Green Team committee meeting 05-Sep-2013

South Church Green Team Meeting 05 Sep 2013

Attendees: Mark Bohrer, Iric Rex, Candy Dann, Steve Fink

Goals / Plans for the year

1)    Monthly themes – “Green Thing of the Month” at Fellowship hour

-       Start in September either on Homecoming (9/8) or next Sunday 9/15

-      ACTION: Candy will ask John if 9/8 would work.

-       September – local and garden harvests, composting, local farms

-       Candy will lead this – bring worm composting, make a list of local farmstands. Mark and Steve to help

-       ACTION: Fran – resend list of themes

2)    Harvest Dinner

-       Scheduled for Oct 19^th

-       Same dinner organization and favorites categories and contest as last year

-       Mark to do a short slide show and presentation with latest science + action we can take to solve it - based on Green Team and Climate Reality Project (Al Gore) slides.

-       ACTION: Mark – email previous year’s plan

3)    Divestiture discussion

-       First step will be at October Trustees meeting

-       Candy invited Janet to talk about UCC Divestiture

-       Trustees of Trust Funds are invited

-       Can this lead to a church-wide discussion on divestiture for each household?

4)    Attic Insulation – next action of Energy Efficiency at church

-       ACTION: Candy – ask one of Trustees to talk to Iric about how this could be done, if it would work for our church architecture, and if cost/benefit makes it a good choice

5)    Sunday School – develop a Green Theme program

-       First idea – develop Children’s service program - – possibly several times in year

-       This can help fill in weeks to relieve shortage of Sunday school teachers

-       ACTION: Iric will talk to Terry Ebner

-       Idea – develop program with high school/middle school Sunday school students

6)    Climate Reader

-       Mark launched it: http://southchurchgreenteam.blogspot.com

-       How can we get it into people’s attention?

-       Ideas on promotion - Kids to promote it with handouts at fellowship??

-       Plans to post and share material (climate action & going green topics) with link every week in church newsletter

7)    Host a “Solarize Andover” event to work with Anil Navkal on the new state program that simplifies and reduces cost of solar installations

8)    Christmas gift table – start planning ahead

-       LED lights