Community Assets

Community Assets are resources available to communities. This is a work in progress. If you have suggestions for additional assets, please contact: sustainablehanovernh@gmail.com

EXISTING GROUPS:
Rotary, Chamber.of Commerce, Lions Club, Kiwanis
Vital Communities
Hanover Garden Club, Hanover Conservation Council
League of Women Voters
Upper Valley Land Trust
Upper Valley Sierra Club
UVLSRPC
HHS Environmental Club, Youth-in-Action
Sustainable Dartmouth Student Group
Girls’ and Boy’s Scout troops
United Valley Interfaith Project

TOWN COMMITTEES:
Affordable Housing Commission
Conservation Commission
Biking & Pedestrian Committee
Sustainable Hanover Committee

COMMUNICATION TOOLS:
Town website, annual Town Report
Schools’ listserve, Dartmouth listserve
CATV, Letters to Editor
Farmers’ Markets, Howe Library

TRANSPORTATION:
Advance Transit, Dartmouth Coach, Greyhound
Upper Valley Rideshare/UVTMA/ park & rides
Bike & Pedestrian Committee & Upper Valley Trails Alliance
Existing rail right-of-ways
Existing bike trails
Class VI roads

NATURAL RESOURCES:
Biomass: forest, yard and food waste (residential, municipal, institutional, commercial)
Hydropower: Connecticut River, streams (also possible transportation)
Geothermal (example. Co-op Community Market)
Topography: possible wind energy
Solar: open space as well as rooftops
Regional farms, community gardens
School St. property
Etna Fire Station property

EXISTING PROGRAMS TO BUILD ON:
Upper Valley Rideshare
Curbside recycling
Metal recycling, electronic recycling, HHW recycling
StayWarmNH.org (NH OEP program)
State incentives for renewable energy/efficiency installation
Federal incentives for renewable energy/efficiency installation