Waterloo: Church holds renewable energy information night
Waterloo Record / Mirko Petricevic / 30 April 2010
For Christians looking to the sun for energy, a Waterloo church will be a place of enlightenment later this month.
About a dozen exhibitors at Erb Street Mennonite Church — including vendors selling solar panels, geothermal technology systems and other renewable energy technology — will be showing their wares and sharing information about reducing their power consumption and producing renewable energy locally.
The event, organized by Mennonite Central Committee Ontario, Greening Sacred Spaces and the Mennonite Savings and Credit Union, is one of a number of information nights being held across southern Ontario, said Darren Kropf, co-ordinator of the Mennonite committee’s Ontario’s Creation Care program.
The information night is meant to fulfil many goals, Kropf said in an interview this week.
It’s designed to help people who are interested in making renewable energy upgrades on their homes or churches meet with people who are knowledgeable in the field.
“We at (the Mennonite Central Committee) aren’t experts on renewable energy,” Kropf said. “So we want to … connect people with those organizations that are.”
The evening is also an opportunity for people to look at equipment and pose questions to vendors.
But unlike a regular trade show, the information night has a theological underpinning.
“We aren’t simply just trying to sell a product,” Kropf said. “We’re also trying to understand energy from a Christian discipleship perspective.”
