{"id":515,"date":"2023-10-30T14:09:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T13:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kirchensteuerwirkt.ch\/the-environment-and-sustainability\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:27:39","slug":"the-environment-and-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kirche-wirkt.ch\/en\/the-environment-and-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"The environment and sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div    class=\"accordion color-lilac\">\n  <div class=\"container-xxl\">\n    <div class=\"col-lg-10 offset-lg-2\">\n      <div class=\"accordion-header\">\n        <h2 class=\"accordion-header-title\">7 church congregations<\/h2>\n        <button class=\"accordion-header-button\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Toggle accordion\"><\/button>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"col-md-10\">\n        <div class=\"accordion-inner\">\n          <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>currently hold a \u201cGr\u00fcner G\u00fcggel\u201d (green cock) environmental certificate, or are well on their way to being awarded one. This environmental management system obliges church congregations that hold a certificate, i.e. <a href=\"https:\/\/pirminius.ch\/kirchgemeinde\/gruener-gueggel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pfungen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kath-dfs.ch\/kirchgemeinde_umwelt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">D\u00fcbendorf<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kath-buelach.ch\/bericht\/508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">B\u00fclach<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pfarrei-uster.ch\/?s=gr%C3%BCner+g%C3%BCggel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uster<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kath-embrachertal.ch\/?s=gr%C3%BCner+g%C3%BCggel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Embrachertal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kath-wallisellen.ch\/umwelt-label-gruener-gueggel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wallisellen<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/kath-dietlikon.ch\/?s=gr%C3%BCner+g%C3%BCggel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dietlikon<\/a>, to make a deliberate effort to do the following: save energy and water; establish a consistent system for waste sorting; make sure of purchasing environmentally sound products; and promote biodiversity in landscaping. The Cantonal Church provides financial support to church congregations seeking to be certified.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/oeku.ch\/umweltpraxis\/gruener-gueggel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cOeku\u201d Association for Churches and the Environment (Oeku \u2013 Kirche und Umwelt) (German-language)<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div    class=\"accordion\">\n  <div class=\"container-xxl\">\n    <div class=\"col-lg-10 offset-lg-2\">\n      <div class=\"accordion-header\">\n        <h2 class=\"accordion-header-title\">13,000,000 Swiss francs<\/h2>\n        <button class=\"accordion-header-button\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Toggle accordion\"><\/button>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"col-md-10\">\n        <div class=\"accordion-inner\">\n          <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>will be invested over the coming years by the 23 church congregations of the City of Zurich in order to realize refurbishment and construction projects that aim to improve the congregations\u2019 environmental balance. Coaching sessions on energy-related subjects enable them to find weak spots in building shells, ventilation, and heating systems and to eliminate such weaknesses. The church congregations also use income from church tax to pay for the additional costs incurred by switching from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.<br>Before any modernization project is tackled, the <a href=\"https:\/\/katholisch-stadtzuerich.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Catholic Association for the City of Zurich (Katholisch Stadt Z\u00fcrich)<\/a> will support any church congregation with in-depth coaching on energy-related subjects.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div    class=\"accordion color-lilac\">\n  <div class=\"container-xxl\">\n    <div class=\"col-lg-10 offset-lg-2\">\n      <div class=\"accordion-header\">\n        <h2 class=\"accordion-header-title\">21,000 kWh\/a<\/h2>\n        <button class=\"accordion-header-button\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Toggle accordion\"><\/button>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"col-md-10\">\n        <div class=\"accordion-inner\">\n          <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>is the amount of energy the photovoltaic system on the roof of the Heilig Geist church center in Z\u00fcrich-H\u00f6ngg, built in 1973, produces. This is equivalent to the annual power supply for around six average Swiss households (3,500 kWh\/a each). When the church center was completely reconstructed between 2018 and 2021, a solar thermal system was installed on the roof of the clergy house, and then, in 2021, a photovoltaic power system was erected on the church square. Additional exterior insulation measures led to a large reduction in energy consumption of 66 percent. The system has received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zhkath.ch\/kirche-aktuell\/kirche-im-kanton\/solarpreis-heilig-geist-zuerich-katholische-kirche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Swiss Solar Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1043,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-515","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The environment and sustainability - Kirche Wirkt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kirche-wirkt.ch\/en\/the-environment-and-sustainability\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The environment and sustainability - 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