The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres, “Project Porchlight,” and Fort Frances Power Corp. will “team up” tomorrow (Oct. 4) to deliver door-to-door free energy efficient light bulbs.
Join the Sabres “Power Play” at the Memorial Sports Centre lobby at 6 p.m. All volunteers are welcome and will be treated to a pizza party after the event.
Free light bulbs also will be given away at the Sabres’ home game this Friday at 7:30 p.m. against the Thunder Bay Bearcats.
“Project Porchlight” is an energy efficiency campaign run by “One Change,” an Ottawa-based non-profit organization that advocates community engagement and environmental sustainability.
The campaign promotes a practical and realistic way to use less electricity.
Volunteers and staff hand out—door-to-door and through community events—energy-efficient light bulbs.
The small change of switching to energy-efficient lights bulbs can represent the first step in a lifetime of making energy conscious choices.
By working with a broad network of community groups, “Project Porchlight” makes proactive energy savings a topic of neighbourly conservation.
And it goes a step further—it empowers residents with the immediate means to start saving energy for themselves.
Putting a free energy-efficient bulb in someone’s hand for them to install decreases energy consumption, lowers greenhouse gas emissions, and effectively communicates a critical message: saving money and protecting the environment start with simple actions like changing a light bulb.
Independent analysis of the “One Change” approach confirms that getting someone to change even one bulb stimulates broader energy conservation action.
Ontario is the site of one of Project Porchlight’s first province-wide campaigns. When we’re done, we’ll have handed out 800,000 energy-efficient light bulbs!
Fort Frances Times
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