Project Porchlight Puget Sound

Simple Actions Matter in Puget Sound!

Thanks to more than 1, 100 dedicated volunteers and with generous funding from our sponsor, Puget Sound Energy (PSE), One Change’s Project Porchlight team successfully distributed 275,000 free compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs to residents door-to-door and at more than 120 community events during the summer and early fall of 2009!

Hundreds of people participated in Project Porchlight and proved that the residents of Puget Sound are ready to make a positive change to save energy and protect the environment. An amazing 127 groups in the community helped distribute CFL bulbs and empower people to believe that simple actions matter, including:

• 61 community groups
• 27 businesses
• 16 churches
• 23 schools

With 275,000 bulbs delivered that means big savings for Puget Sound including:

• Over 63 million MWh saved (mega-watt hours) over the lifetime of the bulbs
• Nearly $12 million in electricity savings per year
• Almost 70 million lbs CO2 avoided
• Over 5,800 cars off the road for a year

Congratulations Puget Sound! We did it!

Puget Sound Highlights

The success of Project Porchlight Puget Sound was built upon a tightly developed, community-based network of dedicated volunteers and a generous sponsor in (PSE). 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 Puget Sound community-specific web pages.

Project Porchlight Puget Sound in the News!

The Project Porchlight Puget Sound campaign received extensive media coverage. Throughout its run, the campaign was mentioned in 33 media pieces helping us spread Project Porchlight’s positive message of simple actions and energy conservation.

To view news clippings of Project Porchlight Puget Sound please visit our Media Room web page.

Project Porchlight Puget Sound was made possible with the generous support of Puget Sound Energy (PSE), Washington state's oldest local energy utility, serving more than 1 million electric consumers and nearly 750,000 natural gas customers, primarily in the vibrant Puget Sound area.

“Volunteering is important. We all have a responsibility to give back in whatever way we can. We all are responsible for making our communities better places to live. I wanted the Lions to participate (in the Rock the Bulb campaign) because it was a hands-on project we could do. If each and every one of us does just one small thing, we can all protect our environment.” ~ Judy Ann Bergvall, Lacey Sunrise Lions Club

“If we had more people working on projects like this, our world would be a much better place to live. I was so proud to see my 14-year-old daughter helping folks understand just how much energy they could save if they replaced all their light bulbs with energy-saving CFL bulbs.” Verle Ketchum, Fleet Manager, All Star Ford