Project Porchlight Blog
Project Porchlight is coming to your community!
This award-winning energy efficiency campaign works from the grassroots in communities across Canada, spreading the message that simple actions can make a big difference when it comes to helping the environment.
Your students and staff can give us a hand!
We have two exciting opportunities for your school, simple yet empowering and fun ways for students to:
- add a few hours of community service
- develop public speaking skills
- learn about community-based social marketing
- engage in concrete environmental action
Two opportunities, none to be missed!!!
- Seasonal lighting swap (November 17th and 18th - only in certain communities, see below) and
- Door-to-door distribution of free energy-efficient compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs (by December 15th).
The seasonal lighting swap will be taking place in the following communities:
- Dryden
- Cobourg
- Scugog
- Halton Hills
- Fort Frances
- Ingersoll
- Tillsonburg
- Essex
- St. Thomas
- Midland
- Stratford
- Nipigon
- Red Rock
- Marathon
- Niagara-on-the-Lake
- Muskoka Lakes
- Gananoque
- Leamington
- Welland
- Smith Falls
- Port Colborne
- Elliot Lake
- Pembroke
- Kincardine
- Kirkland Lake
- Kapuskasing
- New Hamburg
- Collingwood
- Owen Sound
- Brockville
Fill in our volunteer signup form and we'll be in touch as soon as the bulbs are ready to go. Be a light in your community - and high school - this fall!
Peter Love's suggestions for conservation
THERECORD.COM
Myth busting: The truth about energy efficiency at home
October 20, 2007
Ontarians have become increasingly savvy about their energy consumption patterns at home and have been taking steps to become more energy efficient. But with all the conservation information available these days, it is difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction.
Peter Love, Ontario's Chief Electricity Conservation Officer, reveals the truth behind some of the most common energy myths.
Armed with this knowledge, look for ways you can make the lighting in your home energy efficient. Love points to the Ontario Power Authority's fall Every Kilowatt Counts program.
Consumers can redeem coupons in-store at a wide variety of retailers across Ontario for savings on ENERGY STAR-qualified residential light fixtures, and appliance and light control products such as motion sensors, dimmers and timers.
To help demystify some of the most common energy myths Love helps shed some light on the facts about energy efficiency at home:
Myth: I can't use CFL bulbs with dimmer switches or motion sensors
Fact: The selection of CFL bulbs are increasing. There are special CFL bulbs that are designed to work with a variety of lighting controls such as dimmer switches, motion sensors and timers, and some can even be used outdoors. CFL packaging tells you where and how the CFL can be used.
Myth: By dimming the lights, all dimmer switches allow you to reduce the amount of electricity and energy being used
Fact: Only new electronic dimmer switches actually reduce the amount of energy being used. Old rheostatic dimmer switches simply give the extra electricity off as heat, instead of light. If the dimmer is warm to the touch, it's not saving electricity.
Myth: All fluorescent tube lights are energy efficient
Fact: Smaller (2.5 cm or 1 inch diameter) T8 bulbs are 35 per cent more efficient than regular T12 (3.75 cm or 1.5 inch diameter) fluorescent tube lights.
For a list of participating retailers, more energy saving tips and to download Every Kilowatt Counts coupons, visit
everykilowattcounts.com.
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