Volunteer

Saturday, October 12th, 2024 from 10 a.m – 4 p.m

Join us for a day spent outside for Fall cleanup of MREA’s headquarters in Custer, WI.

We’ll prepare our site for the colder months, and we would love your help. Please dress for the weather, and warm up with our wood-burning masonry heater. Lunch will be available for all participants.

Some tasks we will be focusing on:

• Splitting wood
• REI grounds cleanup
• Cleaning up downed trees
• Removing invasive plants
• Garden winter prep

*Please consider bringing tools for your personal use.

**This event will focus on outdoor tasks.

Grow Solar

Grow Solar is one of the many programs at the MREA. This grassroots program works across the Midwest and is a bulk purchasing program that helps going solar or another renewable technology in communities more affordable and simple.

Here’s how it works: 

A community works together to host a group buy in their area. The program then hosts what is know as “Power Hours.”  These Power Hours are educational presentations that help interested property owners determine whether the renewable technology being offered in the program is right for them. Power Hours typically last an hour including 15 minutes of Q&A. These can be either in-person or virtual and each program will have about 12+ Power Hours offered.

Where can you help?

These programs are successful because of community-led outreach. That means we need local champions to help spread the word about the program whether it be social media or going door-to-door with flyers. Local champions can also help by joining the program team to help plan, organize, and promote these programs.

Next steps:

Reach out to the Grow Solar team by emailing us at info@growsolar.org and let us know where you are located, your interest, and if you are willing to work on programs outside of your area.

Join us for this energizing volunteer day!

This annual event helps reawaken the grounds of the ReNew the Earth Institute (MREA headquarters). Anyone can volunteer!

Tasks may include: 

• Washing windows
• Tending to the gardens
• Landscaping
• Organizing indoor materials

*Please consider bringing tools for your personal use