Welcome!
We are so glad you’ve found your way to this Energize Ashland website! Here you’ll discover a trove of tools and resources to motivate and support everyone in Ashland to address our climate emergency by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. You can take action at home, at work, and in daily life — along with your family, neighbors, and Ashland friends — to prepare for a changing climate and reduce climate impacts.

How it all works
Energize Ashland is about all of us working together to address our climate emergency and accelerating progress toward the Net Zero Resolution passed at Ashland’s Town Meeting in the fall of 2020. As we share our experiences, we learn from each other how easy it is to make small changes in our daily lives that, over time, make a positive impact. This website serves as a resource for:
Actions to take (You can explore each Action through the Description, Steps to Take, and Deep Dive tabs on the Action page)
 Special Events and engaging educational programs
 Testimonials by neighbors

Creating your own Energize Ashland account lets you:
 Share your experience to help educate and motivate your neighbors: write a Testimonial! Click the “Testimonials” button on the specific Action page and tell your story.
 Receive a once a month Energize Ashland Newsletter emailed to you

Sign me up!
If you’re ready to get started with Energize Ashland, just CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP and create your account (and profile). If you are not quite ready to sign up- No worries! You can still see all the Actions, Events and Testimonials. Nothing is hidden from visitors to the site.

What’s our story?
Energize Ashland started in 2023 when a small group of Ashland residents who are very concerned about climate change met to explore what we could do about it. In early meetings we started to learn from each other how easy it was to make small changes in our daily lives that, over time, make a positive impact. Sensing there were many others in town who shared our concerns and from whom we could learn, we still had the question, “How do we all connect with each other?” With
everyone’s busy lives, how could we all easily, efficiently collaborate to share, learn, discuss and celebrate all the small wins which add up to significant positive differences?
We discovered other towns were addressing these same issues in collaboration with the statewide organization MassEnergize. We wanted to motivate and inspire fellow Ashland residents to take actions like those we saw in other towns. Starting with a template developed by Mass Energize, we modified it to be Ashland-specific and created  EnergizeAshland.org. Twenty-three other Massachusetts towns
created similar programs.

The Energize Ashland team is collaborating with the Ashland Sustainability Committee and the Town of Ashland Sustainability Manager as part of a broad mobilization to “bring net Town-wide carbon emissions to zero as quickly as possible, with a target date of 2040”.

Energize Ashland’s Mission Statement
Energize Ashland is an all-volunteer group dedicated to helping our neighbors and local businesses take steps in their homes, at work, and in their daily lives to address the climate emergency. Our ultimate goal is that all Ashland households are capable, empowered, and determined to take actions to slow climate change. Why? We face a climate emergency that cries out for action from every member of our community – people of all ages and income levels, businesses, houses of worship, schools, municipal government, nonprofits and grassroots organizations – to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve local resilience, build real community, and adapt to a changing, unstable climate.