Clean Energy for Houses of Worship

Buildings are one of the largest sources of climate change pollution, and high gas prices have fueled skyrocketing utility bills. Now is an important time for places of worship to make the switch to renewable energy and for clean electricity for heating and cooling.
Hear a panel recorded Oct. 2, 2023 at First Universalist Church of Denver about how places of worship can address urgent climate issues and reduce pollution and their energy bills, by adding solar panels and clean energy heating and cooling recently made more affordable through state and federal funding, credits and rebates.
It’s also shown how the First Universalist Church of Denver made the switch to solar and geothermal (ground source) heat pumps for their heating and cooling and almost all of their electricity needs.
(This is covered in depth here: How They Built A Net Zero Church. A success story. • How They Built A Net Z...
Presenters:
Tom Abood and Milt Hetrick - First Universalist Church of Denver, firstuniversalist.org
Colorado Rep Meg Froelich-House District 3, leg.colorado.g...
Moshe Kornfeld - Founder & Director, Colorado Jewish Climate Action, coloradojewishclimateaction.org
Danny Katz - Executive Dir., Colorado Public Interest Research Group, CoPirg.org
Thomas Weiler - Lead Organizer, Together Colorado, TogetherColorado.org
Title image courtesy of Interfaith Power & Light which is a superb resource on this topic: interfaithpowerandlight.org
Filmed and produced for the Colorado Renewable Energy Society by Martin Voelker.

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In a previous video we featured First Universalist's efforts to get to net zero in great detail, including their innovative financing avoiding commercial banks: "How They Built A Net Zero Church". A success story. ruclips.net/video/_P3ui8vtR4s/видео.html