This document outlines 12 steps that congregations can take to conserve energy, including turning off lights when rooms are unoccupied, installing LED lights and programmable thermostats, and conducting regular maintenance on HVAC systems. It then recommends that congregations invest savings from conservation in renewable energy sources like solar panels. Offsetting remaining carbon emissions through programs like wind power is presented as a final option. The document encourages congregations to contact Faith in Place for assistance implementing conservation and renewable measures.
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Michelle Mopkins Certified tips provider. Going green benefits your home and your health, as well as leaving a minimal impact on the environment. The simple changes you implement to make your home energy efficient will cut your electrical costs significantly. Continue on for some helpful green energy tips at home.
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Don't forget to check out our other great blogs:
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The Central New York Energy Challenge has developed a team-based approach to provide homeowners with the needed support to learn about and take action towards improving home energy performanc. The Challenge is currently seeking motivated individuals to serve as Energy Challenge Team Leaders. Energy Challenge Teams are made up of 5-8 households who meet over the course of 6 weeks following a guidebook. The Energy Challenge Team guidebook covers five different categories of actions for your home – from learning to calculate how much energy you use to reducing your phantom load. The team-based approach allows for peer-to-peer support, sharing, and learning.
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1. 12 Steps for Conserving Energy
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2. Welcome!
Thank you for your interest in Faith in Place and our Illinois Interfaith Power & Light
program. Faith in Place gives religious people tools to become better stewards of
Creation. We partner with religious congregations to promote clean energy and
sustainable farming. Since 1999, we have partnered with 500 congregations in Illinois—
Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Zoroastrian, Baha’i and Unitarian.
Through our Illinois Interfaith Power & Light campaign we help congregations combat
global warming and conserve energy. You are joining congregations in Illinois and
around the country who believe that the religious community has to be part of the
solution to the environmental ills that affect the Earth we share.
Conserve First
This pamphlet is designed to help your congregation reduce its energy use and the
amount of greenhouse gas for which your building is responsible. It outlines the easiest
and lowest cost steps to begin, and then makes some suggestions about where to go
from there. You will want to conserve energy as much as possible as your first step
toward reducing your impact on the Earth. A great source to buy discounted lightbulbs
and other energy savers is www.shopIPL.org. Sign up your congregation with Faith in
Place for free and all your members will get a 10% discount at check-out (remember the
discount code: “ShopIPL”).
Then Go Renewable, Offset
Once you have gotten your energy use down to the lowest possible level through good
habits and conservation measure, then you can think about the next steps. Then switch
your systems over to renewable technologies. These might include geothermal heating
and cooling, solar hot water, and photovoltaic panels for electricity. In each case, Faith in
Place knows contractors, engineers and potential sources of grant revenue to help you
get the job done. One of our jobs is to serve as a clearinghouse for your experiences and
those of many other congregations. We can help to streamline what might otherwise be
an intimidating process and make solar thermal, geothermal and other new technologies
feel like accessible, realistic options for your congregation.
Finally, when you’ve taken the energy load for your building down as far as you
possibly can through both conservation and renewables, then offset the rest of your
carbon output through some kind of offset program. Don’t offset in place of
conservation, please! Conservation is the urgent first step. But when you’re conserving
with all your might, then you can offset the rest. Faith in Place has wind certificates from
Illinois wind farms and Sun Ovens as offsets. We can help you figure out if one of those
options is right for your congregation.
3. Here are the top 12 recommendations for Systems work at lower energy when
conserving energy by the U.S. EPA’s they’re working correctly.
EnergyStar program for congregations, with a
little explanation from us where we think it 6. Change filters – clean filters help your
helps: blower to work more efficiently too.
1. Turn off the lights when you leave the 7. Install programmable thermostats,
room (like your parents always told program them and then leave them
you). alone! Think about whether one of these
would work on your water heater if you
2. Buy EnergyStar equipment and put it in really only need hot water on Sundays.
the sleep mode. Also, consider your
phantom load and consider reducing it 8. Install compact fluorescent lightbulbs in
through power strips. Phantom load place of incandescents – and consider
refers to the energy that modern upgrading your lighting generally to
appliances use even when they’re more efficient types.
switched off. Plug your copier,
computer, television, and other 9. Install LED exit signs – they will save
electronic devices into power strips and you $30 per year per sign and pay for
close the power to the strips when the themselves very quickly.
appliances are not in use.
10. Use passive solar – reflect heat in the
3. Install occupant sensors especially in summer by closing the blinds, open
places like restrooms, where lights tend them in the winter to grab the heat gain
to get left on and the door is closed so it on south-facing windows. Consider
doesn’t get discovered. Got a basement transparent window shields on the
hallway that is seldom traveled? exterior to reflect more light in the
Another good location for a motion summer without losing the view.
sensor. Meeting rooms are another good
application (but you have to keep 11. Use fans to supplement HVAC for
moving during your meetings or the greater comfort. But don’t assume they
lights will go out). save energy in the winter – they may
just make you feel cooler so you turn up
4. Turn down the lights when daylight is the heat.
available. Try banking your lights on
switches that allow you to turn off the 12. Plug the holes around doors & windows
ones closest to the windows and leave with caulk and weatherstripping and
on the ones furthest from natural light. add insulation wherever you can.
That way you can adjust to the real
daylighting present in the room. Remember, you can buy many of these
products on www.shopIPL.org! Use the
5. Tune up your Heating Ventilation and code “shopIPL” to get 10% off at check-
Air Conditioning system every year. out.
4. From Conservation Onward
Have you done all twelve? Then you’re ready to dream a little bigger. What about
banking the energy savings you get from these measures and putting it aside toward a
solar hot water system or a lighting upgrade? What about replacing some of your oldest
kitchen appliances like a refrigerator with new, more energy efficient models? Or
planting a tree or two to shade your building and reduce greenhouse gases? You should
even consider a geothermal heating system or a green roof. Want to talk to a contractor
about one of these options? Give us a call, and we’ll give you some names.
When you’ve reduced your energy use as much as you can and incorporated all
appropriate renewable power options into your building, consider offsetting the rest of
your greenhouse gas emissions through wind certificates or Sun Ovens. Offsets are
complicated and require a little explanation, so get in touch with us for more
information on these options.
And finally, think about the food that your congregation uses. Are you buying local
whenever possible, and organic local too? Food miles add to your energy profile. Faith
in Place has programs for you to help your congregation support local food, and fair
trade for things like coffee that can’t be grown locally.
Thanks for your concern for the Earth and your efforts as a religious community to do
something about it. Please let us know your results – we want to hear about your energy
savings, and we love photos of people making things better!
For more information or to send us news of your progress contact us:
Rev. Clare Butterfield clare@faithinplace.org
Sara Spoonheim sara@faithinplace.org
Katy Regalado katy@faithinplace.org
Veronica Kyle veronica@faithinplace.org
Juliana Glassco juliana@faithinplace.org
Faith in Place
2532 W. Warren Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60612
312-733-4640
www.faithinplace.org