The Clean Air-Cool Planet on-line Campus Climate Action Toolkit (CCAT) aims to make available to anyone who is interested in making his/her educational institution more "climate friendly" - college or university students, staff, faculty, administrators, trustees, alumni, community members - a comprehensive guide to and resource for doing so.

It is intended both:

1. to model what an actual "published" Campus Climate Action Plan might look like;
2. while consisting of short bits of guidance for every aspect of "campus climate action" along with hyperlinks to technical resources and examples/case studies that will help people understand, plan, and execute or implement the CCAP's various elements.

This effort draws on CA- CP's five years of experience working with an accomplished group of people and institutions doing such work across the Northeast region such as Tufts University's Tufts Climate Initiative, the University of New Hampshire's Office of Sustainability Programs, the University of Vermont's Environmental Council, Middlebury College's Carbon Reduction Initiative Working Group, the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, and others.

This product - the online CCAT - was inspired and greatly informed by the work and resulting product of a 2003 January-term class at Middlebury College (ES-010), taught by Professors Jon Isham and Lori DelNegro entitled: " The Challenge of Making Middlebury College Carbon Neutral" The report produced by that class of 22 Middlebury College sophomores, juniors and seniors, entitled Carbon Neutrality at Middlebury College: A Compilation of Potential Objectives and Strategies to Minimize Campus Climate Impact, is still available on-line and constitutes an excellent example of what an institutional Climate Action Plan (or Carbon Reduction Plan) could look like.

The Clean Air-Cool Planet on-line Campus Climate Action Toolkit   can be accessed and used by anyone in the world with access to the Internet. However, partners in Clean Air-Cool Planet's Campuses for Climate Action program have special access via password to enable them to contribute content and suggest edits or format changes. In this way the on-line CCAT is a resource "owned" and will be maintained/improved over time by its primary audience and users: people at Northeast colleges and universities who are actively engaged in making their institutions leaders in addressing the most pressing economic, environmental and social challenge of the 21 st century: global warming.