New chapters and collaborators! We are especially excited to add Austerlitz100, Rye100, and Sustainable Westchester to our community in 2024. 

Carbon Tracker: Our major web-based application gained significant enhancements in 2024. In a major expansion of the app’s My Carbon section, the new Expert Carbon Consultant feature offers customized recommendations to reduce your carbon footprint. It does so with both interactive graphical and narrative interfaces, including cost savings, effort level and carbon reduction. Give it a whirl and see the bubble graph representing your personalized recommendations! 

CURE100 Newsletter: In 2024, we added a “GOOD NEWS CORNER” to our popular monthly newsletter to highlight inspiring actions to combat climate change around the world. We covered growth of wind and solar energy capacity and the electrification of huge corporate fleets such as UPS, among other good news.  

CURE100 Blog: In 2024, we offered thoughtful and engaging essays, such as We Need More Climate Parents (Jeff Prosserman), Croton100: Grassroots Climate Action in 2024 and Plans for 2025 (Patty Buchanan), Decarbonization Lessons Learned — Yorktown100 (Susan Buck and Robert DeAngelis), and An Open Letter to the Human Race (Chandu Visweswariah), among others. 

Conferences & Webinars: CURE100/Croton100 kicked off 2024 electric school bus education and advocacy with a presentation at a Climate Conference in March hosted by Pace School of Law and FCWC in White Plains and the Federated Conservationists of Westchester. 

Monthly meetings: Our monthly meetings (third Tuesday of each month, 5 – 6 pm) hosted a terrific guest experts on a wide range of timely topics such as Climate Careers (Prof Jeff Seidman), E-mobility Entrepreneurship (Pedego owner Riley Moeller), The Estimated Carbon Footprint for Pleasantville Middle School (Nehla Sauthoff), a How To Climate Bingo (Robert DeAngelis) and How to Enroll in GridRewardsTM (Sustainable Westchester) and the NYS Climate Education Bill (Susan Buck & Laura Kosbar) that will make even better progress in Albany in 2025! 

In addition, CURE100 and its chapters undertook several events. 

• Chandu Visweswariah delivered a well-received keynote address, “Energy Policy Through the Lens of a Parable,” at the Energy Consortium’s Annual Energy Summit at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia on November 28.
• Croton100 fabricated a unique Climate Action Quilt that is on permanent display in Croton-on-Hudson’s Village Hall and available on loan for events. 
• Yorktown100 held its annual EV Show in July in conjunction with the Lions Club Summer Concert and published an essay in the local weekly paper, Decarbonization Lessons Learned.
• Rye100 tabled at the Rye Food Truck Festival in September.
• Peekskill100 held its public launch with a Climate Change Bingo party.
• CURE100 member Leo Wiegman attended the NYC Solar & Storage Summit and John Jay College with his Sustainable Westchester colleagues.

Shared Resources: 

• To help our chapters succeed, CURE100 continues to provide Proof of Insurance certificates to any chapters upon request that need to provide such to site owners for putting on events. This convenience removes the need for each chapter to obtain and pay for its own liability insurance.  Several chapters take advantage of this benefit each year for Climate Change Bingo, EV Car Shows or other events they wish to sponsor.
• Our DeCarbonizer Bunny costumes are available (in three sizes!) for your next in-person community event to make-merry-with-a-message while tabling or marching! 
• Our CURE100 Table Banner is available to use for your community events as well. 
• Don’t forget our Climate Change Bingo game you can customize as Peekskill100 did for its friend/fundraiser!

We also updated the CURE100 mission statement to reflect the growing urgency of emissions reduction:

CURE100 (Communities United to Reduce Emissions 100%) is a not-for-profit consortium of communities that seeks to reduce global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to net zero urgently and with high priority, through a combination of advocacy, education and campaigns at the local and global levels.