Tuesday, February 7, 2012
6:30pm
Theater Room , Madison County Public Library
319 Chestnut Street, Berea

This Month:

Foods

• Finding the best foods to grow throughout the seasons.
• Best foods and methods for storing food in the short and long term.
• Demonstrations by Cheyenne Olson

Home Weatherization Workshop Follow Up

• Discussion about the home weatherization and energy audit workshop recently conducted, tips, tricks, and results.

Please bring your own ideas and information on these or any resilient topic!

From the Mayor:

Nationally known local economy expert, Michael Shuman, has facilitated communities meetings that have involved up to 90 Berea citizens. The working groups are focusing on:

• Big Business
• Small Business
• Tourism
• Finance
• Energy Efficiency
• Sustainable Foods

The residents of Berea and Southern Madison will have an excellent opportunity to re-shape our community when the six working groups unveil their 1-page strategic plans for economic opportunity and entertain questions this Thursday, Jan 19th, 6:00PM in the Berea Baptist Church fellowship hall 310 Chestnut St # A  Berea, KY 40403 near the Police Department.

. All people interested in helping shape Berea’s local economy are invited to attend and join a working group.

New groups can also form around new ideas while allowing members of existing groups to transfer between.

The next decade is in our hands for re-shaping. This is a great opportunity for community-wide involvement and expression for the future of our city.

Home Energy Partners is partnering with Sustainable Berea’s Resilient Household Project for a hands-on training this Saturday January 7th from 1-5pm.

Home Energy Partners will start with demonstrating an energy audit and then participants will learn the basics on floor insulation, air sealing, weather stripping and attic insulation.  At the end of the workshop, a test out audit will be preformed to demonstrate the impact of the work completed.

This training will be at a private home, so please call Home Energy Partners at 859-985-8718 to reserve a space and get directions.  If you are interested, but unavailable to attend this workshop, please contact Home Energy Partners as they are planning future workshops.

Topics discussions will include transportation, construction of an active low-cost solar collector and “What I learned from my home energy audit”,  presentation from RHP member Nick Mullins.

Home made refreshments will be served.

Present: Paul and Susan Wells, Nick Mullins, Doug DeGroot, Pam Gammon, Cheyenne Olson

The RHP identified topics for discussion in 2012: energy, food, water, shelter, clothing, health and staying healthy, comfort and productivity, community/neighborhood development, safety and security, finances/local finances, transportation and communications.

The group decided that light refreshments would be served at every meeting.

The next meeting will be January 3 at 6:30pm in the Berea Public Library theatre. Topics for discussion will include transportation (facilitator will be Pam Gammon), constructing an active low-cost solar collector (facilitator will be Doug DeGroot) and the housing envelope, “What I learned from my home energy audit” (Nick Mullins, facilitator).

The group decided that meetings should welcome a broad range of people from the community to share their experience with topics discussed. Flyers will be produced and posted around town two weeks in advance of each meeting and the membership will be emailed with topics and dates of upcoming RHP meetings.

In other discussion: The Four Season Gardening book by Elliot Coleman  was suggested as an excellent source for home gardeners.