WHO KNEW the Time Has Come to Make Window Inserts!

For the 5th year, Sustainable Hanover and the Norwich and Lyme Energy Committees will collaborate with the Maine-based non-profit Window Dressers (www.windowdressers.org) to make energy-saving window inserts for Upper Valley homes. The build will take place at the Norwich Congregational Church, 15 Church Street, Norwich Vt.

This project succeeds by bringing together volunteers from a variety of backgrounds to assemble insulating custom-fitted window inserts for homes with drafty windows. The inserts lower fuel costs and reduce the carbon emissions associated with home heating. Volunteers make it possible to price the inserts affordably, which for low-income households can be free of charge.

Volunteering at a Windows community build is fun and rewarding. As one volunteer describes, the assembly steps are “easily doable jobs” using “ingenuous jigs” that require no prior carpentry experience. Another said “Not only did I learn how to build inserts, I made a lot of new friends in the community.” And one other volunteer expressed her satisfaction thusly: “You physically experience the feeling of building something with your hands and … (it goes) directly to a house where it will make someone’s life better.”

To volunteer at this community build, sign up online at https://signup.com/go/PybfDRm. Choose from a variety of morning, afternoon and evening shifts from Thursday, September 25 to Wednesday, October 1. A light lunch is offered on most days, with home-made soups, bread, snacks and cookies.

Many thanks to the Coop Food Store, Dan and Whit’s, the Lyme Foundation and the Norwich Congregational Church for their generous support.

Read more at: www.sustainablehanovernh.org/windows

Questions? Email: sustainablehanovernh@gmail.com