Those present at the meeting: Vicki Hesse, Jennifer Peeples, Bob and Martha Pierce, Dee Reger

Started with Prayer

1.  Gathered ideas:

Vicki led an exercise where we brainstormed ideas for how to make All souls greener on post-it notes and then grouped them in like categories.

Recycling

• Recycle bulletins

• Put recycling bins around church

• Have bins specifically for electronics

Liturgical

• Use books instead of bulletins

• Preach about eco-justice

Physical

• Reuse dishes

• Use eco-friendly cleaning products

• Reduce use of AC

• Reduce water consumption

• Use programmable thermostats

• Turn off lights and continue to switch out light bulbs for compact fluorescent

• Switch to energy efficient appliances

Land Use

• Use rain barrels

• Plant container gardens or get involved with community garden elsewhere such as The Lord’s Acres or Pisgah View

• Compost food waste

Property/Building

• Have energy audit of church buildings

• Weatherize buildings

• Switch to solar water and heat

• Improve efficiency of windows

Education

• Hold “green” workshops during adult forum

• Involve EYC and use children to help in these projects

• Learn more from other churches who are improving their carbon footprint

2.  Next everyone chose an idea

from a post-it note and took ownership of that task. We discussed which tasks would be immediate changes we can begin making and which would require more research and would be long-term goals.

Dorrie will work on switching from paper products during meal events and after church to reusable dishes. She will also look into setting up an adult forum where we show an IPL video that showcases a church in New Jersey that has gone green.

Vicki will work on the recycling ideas.

Bob and Martha will work on organizing an energy audit and weatherizing the buildings. Bob will also contact the city about their earth day events in case we would like to be involved.

Jen will work on seeing if we can stop using bulletins during the services and use the BCP instead.

Dee will work on getting rain barrels.

3.  Our next meeting

will be on January 17^th at 10:10 in the CE room, assuming the room is available. We will report back at that time with any progress we have made or concerns.

Anyone who was not able to make it to the meeting who would like to choose a task from the list above is more than welcome to do so. Please contact Vicki or Dorrie.

 Closed with a prayer.