Our Work
Programs
Our Mission:
Accelerate Climate Solutions educates youth and empowers neighbors to deploy climate solutions, creating a just world and a healthy planet.
Educating Youth
Building Leadership Around Sustainable Transformation (BLAST) provides students with the tools, information, and guidance they need to create real climate and environmental solutions through the BLAST Competition and BLAST Internship programs.
Empowering Neighbors
Accelerate Climate Solutions empowers our neighbors and communities to undertake efforts to decarbonize through education & outreach, civic engagement, and solutions deployment.
Partnerships: We are Stronger When We Work Together
Contact us today to partner on a sustainability project!
Highlights from 2024
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Our inaugural year of Building Leadership Around Sustainable Transformation (BLAST) was a resounding success, reaching 60 students from 15 different schools, and dozens of community members. And BLAST is growing!
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The summer internship program gave 25 students real-world experience creating solutions, including writing a bike plan for Naperville and organizing an environmental fair, EcoBLAST.
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Our Naperville Bikeability Plan kicked off the Naperville Active Mobility Coalition and is being used to inform decision-makers in the city as they plan for improved bike and pedestrian infrastructure.
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Through our community outreach contract with the Green Energy Justice Cooperative, we are bringing clean, low-cost electricity to low and moderate income families in DuPage County.