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Madison Square CRC

Madison Square CRC. Step 0. Submit an article on this week’s workshop to the church newsletter. Step 1 – July 2009. Rain Barrel Party Involve the neighborhood and SECA (Victoria and Stacia will contact SECA) Kate and WEMEAC will organize. Step 2 – in 2009. Church Energy Audit

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Madison Square CRC

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  1. Madison Square CRC

  2. Step 0 • Submit an article on this week’s workshop to the church newsletter

  3. Step 1 – July 2009 • Rain Barrel Party • Involve the neighborhood and SECA (Victoria and Stacia will contact SECA) • Kate and WEMEAC will organize

  4. Step 2 – in 2009 • Church Energy Audit • Victoria will suggest this at next council meeting • Ask environmental engineer if he could do it free • Could join Michigan Interfaith Power and Light • They give free energy audit and discounts on energy star appliances • Also can advertise free home energy audits through DTE

  5. Step 3 – by August 2009 • Get together a group of Madison people interested in creation care • Victoria and Stacia are in charge of convening this group • Try to identify leadership (co-leaders) • Victoria and Christy (youth group) will especially look for involving people of color • This can be related to testing homes for lead • Possible collaboration with Get the Lead Out

  6. Step 4 – fall 2009 or spring 2010 • Have a creation care workshop at Madison • A semi-formal creation care group will organize this (they can consult with Madison workshop attendees) • This would summarize this week’s workshop and would include a field trip to Plaster Creek • The idea is to inform people of risks to the community from lack of caring for Plaster Creek specifically, the environment in general • Involves neighbors, teachers, Calvin students • WEMEAC could do field trip, Janice Tompkins from MDEQ could speak, GRIL maybe involved

  7. Step 5 – by Dec. 2009? • A formal creation care leadership group is formed • This group can be based on people involved in the creation care workshop and previous interested people • The group would be presented with resources from this workshop as well as possible action points they could work on with the understanding they don’t have to do them and can come up with their own (these action points are #7-12) • They could go to Healthy Homes for data on lead and to participate in a free 1 hour lunch

  8. Step 6 – early 2010 • Connect this new creation care group with Madison’s social justice group and racial reconciliation group • See how social, racial, and environmental justice are connected • Find articles on environmental racism • Look into the group Green For All

  9. Step 7 – by August 2010 • Connect with home schoolers and Ford Middle science teachers • Creation care Team will do this before school starts • Inform them of middle school science curriculum developed by Calvin professors (was through EPA grant and Gail Heffner is contact for this)

  10. Step 8 • Get recycling going at the church • Connect with Mark Niebuhr • Ask Ford Middle or Brookside Elementary if Madison can bring recycling there • See if Madison could get paid for having a Paper Gator • 3-bin system would be helpful- one for paper, one for glass/plastic/aluminum, and one for trash all in same location

  11. Step 9 • Look into a porous parking lot for 1401 building • Can contact Woodlawn CRC to ask about theirs • Will cost more initially, but has less upkeep costs

  12. Step 10 • Put native plants around the church and 1401 parking lot • Talk to Mark Niebuhr • Calvin College has a native plant sale • Could work with Ford Middle to plant around the school as well

  13. Step 11 • Impact the Church’s Coffee Ministry • End the use of styrofoam at the church • Hand wash dishes? • Get a dishwasher? • Get Fair Trade Coffee

  14. Step 12 • Have a green cleaning workshop • WEMEAC can lead this • Would be instruction on how to make green cleaning products

  15. Love for all of Creation

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