Working with the City of Frankfort to support their climate efforts
Working with local institutions to create a Partnership for a Green Community.
Working to raise awareness about the threat of climate change and what we can do to solve it.
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Tuesday, July 7th
5-6:30 p.m.
Community Room
Paul Sawyier Public Library
Frankfort
contact information FrankfortCAN@gmail.com
502-484-2044
2235 Gregory Woods Road
Frankfort, KY 40601
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FCAN Sustaining Members
Don & Sylvia Coffey
Michael & Beth McDonald
Jim & Fonda McWilliams
Farmers Bank
Jim & Reba Pierce
Inside Out Design
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Mark your calendars for 2009 when the Frankfort Climate Action Network offers two solar tour options, the Shuttle Tour and the Open House Tour, showing sites in the Frankfort area featuring solar technologies, energy-saving techniques and sustainable practices.
One of the homes on the 2008 Shuttle Tour has Franklin County's first net-metered solar electric system
Thank you to all the homeowners on the tour for sharing their homes with us. Their efforts and dedication to living more sustainably are what makes the Solar Tour a reality.
Thank you also to our sponsors: Appalachia- Science in the Public Interest, the Kentucky Solar Partnership, the Kentucky Solar Energy Society, and the City of Frankfort.
The Capital Area Solar Tour is part of the National Solar Tour. Find out more at www.NationalSolarTour.org. You can find out more about other tours being organized in Kentucky at www.kysolar.org.
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Things You Can Do Now
to Stop Climate Change
- Call your local, state, and national leaders and let them know that you want them to act NOW to stop climate change.
- Do a home energy audit to see what you can do to make your home more enery efficient. Check out http://heslbl.gov for one audit tool.
- Switch to compact fluorescent lights.
- Turn the heat down and the air conditioning off when you are not home.
- Turn lights and appliances off when you are not using them.
- Put televisions, coffeemakers, and consumer electronics (anything with glowing lights and digital displays) on a power strip so you can turn them completely off.
- Wash your clothes in cold water.
- Dry clothes on a clothesline.
- Call your utility company and ask about buying green power.
- Commute by bike, walking, and public transit when possible.
- Keep your tires properly inflated.
- Carpool
- Recycle and compost
- Conserve water
- Eat local food and grow some of your own.
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