Climate change and renewable energy – our scenarios a free course for facing and living into possible futures Press Release Climate change and renewable energy – our scenarios, a free seven-session course, will be presented at Chicago Community Mennonite Church Sundays at 11:00 a.m. starting January 26. Participants will receive up-to-date information on climate change and renewable energy options to inform sensible, cost-effective energy decisions, and guidance in setting goals and making action plans. Attention will be given to ways to overcome a variety of hurdles to more adequately face a growing planetary crisis. The course will run on seven Sundays, 11:00 to noon, Jan. 26, Feb. 9, Feb. 23 and March 9, 16, 23 and 30, at 425 South Central Park Blvd, near the Garfield Park Conservatory on Chicago’s west side.
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Course Outline

Where we stand
Jan. 26: Review of our climate reality – Resources
Feb. 9: Renewable energy and fossil fuels in context
How do we fit in? – Resources

Feb. 23: Where we can go
Adopting renewable energy use (household, community)
Advocacy (personal, corporate, political) – Resources

Where we may go
Discern, brainstorm, listen, dream
Identify research directions
Prioritize, develop tentative goals

Where we will go, why and how
Review research, set goals
Strategize, plan and commit

Duane Ediger, course presenter, is a member of
the Midwest Renewable Energy Association,
the Illinois Solar Energy Association and
the Climate Reality Leadership Corps,
a Deacon of First Church of the Brethren of Chicago,
and an apprentice site assessor and installer
of solar photovoltaic energy systems.

For more information, email Duane.