Transcript Cool Congregations Slideshow

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Agenda
• What’s a Cool Congregations Program?
• Measure Your Own Carbon Footprint and
Find Ways to Reduce!
• What’s Your Style: How to organize a Cool
Congregations program
• Your First Meeting: Begin plans to start
your own Cool Congregations program.
• The Other Side of the Meter
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After 45 More Years of current energy use patterns
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Today’s CO2 Concentration
300
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CO2 [ppmv]
260
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600,000
500,000
400,000
300,000
200,000
Age (yr BP)Workshop
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Global Warming in Michigan
1. A 5-10oF rise in winter and a 7-13oF rise in
summer temperatures by the end of the century
is projected.
2. Although average annual precipitation may not
change much, an overall drier climate is
expected because rainfall cannot compensate
for the increase in evaporation resulting from
greater temperatures. Thus Michigan may see
drier soils and more droughts. Seasonally, winter
precipitation is expected to increase by 5-25%
while summer precipitation is expected to remain
the same.
Global Warming in Michigan
3. Extreme heat will be more common, and the
frequency of heavy rainstorms will increase and
could be 50-100% higher than today.
4. The growing season could be 8-10 weeks longer.
5. Declines in ice cover on the Great Lakes and inland
lakes have been recorded over the past 100-150
years and are expected to continue.
---From Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region, Union of
Concerned Scientists: www.ucsusa.org/greatlakes
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“We have at most ten years— not ten years to decide
upon action, but ten years to fundamentally alter the
trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.”
Dr. James Hansen
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Science
U.S. Emissions
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• Carbon Capture and Storage
2.6
2.5
Electricity end-use
efficiency
Other end-use
efficiency
2
GtC
1.8
Passenger vehicle
efficiency
1.5
Other transport
efficiency
Renewables
1
0.9
0.5
0
1970
1990
2010
After Pacala and Socolow, 2004; ARI CarBen3 Spreadsheet
2030
2050
CCS and Supply
efficiency
Religious communities
have aided social
change in the past
•Abolition of slavery
•Civil rights
•Women's right to vote
•Endangered Species Act
We can do it again…
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Care for Creation Theological Statement
In a 1999 statement, the Reformed Church of America stated
that while there is a continuing need for further research and
better computer modeling of the effects of increased
greenhouse gas emissions, these uncertainties should not be
used as an argument for delaying action. The vast scale of the
environmental and social damage that would be caused by
climate change, and the long time scale it will take to reverse
the effects, calls for taking preventive action. The Reformed
Church of America believes that it would be easier to achieve
reductions now, and at less cost to society, than to wait until
the problem has grown worse.
John D. Paarlberg, “Report from the Commission on Christian
Action to the General Synod of 1999”, Reformed Church of
America
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Stewardship Program
• Pledge energy efficiency
• Save money
• Prevent global warming pollution
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How?
• Measure Carbon Footprint
• Find ways to reduce
• Pledge
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Carbon Footprint
What is a Carbon Footprint?
• Your carbon footprint is the measure of how
much global warming pollution you produce in
your daily activities.
• Measured in pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2).
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Carbon Footprint
Why are our feet so big?
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Autos
Flights
Electricity
Gas, or…(gas, oil or propane)
Garbage
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How Do We Fare?
Average American emits 21,000 pounds of
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) annually
• 2 times that of Germany, per person
• 3.5 times that of Sweden
• 5 times that of Mexico and China
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How Do We Feel?
We comprise 4% of the World’s
population, but are responsible for
between 25 – 30 % of Earth’s CO2
emissions!
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A Moral Issue
As Catholic bishops, we seek to offer a distinctively
religious and moral perspective to what is
necessarily a complicated, scientific, economic, and
political discussion. Ethical questions lie at the heart
of the challenges facing us.
Pope John Paul II insists:
“We face a fundamental question which can be
described as both ethical and ecological…..
How can one prevent disasters that destroy the
environment and threaten all forms of life?”
--from “Global Climate Change, a Plea for Dialogue, Prudence,
and the Common Good, 2001, by US Catholic Bishops
Ann’s Family
Carbon Footprint Checklist
1) UTILITY INFO totals for the last 12 months
Electricity (kWh) _____________________________________
Heat (You only use one of the following in your home)
Natural Gas __________________________________
(Total “therms” of gas. If “mcf” then, 1mcf x 10.3 =1therm)
Heating Oil (in gallons) __________________________
Propane (in gallons) ____________________________
Didn't save your last 12 months of bills?
MidAmerican - find your account number on your latest bill and go to
www.midamericanenergy.com, establish a user name and password, enter your
account number and print off your last 12 months of bills.
2) MILES DRIVEN and MPG - Estimate for each car for the last 12 months.
Ann’s footprint
CO2 Breakdown
Flights
2%
Garbage
8%
Auto 1
19%
Auto 2
6%
Gas
22%
Au to 1
Auto 3
0%
Au to 2
Auto 4
0%
Au to 4
Au to 3
kWh
Gas
Fl ights
Garba ge
kWh
43%
25 Simple Steps Under $25
LIGHTING
• Buy compact
fluorescent light bulbs
for your most-used
lights. $2/bulb
180 pounds each/yr
• Turn off unneeded
lights
380 pounds/yr
25 Simple Steps Under $25
HOME APPLIANCES
• Line dry clothes in summer:
780 pounds CO2/yr
• Line dry all year:
1400 pounds
• One less load/wk in dryer: 200
pounds/yr
25 Simple Steps Under $25
Home Heating and Cooling
Ask your utility company for a home
energy audit to find out where your
home is poorly insulated or energyinefficient.
CO2 reduction: Potentially,
thousands of pounds a year.
Don't overheat or overcool rooms. Adjust
your thermostat
(lower in winter, higher in summer)
CO2 reduction
(for each 2-degree adjustment):
500 pounds a year.
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25 Simple Steps Under $25
Water
Wash clothes in warm or
cold water, not hot.
CO2 reduction
(for two loads a week):
500 pounds a year.
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25 Simple Steps Under $25
Barry Eastman
Owner,
Rudy’s Tacos
Buys
72 %
locally
Other Equally Important Things To Do
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Green tags
Consider Green Tags or RECs to ‘replace’ some of your
CO2 emissions. Your purchase can help finance
construction of a specific new renewable energy project.
Nativeenergy.com
ANN’S ENERGY USE
• Electricity down 17%!
• Gas down 15%!
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Ann’s Carbon Footprint
• Reduced by 9 %!
• Invested $12 on
CFLs
• Saving $100/mo on
utility bills
(APPLAUSE!!!)
The Power of 1 X the many
From the 2009 PayItGreen Alliance study----
If EVERY U.S. employee who had access to
direct deposit (122.5 million) used it, we would
• save 4,105,889 gallons of gas.
• avoid the release of 31,581,675 pounds of
greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Equivalent to: 112,329,703 miles not driven;
1,345,379 trees planted (and grown for 10 years);
and 13,756,978 square feet of forest preserved.
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St. Luke’s Biggest Losers!
• 67 tons
• 9% average
• Saved $5000 just on utilities!
 Initial investment = $200
 Reached payback after 4
months
 Annual savings $600
 Saved 10,000 pounds of
CO2 in one year
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Now It’s Your Turn!
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Next…
1. Take your completed “Carbon Footprint
Checklist” to computing station to figure
your footprint
2. Return to table. Absorb Footprint.
Choose actions from "25" Lists.
3. Help yourself to the literature
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Buy efficient products and raise money for
Michigan Interfaith Power & Light at
www.shopipl.org (discount code – “shopipl”)
Q & A?
“We’ve got to get organized!”
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“We’ve got to get organized!”
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Green team
Guinea pig
Involve Congregational leaders
Educate congregation
Reduce your carbon footprint
Measure your reductions and celebrate!
Green Team
• Measure your
footprints
• Find ways
to reduce
• Make a pledge
Guinea Pig
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Involve your Faith Leaders: Step 1
• Talk to your faith leader
• Make a plan to go before the board
together
Involve your Faith Leaders: Step 2
• Collect data from each board member ahead of the
meeting.
• Calculate their footprints.
Involve your Faith Leaders: Step 3
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Religious response to global warming
Explain Cool Congregations Stewardship program
Share Guinea pig’s case
Show board members their footprints
Invite them to make a pledge
Teach!
Renewal
Stories from AmericaÕs Religiou s-Environmental Movement
Keep Learning!
• Adult Education Hour
sessions
• Monthly testimonials in
newsletter
• Info on reduction options
in newsletter
• Sales of CFLs, L.E.D.
holiday lights
• Alternative holiday gift fair
• Retrofit your
congregational bldg
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Ready, set, Reduce!
What’s your style?
• House Party
• Small Group Ministries
• Festival
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End of year…
Measure Your Reductions
CELEBRATE!
Your First Organizational
Meeting!
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Green team
Guinea pig
Involve congregational leaders
Educate congregation
Reduce your carbon footprint
Measure your reductions and celebrate!
* Why do you care?*
The Other Side of the Meter
Photo: AFP/Getty Images
Be a Cool Congregation!
 Pledge Actions
 Talk to your faith leader
 Recruit 3 helpers
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed,
it’s the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead