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From YouTube: City Spotlight December 2011
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Mayor of Des Moines Frank Cownie Interviews the Very Rev. Cathleen Bascom of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul and Sarah Webb of Iowa Interfaith Power and Light/Cool Congregations
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A
Hi
I'm
Mayor,
Frank
Kelly
and
welcome
to
City
spotlight.
This
is
our
last
City
spotlight
of
the
year
and
so
we're
going
to
close
up
we're
going
to
talk
about
cool
congregations.
We're
gonna
go
up
to
st.
paul's
episcopal
church
and
we're
going
to
talk
to
the
Reverend
Kathleen
Bascom
and
Sara
Webb.
Who
is
co-founder
of
the
cool
congregations
program?
We're
going
to
talk
about
sustainability
and
I.
Think
you'll
enjoy
this
program.
Stick
right
with
us,
we'll
be
right
back!
A
A
B
B
Exactly
right,
that's
exactly
right:
I,
interfaith
Power
and
Light;
the
joint
response
of
faith
communities
in
Iowa
to
climate
change.
We
work
to
protect
the
Earth
and
safeguard
society's
most
vulnerable
by
helping
congregations
and
individuals
to
lower
their
carbon
footprints.
We
educate
about
climate
change
and
the
religious
response,
and
we
empower
individuals
to
be
advocates
for
clean
energy
and
climate
policies.
B
B
My
position
with
the
organization
is
I'm
the
cool
congregations
coordinator
for
Iowa,
interfaith
Power
and
Light,
that
is
a
mouthful
I
run
their
cool
congregations,
program
and
I.
Think
it's
really
important
as
people
of
faith
that
we
respond
to
climate
change,
inappropriate
manner,
which
is
to
help
prevent
the
emissions
that
cause
climate
change
in
the
first
place.
So
the
cool
congregations
program
helps
individuals
and
congregations
to
do
just
that.
Do.
A
B
Well,
the
people
who
come
to
our
workshops,
we've
had
representatives
from
over
200
congregations
in
Iowa,
attend
our
workshops
over
the
last
five
years
and
I
could
say
probably
the
most
people
who
attend
our
workshops
are
doing
something,
whether
it's
recycling
or
weatherizing
their
homes
or
switching
over
their
light
bulbs
or
buying
energy-efficient
cars.
All
of
these
things
that
they
are
doing
are
helping
them
to
save
money.
Also,
so
it's
sort
of
a
win-win.
You
know
lower
the
amount
of
carbon
emissions,
causing
climate
change
and
lower
the
bills
that
you
pay
for
your
energy.
A
And
it
seems
so
important
that
we
work
on
it
individually
and
collectively,
not
only
you
know,
in
our
own
homes
and
in
our
faith-based
community
and
in
our
businesses
and
in
our
governments.
It's
it's
somewhat
frustrating,
at
least
from
my
standpoint,
haven't
worked
on
this
a
little
bit
that
you
know
it
is
not
something
that
has
been
accepted
straight
across
the
board
when
it
seems
like
the
consequences
of
doing
nothing
are
so
dire.
A
Given
what
recently
came
out
in
the
Wall
Street
Journal
that
we
have
until
2017
to
begin
to
curtail
our
emissions
on
co2,
otherwise
that
two
point
six
degrees,
Celsius
and
or
the
the
three
to
four
degrees,
Fahrenheit
that
we're
hoping
to
hold
the
temperature
increase
to
that
our
opportunity
by
2017
will
have
passed
and
not
be
able
to
do
much
about
it.
It
seems
like
that's
a
pretty
serious
consequence
and
and
there's
getting
to
be
even
even
some
of
the
skeptics
have
stepped
up
and
said,
there's
a
problem.
That's.
B
Right
there
is
a
problem
and
this
people
of
faith.
We
are
morally
obligated
to
take
action,
so
we
need
to
do
all
we
can
starting
now
and
even
if
we
don't
succeed
in
keeping
the
temperature
where
we
want
it
to
be,
we
still
are
morally
obligated
to
take
action
to
take
care
of
our
neighbors
and
to
do
what
we
can
to
care
for
the
earth.
So.
B
A
Do
you
think
that
people
are
grasping
those
opportunities
in
in
thinking
that
for
whether
it
be
stewardship
or
just
some
sort
of
a
sense
that
they
want
to
have
a
future
for
their
kids
or
grandkids,
it's
at
least
as
good
or
better
than
what
we've
had
in
our
lifetimes
or
some
other
national
security
reason?
Are
things
for
people
to
grab
on
to
well.
B
You
know
I
asked
at
every
workshop
that
I
do
what's
your
motivation
for
doing
something
about
climate
change
and
I
have
heard
so
many
different
stories
in
Iowa.
The
top
story
is
because
they're
concerned
about
the
world
that
they
are
leaving
to
their
grandchildren.
That
is
the
top
story
that
I
here
I've
also
heard
stories
from
people
who
are
concerned
about
national
security.
They
want
to
be
able
to
provide
their
own
homegrown
energy,
so
they
don't
have
to
worry
about
sending
their
young
people
to
wars
across
the
ocean.
B
People
are
are
concerned
about
the
economic
welfare
of
the
state
of
Iowa,
so
they
want
to
make
sure
there's
a
lot
of
good
alternative
energy
like
wind
and
solar
grown
here
in
Iowa
for
their
own
use.
Here
in
Iowa,
people
are
concerned
about
their
health
coal-fired
power
plants
can
emit
particles
that
can
trigger
asthma
attacks
and
cause
respiratory
and
and
heart
trouble
in
the
elderly,
so
I've
heard
so
many
so
many
concerns
people
have
faith.
Also
do
a
lot
of
relief
work
overseas.
You.
A
Do
you
think,
because
I
know
that
you
you
work
not
only
in
Iowa
but
around
the
country
and
in
try
to
help
a
lot
of
people
get
get
involved?
How
do
you
think
is
the
best
way
for
us
to
drive
a
broader-based
understanding
of
not
only
the
the
situation
in
the
consequences,
but
the
education
or
to
all
people?
How?
How?
How
should
we
best
try
to
get
the
message
out?
Well,.
B
We
like
working
through
the
churches,
because
I
was
such
a
highly
churched
state
lots
and
lots
and
lots
of
people
go
to
church
and
I
or
they
don't
always
in
other
states,
and
people
really
believe
in
their
faith
here
and
you
know,
want
to
act
on
their
values.
And
so
we
think
that's
a
great
Avenue
to
get.
The
message
out
is
through
the
churches,
but
actually
I'm
working
on
another
project
called
cool
neighbors,
which
is
a
secular
version
of
cool
congregations
in.
C
B
A
We
spent
a
lot
of
time
in
Des
Moines
talking
to
neighborhoods
about
what
they
can
do,
but,
of
course,
a
lot
of
folks
with
the
economy
such
as
it
is
will
say.
Well,
that's
going
to
take
a
lot
of
money.
We've
got
to
figure
out
how
what
are
those
first
little
initial
steps
that
can
be
taken
and
I
think
that
I've
seen
list
that
did.
A
C
B
Way
to
get
started
on
saving
energy
without
really
investing
much
of
anything
and
then,
with
the
savings
that
you
get
from
taking
those
actions,
you
can
take
those
savings
and
apply
them
to
more
expensive
investments
in
saving
energy.
So
you
gradually
work
your
way
up
start
with
the
low-cost
go
with
the
more
cost
and
always
take
advantage
of
what
your
utility
has
to
offer
you
in
the
way
of
energy
efficiency,
rebates
and
incentives.
B
A
Do
you
think
that
the
work
that
you
do
is
limited
just
to
energy
and
those
sorts
of
things,
or
do
you
work
also
on
sources
of
food
like
locally
grown
food?
You,
because
when
we
look
at
carbon
footprints
of
let's
say,
bringing
our
foodstuffs
from
other
continents
is
really
a
highly
energy
intensive
operation
to
raise
it
someplace
else,
thousands
of
miles
away
and
then
somehow
ship
it
to
Des
Moines
Iowa
for.
B
B
Called
cool
harvest,
you
can
use
it
in
your
congregations
and
it's
all
about
what
we
can
do
to
reduce
our
carbon
emissions
from
food.
So
I
encourage
people
to
look
at
that
at
the
interfaith
Power
and
Light
website.
But
one
of
our
cool
congregations
participants
here
in
Des
Moines,
st.
James,
Episcopal
Church,
actually
in
West
Des
Moines,
has
started
their
faith
and
grace
garden
and
they're
give
this
huge
garden
it's
growing
every
year
and
they
grow
food
locally
for
the
food
bank
and
in
the
process,
their
training
up.
B
All
these
people
who
volunteer
so
they
will
have
to
garden
and
can
grow
food
in
their
in
their
own
Gardens
as
well.
So
we
do
encourage
people
to
look
as
much
as
possible
at
buying
vocal
from
your
local
farmers
market
or
join
the
CSA
Community
Supported
Agriculture
or
grow
your
own
food.
Those
are
all
things
that
people
can
do
to
reduce
their
carbon
footprint
from
the
transportation
of
food.
B
There
are
other
things
you
can
do
to,
for
instance,
people
and
I
would
don't
like
to
hear
this,
but
you
can
choose
to
eat
less
meat
because
worldwide
the
United
Nations
figure
says.
Eighteen
percent
of
the
carbon
emissions
worldwide
comes
from
animal
agriculture,
there's
a
lot
of
missions
coming
from
the
methane,
which
is
far
more
potent
than
carbon
dioxide
and
all
the
water
that's
used
in
the
production
of
meat.
So
it's
those
are
some
things
we
can
all
do,
starting
in
about
an
hour
at
the
lunch
table.
So
well.
A
A
Right,
that's
right,
you
know
is
we
we
talk
about
all
these
various
aspects
of
what
it
is
that
we
can
do
and
should
do.
I
always
keep
thinking
about
whether
or
not
we
ought
to
also
put
it
through
our
education
system,
and
you
know
when
we
walk
in
the
our
kids
walk
in
the
classroom
and
they
have
a
math
problem.
Why
aren't
they
calculating
on?
You
know
on
a
mathematical
formula,
the
carbon
emissions
of
something
or
when
they
go
into
history
class?
A
Certainly
there's
some
history
related
to
when
we
started
burning
things
and
when
we
started
burning
coal
and
when
we
started
burning,
you
know
oil
products
and
how
that
all
relates,
or
you
know,
if
it's
you
know
in
a
health
class,
talk
about
the
aspects
of
all
these
things
and
that
that
usually
the
young
people
pick
it
up
really
quick
and
it's
those
of
us
that
are
mature
adults.
That
think
that
we
already
have
the
answers,
sometimes
that
were
the
slower
learners
I
have.
B
It
all
right
where
the
slower
learners,
but
it's
our
responsibility
where
the
grown-ups
in
this
situation,
so
the
children
should
be
educated,
but
it's
up
to
us
to
really
lead
the
way
in
making
the
changes.
I
know,
for
instance,
at
the
university
level
at
you
and
I
work
out
of
the
office.
My
office
is
in
the
center
for
energy
and
environmental
education
up
there.
B
A
A
A
C
Paul's
got
involved
in
cool
congregations
about
for
four
and
a
half
years
ago.
I
just
came
here
then
so
there
was
a.
There
was
a
team
that
kind
of
became
cohesive,
around
sustainability
issues,
I
think
the
the
parish
has
a
long
history
of
interest
in
care
for
the
earth
and
and
care
for
our
city
and
I.
Think
you
know
those
strands,
you
know
have
been
there
and
been
being
woven
here
for
a
long
time
and
in
fact,
if
you
go
way
back,
Anglican
really
loved
the
creation.
C
You
can
see
it
in
our
stained
glass
windows
and
it's
always
been
an
area
of
importance.
So,
four
or
five
years
ago
this
team
went
to
a
workshop,
hosted
by
Iowa
power
and
light,
and
they
got
some
ideas
that
they
brought
home
here
to
st.
Paul's,
the
ones
that
I'm
aware
of
our
that
they
started,
setting
up
laptops
and
things
after
church
and
helping
individual
members
to
calculate
their
carbon
footprints
and
challenging
people
to
reduce
that
by
ten
percent
sort
of
like
a
tithe.
They
also
had
a
how'd.
C
I,
don't
think
I
did
I,
think
Deacon,
Muffy
Harmon
has
been
a
member
here
for
many
years,
and
a
quite
a
member
in
our
city
and
she's
preached
this
a
lot
of
these
more
contemporary
issues
of
the
earth
for
decades.
I
would
say
so
and-
and
these
are
people
who
are
are
interested
in
their
full
lives
and
the
sustainability
of
our
Earth's
so
but
yeah
they
had
to
mean
people
to
come.
You
know
the
individual
members
to
come
and
participate.
C
Congregations
tells
me
that
a
hundred
and
twenty
tons
was
saved
right
of
carbon
emissions
through
those
that
switch
out.
It
took
us
a
longer
time
to
figure
out
how
to
recycle
here,
but
just
recently,
we've
connected
with
somebody,
especially
aimed
at
smaller
businesses
that
was
affordable
for
us
and
real
helpful
for
the
kind
of
recycling
we
talk.
A
C
And-
and
that
was
tough
in
the
again
I've
been
here
five
years
and
for
a
few
years,
we
would
look
into
that
and
those
kind
of
people
who
are
resources
force
a
principal
or
the
businesses
around
us
were
so
expensive
that
we
really
had
a
hard
time
doing
it,
and
so
individuals
would
take
things
home.
But
a
co-op
has
arisen
that
you
buy
in
to
be
part
of
the
coop
and
that
you
sort
of
by
the
receptacles
they
came
and
analyzed.
What
are
our
needs
were,
which
are
mainly
paper.
C
C
A
C
C
A
good
one:
yes,
they
said
you
can't.
We
do
something
better
for
the
earth
when
we're
going
to
take
when
we're
going
to
redo
this
surface
anyway
and
I
said,
and
can't
we
do
something
better
for
the
people
downstream.
You
know
this
is
a
real
issue.
The
urban
piece
of
the
flooding
that
we've
been
seeing
in
Iowa.
We
need
to
model,
you
know
what
urban
people
can
do.
What.
C
We
started
with
a
charrette,
we
were.
We
found
folks
from
RDG
who
were
willing
to
work
pro
bono
with
us.
We
had
an
advisor
from
Drake
University
environmental
history
department,
and
then
we
invited
our
neighbors,
and
that
was
maybe
the
most
beautiful
part
of
this
story.
Pace
orchard
place
principal
other
businesses
across
the
way
Oak
Ridge
neighborhood
came
over
and
we
gathered
everyone
quest
now,
CenturyLink
and
our
own
folks
and
our
diocesan
people,
because
we
are
a
center
for
all
the
churches
in
iOS.
So
they
come
here
regularly.
C
We
gathered
and
said:
what
can
we
do
with
this
land?
What
do
we
need
and
how
can
it
be
good
and
sustainable?
So
we
regraded
the
lot
we
put
in
swaths
of
permeable,
paving,
which
also
are
embedded.
There
are
huge
pipes
that
are
filtered
pipes
that
are
underneath
in
lots
of
gravel,
and
the
idea
is
that
the
water
flows
to
those
swaths,
the
pipes
that
in
oh
it
takes
a
long
time
to
percolate.
They
move
the
water,
then
to
a
crescent
of
rain
gardens
that
go
around
the
whole,
pretty
much
three-quarters
of
our
land.
C
A
C
Those
are
Kentucky
coffee,
trees,
I
think
we
still
have
and
we
have
I
think
one
that's
different
and
we
have
four
to
come.
That'll
be
on
the
pleasant
street
side
that
are
still
kind
of
being
decided
and
we
did
go
with
our
architects
desires.
We
were
helped
majorly
by
early
on
Polk,
County,
Soil
and
Water
Conservation
were
advisors
and
gave
us
a
first
small
grant.
Then
the
Department
of
Natural
Resources
gave
us
a
hundred
thousand
dollars
toward
this
project
which
really
made
it
viable
for
us
only
about
you
know.
C
It
was
only
about
a
third
or
fourth
of
the
total
cost
of
everything,
so
other
private
donors
got
excited
and
we're
about
90%
funded
in
that
so
and
lastly,
most
exciting
to
me
was
the
educational
collaborative.
We
thought
well,
while
we're
doing
all
this,
couldn't
people
learn
and
so
again
pace
and
they're
sort
of
day
school,
youth,
the
downtown
school
children,
sort
of
third
and
fourth
grade
age
group.
C
A
couple
of
their
classes
got
involved
in
Oak,
Ridge
neighborhood
and
our
own
kids,
and
we
about
every
month
or
two
have
educational
days
where
they
learn
about
these
sustainability
issues.
Whether
it's
permeability
of
the
soil
runoff
into
the
streams,
the
native
plants
and
what
we
can
do
as
urban
people,
those.
A
B
C
Our
building
is
1885,
and
so
we
work
with
some
of
the
limits
of
that,
but
in
our
future,
I
would
say
in
the
next
four
or
five
years,
the
furnace
some
of
the
electrical
situations.
We
really
need
to
work
on
what
the
building
itself
is
doing.
We've
switched
out
a
lot
of
light
bulbs
ourself,
but
we
need
to
go.
We
need
to
go
further.
I
was
something.