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How To: Encourage Your School to Become an ENERGY STAR Partner

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Your campus could reduce energy consumption and cost.

Talk to your school administration about how important it is to save energy at school. Here's what your school and you can do to earn EPA's ENERGY STAR [2].

  1. Find out if your school is an ENERGY STAR partner [3].
  2. If not, it can become a partner [4] in order to show your school’s commitment to energy efficiency
  3. Measure energy performance by benchmarking with EPA's Portfolio Manager [5].
  4. After that you can work towards having your school earn the ENERGY STAR [6] and launching an ENERGY STAR School Challenge [7] in your district.
Time: 
One Week [8]
Where: 
At School [9]
Issues: 
Environment [10]
Energy Conservation [11]
Who: 
School [12]
Source URL: http://www.dosomething.org/actnow/actionguide/how-to-encourage-your-school-to-become-energy-star-partner-0

Links:
[1] http://twitter.com/share
[2] http://www.energystar.gov/
[3] http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=estar_partner_list.showPartnerSearch
[4] http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=join.join_index
[5] http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=evaluate_performance.bus_portfoliomanager
[6] http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=business.bus_index
[7] http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=challenge.bus_challenge
[8] http://www.dosomething.org/category/time/one-week
[9] http://www.dosomething.org/category/where/at-school
[10] http://www.dosomething.org/cause/environment
[11] http://www.dosomething.org/issues/energy-conservation
[12] http://www.dosomething.org/category/who/school