Kilowatt Ours Blog

This is Jennifer here, Kilowatt Ours Youth Initiative Director (and Jeff’s sister).

The school year is getting underway already and I will report periodically about students and schools taking exciting, energy-saving actions as we progress through the fall semester. For the moment, I want to share that I recently had the opportunity to present to a group of folks at the Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity office, who will be moving in to their Habitat homes sometime this fall or next spring. This particular group is lucky enough to own Energy Star qualified homes!

I so enjoyed sharing the film with them, talking about Energy Star and home ownership, and giving them many ideas about how they can save even more energy in their already- efficient homes. I was able to give them all some CFLs, and they were so appreciative for both the bulbs and the practical information. One inquisitive woman commented that everyone should know about Kilowatt Ours! I couldn’t agree more!

Yes, Kilowatt Ours will be available for broadcast on public television stations this fall.  To find out if it will be aired in your community, please contact your local public TV station viewer services department.
This is an exciting time for us as we have a wonderful chance to share this message with a much larger audience.  We have many activities planned and opportunities for your community to be involved, so stay tuned!

My good friend and web marketing mastermind Chris Loch (www.whatisyoursecret.com) reminds me weekly that a new blog is created every second, somewhere in the cyber-world.  HOWEVER, one blogs dies every minute.  Those a fairly decent odds in our favor, and the last thing I want is for the Kilowatt Ours blog to become a statistic.  Yet, as you can see, it has been more than a month since my last post, bringing us painfully close to achieving the “blog demise factor.”

Today, my intent is to turn this around and make a commitment to a minimum of one new post per week, starting today.  That’s 52 new posts each year on average, so if I miss a week, I am covered as long as I post two the following week, or something like that.  You will see posts from me and the Kilowatt Ours staff –  news about our project, energy saving tips, and success stories that we learn about in our work to forge energy solutions for America (the best solution being conservation!).

This is an exciting time for Kilowatt Ours, as we prepare for national public TV distribution beginning this fall, and a fresh, new, interactive website and online community of energy successes and solutions coming soon.  I don’t want you to miss it, so, as I make this commitment to weekly blog posts, please do you part and tune in!