When it comes to providing the Woodstock City Council with input on environmental issues, the Woodstock Environmental Advisory Committee (WEAC) is invaluable. So when the city’s Mayor Michael Harding heard that Project Porchlight was coming to town, he contacted WEAC Chair Larry Goslin.
Larry was keen to get involved. Before long, he had rounded up a keen green team that included WEAC, teacher Roger Boyd and his environmental science students from Huron Park Secondary School, and MP Dave MacKenzie. The crew gathered at the famous Woodstock Farmers’ Market last December and handed out CFLs to shoppers and passersby. “We managed to get altogether I think it was 2,750 bulbs delivered in this community,” Larry says. “So it’s a great step.”
In light of the new Ontario legislation that will ban the sale of incandescent light bulbs by the year 2012, Larry feels that Project Porchlight couldn’t have come to Woodstock at a better time. “(The campaign) will introduce the bulbs to people who haven’t been exposed to them yet… We’ve had people who have had bad experiences with sub-standard bulbs. This is an opportunity to give them a quality bulb with the ENERGY STAR label on it.”
