SC Green Team – meeting notes – 01/21/2016

SC Green Team – meeting notes – 01/21/2016

Present: Mark, Candy, Bill, Steve, Fran, Iric         We missed you: Janet, Terry

Paris Pledge 

            parispledge.org (sponsored by interfaithpowerandlight.org)

             – congregation and individuals commit to go carbon neutral by 2030 
             - can we do it??  How can we talk about it?

-       Could South Church go carbon neutral by 2030? Could we do it by 2025? Sooner than that?

-       Practically speaking, what are the areas to go after?  

-   Insulation in the sanctuary

§  Insulation… there are challenges with this - makes humidity changes,

§  organ/steeple opening – need to create an insulated, airtight box around organ pipes

-  (#1) Air sealing in the sanctuary, fellowship hall, office, library, parlor might be the best, first step

§  Ian Rex (Iric’s brother) has an energy efficiency business

§  ACTION: Iric – invite Ian to evaluate air sealing

-  (#2) Church Office is cold now, needs to be heated, requiring main boiler to run to heat it

§  Look at mini-split heat pump – can provide heating and cooling efficiently

§  Insulation improvements in office?

§  ACTION: Candy to send previous energy stewardship report from Thomas Nutt-Powell

-   Heating system efficiency – long term replacement for boiler

§  what is the separate gas usage of boiler in old church vs addition (forced hot air heated powered by natural gas furnaces in addition)?

§  do we need to get a separate gas meter to find out?

Earth Day Service – propose Sunday May 1 - talk to Dana 

(on May 1 because mission trip returns on Sunday Apr 24th - want youth there & involved)

-       Tie in to Giving Garden fundraiser – already planned by Giving Garden committee for Saturday Apr 30

-       Church involvement – start the deep discussion on the Paris pledge in advance?

-       Youth involvement

-       Music involvement

Green Retreat for Families

-   Let's do it, it's time!

-       Shoot for early fall – late September, early October?

Topics we did not talk about

-       Divestment

-       LED lighting in the church

-       green thing of the month