Project Porchlight Ontario

Simple Actions Matter in Ontario!

Thanks to more than 2,000 dedicated volunteers and with generous funding from our sponsors, the Project Porchlight team successfully distributed more than 640,000 free compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs to residents door-to-door and at more than 150 community events across Ontario at the end of 2007!

Thousands of people participated in Project Porchlight and proved that Ontarians are ready to make a positive change to save energy and protect the environment. An amazing 500 community groups, businesses and organizations helped distribute CFL bulbs and empower Ontarians to believe that simple actions matter, including:

• 94 Municipalities
• 66 Schools
• 22 Faith Groups
• 40 environmental groups
• Over 50 businesses
• 228 Other Community Organizations and Businesses

640,000 light bulbs changed means:

• 320,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions that won’t be produced
• 80 million tonnes of coal that will not be burned
• $32 million saved on hundreds of thousands of electricity bills

Congratulations Ontario! We did it!



Ontario Highlights

The success of Project Porchlight Ontario was built upon a tightly developed, community-based network of dedicated volunteers, dynamic partners and generous sponsors. Simple actions matter and the collective effect was HUGE! You can find highlights of this successful campaign, including profiles of star volunteers, short narratives of exciting local events we participated in, as well as stories from the field on our Ontario community-specific web pages.



Project Porchlight Ontario in the News!

The Project Porchlight Ontario campaign received extensive province-wide media coverage. Throughout its run, more than 45 newspaper articles were printed and close to 50 radio and television segments were aired, helping us spread Project Porchlight’s positive message of energy conservation across Ontario.

To view news clippings of Project Porchlight Ontario, or to hear/see radio and television segments on the campaign, please visit our Media Room web page.

Project Porchlight Ontario was made possible with the generous support of the Ontario Power Authority, the Government of Ontario and the Ontario Trillium Foundation, along with numerous local sponsors.