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EnergySmart
| What is EnergySmart? About Youth Ambassadors Why be a Youth Ambassador? About the EnerPoint System Incandescent to CFL - Video Did You Know? |
EnergySmart Phase 1 Achievements | ||
| Incandescent bulbs replaced | 885 | ||
| Energy use reduced | 41,537 watts | ||
| Number of homes reached | 439 | ||
| No. of Youth Ambassadors | 41 | ||
What is EnergySmart?
EnergySmart is an exciting opportunity for youth to take action and get hands-on experience in making a change. The goal of the program is to educate, empower, and inspire Peel residents and businesses to make energy efficient choices.
EnergySmart achieves this goal by providing our Ambassadors with the opportunity to replace incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents. A limited amount of compact fluorescent lightbulbs will be distributed within the community FREE on a 'first come first served' basis.
Apart from changing lightbulbs, EnergySmart provides forums and workshops to the community on residential applications of Solar Technology and a grand finale in the spring to reward participants and Ambassadors.
About Youth Ambassadors
A key feature of EnergySmart is the youth Ambassadors. Our Ambassadors are a group of inspired youth who come together from across Peel to help us reduce our carbon footprint and embrace energy efficient actions to build an EnergySmart future.
Why be a Youth Ambassador?
- Earn hours as part of your 40 hours of community service and 150 CAS hours for IB students
- Receive FREE training on simple home energy audit
- Earn EnerPoints and prizes (can accumulate EnerPoints over 3 yrs)
- Get recognized in media and gala event
- Receive reference for scholarships and awards (criteria applies)
- Be a part of EnergySmart youth network in Peel and create your own network
- Educate and empower the community
- Show leadership at home and in your school
- Be part of an award winning organization
- Make a difference while having fun!
About the EnerPoint System?
The EnerPoint system is designed to reward the Ambassadors, residents, and businesses for promoting and adopting energy efficient choices. The point system is centered on result-based outcomes for individuals or community action. Earning EnerPoints is simple, quick and easy:
- 1 point for every incandescent lightbulb replaced with a compact fluorescent lightbulb
- 1 point for turning off lights and unplugging unused appliances to reduce phantom loads
- 2 points for checking whether an appliance is EnergyStar approved before purchasing it
- 3 points for registering in peaksaver program to reduce peak demand of eletricity
- 4 points for participating in a solar technology forum to learn about renewable energy options (dates and locations found here)
Every Ambassador, residence, and business participating in EnergySmart can earn EnerPoints and get recognized in a variety of ways.
Ambassadors can earn Referral Points for motivating and engaging their peers into EnergySmart.
EnergySmart Ambassadors will be recognized at a Grand Finale in spring 2009. Special Achievement Awards will be given to the ambassador with most earned EnerPoints, and the Most Valued ambassador(s) (qualification criteria apply). Top 5 families and 2 Businesses earning the most EnerPoints through their actions will also be recognized as EnergySmart Citizens and Businesses in Peel.
Incandescent to CFL -- New Light Bulbs in Plain English
Did You Know?
- A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide emissions created by individuals and industry. As Canadians, we are responsible for 1/3 of our nation’s carbon footprint.
- A compact fluorescent lightbulb uses 75–80% less energy compared to an incandescent lightbulb!
- If, like the Australians, we embrace a total ban on incandescent lightbulbs, that would result in a whopping 8 million tonne reduction in gas emissions in Canada!
- Ordinary fossil fuel power plants are able to convert only 36% to 48% of the fossil fuel derived energy to electricity. This leaves more than 50% of the heat energy to be lost. What a waste!
- 99.9% of Iceland's electricity is currently generated from renewable sources: 81% from hydroelectric power and virtually all the remainder from geothermal. Now that’s progress!
- Like all fluorescent lamps, CFLs contain mercury and must be disposed of properly. All Home Depot and Rona stores now accept CFLs for environmentally safe recycling.
