- Installed additional insulation in Meetinghouse roof
- Installed and maintain bike racks at Meetinghouse
- Completed an energy audit of our Meetinghouse to identify points of excessive energy use.
- Initiated process of converting to all LED lighting
- Installed programable thermostat (Meetinghouse is now heated up to 70 degrees from before 7 am on Sunday and then the heat is shut off. This avoids period of peak electric demand and highest electricity costs.)
- Converted some of the Meetinghouse lawn to raised garden beds, offering them to landless individuals who have resettled into our community
- Maintain flower gardens at the Meetinghouse that attract pollinators
- Solicited and are evaluating bids for a more efficient ‘heat pump’ heating system and solar panels to make the meetinghouse a Net-Zero electric consumer
- Use porcelain mugs, plates, and silverware instead of Styrofoam or plastic during coffee time and fellowship meals.
- Compost coffee grounds and organic waste generated from fellowship meals
- Recycle Sunday Bulletins and all other paper, aluminum and glass.
- Offer the meetinghouse as a distribution point for local CSA
- Developed proposal for a NET ZERO ENERGY proposal for our meetinghouse
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