Projects

Homewood Energy Efficiency Outreach Project

Program Area: ReEnergize

Topic: Community Engagement, Education, Energy Efficiency

Year: 2011

Neighborhood: Homewood

As one of our early energy efficiency outreach initiatives – the Homewood Energy Efficiency Outreach Project showed the power community education has on residential energy use.  In partnership with ACTION-Housing and Peoples Gas, we hosted a month-long course consisting of 4 classes on energy efficiency and environmentally-friendly household products, educating over 40 Homewood residents. 

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ACTION Housing, Inc. teaches residents on Homewood about saving energy in their homes.

Residents were invited to attend education sessions.

Update

Analysis by Peoples Natural Gas showed that households that attended this education series saw an aggregated 10% reduction in their energy use.  This was made possible through education and household behavior change alone!

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