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No matter how keen you are to help the environment, installing solar panels on the roof of your house may be out of your reach. The good news is that, as the market for such devices grows, prices are falling - but how can you contribute to the early uptake in order to drive these positive social trends? As always, if you can’t do a thing by yourself, you should look to your community. Community projects can directly help to improve the environment whilst simultaneously driving down prices for the private householder. And where better to look than the church? Repairing and rebuilding church roofs needs to be done so often that it’s become a cliche. Everybody contributes what they can to the collection plate, but the very familiarity of it means that such fund-raising drives can lack energy. What if you were to put some of the money raised toward generating energy? When roofs are being repaired anyway, installing solar panels can be done easily and at effectively reduced cost. And once they’re in place, they’ll be able to provide heating and light for the church building, liberating it from dependency on conventional power which damages the planet. All over the world, church groups are beginning to get together to go solar. The size and simple design of most church roofs makes them ideal for the purpose, and church communities are ideal for raising the funds. Solar status helps the church to fulfill its community role by setting an example for everyone around. It also means that, if there’s ever a prolonged power cut, the church will still have power and will be able to provide a place of sanctuary. It has always been the church’s task to light the way forward in times of darkness. Now that they’re needed, it’s time for church communities to come together and drive forward the solar trends that can help to save the Earth.
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