Opening scene with reference pictures from Eversource Framingham TENs pilot. Photo credits: Eversource Energy.

Sketches of workers from concept to final design.

Sketches of an apartment building and grocery store with spotlights on a person in a tub and grocery store shelves.

Storyboard with sketches for each page.

📖 How do you build a clean green neighborhood on the page? Check out our new blog, featuring @nicolekelner.bsky.social & author Kristin George Bagdanov, as they discuss how this bilingual, whimsical children’s story came to life. bit.ly/4qLGfM2
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New Children’s Book Celebrates the Power and Potential of Energy-Sharing Networks - GreenBuildingAdvisor The Clean Green Neighborhood children's book showcases how a community can thrive with clean energy, union labor, and shared resources.

🌱 Want a holiday gift about how neighborhoods can share energy affordably? Check out our new children's book, “The Clean Green Neighborhood.” Justin Wolf reports in Green Building Advisor that it explores how unions can build clean, resilient neighborhoods. bit.ly/4p3z29l #TheCleanGreenNeighborhood

Welcome to The Clean Green Neighborhood Imagine living in a neighborhood where the air is healthy, the buildings are safe and efficient, and the energy is clean.

Celebrate Giving Tuesday with #TheCleanGreenNeighborhood, our bilingual book that celebrates the union workers building a safer, more resilient future. 🌱 Get your copy by Dec. 4 - just in time for the holiday season! tinyurl.com/55da9c3j
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The image depicts a watercolor illustration in the children’s book The Clean Green Neighborhood. The illustration shows five characters, each representing a trade union worker, and a community member, all standing behind a banner that reads “The Clean Green Neighborhood.” The trade union workers are wearing their job site protective equipment, including helmets and high-visibility vests. Using a large pair of red scissors, the community member is cutting the banner to celebrate the opening of the clean green neighborhood.

🎉 It’s here! Welcome to #TheCleanGreenNeighborhood. 🌱Our bilingual children’s book, by Kristin George Bagdanov & @nicolekelner.bsky.social, tells the story of the union workers building all-electric neighborhoods. Grab your copy & join us! tinyurl.com/55kmrvpw
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🎥 Tomorrow, #TheCleanGreenNeighborhood launches! Illustrated by @nicolekelner.bsky.social & written by Kristin George Bagdanov, it celebrates people building & thriving in all-electric neighborhoods. Use code PREORDERTCGN for 15% off: tinyurl.com/55kmrvpw
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Picture of a page from The Clean Green Neighborhood children’s book. The page depicts watercolor illustrations of five workers with their equipment and tools. They are labeled as an autoworker from UAW Region 6, an electrical worker from IBEW Local 11, a pipefitter from UA, an operating engineer from IOUE Local 12, and a sheet metal worker from SMART Local 104 & 105.

Less than 1 week until we meet #TheCleanGreenNeighborhood! 🌱 📅 Preorder to meet the union workers building neighborhoods powered by sun, wind, water, and earth in our new children’s book. Use code PREORDERTCGN for 15% off. 💡 bit.ly/47EiKNw #EnergySky #BuildingDecarb

🏘️ Decarb Digest - November 2025

🗞️ BDC’s Nov. Decarb Digest highlights a big win for #ThermalEnergyNetworks in IL, a new children’s book — #TheCleanGreenNeighborhood — about union workers building all-electric neighborhoods & #BuildingDecarb related articles in @forbes.com, @timesunion.com & @marylandmatters.org bit.ly/3Lqg4vy 🔌💡

Picture of a page from The Clean Green Neighborhood children's book. This page of the book shows a cutaway view of a house in the clean green neighborhood. You can see via the cutaway that the house has an EV being charged in its garage. On the house itself workers are installing solar panels on the house's roof. There is also a heat pump clothes dryer, a heat pump water heater, a ground-source heat pump in the house's basement, and an induction stove in the house's kitchen. The page also shows that the house's attic and walls are insulated, and that there are ducts that distribute hot and cool air from the ground source heat pump to rooms throughout the home.

🏗️ Something special is under construction! #TheCleanGreenNeighborhood, our bilingual kids’ book illustrated by @nicolekelner.bsky.social, arrives 11/13. Come celebrate the union workers building resilient neighborhoods, and use code PREORDERTCGN for 15% off. bit.ly/47EiKNw #EnergySky