Celebrate Sanctuary, Measure our Carbon Footprint

The City of Evanston this October will vote on a historic Climate Action Resilience Plan (CARP), one guaranteed to shape the city in decades to come.  Previous plans had the city shooting for carbon footprint reductions of twelve, even sixteen percent.  The CARP under discussion aims to eliminate our carbon footprint entirely by 2050.  This will affect transportation, business and buildings alike.  More than a decade before the City of Evanston passed an ordinance demanding buildings benchmark their environmental emissions UCE Green Team member Alex Sproul began tracking ours. Using Alex’ data, and informed by UCE staff and membership Michael Drennan has begun creating a picture of what our daily life as a congregation means for the environment. Realistic in its assessment, this sixty minute carbon footprint analysis nonetheless finds good news in focusing future efficiency and conservation efforts towards the individual member.  Join Green Team member Michael Drennan, October 14th after service in Rm 3 to learn about our carbon emissions, and celebrate the difference our sanctuary makes!