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Cool Congregations

An Earth Stewardship workshop to help you and your congregation save energy, money and our environment

When:
September 17, 2011
8:30 am registration; 9 am - 1 pm workshop
Where:
Central Union Church
Parish Hall, 1660 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96826

Sponsored and Co-hosted by:
Hawaii Interfaith Power and Light (HIPL)
and the Central Union Church "Green Team"

About Cool Congregations

This Cool Congregations workshop is a “train-the-trainers” event. Your team will be given all the tools and knowledge needed to bring Cool Congregations to your home congregation and sustain it. The tool is fun and easy to use, and the workshop will help you develop a strategy for successful use in your congregation. If you’ve been looking for the activity that would get the whole congregation involved in stewardship of the Earth, this is the workshop for you. The three-hour workshop will include breaks, talking time, and help you to understand:
  • What’s the Cool Congregations program?
  • ABCs of climate change
  • A religious response to climate change
  • How to measure your carbon footprint and find ways to reduce it
  • How to organize a Cool Congregations program
  • A Hawaii utility representative will share information on energy efficiency programs to help you save energy and money.

    • The training includes a manual and CD with resources for success, including a specially designed tool to calculate your emissions footprint.

    How do I register?

    1. Download the registration form, fill it out. You must register to participate.
      It’s best to bring a team of 2 or 3 or more from your congregation. Please submit a form for each member attending from your congregation. If you have problems call or write us at traviswidol@gmail.com.

    2. Download and print the Carbon Footprint Checklist,which asks you for information on your entire household for the last 12 months. Fill it out and bring it to the workshop so we can measure your carbon footprint.

    3. Be sure to include a check for $10.00 per person or $25 per team of three made out to-Interfaith Alliance Hawaii: HI-IPL.

    4. Send via email to Vonnie.
      Or, mail completed form with check to:
      Vonnie Turner
      1634 Punahou St.
      Honolulu, HI 96821

    Help us advertise this event by distributing this announcement as a flyer [pdf].
    Or, send our letter of invitation [pdf] to your minister or community leader.

    Cool Congregations Trainer

    Sarah Webb is the statewide coordinator for Cool Congregations, an earth stewardship program of Iowa Interfaith Power & Light, and now a national program initiative of the Interfaith Power & Light network. She is an artist and activist who also worked with Yards For Kids, a neighborhood toxics reduction program, and was the book editor for Fugitive Faith: Conversations on Spiritual, Environmental and Community Renewal. She and her husband Rev. Benjamin Webb have three daughters.
    For more information on Cool Congregations see www.iowaipl.org or contact Sarah at coolcongregations@iowaipl.org

     

     

    Hawaii Interfaith Power & Light is a ministry of The Interfaith Alliance Hawaii.
    E-mail: hipl@hipl.org