Start

Finish

12:00

12:20

Lunch

12:20

12:25

Recap:  The Fairlawn Green VISION

12:25

12:40

The PROCESS for implementing the Green Action Items

12:40

1:10

Follow the Process: In a breakout group for each of the 6 Action Areas, considering the following:

- Brainstorm ACTION ITEMS within your Green Action Area (building on ideas from Feb 25^th)

     - Select ONE Green Action Item  (ensure it supports the Green VISION)

     - Describe the OBJECTIVE for your Green Action Item

     - Begin to plan the STEPS required to successfully achieve your Objective

     - Describe the SUSTAINMENT plan to ensure ongoing support for the Action Item

     - Next steps: IMPLEMENT after approval from FAUC.  Then Celebrate and Repeat!

1:10

1:25

Present your chosen Action Item and Objective to the group

1:25

1:30

How the Green Team can assist

Your next meeting / next steps

Action Area

Action Item

Team

Property improvements

INSTALL COMPACT FLUORESCENT LIGHTBULBS (CFLs) in the church by May 30^th for fixtures that don’t require modification -- with the help of the custodians -- in a variety of locations to be determined.  An inventory of CFLs will be made available in future, and a variety of fixtures will be tested in certain areas such as the sanctuary. 

Educate the congregation and the neighbourhood as to the wisdom of using CFLs.

John Cowan

Mike Skibinski

Sheila Corkill

Gardening

USE LESS WATER ON OUR GARDENS by composting and mulching with three carloads of mulch and at least 12 volunteers for work on the church gardens (excluding the Neighbourhood Centre gardens) on May 7^th from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm by spreading compost first, then 2 inches of mulch.  Then encourage individuals or groups in the church to “adopt a garden” for maintenance of the gardens on an ongoing basis.

Rob Metcalf

Sue Metcalf

Peter Heinz

Carolyn Deeth

Judy McAdam Anne Barber

Jan Schlee

Buying locally-grown food

BUY LOCALLY-GROWN FOOD by first educating ourselves, then educating the congregation and facilitating partnerships with local farmers for weekly delivery of food baskets of seasonal produce to interested consumers in the congregation, and advocating that grocery stores stock more local foods.

Kathy Salisbury

Ursula O’Brien

Marion Boyce

Rosalie Cowan

Judy Grout

Pat Deacon

Communications …

CREATE A “FAIRLAWN GREEN ACTION” LOGO before the end of April to represent our greening program that is recognizable in the community and can appear on our church sign, in our web site, and on all printed communications.

SHARE THE GREEN RESOURCE LIBRARY COLLECTION by bringing a library cart of FAUC green resources to Coffee Hour for browsing and borrowing, and continue to add to this collection in our FAUC library.

Gary Schlee

Anne Snobelen

Terry Doran

Wilf Boyce

Carol Coiffe

KC ullen

Waste

Reduce the number of black garbage bags created by the FAUC facility that are put out to the curb by better WASTE DIVERSION INTO RECYCLING, GREEN BINS AND COMPOSTING bins.

Margaret Harper

Eleanor Heinz

Advocacy and Activism

Implement “the power of one” by providing a May workshop to encourage LETTER WRITING by members of the congregation to government bodies on topics related to global warming.  This will be supported by a local “letter writing campaign” resource group, and followed up with a lawn party celebration and expanded to community involvement.

Bev Camp

Zen Skibinski

David Lander

Action Item

Steps

Sustainment

Install CFLs

By May 31^st – CFLs:

John Cowan will contact the Property Committee (Tom Cullen) to discuss limitations or ideas, read the Energy Audit, discuss who would buy lamps, where, install, and how to fund lamps for FAUC and broader distribution/sale.

We will aim to have all fixtures, that don’t need modification, refitted with CFLs by the end of May.

After May 31^st - Educate others:

Prepare a test panel for the entranceway where people can compare different types of lamps and learn about their differences. John will ask the Property Council if there are any constraints on location or construction of “Mike’s Panel.”

Mike will look into artwork that might be put on this portable panel to make it attractive. John will build it. We have to prepare some educational pieces to help people see the value of converting at home. This will probably not be complete until the fall.  By then members should be used to the lamps in the Church and ready to be helpful advocates with their friends.

John will talk with Scout/Guide leaders (Tom Clarke) about ways we might have Scouts or Guides deliver a message to the community about CFLs.

We will meet after Church next Sunday (April 1) to discuss action plans, based on feedback from Property and Scouts/Guides. We need to consider:

- Who can help us do the CFL refit, and how to recruit them

- When to develop our PR message once lights are being changed.

Mike –look into the City “Environment Day” to find out what they do re CFL sales and when.

John will also see if his nephew, who does community marketing for the Argos, can link this CFL idea with the Canadian Football League (CFL).

When to develop long term strategies of purchasing, protection from theft, and disposal so that FAUC can ‘sustain’ the use of CFLs naturally

Use less water on our gardens

Plan the gardening event

-          Church gardens fall under the Network committee

-          Talk to Sharon Barrett Ewing

-          Get volunteers

-          pick a date: May 7^th

-          lay composted material on gardens first

-          put dandelions, clover, pine needles in compost

-          obtain wood chips from City of Toronto: 3 carloads for 2” thick – available Monday to Friday 8:00 to 2:00

-          leave leaves and sticks

-          use leaf bags to get mulch

Investigate the use of rain barrels

Plan a process to get FAUC organic garbage into the composting bins

Buy more composters

Introduce an “adopt a garden” campaign

Create a gardening team

Action Item

Steps

Sustainment

Buy locally grown food

There are 3 phases to our initiative.

• Education
• Facilitation
• Advocacy

Education – Our group first needs to educate itself about the importance of buying locally grown produce, about what it means to be organic and what the certification process is, and where we can buy local produce, whether it be organic or not.  We also need to research which local grocery stores stock local produce.

Once our group has completed this, we will plan a strategy for educating the congregation.  This will include

• Display table at coffee hour
• Bulletin "facts and figures"
• Announcements/skits during the church service
• Fairlawn web page
• Community Life
• FNC program brochure

Facilitation - This may include the following:

• partnering with local farmers to arrange for the delivery of weekly food baskets of seasonal produce to interested consumers in the congregation
• organizing a small weekly farmer's market on the front lawn.
• providing the congregation with a list of farmer's markets
• partner people in the congregation who are unable to access the markets with people who can.

Advocacy -

• letter writing or petitions to local grocery stores to encourage them to stock more local foods.

Investigate idea for a farmer’s market on the Fairlawn front lawn.

Encourage local grocery stores to sell locally grown produce.

Communications …

Logo: Gary Schlee will investigate existing logos used by (a) other green initiatives,  (b) Faith and the Common Good, (c) Greening Sacred Spaces, etc.  An image that is immediately recognized as a greening image is our priority. 

Gary will discuss with a graphic designer to come up with some sample visual images, that work in both colour and black and white, and may include text such as “Fairlawn Green Action”.

We will evaluate the samples and make a recommendation to the Green Team.

Green library resource: Carol Coiffe has pulled together a green resource collection for the Fairlawn library.  KC ullen will work with Carol to have the library cart available at the Green Table at coffee hour April 8^th.

Determine budget requirements and source.

Use the logo consistently on all green communications in future to be immediately recognizable, and to unify all our green activities.

Continue the Green Table at Coffee Hour each Sunday and add the library cart.  Continue to add new resources to the library’s green collection.

Action Item

Steps

Sustainment

Waste

Audit the quantity and contents of the black garbage bags by opening them at curbside.  Do this twice.  Meet at 4:30 pm in front of the church on the night the bags are put out.  Get volunteers to assist.  Wear old clothes and bring gloves (recommend double gloving with rubber inner gloves and outer garden gloves.)

Based on our findings, take appropriate action.  For example,

-      make new signs

-      provide better bins

-      approach users of FAUC building re diversion of appropriate garbage into recycling and composting bins

-      make a poster of our findings

-      talk to all users of the building; i.e., office staff, FNC, nursery school, etc.

We will be successful if by June 9, 2007, the number of black garbage bags have been reduced by 25%

Continuing education:

-      Have a quiz on the Green Table at Coffee Hour

-      Invite speaker from the city

-      Look at recycling issues for dwellers of apartment buildings and condos.

Advocacy and Activism

Recruit more people for this initiative.

Select a global warming topic.

Plan a letter-writing workshop.

Celebrate