“This new partnership demonstrates the innovative approaches and collaborations needed to tackle today's energy challenges.”
--Susan Hockfield, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“If all jurisdictions recognized that energy efficiency measures must play an essential role in meeting their constituents’ energy needs, our nation as a whole, and all of its citizens, would reap tremendous economic, environmental, and energy security benefits.”
--Kateri Callahan, President, Alliance to Save Energy

“This bold action puts Cambridge in a leadership role in creating a more environmentally sustainable economy”
--James Mahoney, Director of Public Policy, Bank of America

“The launching of the Cambridge Energy Alliance is a milestone of extraordinary importance.”
--Steve Morr-Wineman, Co-founder of GreenPort

“The global warming challenge calls for bold solutions that directly engage New England’s businesses, state and local governments, leading non-profit institutions, and household energy consumers.”
--Phil Warburg, President, Conservation Law Foundation

“Whole Foods believes strongly that we must lead by example, and it is our hope that by partnering with the Cambridge Energy Alliance we can encourage other businesses, as well as our customers who live and work in the City, to do so as well.” 
­­--Lee B. Kane,  
EcoCzar, Whole Foods Market, North Atlantic Region

“The Cambridge Energy Alliance will help to lower the up-front cost barriers so that motivated residents, condo associations, businesses, and the municipality can implement efficiency and new technology measures to save money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving air quality and health and enhancing the Cambridge environment.”
--Sue Butler, President Green Decade/Cambridge

“This timely and ambitious project provides an opportunity to apply highly innovative new approaches to energy efficiency in terms of advanced technology, integrated building design, novel business models, and creative policy mechanisms to capture the full potential for efficiency, our cleanest, cheapest and most secure energy resource.”
--Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute

“I see real opportunities where BOMA and the CEA can jointly support each others efforts to not only promote energy conservation, but to set the standard for other communities around the country.”
--Robert M. Brierley President BOMA Boston

“The Cambridge Energy Alliance is an exciting breakthrough that will help us get on the path to a cleaner energy future.”
--Frank Gorke, Director, Environment Massachusetts

“We applaud the efforts of the Kendall Foundation in designing a program that should make a significant impact on reducing energy use in the city and become a model for other cities to follow.”
--Rick Mattila, Director of Environmental Affairs, Genzyme Corporation

“Often small businesses ask themselves, what can I realistically do about climate change?  With the help from the Alliance there are any number of things we could do here, from simple lighting changes to more ambitious heating and cooling equipment upgrades.”
--Phil Bannatyne, President, Cambridge Brewing Company

“I have great hopes that the new Cambridge Energy Alliance can demonstrate the benefits from intensive efficiency spending.”
--Marc Breslow, Ph.DExecutive Director, Massachusetts Climate Action Network

“SmartPower is proud to be a part of this ground breaking initiative that will result in a sea change of mainstream support for energy efficiency and the over-arching goal of a reduction in consumer demand for energy.” 
--Brian F. Keane, President, SmartPower

“CDM is honored to support this pioneering initiative in energy management and greenhouse gas reductions.”
--Thomas  Furman, Jr., P.E., BCEE, CDM Chairman
and Chief Executive

“We hope this exciting project will become a national model for demonstrating how cities can use energy efficiency improvements and clean local energy resources to dramatically reduce their global warming pollution, reduce energy bills, and build the local economy.”
--Kevin Knobloch, President, Union of Concerned Scientists

“The Cambridge Energy Alliance will help our hospitality industry meet the demand and be more competitive with other markets.”
--Robyn Bell, Executive Director, Cambridge Office for Tourism

“The Cambridge Energy Alliance initiative will set a national example of how of well coordinated effort at the municipal level can mobilize diverse partners and attract new sources of investment capital to lower energy costs, improve the city’s business climate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
--Dan Sosland, Executive Director, Environment Northeast

“With its comprehensive approach to energy efficiency at all levels of the community, this initiative makes Cambridge a model for municipalities throughout New England, and the nation.”
--Robert Varney, Regional Administrator, U.S Environmental Protection Agency

“Real action on climate change must take advantage of many kinds of solutions.”
--Adam Markham, Executive Director, Clean Air - Cool Planet

“Throughout this nation's history, the community of faith has been a leader on issues of justice, from slavery to civil rights, peace, and economic development, often laying down our lives for others. Today we answer the call on Global Warming, the issue of our time.  Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light is honored to be among the early leaders in the Cambridge Energy Alliance.”
--Steve MacAusland, Chief Evangelical Officer, Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light

“We really believe that a community-based model works, particularly when the community is Cambridge.  Our alliance at Mass Energy stands ready to support the Cambridge Energy Alliance, particularly in the areas of green power and biodiesel.”
--Larry Chretien, Executive Director, Mass. Energy Consumers Alliance

“Cambridge’s bold agenda to reduce city-wide energy use gives the Kendall Foundation a compelling opportunity to join a pace-setting effort of great value to present and future generations.”
--Ted Smith, Executive Director, Henry P. Kendall Foundation

Harvard supports the Cambridge Energy Alliance and the important goals of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel use by improving energy efficiency throughout the City of Cambridge.

MIT congratulates the City of Cambridge on the launch of the new Cambridge Energy Alliance, which will help overcome some of the fundamental obstacles to investments in energy conservation, efficiency, and renewable power. This new partnership demonstrates the innovative approaches and collaborations needed to tackle today's energy challenges. We applaud the City, Kendall Foundation, and Barr Foundation for their leadership in bringing this innovative program to Cambridge, and we look forward to collaborating on its development and implementation.
--Susan Hockfield, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Alliance to Save Energy congratulates the Cambridge Energy Alliance, and particularly the City of Cambridge and the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, for focusing on energy efficiency to achieve its ambitious goal for cutting peak energy demand by 15 percent over the next four to five years. If all jurisdictions recognized that energy efficiency measures must play an essential role in meeting their constituents’ energy needs, our nation as a whole, and all of its citizens, would reap tremendous economic, environmental, and energy security benefits. We join Gov. Patrick in urging other cities and states to emulate the Cambridge model.
--Kateri Callahan, President, Alliance to Save Energy

The Cambridge Energy Alliance is pioneering a new model for energy efficiency that should be replicated by communities across the Commonwealth.
--The Honorable Deval Patrick, Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

The Building Operators and Managers Association, BOMA Boston, is pleased to support the formation of the Cambridge Energy Alliance (CEA) and its mission to promote a large scale cross-sector energy conservation initiative. The CEA's efforts to implement amassive energy efficiency plan, its promotion of distributed generation and demand -response programs will greatly reduce the city's total electricity load. I believe the Cambridge Energy Alliance program complements our own BOMA Energy Efficiency Program (BEEP). BEEP is an innovative operational excellence program designed to teach commercial real estate professionals how to reduce energy consumption and costs with proven no-and low-cost strategies for optimizing equipment, people and practices. I see real opportunities where BOMA and the CEA can jointly support each others efforts to not only promote energy conservation, but to set the standard for other communities around the country to emulate resulting in significant reduction in fossil fuel usage and greenhouse gas emissions in this nation.
--Robert M. Brierley President, BOMA Boston

As owner of the Cambridge Brewing Company, a restaurant and brewery located in Kendall Square, I am very excited to hear about the creation of the Cambridge Energy Alliance. So often small businesses ask themselves, what can I realistically do about climate change? With the potential of help from the Alliance there are any number of things we could do here, from simple lighting changes to more ambitious heating and cooling equipment upgrades.
--Phil Bannatyne, President, Cambridge Brewing Company

Genzyme supports the Cambridge Energy Alliance initiative to boost efforts to reduce energy consumption and green house gas emissions. We applaud the efforts of the Kendall Foundation and the city in designing a program that should not only make a significant impact on reducing energy use in the city but become a model for other cities to follow. We look forward to working with the city and the Foundation on this important and timely initiative.
--Rick Mattila, Director of Environmental Affairs, Genzyme Corporation

Bank of America congratulates the City of Cambridge for stepping up to the challenge of global climate change with an innovative energy saving initiative. This bold action puts Cambridge in a leadership role in creating a more environmentally sustainable economy.
--James Mahoney, Director of Public Policy, Bank of America

We're developers of affordable housing, so we naturally think that individual contribution and hope are important: stable housing can change a person, further a family's dream. Cascap has noticed the impact of energy cost. Electric bills now rival heating bills as the most costly utility expense and can threaten a families' ability to pay the rent or mortgage.

We try to design our buildings with high efficiency lighting and heating to reduce the burden on low income families and the environment. Sometimes it can be too expensive. With help from the Cambridge Energy Alliance, we're hopeful we'll keep housing affordable and reduce energy consumption and costs.
--Michael Haran, Chief Executive Officer, Cascap, Inc.

Cambridge business and innovation have been synonymous for more than a century and the Cambridge Energy Alliance will work with a business community that is focused on efficiency, innovation, and entrepreneurship. The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce is pleased to be part of this project. It will provide significant energy efficiency services and assistance to Cambridge businesses, residents, and institutions and provide a model for other communities. There is no better community in the world better positioned to demonstrate what defines an energy efficient community in the 21st century.
--Terrence F. Smith, Director of Government Affairs, Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

Homeowner's Rehab. Inc has been developing quality affordable housing in Cambridge for over 27 years. At HRI we are concerned about the amount of energy consumed in the US by households. Surprisingly buildings, not cars, are the biggest culprits. As a developer of affordable housing we have to address these environmental issues.

Solutions to this must become an important part of the building process. The creation of the Cambridge Energy Alliance and its funding capacity will be a major force in helping us provide healthier, energy efficient, and less expensive homes for Cambridge families while their surrounding environment is preserved.
--Jane Jones, Senior Project Manager, Homeowner's Rehab, Inc.

The launching of the Cambridge Energy Alliance is a milestone of extraordinary importance. This is exactly the kind of program we need in order to start making the massive reductions in carbon emissions that are essential for a sustainable future.

--Steve Morr-Wineman, Co-founder of GreenPort

We all need to address climate and energy issues, and this program will help us to do so both at our community center and in our role as a resource for residents throughout the city. We look forward to working with the Cambridge Energy Alliance.
--Janet Kendrick, Executive Director, Cambridge Community Center

We applaud the City of Cambridge and the Kendall Foundation for their vision and foresight to take the City's climate protection initiatives to the next level by actively addressing energy efficiency in the private sector through the creation of the Cambridge Energy Alliance.

ICLEI works with Cambridge and more than 250 other local governments around the country to advance local climate action and sustainability measures. Redefining the ways we produce and use energy is critical to these efforts, especially for urban areas where the vast majority of the nation's energy is consumed. CEA can help the Cambridge community limit the amount of energy wasted and expand clean, renewable energy options while bringing the City closer to its greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. This initiative reminds us that energy conservation can help create jobs, spur economic development and unite the public and private sectors. We look to CEA as an opportunity to demonstrate that we can turn the problem of global warming into profitable solutions that also make our communities cleaner, better places to live.
--Michelle Wyman, Executive Director, ICLEI USA-Local Governments for Sustainability

Recognizing early that sustainable design and green buildings are a critical responsibility of the architectural community, HMFH Architects, Inc. was a charter supporter of both the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and Cambridge's Climate Action Initiative. From advising our clients about green materials and procedures on projects such as the LEED Silver renovations to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, to monitoring our own habits, which have resulted in a 30% reduction of our in-house electric lighting usage and more than 50% trash recycling, HMFH is proud to walk the walk with the Cambridge Energy Alliance.
--George Metzger, President, HMFH Architects

New Ecology, Inc.'s (NEI) mission is to serve as a catalyst for sustainable development in cities. By sustainable development, we mean development that restores environmental quality and eliminates pollution and waste, provides direct, meaningful economic opportunities for all communities, and builds civic capacity to ensure a healthy future. Energy and water conservation and their more environmentally-friendly sources and uses are central components of the sustainability equation. NEI focuses on bringing energy and water efficiency strategies to affordable housing and community economic development projects. We look forward to working with the Alliance to meet our mutual goals of reduced carbon footprints and an environmentally sustainable future.
--Ed Connelly, President, New Ecology

Dalkia operates over 700 district heating and cooling networks throughout the world - including in East Cambridge. Dalkia is uniquely qualified to help The Cambridge Energy Alliance attain its goals by providing clean, reliable and affordable steam to the people of Cambridge. The steam that Dalkia provides is a generated from fuel already used to make electricity. By delivering this "Green Steam" to our customers we eliminate the creation of new greenhouse gas emissions in the city and the world.
--Thomas Herlihy, Senior Project Manager, Dalkia North America

As a Realtor and LEED Accredited Professional, I completely welcome this initiative. I work with buyers, sellers and developers who want more information on and options for helping their homes have a positive impact on the environment. I talk to homeowners who want their homes to protect the natural resources which make their homes valuable. I work with sellers and developers who want to know what choices they can make to build and sell energy efficient homes. We need this cross-sector initiative.

As Realtors, we educate buyers and sellers about the value of their property and the benefits of their community. When real estate professionals learn more about the measures that Cambridge can and does take to implement energy efficiency, we will excel at demonstrating the value of investing in and living in Cambridge. I am sure the real estate community can contribute to and benefit from this initiative.

In my opinion, a City-wide initiative that helps homeowners and real estate professionals understand the improvement of energy efficiency as a policy in the city and a practice in all homes, would be the best investment the City could make to improve property values for homeowners and the quality of life for all in Cambridge.
--Amy Tighe, Realtor, LEED Accredited Professional

Green Decade/Cambridge is a group of Cambridge residents, taking action locally to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and to inform residents, businesses, and municipal management. The Cambridge Energy Alliance will help to lower the up-front cost barriers so that motivated residents, condo associations, businesses, and the municipality can implement efficiency and new technology measures to save money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving air quality and health and enhancing the Cambridge environment.
--Sue Butler, President Green Decade/Cambridge

Just-A-Start is a non-profit community development corporation committed to increasing the supply of affordable housing and providing education, training and mediation services. We are proud to be an organization of such a progressive City as Cambridge with the ability, and the will, to establish an initiative like the Cambridge Energy Alliance. We hope to use this program to benefit our low/moderate income tenants by reducing their utility costs. I personally hope there will be educational components to the CEA that will help people understand the importance of individual action in reducing the USA's very large carbon footprint.
--Barbara Shaw, Housing Development Director, Just-A-Start Corporation

On one level, we know that the economic and environmental benefits of clean energy are clear. On another level, we know that not enough has been done to organize people, corporations, and institutions in such a way to make big changes happen. We really believe that a community-based model works, particularly when the community is Cambridge. Our alliance at Mass Energy stands ready to support the Cambridge Energy Alliance, particularly in the areas of green power and biodiesel. We also have quite a few heating oil consumers who will be eager to participate in the energy efficiency program.
--Larry Chretien, Executive Director, Mass. Energy Consumers Alliance

Metabolix is a company with MIT roots, and a proud member of the Cambridge Climate Leader program. Our corporate vision is aligned with the Cambridge Energy Alliance. Metabolix is bringing clean solutions to the world with 'green' alternatives for plastics, energy and chemicals and we share the Alliance's vision to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, petroleum usage and environmental waste. In alignment with this vision, after 20 years of research, Metabolix will help reduce petroleum consumption by introducing our biobased, sustainable and totally biodegradable Natural Plastic during Earth Week as part of the Cambridge Science Fair.
--Brian Igoe, Vice President and Chief Brand Officer, Metabolix, Inc.

The Cambridge Project heralds a new era in energy efficiency, going deeper than ever to mine the efficiency resource in our homes and businesses. It will dig deeply into the building stock to upgrade energy-using technologies. It will also modernize the power grid with smart and distributed generation technologies that cut electricity grid losses dramatically. This investment will pay for itself many times in new jobs, lower energy bills, fewer blackouts, and reduced carbon emissions. If communities across the country follow Cambridge's lead, we can rebuild America's energy infrastructure to meet this century's unprecedented energy challenges.
--Bill Prindle, Acting Executive Director, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy

The global warming challenge calls for bold solutions that directly engage New England’s businesses, state and local governments, leading non-profit institutions, and household energy consumers. The Cambridge Energy Alliance will forge a precedent-setting partnership among all of these sectors, curbing the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by promoting energy efficiency and shaving peak electricity demand.
--Phil Warburg, President, Conservation Law Foundation

The most promising way to address high energy prices and tackle the challenge of global warming is by increasing investments in energy efficiency and demand side energy resources, The Cambridge Energy Alliance initiative will set a national example of how of well coordinated effort at the municipal level can mobilize diverse partners and attract new sources of investment capital to lower energy costs, improve the city’s business climate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
--Dan Sosland, Executive Director, Environment Northeast

Whole Foods Market operates three stores and our North Atlantic regional offices in Cambridge. One of the many ways Whole Foods Market has demonstrated our commitment to reducing our environmental impact is through the purchase of renewable wind energy credits to offset our electricity usage for all of our stores and facilities in the United States and Canada, and we’ve been an EPA Green Power Partner since 2004. Last year we joined the Cambridge Climate Leaders program, as well as EPA’s Energy Star and Climate Leaders programs. We are also committed to reducing our energy usage and installing clean energy technologies at our facilities, so we are thrilled about the opportunity to participate in the Cambridge Energy Alliance program. Whole Foods believes strongly that we must lead by example, and it is our hope that by partnering with the Cambridge Energy Alliance we can encourage other businesses, as well as our customers who live and work in the City, to do so as well.
--Lee B. Kane, EcoCzar, Whole Foods Market, North Atlantic Region

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) looks forward to working with the City of Cambridge in helping to craft the City’s energy efficiency program. This timely and ambitious project provides an opportunity to apply highly innovative new approaches to energy efficiency in terms of advanced technology, integrated building design, novel business models, and creative policy mechanisms to capture the full potential for efficiency, our cleanest, cheapest and most secure energy resource.
--Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute

CDM is honored to support this pioneering initiative in energy management and greenhouse gas reductions. As one of Cambridge’s top employers, we are committed to helping reduce energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions in our own operations and to supporting our clients in doing the same. Programs like the Cambridge Energy Alliance provide a valuable model for other communities, and we applaud the city’s leadership.
--Thomas D. Furman Jr., P.E., BCEE, CDM Chairman and Chief Executive

Throughout this nation's history, the community of faith has been a leader on issues of justice, from slavery to civil rights, peace, and economic development, often laying down our lives for others. Today we answer the call on Global Warming, the issue of our time. Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light is honored to be among the early leaders in the Cambridge Energy Alliance. Working together, we will take the issues of environmental justice and economic development to every neighborhood in Cambridge, across the state and nation, and around the world.
--Steve MacAusland, Chief Evangelical Officer, Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light

The collaboration between the City of Cambridge and the Kendall Foundation is public-private environmental partnership at its finest. With its comprehensive approach to energy efficiency at all levels of the community, this initiative makes Cambridge a model for municipalities throughout New England, and the nation. The time is right for communities to step up to the plate and work to improve energy efficiency and their use of renewables. We commend the Kendall Foundation for its vision and generosity.
--Robert Varney, Regional Administrator, U.S Environmental Protection Agency

The Harvard Square Business Association was established in 1910 to advance the commercial, industrial and public interests of Harvard Square. As we approach our 100th anniversary, we cannot conceive of a more important issue for us from both an economic and environmental aspect than energy conservation. Partnering with the Cambridge Energy Alliance will ensure that our businesses are working together to use energy in the most efficient way...a necessary action that will benefit ourselves, our neighbors, our students, and our community.
--Denise Jillson, Executive Director, Harvard Square Business Association

Real action on climate change must take advantage of many kinds of solutions, including primarily energy efficiency efforts in electric use, buildings, and transportation, but also addressing development of renewable energy resources and other “fuel switching” mechanisms, public education, land use, and financing. Congratulations to the City of Cambridge on a proposal for a new initiative that addresses many of these areas and builds upon a significant foundation of community-wide work on climate. We are particularly encouraged by the public-private nature of the venture, as well as the financing mechanism that recognizes energy efficiency as a demand-side reality worthy of real credit. We look forward to working with the City, the Kendall Foundation, and SmartPower in promoting the work of the Cambridge Energy Alliance in our work with communities across the Northeast.
--Adam Markham, Executive Director, Clean Air - Cool Planet

Investing in energy efficiency is the most effective way to address the challenges of global warming and energy security. As communities across the country grapple with these challenges, they should look to Cambridge’s large scale investment in energy efficiency for a leadership example that will reap both economic and environmental benefits. It is this type of model, ambitious and far reaching program that should give us hope that we can successfully tackle this global challenge.
--Mindy Lubber, President, Ceres: Investors and Environmentalists for Sustainable Prosperity

We hope this exciting project will become a national model for demonstrating how cities can use energy efficiency improvements and clean local energy resources to dramatically reduce their global warming pollution, reduce energy bills, and build the local economy.
--Kevin Knobloch, President, Union of Concerned Scientists

Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP) is pleased to endorse the efforts of the Kendall Foundation, the City of Cambridge and their partners in creating the Cambridge Energy Alliance (CEA). NEEP’s efforts over the last ten years have illustrated the power of partnerships in advancing key energy efficiency initiatives, and we’re certain that the CEA’s emphasis on partnerships will help it leverage the enormous opportunities available in the areas of energy efficiency, distributed generation and other demand resources. Now is the time for all of us to focus on how we can work in concert to provide an energy future that is affordable, reliable and clean, and NEEP stands ready to support the CEA in any way we can to help create a blueprint for empowering communities. We commend the Kendall Foundation, the City of Cambridge and all of the partners who are working to make Cambridge, and, eventually, all of Massachusetts, leaders in energy efficiency and other clean energy resources.
--Susan Coakley, Executive Director, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships

Energy efficiency is the greatest opportunity we have to simultaneously reduce global warming pollution and save consumers money on their utility bills. I have great hopes that the new Cambridge Energy Alliance can demonstrate the benefits from intensive efficiency spending.
--Marc Breslow, Ph.D., Executive Director, Massachusetts Climate Action Network

“American foundations are generally reluctant to take risks, to seek results over the long term, and to forge strong collaborations with governments. But the specter of climate change invites and demands all three actions. Cambridge’s bold agenda to reduce city-wide energy use gives the Kendall Foundation a compelling opportunity to join a pace-setting effort of great value to present and future generations.”
--Ted Smith, Executive Director, Henry P. Kendall Foundation

With the global awareness of the importance of preserving our natural resources, the focus on energy conservation is making an impact on the decisions people make in their travel plans. Cambridge Tourism office is asked more and more which properties we have that are Green certified, particularly in the international markets. This is true for the leisure market as well as for corporate meetings, and the hotels, restaurants and attractions in Cambridge are responding to that demand. Our office is promoting these efforts through our developing website and marketing materials. The Cambridge Energy Alliance will help our hospitality industry meet the demand and be more competitive with other markets.
--Robyn Bell, Executive Director, Cambridge Office for Tourism

Energy efficiency is the cleanest, cheapest, and quickest way to start solving our energy problems. If we hope to tackle global warming and cut smog, soot, and mercury emissions, we have to get everyone using the simple tools to save energy that we're currently leaving in the toolbox. The Cambridge Energy Alliance is an exciting breakthrough that will help us get on the path to a cleaner energy future.
--Frank Gorke, Director, Environment Massachusetts

SmartPower is proud to support and be a part of this ground breaking initiative that will result in a sea change of mainstream support for energy efficiency and the over-arching goal of a reduction in consumer demand for energy. The Cambridge Energy Alliance will be a model for energy efficiency in cities and towns not only throughout Massachusetts, but also across the country.
--Brian F. Keane, President, SmartPower

The Cambridge Housing Authority is committed to reducing our carbon footprint and increasing energy efficiencies throughout our housing stock.

CHA is currently working with City officials on a strategy to redevelop our entire state public housing portfolio over the next two to three years.

Accessing green technologies to reduce emissions and conserve energy will be an integral part of our redevelopment plans for the state sites. We hope that the Cambridge Energy Alliance will help support our continuing efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and conserve energy throughout the Agency's portfolio.
--Gregory R. Russ, Executive Director, Cambridge Housing Authority

Harvard supports the Cambridge Energy Alliance and the important goals of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel use by improving energy efficiency throughout the City of Cambridge.   This unique public/private partnership initiative will engage the entire community and enable everyone to participate directly in solutions to the climate challenge.  We look forward to participating in this program and continuing to promote sustainable building design, renewable energy, and other energy efficiency projects for the campus.  We commend the City of Cambridge and the Kendall Foundation for initiating this partnership.
--Tom Vautin, Associate Vice President, Facilities & Environmental Services, Harvard University

We are very excited to be part of a team that is creating an energy model for the future.  The Cambridge Energy Alliance has designed an approach to energy efficiency that is focused on customer-based solutions that involve the whole community.  This forward-thinking initiative will complement and enhance our existing efforts to help our customers save money and energy today, resulting in a cleaner, healthier environment for tomorrow.
--Thomas J. May, Chairman, President and CEO, NSTAR