What is Cool Blocks/Cool Cities?

At the core of “what’s cool” for the 21st century is the cooling of our climate-changing planet.

But in addition, “what’s cool” is an ethos of collaboration, caring, and sharing. You and your household are invited to embark on a journey of discovering and making cool choices in collaboration with other households on your block.

“My block?” Cool Block is all about your block. Moreover, it’s about place-making, community-building, local ecosystems, sharing economies, and developing collaboration muscle with your neighbors who live next door, across the street, or in your apartment building.

“But I don’t even know my neighbors.”  Yes. And it’s about that, too. You will learn how to meet and collaborate with your neighbors to create a cooler household, cooler block, and cooler planet. We need one another to create cool choices. Doing it together is twenty-first century cool!

Cool Block offers a vision of what is possible for our cities and planet and the tools to achieve it. The program puts this information into action to increase the quality of life for residents of a block, while also contributing to the viability of our planet’s life-support system.

Thank you for caring enough to want to make the world better on the block where you live! A win for you, your neighbors, your city, and our planet!
 

 David Gershon
Author, The Cool Block 
CEO, Empowerment Institute