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Keep Cool Somerville: Grants Piloted Small-Scale Projects

Keep Cool Somerville: Grants Piloted Small Scale Projects In the summer of 2021, the City of Somerville and Metropolitan Area Planning Council gave six community organizations grants to build resilience to heat in Somerville. The Keep Cool Somerville intiative began in 2020 as a collaboration between the City of Somerville and MAPC to address the […]

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DLTA Spotlight: Keep Cool Somerville

Photo Credit: Atais Ribeiro, Keep Cool Somerville Photovoice Participant DLTA Spotlight: Keep Cool Somerville A cooling strategies toolkit for increasingly hot summers Written by Operations Specialist Rachel Marx District Local Technical Assistance, or “DLTA” funds, are state grants distributed among the state’s 13 Regional Planning Agencies (RPAs)—including MAPC—to provide cities and towns with money and […]

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