Kilowatt Ours Blog

Tuesday March 31 is a big day for Kilowatt Ours.  I am thrilled that our team, led by Dan Joranko, knocked on 1,000 doors in East Nashville’s delightfully cozy Inglewood neighborhood inviting folks to attend a film screening and home energy savings workshop at Dalewood United Methodist Church (2300 Ridgecrest Dr).  Doors open at 7pm.

I believe door-to-door outreach and neighborhood organizing are vital to the success of the green movement.  There is no better way to make a difference than to knock on doors.  We will put my belief to the test at our Neighborhoods Initiative kickoff!

We plan to spend the next several months in Inglewood working with homeowners to achieve significant energy savings while building block leaders.  As our success proves itself, we will expand the program across Nashville and America.

Also, check out the new short video I have posted on YouTube about our neighborhood organizing.  Dan Joranko and several volunteers knocked on hundreds of doors in Inglewood, organizing the old-fashioned way.  Last weekend my daugther Lily and I joined Dan and Gretchen Hagle of Kilowatt Ours to canvas the neighborhood.  Please comment and share on my latest short:  KO Neighborhood Canvas

$168 billion in utility bill savings for American consumers and businesses

222,000 permanent jobs in construction and other fields

390 new power plants not constructed

A reduction in greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to taking

48 million cars off the road in 2020

These are just some of the benefits we will ALL enjoy if a national energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) is implemented to reduce electricity demand by 15 percent and natural gas demand by 10 percent by 2020.

Thanks in part to a $15,000 grant from the Energy Foundation, Kilowatt Ours is part of The Campaign for Energy Efficient America coalition advocating for a national EERS.  You can learn more about EERS by clicking here. 

EERS is one of our top priorities in 2009 and Kilowatt Ours will be engaged in the following activities to support this effort: presenting Kilowatt Ours and information about the EERS at congressional district offices, coordinating hundreds of screenings of Kilowatt Ours to gain public support for the EERS, securing media exposure for this initiative.

Here is how you can help: 

1. Please ask your business or organization to sign the position statement found here.  You can find list of organizations who have already signed here.  Please email Gretchen /at/ KilowattOurs.org to add your organization the list. 
2. Please host a screening in your town.  You can host a screening for the community, or host a screening at the district office of your congressman or congresswoman.   No experience necessary and we’ll provide all the materials you need to succeed.  Please email Gretchen /at/ KilowattOurs.org for more information.   
3. Click here to contact your Congressperson and Senator and ask them to support a national Energy Efficiency Resource Standard.    

If you are interested in these opportunities to save money and make your world a better place, please contact Gretchen /at/ KilowattOurs.org today. 

Thank you in advance for your support, 

Jeff Barrie

P.S.  Please click here and make a donation to support the important work Kilowatt Ours is doing to advocate the EERS.