August Newsletter
We hope you’re making it through the heat and smoke okay. Some of you may even be experiencing the cooling and air filtration benefits of a new heat pump!
Here at Kicking Gas, we’re wrapping up our first round of funding and working to serve as many community members as possible. As of now, we anticipate being able to award 118 homes, which is incredible! We’re working on crunching numbers for estimating carbon emissions reductions, and working to deploy a survey for our clients. Please look forward to hearing about that in the coming weeks. We are also continuing to deliver Power Outage Preparedness Kits to folks.
We submitted our statement of work for two more years of the program, and are eagerly awaiting confirmation that we will be able to resume our work this fall. We’re excited to continue our work on heat pumps, and also to expand into additional measures such as induction stove tops and heat pump hot water heaters, to help our community members move toward all electric homes!
We’re also looking ahead to a fundraising event in October to help fuel Kicking Gas and our work to decarbonize Whidbey Island. Kicking Gas staff and volunteers are meeting regularly to plan for this event. We meet on the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 10 a.m. at Flowerhouse Cafe—this Friday is the next one. We’re coordinating the venue, food, an auction, and more. If you’d like to join our fundraising planning group as a volunteer, please join us at one of these meetings, or reply to this email to inquire.
We’re excited to keep working with all of you to help our community transition toward a cleaner, greener future. Please keep in touch!
In community,
Derek Hoshiko
Kicking Gas Campaign Director
P.S. In case you missed it, check out the Kicking Gas campaign video Heat Switch on our website.
What We’re Reading
Zero-waste effort moves to Commons — South Whidbey Record
After Maine Surpasses 100,000 Heat Pump Goal Two Years Ahead of Schedule, Governor Mills Sets New, Ambitious Target — Maine.gov
Pollution from gas stoves can be worse than secondhand smoke — The Verge