EcoSpark works with communities and with schools, providing them
with the knowledge and tools to monitor their environment and
take action for positive environmental change.
Making a Conservation Plan
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Now that you have lots of information about your school's electricity consumption, it's time to determine how your school can reduce that consumption. Again, we have resources to help you.
First, use this handout to record which areas of the school and which appliances or behaviours waste electricity:
Second, use this handout to think of strategies that might help your school reduce its electricity consumption. Determine what you will need, and the feasibility of each strategy (Click on the boxes to the right for further ideas):
Third, use this handout to determine the estimated electricity consumption resulting from your favourite strategies (You might want to use our GHG calculator:)
Finally, using this handout, integrate your information into a well thought-out conservation plan:
Once you have your conservation plan it's time to put it into action!
AND Let us know about your plan. You can even submit it to our Conservation Champions Contest for a chance to win $1,000 for your school's conservation efforts. E-mail us at wattwize@ecospark.ca
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