599000 County
Development of a Freight Efficiency Outreach Center North Central Texas Council of Governments TX Transportation 6260000 Regional
Efficiency and GHG Reduction on the Northern Cheyenne Tribe Reservation Northern Cheyenne Tribe MT Efficiency–Public Buildings 4000 Tribal
Energize Corvallis City of Corvallis OR Multiple 55000 City
Eugene SmartTrips City of Eugene OR Transportation 138000 City
Expanding River-Friendly Landscaping Practices Sacramento County CA Heat Island 1200000 County
Fort Yukon Greenhouse Project Tanana Chiefs Conference AK Combined Heat and Power 610 Tribal
GHG Reductions for Marginalized Communities City and County of Honolulu HI Efficiency–Residential 876000 County
GHG Reduction Through Home Energy Affordability Loan Program City of Little Rock AR Efficiency–Commercial 189000 City
Green Homes Challenge Frederick County MD Efficiency–Residential 224000 County
Hailey Community Climate Challenge City of Hailey ID Multiple 8000 City
Healthy Energy Living Project Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma OK Efficiency–Commercial 80000 Tribal
Home Energy Retrofits for All Town of Greenfield MA Efficiency–Residential 18500 Town
Houston Climate Showcase City of Houston TX Transportation 2200000 City
Industrial Packaging Prevention and Reuse Project Alameda County Waste Management Authority CA Waste Management 1491000 County
Innovative Master Planning for the South Kitsap Industrial Area City of Bremerton WA Smart Growth 37500 City
Integrating ME3 and BPS at Landfills Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission OH Waste Management 2000000 Regional
Maximizing GHG Reductions through Food Waste Diversion Humboldt Waste Management Authority CA Waste Management 130000 County
Mpower ChaMpions City of Madison WI Efficiency–Commercial 229000 City
Reading, Riding and Retrofit Land of Sky Regional Planning Council NC Efficiency–Public Buildings 300000 Regional
Red and Blue and Green All Over Town of Cary NC Efficiency–Public Buildings 113000 Town
Reducing GHGs Through Neighborhood Home Efficiency Upgrades Durham City-County NC Efficiency–Residential 223000 County
Reduction of GHGs Through Innovative Climate Projects Gila River Indian Community AZ Multiple 14000 Tribal
Reenergizing Our Urban Community Efficiently City of Aiken SC Efficiency–Residential 29000 City
Regional Circuit Rider for EE in Local Government Operations Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission PA Efficiency–Public Buildings 2439000 Regional
Santa Ynez Chumash Community Energy Project Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians CA Multiple 4300 Tribal
Smarter Sustainable Dubuque City of Dubuque IA Transportation 58000 City
Sustainable Energy Efficiency Demonstration Projects Township of Cherry Hill NJ Efficiency–Public Buildings 70000 Township
Sustainable Transportation for a Sustainable Future Salt Lake City UT Transportation 182000 City
The Chicago Green Health Care Initiative City of Chicago IL Efficiency–Commercial 2800000 City
The Green Cincinnati Plan City of Cincinnati OH Multiple 331000 City
The Small Cities Climate Action Partnership City of El Cerrito CA Efficiency 23000 City
The Student Conservation Corps West Chester Area School District PA Efficiency–Commercial 83000 School District
Tri County Small Business Efficiency Program Lewis and Clark County MT Efficiency–Commercial 60000 County
Using Landfill Gas to Recycle Glass and Provide Energy to the Metropolitan Detention Center City of Albuquerque, New Mexico NM Landfill Methane 508000 City
West Union Green Downtown West Union, Iowa IA Renewables 2550 City
Whatcom Energy Challenge City of Bellingham WA Efficiency 76000 City