COOL COMMUNITIES

Cool Communities is a non-profit action-oriented advocacy program aimed at improving urban environments and conserving energy by promoting the use of lighter, reflective (high albedo) roofing and paving materials in combination with strategically planted shade trees as a desirable design "system." In Georgia, Cool Communities has created public and private partnerships in support of these efforts to mitigate the impact of the Urban Heat Island... The Cool Communities mission is to help improve Georgia's air and water quality and to promote healthy and livable communities by advocating urban heat island mitigation using sustainable cost-effective strategies for development, construction and existing structure retro-fitting.