Green Team Meeting Notes 10-15-2019

Green Team Meeting Notes 10/15/2019

Lots of good energy! If you weren’t here, we missed you! And you missed a good meeting! 😊

Reminder: meeting night is the 3^rd Tuesday of the month – next meeting is Tuesday 11/19

Attendees: Bill Schroeder, Steve Fink, Mark Bohrer,  Susan Johnston, Iric Rex

Away: Candy Dann, Graham Long, Janet Clarke, Tim Smith, Fran Fink, Mary Pritchard

Add to invite: Marty Mason

Followup: conference calls will be scheduled for afternoon of Wed 10/23 & Mon 10/28 –

Steve will send out Skype invite!

Agenda/Notes

We read the poem by Barbara Kingsolver at the beginning of the meeting.

(from Time Magazine, September 23, 2019)

https://time.com/5669066/barbara-kingsolver-great-barrier-poem/

1)     Climate Strike

-        Learn more at strikewithus.org/boston

-        Next strike is Friday November 29 (black Friday)

2)     What is the next thing we need to do: The big thing to make the church sustainable

-        We need a dream – why/how/what

-        Big view: We need to convert from gas to to electric (heatpumps)

·   Insulation / efficiency is a part of this conversion

-        Conversion needs to be done as part of the capital campaign

·   Replacing the plaster is the context of doing the insulation

-        Green needs to be a big part of the capital campaign

-        How does this fit to ONCET

·   Setting an example in the community as a congregation is the key part

·   Doing & spreading the word is as important as what is done

-        From Iric: We need to call Sergio! The mechanical company is Sergio & Ciani.

3)     Socially Responsible Investing

-        Trustees of the Trust Funds – at last church meeting, TOTF agreed to buy 15% of SRI funds

·   Jane Ingram is the new head of the TOTF

-        Are they planning to buy more? Do they have a plan to transition to all SRI funds?

-        What can we do to keep the discussion going about having church members change their investments to sustainable/green funds?

4)     UCC Super Saturday – Oct 5^th in Framingham – we ran out of time – did not get a readout!

-        Mass Conference runs this event

·   Now joining with RI and CT conferences

·   Environmental Ministry – Ted Wade and Barbara Darling

·   Steve will represent Green Team and talk about SC Green Retreat

Not discussed this week

1)     Fellowship greening

2)     Faith forums

3)     Climate justice as a regular part of Sunday service