Weatherization Workshop
Sunday, March 7
2:30 pm Snacks and Schmoozing
3 - 4:30 pm Weatherization Workshop
Are you a homeowner? Chances are that professional weatherization
could save you 15-35% in home heating costs!
Fabrangen, Ohev Sholom, Tifereth Israel, and three other area congregations have joined together to invite neighborhood homeowners to a Weatherization Workshop.
Learn how you can save energy, help create good jobs through a local Laborers' training program, and shrink your carbon footprint at the same time!
In particular, you'll have a chance to learn about Weatherize DC, a new organization that is working to integrate environmental justice, economic justice, and communal ownership of the environmental impact of our actions.
The Weatherize DC program coordinates efforts to ensure that green jobs training is made available to underserved communities, while simultaneously mobilizing communities of homeowners to create demand for weatherization, in turn creating jobs for those who need them most. (Learn more at www.weatherizedc.org)
Weatherize DC is currently working with neighborhood leaders on a pilot program to weatherize 200 homes by Spring of 2010. Weatherizing 200 homes will save the community up to $100,000 and create up to seven good green jobs. By reducing 3,645 tons of carbon, 200 weatherizations is equal to taking 600 cars off the road or planting 84,800 trees.
A suggested donation of $5 at the door will benefit the work of Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light, which helps local congregations to save energy, go green, and respond to climate change. (www.gwipl.org)
To RSVP: email Joelle Novey at joelle@gwipl.org.
Please note if you are a homeowner, and in what neighborhood of DC or Maryland.
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