What a great idea! I’m not sure how I hadn’t heard about Project Porchlight until now as even before I began this experiment I would have thought I would have noticed this on the news. Calgary Tower goes green as green energy efficient light bulbs were installed at the top of the famous Calgary landmark. Project Porchlight campaign in Alberta which saw more than 4,000 volunteers getting involved! Many hands make light work, they say — looks to be very true in this case! Oooh, there’s even a pun in there.
Why doesn’t Ottawa do something like this? Are there other towns doing things like Project Porchlight? It’s time for a research adventure! Watch for an update on that this week, my lovely readers.
Is your city doing something like this? Tell me all about it!
A small school in Racine WI — Walden III middle and high school — have successfully made it into a position in the top ten finalists of a national essay contest. The prize? Recognition as America’s Greenest School.
The contest, sponsored by IC Bus, will also hand over a hybrid bus to the winning school and a $5000 scholarship to the winning essay writer. The essay writer in Walden III’s case is 17 year old senior Bria Kaufman.
“I’m like freaking out about it because I wasn’t expecting it and now there’s all this attention. I keep telling myself to breathe. It’s very intense.”
Bria wrote about green initiatives at Walden including solar panels that are installed on the roof with money raised entirely by the school. Walden students also worked with the community to hand out florescent light bulbs and to plant trees, Bria said.
Kittens dry really fast if there's a good breeze, mom always says
Do you feel like your house is sucking away all your money every time you turn on a lamp or run the dryer? I don’t know what it is exactly that instilled this fear in me, but I’m going to assume it was my mother (Love you, mom!).
As kids, we hung our clothes to dry on the line — which was the most exhausting task for my little arms (wet jeans are the worst!). Why did we do this? There was a perfectly good machine dryer in the basement, but mom insisted that as long as it wasn’t raining or snowing (and even then, there were exceptions), we had to hang our clothes on the line. Mom was on to something — it saves a ton of money.
Now that I have grown up and have my very own hydro bill, I can attest to the notion of doing away with the dryer altogether. So I hang/drape my clothes to dry. Sadly, I have no little-armed kids to carry out the task for me, heh.
A small school in Racine WI — 
