Personal action plans were discussed for each of these three areas: Economy, Environment, and Energy.

After much discussion of the current state of the economy and ideas shared about the economy, several attendees agreed to contact state and federal officials in support of President Obama's Economy Plan..

One outcome may be an environmental/energy action plan to capture the water power from the waterfall behind the recycling center for the purpose of producing electricity for the recycling center.

Another outcome will be a local program that will educate people about CFL (Compact Fluorescent Light) bulbs and begin to raise money to help low-income families to purchase these CFL bulbs.

Other items discussed were: 

1.  The need for people other than our solid waste coordinator to visit our schools to talk about recycling in particular and energy and the environment in general. 

2.  A program that would provide local residents the opportunity to insulate ducts, attics, walls, and ceilings; replace inefficient appliances (furnaces, refrigerators, water heaters, light bulbs) with efficient models and heat pumps; and for the  infiltration and repair, weather-stripping, and replacement of leaky doors and windows (this information is a summary of a section taken from the Kentucky Energy Corps web site.  

3.  Sara Pennington, a representative from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, spoke to the group about Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (click on the logo below for more info about this group).