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

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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

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[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