Our church Green Team looked at renewable energy and reducing our energy use at the church. Changing all our lighting to LED and other energy efficient lighting cost us $30,000 up front but will save us $8,500 per year – and will be paid off in less than 4! It reduced our electricity use dramatically, and what we still use is now MCE’s 100% renewable Deep Green. We felt very happy, realizing that our action would have such a substantial benefit for the environment, reducing our carbon footprint by 14 metric tons per year. Other congregations see our project as a model, and it’s given us the opportunity to promote individual households in the church doing the same thing. We’re happy to talk to anyone about this, and MCE’s staff was wonderful to work with. Ralph Purdy, First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael.
